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How Companies Can Support Bilingual and Multilingual Children

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

There are steps that organizations can take to build their cultural awareness in helping bilingual and multilingual students, explains Emily Guo, who is working with Cognitive ToyBox. The post How Companies Can Support Bilingual and Multilingual Children appeared first on Market Brief.

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Digital Promise Partnering with Five Rural Communities Using Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is thrilled to partner with five of today’s most innovative postsecondary institutions that are using micro-credentials to create real-time pathways to social mobility for adult learners in rural communities. These partners were selected as part of our landscape research on how micro-credentials may be used to promote economic recovery among rural learners impacted by poverty, particularly for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities.

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5 (free) Posters to Mainstream Tech Ed

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, we’ll share five themed posters that you can share on your website (with attribution), post on your walls, or simply be inspired. This month: Internet and Websites 1. –for the entire collection of 65 posters, click here. 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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How Companies Can Support Bilingual and Multilingual Children

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

There are steps that organizations can take to build their cultural awareness in helping bilingual and multilingual students, explains Emily Guo, who is working with Cognitive ToyBox.

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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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Google Classroom: Get Out of Suggestion Mode

Teacher Tech

When using Google Classroom the default for feedback is suggestion mode in a Google Doc. Switch to Edit mode. The post Google Classroom: Get Out of Suggestion Mode appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Can Universities Have a ‘Normal’ Fall If International Students Can’t Get to Campus?

Edsurge

Though universities are hopeful that the vaccine rollout will return a sense of normalcy to the fall semester, a question remains about international students whose plans were curtailed by the pandemic. Will they make it to campus in time? Experts say that while students have been exempted from coronavirus-related travel restrictions , overseas U.S. consulate shutdowns and backlogs could leave them waiting for their visas until September.

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What should educators teach? Computational thinking

eSchool News

The way we approach problems in the workplace has changed drastically because of technology. Therefore, it is imperative that we set students up for future success by teaching relevant skills and modernizing the curriculum. As we work to realign K-12 education to better meet the needs of today’s Information Age society, I implore my fellow educators to embrace teaching research-backed skills like computational thinking across curriculum.

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Quizlet Learn- Create Your Own Flashcards

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Quizlet Learn is a handy web tool and mobile app to help boost students learning. It allows students to easily create flashcards or use pre-made ones to study more effectively. Quizlet Learn.

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A Message to Summer-Learning Providers: Make Equity a Priority

Marketplace K-12

Many impoverished families are unaware of opportunities for summer learning, and it's up to program providers to get the word out, according to a new report. The post A Message to Summer-Learning Providers: Make Equity a Priority appeared first on Market Brief.

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This Is How to Collect Students Feedback on Google Forms

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Forms is a great free web tool that allows you to create a wide variety of forms (e.g., surveys, polls, questionnaires.etc).

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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.

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OPINION: New leadership at the top should mean big changes for English language learners

The Hechinger Report

When I started my career as a fourth grade bilingual teacher, I was given two binders. One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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Supporting Students Who Are Deaf?Blind

N2Y

Imagine that you can’t see and hear, and your environment seems to consist only of things within reach. How might you feel, and how would you communicate? What might happen to your sense of security? For those who live without sight and hearing, the world can feel like a solitary and confusing place. Their senses of smell, touch, taste, and balance become their bridge to the outside world.

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Using Microsoft education tools on iPad

Jamf on EdTech

Selecting iPad as a device to compliment Microsoft tools for Education is a game-changer for teachers, students and parents.

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Using American Sign Language (ASL) with Symbols in the Classroom

N2Y

I remember the first time I saw American Sign Language (ASL) being used—it struck me as a wonderfully interesting, appealing language, especially since I’m naturally prone to talking with my hands. Out of curiosity, I took an ASL course in graduate school, which led to a second course, and eventually a third—I couldn’t get enough!

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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A Different Way to Think About Learning Loss

Adjusting Course

It's hard to feel several strong emotions all at once. Excitement. Sadness. Optimism. Regret. Maybe this is why I've cried more this year than all the other years I've served as a principal combined. Tears of joy, gratitude, and the occasional feeling of being overwhelmed trying to help myself and our school community through the uncertainty of a global pandemic.

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Savvas Learning Company’s enVision Mathematics Honored with Gold Stevie Award

eSchool News

Nationally recognized curriculum earns distinction for best “Mathematics Instructional Solution”. PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — May 19, 2021 — Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, is proud to announce that its enVision ® Mathematics Common Core ©2020/2021 Grades K-8 received a Gold Stevie® Award in The 19th Annual American Business Awards®, with judges hailing it as “a great solution” with projects that “bring math to children in ways that make sense to them and en

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These cognitive exercises help young children boost their math skills, study shows

ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according to a large study. The findings support the notion that training spatial cognition can enhance academic performance and that when it comes to math, the type of training matters.

