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New Hampshire Department of Education Selects Innovative K-12 Platform to Bring High Quality Instructional Materials to All Students, Families and Teachers

eSchool News

CONCORD, NH (July 14, 2021) —The New Hampshire Department of Education (Department) today announced the selection of Discovery Education’s award-winning K-12 learning platform to support all New Hampshire learning environments with high quality instructional material. Discovery Education Community.

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OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

The Hechinger Report

Over the last several months, public discourse about learning to read and reading instruction has significantly increased. There is growing recognition that reading instruction must be done differently. If we are truly to reconsider efforts to improve reading instruction, I offer two ideas.

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In 2024, education will build systems that champion the science of reading

eSchool News

Based on the inspiring work that has been supported by educators leading The Reading League chapters, I can confidently predict that educators will continue to be hungry to understand how to bring evidence-aligned practices and materials into their classrooms.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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Is your classroom ready for BYOD?

Neo LMS

Blended classes greatly benefit from BYOD scenarios because most of the class instructional materials are on the cloud and all students need to do is to sync them on their devices. Teachers Today’s teachers know how to use Excel to compute grades or Word to create documents, but that’s not enough. Sounds easy.

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The challenges of mobile learning in the classroom

Neo LMS

It’s easy for students to text with friends, play games, watch funny videos, browse social media channels or even answer calls. Most notably, school and district administrators are struggling with how to elevate the use of the devices from sporadic, engagement activities to instructionally rich learning experiences.

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From digital citizenship to digital leadership in a South Carolina elementary school

Hapara

Whether it be social media, school use or gaming, students are almost always on some sort of digital application. Scaffolding digital citizenship instruction. The following four key ideas were developed to include in classroom instruction. and “How do I have a friendship with someone I’ve never met?”