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11 Tips and Book Recommendations for Encouraging Reluctant Readers

Waterford

Read on to discover strategies for engaging your classroom’s reluctant readers and getting them excited about stories—along with seven book recommendations to help you diversify your classroom library options! 6] Encourage families to read together and use local libraries as a resource for free books. Resilient Educator.

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30+ new tools and services we saw at ISTE 2019

eSchool News

Coding and robotics (check out our ISTE 2019 robotics round-up), social and emotional learning, and building employability skills were at the top of the many trends and focus areas highlighted during the conference. We’ve rounded up some of the biggest trends, news, and tools to help you organize your post-ISTE 2019 thoughts.

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When recess is the hardest part of the day

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. School officials and educators may need to shift their mindset around recess to recognize the value of play, Medina Quintanar said.

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Beyond the Binder: 3 Strategies for Empowering Digital Tool Use in the Classroom

Edsurge

How, then, can we be sure that digital tools are integrated into the higher education experience in ways that encourage deeper learning? Collaboration, as our work to encourage educators and students to develop new literacies has shown, is key. Tagging To Curate Content. I also have corresponding folders set up in my.

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Learning Revolution Shows Today and Tomorrow - Plus Global Book Group #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

2:00 PM - Exceptional Circumstances for Exceptional Learners Episode #2 - "The IMPACT of COVID-19 Recovery Plans on our Students and Teachers" with host Rebecca Muller, Special Educator and Advocate, Collingswood High School (USA). Are special education students being considered in the return-to-school guidelines.

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KITABOO partners with Amazon Polly for creating interactive children’s eBooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

It is precisely why publishers are converting their existing library of physical books into interactive eBooks. This digital publishing tool supports lexicons and SSML tags so you can modify the voices available to suit your needs and also control aspects such as pronunciation, pitch, volume, and speed rate. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. You could maybe change the world, or at least the world of education.”

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