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Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District and Discovery Education Launch New Partnership

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 20, 2021) —Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District (VWSD) today launched a new multiyear partnership with Discovery Education that helps educators connect current classroom instruction to students’ possible future career paths. Supported by the CVS Health Foundation and the CATCH Global Foundation , this new collaboration empowers district educators in grades K-6 with the dynamic digital resources and professional learning they need to equip every student

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Best English Language Learners Lessons and Activities

techlearning

The best English Language Learners lessons, activities, and curriculum to support ELL students and educators.

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4 ways private LTE supports learning today–and tomorrow

eSchool News

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to the disruption of a range of uniquely vital vertical sectors. This is especially true for K-12 and higher education as schools, colleges, and universities have been forced to close in order to slow the spread of the virus and find alternative, but technologically accessible, ways to reach students–literally.

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Meet Polaris Where Teams Align and Students Shine

N2Y

As an educator, you no doubt have experience contributing to Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Which means you understand the long hours dedicated to planning, writing, executing, and reporting in order to ensure students are on a path to success. You may even have experienced the challenges of finding an efficient way to collaborate, the pressure of writing standards‑aligned goals , the quest for efficient and ongoing data collection, and the need to ensure the completed IEP is me

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OverDrive Education Provides Free Resources to Schools Receiving COVID-19 Relief Funds

eSchool News

Toolkit facilitates district decision making to eliminate barriers to reading and increase equity. CLEVELAND – May 14, 2021 – The federal government has approved billions of dollars of relief funds for schools, but some educators are unclear where the funds originate and how they should be used. Today, OverDrive Education announced a new effort to guide school districts through the process of understanding and using Education Stabilization Funds (ESF).

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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Three Big Bills, Three Ways to Access Educational Funding

N2Y

CARES, CRRSA, and ARP: Big Legislation, Big Opportunities. To address the economic fallout from the pandemic, the U.S. Congress passed three related legislative acts over the past year: The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March of 2020. The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act in December of 2020.

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GoReact (Update)

SpeechTechie

I wrote about Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry's GoReact app some years ago, but their porting of it to a web version is even more useful in teletherapy or if students have their own devices available. GoReact is an interactive Periodic Table of the Elements; click on any element and you will see a photo of a functional real-life use of it. Even more fun, the Featured Reactions have categories such as health and beauty aids which you are given directions to "assemble.

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Math Curriculum for Gifted Sixth Graders

MiddleWeb

Math Curriculum for Gifted Students (Grade 6): Lessons, Activities and Extensions is a great resource for pull-out math and afterschool enrichment, differentiation in the regular or gifted classroom, and more, writes middle grades Exceptional Student educator Laura Von Staden. The post Math Curriculum for Gifted Sixth Graders first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Video Coaching Puts a New Lens on Learning (Learning Forward)

Edthena

Learning Forward’s April issue of its journal, The Learning Professional , featured a piece from Valerie Minor and Suzanne McGahey of the Keller (Texas) Independent School District reflecting on teacher professional development using video coaching. “We envisioned creating an ever-growing network of excellent teachers… We quickly realized we needed a platform in which to house the videos and the dialogue between teachers.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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How to Mute a Tab in Google Chrome

Shake Up Learning

The post How to Mute a Tab in Google Chrome appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Have you ever needed to mute a website? Background noise and notifications can be annoying, especially during a video chat. Just mute the tab in Google Chrome! Share this tip with friends so you don’t have to listen to their email notifications during a Zoom meeting or Google Meet!

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Scholastic Launches Early Childhood Program to Start Every Child’s Learning Journey with Both Academic and Social-Emotional Support

eSchool News

PreK On My Way , Designed in Collaboration with UTHealth’s Children’s Learning Institute and Yale Child Study Center, Brings Together the Latest Early Childhood Education Research in Language, Literacy, Math, and Social-Emotional Development. NEW YORK, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Scholastic has announced the launch of PreK On My Way , a comprehensive PreK program, with print and digital resources available in both English and Spanish.

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Making spider web discussions work in synchronous online classes

Neo LMS

Student engagement in online classes seems to be a never-ending quest for teachers. That’s because building a classroom culture is harder to do in an online environment if you’ve never done that before. Consequently, it shows when it comes to classroom discussions. Read more: How to facilitate meaningful discussions in hybrid or virtual classrooms. Ideally, everyone would be happy to participate and listen to what their peers have to say.

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Library 2.0 Webinar "Topics You'd Like" Survey + All-Access Passes + Organizational Contracts

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dr. Steve Albrecht hosts a collection of resources in the " Library Service, Safety, & Security " section of Library 2.0 , including blog posts, podcasts, and webinars. We like to: Make you aware of the ability for organizations to purchase all-staff access to his webinar series. A full list of Dr. Albrecht's existing webinars is below. Special purchases include: 1) An all-staff-access pass for any given webinar is $499 (email admin@learningrevolution.com to order); 2) An individual annual a

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.