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High school should be more like preschool

The Hechinger Report

But several trends once relegated mainly to progressive schools or alternative schools for at-risk students are reaching the mainstream and have even been embraced by entire states. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S have long copied ideas from Reggio Emilia, but now more high schools are copying them, too.

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CES2017 Best of Show Tech Tools

EdTechTeam

Samsung Chromebook Plus This Chrome OS device is perhaps the coolest laptop-tablet crossover. device is fit to be a productivity and creativity laptop. Learn more > goo.gl/hneIsI hneIsI Photo Source 3. Thin and lightweight, built in pen, millions of apps on the Google Play Store, 360 degree rotating screen, this 2.38

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Cyber attacks a serious, and under-reported, threat to Boulder Valley companies | Boulder Daily Camera → Specific to the Boulder, CO-area, but useful overview of cybersecurity trends.

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In the shadows: The orphans Covid left behind

The Hechinger Report

When their mom died of Covid pneumonia, they joined more than 140,000 children in the nation who lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid between April 2020 and June 2021. Does she know you don’t have a laptop?” So your teacher thought you had a laptop, or—” Tré asks. Jenny, 24, is the eldest. Jenny asks. Did you tell her?”

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The best ideas from the Distance Learning Playbook by Fisher & Frey

The Cornerstone for Teachers

For elementary, it’s 2-3.5 For secondary, it’s 4 hours. And over time, as we processed and they experimented and they allowed us to think, we started seeing trends emerge and themes emerge, and eventually, an instructional framework emerged that seemed to really work, to get students to engage in learning tasks from a distance.

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10 tips for teaching critical thinking + information literacy

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is important because when looking for credibility markers, sources, or publishing dates, different steps are required on a mobile device than it does on a laptop or a desktop. As Darren alluded to, the vast majority of people in the world get news now and infer all information through a mobile device, not from a laptop or a desktop.

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Fitbit for education: Turning school into a data-tracking game

The Hechinger Report

By letting students see trends in their grades and attendance and making that data fun to track, administrators hope students can be nudged toward behaviors that are actually good for them academically. Gold stars that seem exciting for elementary schoolers can fall flat with high schoolers. But they provide little context.

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