Neo LMS

APRIL 20, 2021

With the enormous changes brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a new kid on the block that people seem to be talking about a lot lately: the uberization of education. The topic is not new. Once technology became part of our daily routine and online learning solutions (MOOC providers, learning apps, learning management systems , etc.) picked up, it was only a matter of time to see that education had to undergo some changes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Thursday, April 22 is Earth Day. As citizens of this planet, we should all care about caring for this world. Today, Monica Burns gives us practical ways to teach and encourage students to be good caretakers of the world we live in. Every teacher will find an idea they can use any time of the year to encourage sustainability and caring for our environment.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

Do you remember that first-day-of-school excitement? Everything is placed neatly into your school bag, the classroom is beautifully made up, and all the seats and materials are ready to go for students. The lesson plans are typed up and printed out and the lesson objectives and daily agenda are posted artfully on the board. Teachers wait excitedly to see their students’ faces after a summer break.

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Waterford

APRIL 20, 2021

April is National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM)! Now is an excellent time to teach your students about the rich culture and contributions of Arab American people throughout history. Read on to learn more about what National Arab American Heritage Month is, why it matters, and how you can celebrate it in your classroom. Plus, check out a list of children’s books—picture and chapter books included—that are great for learning about the diversity of Arab American experiences.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 20, 2021

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: Security. –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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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

This is the story of a student who got lost in the system. Jason* was a 10th grader affected by the pandemic like many other students and their families. He came to school one day and explained to his teacher that his mother had lost her job at a day care due to declining enrollment. His father was working two jobs trying to make enough money to support his family, which included his younger brother and sister.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Women make up 47 percent of all employed adults in the U.S., but as of 2015, they hold only 25 percent of computing roles, according to data from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). Of the 25 percent of women working in tech, Asian women make up just 5 percent of that number, while Black and Hispanic women accounted for 3 percent and 1 percent, respectively.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 20, 2021

Literably is an excellent reading assessment tool that was recently featured in We Are Teachers' best Tech tools for student assessment. Literably provides you with the tools to effectively assess.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

More K-12 schools are introducing drones into the classroom as educators discover how useful unattended vehicles can be to teach and strengthen science, technology, art, engineering, and mathematics (STEAM) skills. Students are engaged by the possibility of flying robots in their classrooms, but teachers will require support systems to understand how to best implement a classroom drone program.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 20, 2021

Awesome Table is a great add-on to use on your Google Sheets to turn your spreadsheets into interactive visualizations. No coding knowledge is required to operate it, it is simple and easy to use.

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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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Teacher Tech

APRIL 20, 2021

Guest Post by Victoria Thompson BONUS! Although I gave my favorite five Microsoft Educator Center courses previously, I couldn’t help myself and decided to add another. So, consider this a bonus! If you’re an education leader such as an administrator, a department head, or an instructional coach, I highly recommend that you check out this […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 20, 2021

Google Forms is definitely one of the key tools to use to create and grade digital quizzes. It is simple and easy to use and is integrated with Google Drive allowing you to access other Drive.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 20, 2021

Demand to equip K-12 students with laptops and tablets continues to soar globally and outstrip manufacturing capacity, according to a new analysis of the market by Futuresource Consulting. The post Global Demand for K-12 Devices Outstrips Supply, Creating More Delays for Schools appeared first on Market Brief.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

GiveCampus will become the first and only educational fundraising platform to process cryptocurrency donations. Washington, D.C. — GiveCampus, the world’s leading digital fundraising and volunteer management platform for nonprofit educational institutions, announced today that it will begin facilitating cryptocurrency donations for the nearly 1,000 schools on its platform in 2021.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2021

If this pandemic has shown us anything, it’s that our nation’s families are incredibly resilient. As one parent shared in Ascend at the Aspen Institute’s Parent Voices research, “we have no choice.” In addition to navigating a global pandemic, social isolation, increased stress and barriers to distance learning, many families are facing complex, overlapping challenges such as underfunded schools; food, income and housing insecurity, which can be exacerbated by involvement in the child welfare sy

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Based on the assessment data of 3.8 million students from all 50 states, Renaissance’s midyear How Kids Are Performing report provides targeted insights to help educators accelerate spring and summer learning. BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (Apr. 20, 2021) — Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today released the Winter Edition of How Kids Are Performing: Tracking the Midyear Impact of COVID-19 on Reading and Mathematics Achievement , a new report detailing the academic impacts as

