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CoSN Awards TLE Seal to Rural Virginia District

EdTech Magazine

In June, the Consortium for School Networking announced it had awarded Rockingham County Public Schools, a rural Virginia district, the Trusted Learning Environment Seal. The TLE Seal is a dedication given to schools that demonstrate a commitment to student data protection in accordance with CoSN’s framework. For RCPS Technology Director Kevin Perkins, the work to meet these guidelines began much earlier, in the first months of 2019.

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Here’s a Preview of August

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in August: More. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Prepare For Fall: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Blended Learning Self-paced Online Course

Catlin Tucker

Dr. Katie Novak and I wrote UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes to support teachers in developing a mindset, skill set, and toolset nimble enough to traverse any teaching and learning landscape with confidence. After a year and a half of uncertainty and now with concerns about COVID variants emerging again, we want educators to feel prepared to tackle whatever challenges come their way while providing diverse groups of students with engaging, inclusive, and accessi

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The Next Wave of Edtech Will Be Very, Very Big — and Global

Edsurge

Braced for the next wave of edtech? It will be big. As in global, corporate big. Combine that with some of the dislocations triggered by COVID and students could be in for some radical changes in the tools that help them learn. The most recent player to step into the edtech spotlight is India’s Byju’s. The privately held company, which has raised $2.7 billion from investors and is currently valued at more than $16.5 billion, is growing literally week-to-week: Since June, it has announced new pro

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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No Video, No Problem: Flipgrid Has the Answer

Teacher Tech

Flipgrid Without Video “I don’t want to show my face!” Is something educators hear when they challenge their students to make videos and demonstrate their learning and thinking. Not all students or educators feel comfortable having their FACE be the main focus of a video. Sometimes we have a bad hair day, don’t wear make-up… Read More » No Video, No Problem: Flipgrid Has the Answer.

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Burnout symptoms increasing among college students

The Hechinger Report

Students returning to college campuses this fall may experience a transition similar to what astronauts go through when they return to Earth after a mission in outer space. The shift can be dramatic, even after a short trip. The longer the mission, the longer it takes to reacclimate. “Like we’ve been on this really long flight into outer space, sometimes it feels like we’ve just been in another universe,” said Kim Hirabayashi, a professor of clinical education at the University of So

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Teacher licensing rules are one reason small schools don’t have enough teachers

The Hechinger Report

FAIRFIELD, Mont. — Maggie Anderson teaches sixth grade at Greenfield School. Her principal, Paul Wilson, thinks she does a great job and is happy to have her. But until recently Anderson, a Vermont native who found a new home among the windswept grainfields of Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, had been inadvertently costing the school money and potentially harming its reputation.

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How AI technologies support school safety

eSchool News

The COVID pandemic has changed much about how we live and how we work. Nowhere is this more evident than in our schools – in how we safely teach our students and how our students learn, safely. The challenge with schools is that, from a safety perspective, educational institutions were already under siege. Consider the following: According to the National Fire Protection Association, there are more than 3,200 fires each year in schools in the U.S.

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Esports Poised to Grow in India with New Partnership

techlearning

The North American Scholastic Esports Federation is expanding its presence to India by partnering with Eduent Catalysts Pvt. Ltd as their India affiliate.

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Inclusion Is Not Enough: Creating Equity Through a Culture of Dignity

edWeb.net

When something dramatic happens, like releasing student achievement scores, there’s often an outcry over educational inequities, and there are statements and calls to action to do better. Most of the time, though, the initial energy dissipates, and nothing changes. During an edWebinar hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , John Krownapple and Floyd Cobb, Ph.D., authors of Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity: The Keys to Successful Equity Impleme

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.