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Why Talking About 'Screen Time' is the Wrong Conversation

Edsurge

We both worked together 20 years ago or so as reporters at The Chronicle of Higher Education, back when we were both just starting our careers. Destinations serves school districts with flexible CTE solutions to get students “future-ready” for a changing job market, providing career exploration, real-world experience, and certification prep.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

A quick scan of the EdTech Top 40 – Fall 22 Report reveals that teachers in the United States used almost 148 digital tools, while students used nearly 143 digital tools in the school year 2021–22. For this article, we scoured thousands of reputable digital tools to bring you the best digital tools for future-ready classrooms in 2022.

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Textbooks optional: What unbundling and BYOD mean for learning technology

eSchool News

Today’s educators are looking to Chromebooks , smartphones and maker spaces to enhance their teaching. Not surprisingly, as part of this customization, educators are looking to technology to play a bigger role in education, with recent reports revealing that more than 25 percent of U.S. schools have 1:1 device ratios.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

If companies make smartphones that a two-year old can use, why are developers making edtech so complicated? Dr. Rob is the author of several books including Reading, Technology, and Digital Literacy and the ISTE bestselling title Are You Future Ready. Howard: Her concern is the amount of training educators need with new edtech.

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1EdTech and Common Good Learning Tools Launch Major Upgrade to Database of State Learning Standards

eSchool News

In addition to the inclusion of Science and Social Studies frameworks for all states (the original network included only ELA and math), CASE Network 2 is improved by Satchel’s modern web app UI, which includes AI-powered search, improved framework update reporting, and a smartphone-friendly responsive design.

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3 Techniques for Promoting Resilience in Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

Yet, while none of the jobs at play during my doctor’s visit seems to be threatened anytime soon by the digital doomsday tales we hear about in such reports, each employee had clearly been impacted by a pretty standard software transition that occurs every single day across all industries. These data tend to be confirmed by adult educators.

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AV that Makes the Grade

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1 AV TECHNOLOGY FOR SOFT SKILLS AND DESIGN THINKING “The Role of Education in Building Soft Skills,” a Wainhouse Research K-12 report from 2015, revealed that problem-solving and collaborative skills are the primary soft skills on which schools should be focusing in the next decade.

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