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Zoom, webinars and anti-emetics

Learning with 'e's

It's that awkward gut-feeling that while you've been struggling with your inadequate, bandwidth challenged wi-fi hub that's perched precariously next to your three-year old laptop in your makeshift home office, your strength has been steadily draining, and you may actually be losing the will to live. It's more WTF than FTW. It's obligatory.

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Why experts say now is the time to assess your district’s edtech use

eSchool News

Funds they have come to rely on for staffing and technology will end in September if not allotted. (If Given that schools were forced into online learning, many districts used those funds to invest in edtech—in hardware like laptops and Wi-Fi hotspots but also in edtech software. For many districts, the relief funding was significant.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is the modern resume, tells future bosses you can use technology as a tool, and can give you an edge in a competitive job market. Include your facility with 1:1 programs, carts, and other approaches to using technology in classes. If so, invest in online classes or webinars to inform your knowledge of those areas.

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Biometric Tech Can Track How Well Students Are Paying Attention

EdTech Magazine

Ever feel like nodding off during a webinar? Biometrics — technology that captures physical and behavioral data — is being used by several universities to collect data on students’ attention. Her firm helps companies develop technology for young people that is compliant with safety and security concerns. “If meghan.bogardu….

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Keeping Students Safe and Productive on Devices

Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

With the ever-evolving classroom, technology has become omnipresent in students’ learning. It’s vital to understand the risks and know how to keep students safe while maximizing technology learning potential.

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Tips for incentivizing your teachers team while working remotely

Ask a Tech Teacher

If they know that every day will be an uphill struggle as they fight to get the better of the inadequate technology that they have at their disposal at home, it is easy to see how they will become dispirited, and thus have less reason to pour their all into their job. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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15 Skills To Learn this Summer and Use Next Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

You probably know the most common tech problems faced last year like hooking digital devices to the school WiFi, running a tech-infused lesson, or what students face with technology. If you ask students to demonstrate their knowledge with technology, be open to their suggestions. Technology is a tool–not a goal.