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 20, 2021

Image Source Augmented reality is one of the cloud technologies that bridgesthe gap between what you see and what you imagine. To define it more realistically, it is a technology that enhances the. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 20, 2021

I have been doing social groups through teletherapy since March of last year. For absolutely everyone involved, in the context of this very looooong situation and too much online learning, it wears. So we need to keep it targeted and focused but find new ways to induce fun and flow. Lately I have found a double-purpose in acquiring some of the Jackbox games.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 20, 2021

Business leaders last week sounded the alarm that COVID-19 is causing significant learning losses, particularly in early literacy, and laid out a set of recommendations for how policymakers should tackle the issue. The post Learning Loss During COVID Will Fuel Economic Losses, Business Leaders Predict appeared first on Market Brief.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 20, 2021

When it comes to learning preferences, NBCT Elizabeth Stein recommends finding a flexible balance. Encourage students to let teachers know how they feel they can best learn in a given situation, while also challenging them to strengthen their ability to learn in other ways. The post Kids Can Reach Beyond Learning Preferences first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 20, 2021

The post Add Bullets and Formatting in Google Classroom! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Hooray! Google Classroom formatting is here! We can finally format our posts in Google Classroom with bullets, bold, italics, and underline! Nothing glamorous here folks, but something we needed to emphasize certain words and steps in our Google Classroom assignment instructions.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

EdSERT Digital provides online resources to help educators enhance their own social and emotional skills and teaching practices. Charlotte N.C. (April 20, 2021) — Aperture Education has launched EdSERT Digital, an online version of its paper-based social and emotional professional development program for educators. The EdSERT (short for Educator Social-Emotional Reflection and Training) digital program will be available to educators in July 2021.

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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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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 20, 2021

The post Must-Have Google Skills for Teachers (Part 4 – Google Docs & Slides) – SULS0106 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, I am sharing some must-have Google skills for two of the most used Google applications, Google Docs and Google Slides! Better yet, most of these skills will transfer to other applications as well.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BairesDev, the leading software outsourcing and technology solutions company from San Francisco, was recently recognized by EdTech Digest for its commitment and contributions to education technology. This honor took place in the latest edition of the EdTech Awards, where the company shared the spotlight with several other renowned organizations, including Adobe, ViewSonic, edX, and Lucid for Education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 20, 2021

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 244 Teaching Different With Inquiry. Drew Perkins talks with Dan Fouts, co-founder of Teach Different, about the challenges and potential and promise of teaching through inquiry. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: teachdifferent.com. Listen and subscribe on your favorite podcast player including: iTunes Stitcher Podbean PodcastLand YouTube.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

School Mate® is proud to introduce our new, multi-level student planner—the Navigator. It’s the ultimate combination of functionality and value that will optimize students’ success. The Navigator is a full-color planner packed with STEAM powered resource pages to propel critical thinking of 5th – 12th grade students. Four preprinted core subjects and four blank subjects within the weekly grid provides abundant space to list daily tasks, assignments, and projects.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 20, 2021

TeachThought University Pre-Launch Survey. by Terry Heick. In the very near future, I will be soft-launching TeachThought University, an on-demand professional development platform for teachers and I’d love some pre-emptive feedback from you to make it better if you’ve got a few minutes. To help inform the design, we need some quick feedback from you.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

DERRY, N.H. – April 20, 2021 – After a rigorous evaluation, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) has added CoderZ to its online list of professional learning programs. The list enables K-12 computer science (CS) teachers to find quality professional development opportunities and associated curriculum that fit their needs and goals. An independent committee of experts evaluated the CoderZ professional development programs using a detailed rubric aligned to quality indicators such as t

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 20, 2021

Over the past few years, I have really focused a lot more on learning and all of the places that it happens, both in and out of schools. My own health journey has been quite the learning process with many ups and downs that continues to this day. Many of you have followed my blog for several years and have been a part of that process with me, and have cheered me on continuously.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

32 Parks Receive Funding to Pilot Hybrid Learning with Students. WASHINGTON (April 20, 2021) — Students nationwide will be able to experience national parks in new and exciting ways, thanks to the National Park Foundation’s (NPF) Open OutDoors for Kids Hybrid Learning grant program. NPF is awarding grants to 32 National Park Service (NPS) sites and their partners to implement or enhance innovative distance learning programs to better serve educators and students, especially in under-resourced co

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

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