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TeachingBooks, Sora and Pear Deck Announce Collaboration to Expand Student Engagement and Learning

eSchool News

CLEVELAND – TeachingBooks.net today announced a unique collaboration with Pear Deck , providing expanded opportunities for student engagement and learning. California educators already have premium access to TeachingBooks.net via the State Library of California and the California K-12 Online Content Project.

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How School Librarians Adjusted to Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

As schools across the nation shifted to distance learning — and then again to a hybrid model — library staff have taken creative approaches to foster student engagement and give students access to literature.

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Tips for Encouraging Learners of All Ages to Read

Teacher Reboot Camp

Ways to Get Students Engaged with Novels. Student choice is the key to encouraging reading! We shouldn’t dismiss what students choose to read, but rather introduce them to different types of reading materials, authors, genres, and media. 8 Ways to Annotate Readings, Websites and Online Articles with Examples.

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Understanding Student Engagement

eSpark

During our recent webinar on student engagement, Chris McCormick, eSpark’s Senior Curriculum Director, broke down what student engagement look likes and why it’s sometimes so challenging to achieve. What does student engagement look like? Examples: Students work together to solve a community issue.

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7 Ways to Get Teens Reading in a Smartphone Culture

Edsurge

The authors found that digital media has supplanted consumption of “legacy media” like books and magazines across racial and ethnic groups, gender, and socioeconomic status, so much so that “the percentage of 12th graders who read a book or a magazine every day declined from 60% in the late 1970s to 16% by 2016.”

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Tips for Encouraging Learners of All Ages to Read

techlearning

8 Ways to Annotate Readings, Websites and Online Articles with Examples Teaching Critical Reading Skills Resources and Presentation Ways to Get Students Engaged with Novels Critical Reading with Digital Devices! 18 Resources & Web Tools Tips for Amplifying Story Time Student choice is the key to encouraging reading!

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Are you using popular culture in class? Why you should be

eSchool News

Increasingly, linking learning material to popular culture such as music, celebrity statements on current events or the way different magazines tackle topics can be an effective way to get students to speak up in class, think critically and collaborate. “All media involve writing.”