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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. But it stands to reason that we must help students know how to effectively use these tools so they do not hinder and that they help But do they know how to use technology effectively? And how much is too much?

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Tapping into the potential of AI smart speakers to boost parental engagement

Neo LMS

A version of this post was originally published in Teach Secondary Magazine , July 2019. Smartphones are sometimes smarter than their owners and the idea of people going to Mars moved away from sci-fi novels and into the realm of things that might happen in the not so distant future. She was like another person in our class.

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Using Single Sign-On to Streamline Edtech Access

edWeb.net

They spend more time in class trying to remember how to access the program than actually using it; they also clog IT channels when passwords aren’t easily recovered. Kimber has been a classroom teacher, technology resource teacher, and is now the instructional technology coach for secondary schools for the School District of Pickens County.

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How to Teach Writing with Digital Media with Dr. Sarah Levine

The CoolCatTeacher

She also gives us the language for how to help students strengthen their writing with strong verbs and concrete language as they create their audio gifts. Listen to Dr. Sarah Levine teach us how to better teach writing with digital media. Episode a 767, how to teach writing, using digital media. Stream by clicking here.

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What should new teachers know before they set foot in a classroom?

The Hechinger Report

. — Elly Eckhoff listened intently as a group of veteran teachers listed what they think rookie teachers need before entering the classroom: more time student teaching and more training in how to communicate with colleagues, parents and students themselves. Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School.

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Leading the Digital Transformation in Rural Districts During Crisis and Beyond

edWeb.net

While they may be proficient in using edtech, they don’t know how to create comprehensive lessons to use it in the classroom. With not all kids having the same access, they need to figure out how to develop lessons to accommodate all students. Ann earned her bachelors, masters, and Ed.S.

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Getting Stakeholders to Back the Edtech Budget

edWeb.net

But since the tech keeps upgrading and evolving, teachers need to receive ongoing training on how to best use the resources to support their students. Dr. Kristi Wilson has served as Superintendent of the Buckeye Elementary School District in Buckeye, Arizona for the past eight years. Have tech and business offices work together.

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