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Helping Kids Be Healthy and Whole While Learning from Home

The CoolCatTeacher

It will be hosted on Friday, April 17 at 1pm EST on the @Wemovement Facebook channel with special guests SEL expert Dr. Amy Cranston and her brother award-winner actor Bryan Cranston , and joined by remarkable students and WE Volunteer Now campaign participants, Tyler and Jameson.

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Top 10 Ways to Give Back While at Home

The CoolCatTeacher

It will be hosted on Friday, April 17 at 1pm EST on the @Wemovement Facebook channel with special guests SEL expert Dr. Amy Cranston and her brother award-winner actor Bryan Cranston, and joined by remarkable students and WE Volunteer Now campaign participants, Tyler and Jameson.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

The illegitimate, fictional organizations and profiles creating this content were never outed or recognized as such by anyone, neither Facebook who let them spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the ads nor the people who reshared their content and never stopped to ask whose content they were sharing figured out these were false.

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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. Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana or Facebook’s M are just a few of the most notable such technologies. Whether you love it or hate it, technology is here to stay — and continuously change our lives.

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Konica Minolta Joins ZeroNow Alliance to Foster Safer Schools

eSchool News

Its end-to-end solutions include: Automated temperature scanning Secure entry integration Visitor logging and tracking Enhanced privacy and encryption Quick alerts in emergency situations Guard door implementation Easy compliance with logging and reporting Fast and accurate identity recognition. About ZeroNow.

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8 Tips to Strengthen Parent Involvement With Digital Tools

EdTech Magazine

Educational research group Pearson reports that there’s increasing awareness and recognition among teachers and administrators that traditional parent-teacher conferences yield limited results , particularly for traditionally marginalized student populations. Take Advantage of Social Media. Use Text Messages to Build Communication.

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Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too

EdTech Magazine

In fact, an astounding 40 percent of makerspace teachers reported that they had received no PD on makerspaces at all. I decided to base my doctoral thesis on them: “ Tinkering in K–12: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study of Makerspaces in Schools as an Application of Constructivist Learning.”. That’s 40 percent too many.

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