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What Technology Helps Students Learn?

eSchool News

Educational apps and interactive software engage students, making learning enjoyable and accessible. Adaptive learning platforms tailor instruction to individual progress, addressing specific strengths and weaknesses, and fostering a personalized learning journey. Technology streamlines efficiency and productivity.

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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

Edsurge

Some districts are using fully remote learning models to start, some are opting for hybrid models, while others are implementing new safety protocols to begin in-person learning. They’re shared on Fridays via email and social media and have become a routine communication outlet for the district that families are engaging with.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

Feedback: One teacher in Northern California told my team that when her class started using personalized learning software, her students were “just click, click, clicking away.” So much of today’s educational technology supports students in mastering new skills and standards, but few tools facilitate inquiry- or project-based learning.

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – September 2021

Edthena

Many school systems issue weekly newsletters to keep the school community up-to-date on safety policies and conditions, as well as provide updates on social media feeds and emails. The seriousness of the pandemic and the urgency to accelerate learning may leave the celebratory aspects of school as an afterthought.

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Technology and Capstone Courses

Dr. Shannon Doak

Technology can enhance the structure and requirements of the program by enabling students to do more. In “How Does Technology Facilitate Learning? Technology is also able to support the 4Cs of education (Critical Thinking, Communication, Creativity and Collaboration). Education.com,” n.d.)

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What are Good Tech Goals for Students?

Ask a Tech Teacher

But that’s not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. It scaffolds learning, making it blended, normative, rigorous, and granular. The metric for measuring technology skills isn’t a rubric with a list of skills (i.e., It’s the pencils and books of our digital world.

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How the local public library helped one school district cope with Covid

The Hechinger Report

Alongside four other school communities, we selected it because the majority of the district’s students returned to in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year — and officials identified Covid-19 cases in under 5 percent of the student population. According to the CDC, about 5 percent of school-aged children in the U.S.

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