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How Librarians Hold the Key to Future Ready Schools

Digital Promise

Digital citizenship, content curation, making and coding, student data privacy, blended learning, open educational resources. Across the League, there is renewed interest and commitment to reimagine library spaces and programs.

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How Districts Can Unlock Actionable Data

edWeb.net

With up-to-the-minute data analysis, districts can make informed decisions about critical components of edtech integration, including digital curricula, professional development, investment, and student data privacy.

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Meet Caliper, the Data Standard That May Help Us (Finally) Measure Edtech Efficacy

Edsurge

For example, a learning activity is represented like this: “Student A (actor) started (action) Quiz B (object.)”. So if a student does an online worksheet or takes a quiz, it will capture and timestamp each click of the mouse, allowing each activity to be calculated.

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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

edWeb.net

Daniel Domenech, Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators, believes that only limited numbers of students will be back in the classroom at any one time, so there will be continued switching back and forth between remote and on-site education as part of a blended-learning approach.

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Teacher-Student Digital Communication Makes for Good Learning

edWeb.net

Many students, especially those in urban communities and majority-minority schools, already lacked the digital tools or programs necessary to perform in the classroom. Some schools have addressed the tech deficits by providing devices students can bring home, like Chromebooks and even personal smartphones.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

This is no small feat, considering that she and now-NJ Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet stepped into a struggling district with 75% of students reading below grade level (half of those being three-to-six grades below). Just four years later, graduation rates have spiked 21.8%

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How can schools protect student data without training teachers in privacy basics?

The Hechinger Report

“The first line of defense in protecting student privacy are our teachers, and we’re not making sure that they have the tools to keep that data safe,” said Amelia Vance, policy counsel for the nonprofit Future of Privacy Forum. Sign up for our newsletter to get a weekly update on blended learning.