edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Esports, the competitive side of video gaming, is exploding. Dr. Dennis Large, the director of educational technology for the Riverside County Office of Education, one among the first county offices in California to facilitate an esports league, knows first-hand the power of gaming in schools. County esports clubs sizes keep growing.

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MindShift

JULY 28, 2019

When Nell Scharff Panero walked into the high school math classroom, she couldn’t believe how bad it was. The teacher was at the board teaching his math, barely looking at the kids, while they ignored him and threw things across the room. She thought to herself: This guy shouldn’t be a teacher.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Many teachers are faced with the hard task of teaching a really complex math concept to kids: fractions. Slice Fractions’ gameplay was built specifically with fractions in mind, because we believe the game design should be driven by the learning concepts themselves. In the game, students learn by experimenting with fractions.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

So the big push in 2024 will be finding ways to support building capacity and awareness around the potential benefits and effective use of these tools, and finding equitable funding models to ensure free access for all, so it doesn’t become yet another tool that further entrenches the advantages of those who already have the most.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

2021 brought with it new COVID-19 variants, the dreaded school COVID quarantine, and renewed calls to support the nation’s educators, who have worked tirelessly (and constantly) to support students’ learning, social and emotional needs, and more. Well, it did–but it also didn’t. Founding President, Dasaran.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 20, 2019

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: How to become an organized teacher with Organize 365’s Lisa Woodruff. Also, if you struggle with keeping your classroom papers organized, she has a Teacher Workbox which is a system she created to help you find a manageable way to handle all the papers that come across your desk.

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System Classroom Strategy Course 40

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. It’s a place that many families move to from New York City, where effects of poverty like drugs and violence are more visible.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. – Amy Creeden, principal and Race to the Top lead. The majority of K-12 students in the U.S. now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. Between 30 and 40 percent of students enter kindergarten not ready for school. OcFbxT9ygG pic.twitter.com/QuZSJy3xw1.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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