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

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Making tough choices Later this year, the final round of federal pandemic funding, known as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER), will expire, leaving school budgets uncertain in many districts. Funds they have come to rely on for staffing and technology will end in September if not allotted.

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3 ways IT teams can manage tool sprawl

eSchool News

million of their Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds (almost half) on software tools that facilitate learning. . A survey by 451 Research found the average IT and security team uses between 10 and 30 monitoring tools for applications, network infrastructures, and cloud environments.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

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Many predict that the new wave of e-commerce triggered by shelter-in-place mandates will be here to stay, which will further drive demand for software engineering, data analytics, and digital marketing skills, which were already difficult to find. And it appears that investing in last-mile training has a secondary benefit: higher retention.

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Top School & District Innovator Awardees 2019

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The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. Four different categories of proficiency were celebrated in the National Digital Transition Survey Awards. This is real and earned.”.

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Insight ADVANCE Launches Updated Video Coaching Software for Educators at ISTE

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(Encino, CA) June 21, 2018 – Insight ADVANCE , creator of groundbreaking tools for teachers’ professional growth, today announced a collection of updates to its award-winning observation, coaching, and evaluation software.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

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No More Predictions One of the assumptions behind the Gates’ prediction is that the growth of instructional software will replace textbooks. When I told you about this type of software in previous letters, it was mostly speculative,” Bill Gates wrote in his annual letter this year. K-12 software will reach around $4.5

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Teaching AP Students Remotely: What Does It Look Like?

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On any given day students can participate in these mobile friendly classes covering AP topics such as: Tonicization through Secondary Dominant Chords, Voting Rights and Models of Voting Behavior, and Introduction to Acids and Bases. Plagiarism detection software will be used to secure the online exams. and ending at 6:45 p.m.