eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2021

Cross-curricular connections throughout different subject and content areas help to make lessons more meaningful and relevant for students. Thoughtfully-crafted STEM lessons that leverage technology-rich resources similar to what your students are using outside the classroom are great ways to engage students in interdisciplinary instruction. As a STEM educator, I work with teachers at my school to develop engaging and inquiry-based lessons that help ignite student curiosity and foster their love

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 19, 2021

Slido is a great add-on to use with your Google Slides to make your presentations interactive and conversational. Slido allows you to run live polling simultaneously as you are working on your.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

As the winter turns to spring and pandemic learning reaches its one-year mark, something like a return to normal, in-person schooling is becoming a reality in communities across the country. While a striking amount of uncertainty remains, experts largely agree on one thing: Pandemic education has exacted the greatest tolls from the children of historically marginalized groups.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 19, 2021

"When it comes to health, there is one criminally overlooked element: sleep." A good night's sleep is inestimable to our neuropsychological functioning. Good sleep as Marrhew Walker (see his book.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Mathew Felton-Koestler, known as “Mathy Matt” on his YouTube channel , makes videos for parents that explain why and how young kids are learning math these days. He has two sets of videos specifically on the Common Core, in which he talks about the kindergarten and the third grade standards. Allonda Hawkins said the way her children are expected to do math is “100 percent different” from the way she learned.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2021

Planning now for summer programs is more important than ever as schools face widening learning gaps due to the pandemic. A few years ago, the summer reading options my district, Elizabethtown Independent Schools, offered were fairly meager. We had a summer school program for students who were struggling, but we didn’t really have a program designed to reach all of our students and prevent the summer slide students experience during the long break.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 19, 2021

In What Great Principals Do Differently Todd Whitaker sets out a clear and understandable path to success and demystifies some of the unique aspects of school leadership. Any school leader will find value, reinforcement, and solid advice, writes educator Becky Johnson. The post 20 Things That Great Principals Do Differently first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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techieMusings

MARCH 19, 2021

Thanks to Wacom for the opportunity to share some of my experiences as a flipped classroom and online math teacher over the years! In this blog , I share: How I use Pear Deck to actively engage all students in my class, whether face-to-face or online How I create my flipped classroom videos — what tools I use and what my workflow looks like How you can use Flipgrid to make quick whiteboard-style instructional videos.

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SpeechTechie

MARCH 19, 2021

You may have noticed that the Flashpocalypse occurred at the beginning of 2021. Flash was long fated to disappear eventually and a number of your favorite websites or interactives would have become inaccessible after December 2020 as web browsers stopped supporting Flash. This happens, and is part of the life cycle of technology. We grieve and move on.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2021

There’s still time this school year to help high school students learn the skills they’ll require to thrive in Higher Education. Here are basics you don’t want them to graduate without–from one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors: 4 Ways to Help High School Students Develop the IT Skills They’ll Need for Higher Education.

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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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MindShift

MARCH 19, 2021

Updated March 19, 2021 at 11:33 AM ET. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance for schools. On Friday, the agency announced it “now recommends that, with universal masking, students should maintain a distance of at least 3 feet in classroom settings.” Previously the guidance stated, “Physical distancing (at least 6 feet) should be maximized to the greatest extent possible.” The new guidelines still call for 6 feet of distance between adults

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2021

Over the past year, administrators and educators have been faced with no-win decisions on what matters more. Should the priority be tackling students’ academic needs or emotional trauma? Should districts implement universal supports (such as an extended school year or regular assessments) for everyone or should they customize those supports for each student (even if that takes more time and resources)?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 19, 2021

Welcome to the fifth in a series of posts regarding Blending the PBL Gold Standards. I am very excited to share ideas relating to PBL and Blended/eLearning as it relates to this Blog’s topic of Student Voice and Choice. As I reflect, PBL has always been blended. Our challenge is… how to break down the classroom walls even more with the technology we have today.

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