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3 ways SEL helps students build life readiness

eSchool News

Social and emotional learning (SEL) may still be new to some educators, but the skills it teaches are the same we have been trying to help young people develop for decades. Adaptability, agency, collaboration, empathy, self-awareness, and purpose are skills and qualities employers seek in their employees, and—more than that—skills that support young people to thrive on whatever path they choose to follow. .

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How K–12 Schools Are Bringing Classroom Technology to Outdoor Learning

EdTech Magazine

If you stumble across a group of K–12 school students outside using laptops to track soil levels and search for monarch eggs or observing birdhouses with video cameras, you may have discovered an outdoor learning space. From informal hammock gardens to high-tech tents, outdoor learning spaces have become markedly more popular over the past few years because of the pandemic.

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Tech Tip #53: How to Make a Program Easy to Find

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: How to Make a Program Easy to Find.

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How to Minimize Video Lag with Wireless Casting

EdTech Magazine

“Lag” is a term frequently used by video game players. In video games, some lag can be resolved with the right graphics cards. When lag troubles K–12 teachers using wireless casting to show videos, however, the solution isn’t always so simple. Using educational video in the classroom can have many benefits, including improved cognitive thinking skills for students, according to ViewSonic.

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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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The Pandemic Is Changing How Colleges Offer Tutoring. Will Students Use It?

Edsurge

Getting tutoring at Arkansas State University has long been easy. A student could just walk into a campus tutoring center and get help from a tutor, on demand—for free. But in practice, that approach hasn’t always worked for students. For one thing, even though tutoring centers at the university offer expert tutors in a long list of subjects, not all of those experts were on hand at any given time.

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TypingClub- Learn Touch Typing Through Interactive Games

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

TypingClub is a web-based platform that helps you learn touch typing through a wide variety of lessons and interactive games. TypingClub also provides a school edition which allows you to.read more.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

OAKLAND, Calif. — After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School.

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Three Reasons You Need THIS Webcam in Your Classroom

TeacherCast

Recently, on an episode of Ask the Tech Coach, my guests and I broke into a conversation about how to choose the best equipment for your home studio. We discussed our favorite microphones, and audio mixers, and broke down our favorite headphones. After the episode, I received an email from a listener asking about my choice of studio-quality webcams.

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Simulating student mental health for teachers

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Adolescent mental health had been declining in the decade before the pandemic. The last two years have only worsened what many advocates and experts say is a mental health crisis among teens.

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Prevent revenue leakage in your admission process

Linways Technologies

Being the trusted technology partner for more than 250 institutions, we Linways team dedicates a good amount of its time to identify the solution for problems faced by institutions. In one of our recent studies, we found out that a major concern for colleges is the leakage of funds during the admission process. This happens when the applicants opt to withdraw their application or when the students that show up do not apply to your institution.

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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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Can we measure personalized learning’s impact?

eSchool News

Personalized learning offers myriad possibilities for teachers and students. And in the wake of the pandemic, as educators try to manage learning gaps, individualized learning is more critical than ever. New edtech developments have helped these learning techniques become more efficient, scalable, and achievable for educators over the last decade. While many strategies were forced to take a back seat to more pressing challenges during the pandemic, and now it’s time to turn our attention t

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Mindfulness Training Shows Promise for Teachers in New Study

techlearning

A randomized control trial found teachers who received mindfulness training had less job-related stress and anxiety

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New Gmail Template in Google Docs!

Shake Up Learning

The post New Gmail Template in Google Docs! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Did you know there is an email template in Google Docs? Oh, and with one click you can import it into Gmail and send it! Easy Peasy, y’all! This is great for collaborating on long or intricate emails, or if you just like using Docs more than Gmail! Watch the very short video below to learn how easy this is!

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A Four-Step System for Improving Literacy

edWeb.net

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. If schools are truly preparing all students for college and career readiness, then strong reading and literacy skills are a must. Star Connor, Region Superintendent of Transformation Schools in Hillsborough County Public Schools (FL), believes that all children can become proficient, but it takes continual planning and goal setting for each individual.

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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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CoderZ Launches League in a Box for “On-Demand” School and District Coding Tournaments

eSchool News

DERRY, N.H. – April 14, 2022 – Schools and districts now can bring the thrill of virtual coding competitions to their classrooms and communities at any time with CoderZ Technologies LTD’s newest offering, CoderZ League in a Box. This latest version of the award-winning code-learning platform enables educators to create on-demand local tournaments in addition to participating in the international CoderZ League: the Virtual Cyber Robotics Competition.

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How to Improve Student Engagement at Scale

eSpark

Student engagement—participating in lively class discussions, investing time and energy into their academic work, and applying what they learn in school to the world outside the classroom—increases when educators value social-emotional well-being, according to 81% of teachers. Read on to learn how your district can identify opportunities for achieving student engagement at scale.

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Some Students Lose More Ground When School is Out

eSchool News

Portland, Ore. — April 14, 2022 — As we approach the end of the third straight year of learning disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. classrooms continue to address the immediate needs of students while prioritizing academic progress for all. For many students—particularly those that are historically underserved—the summer break from learning perpetuates inequitable achievement gaps.

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Growth Mindset Using Edtech Starts with District Leaders

eSpark

There has been a lot of buzz about “growth mindset” in the education and edtech communities. Just ask any current teacher, and chances are she’ll tell you about a recent PD during which growth mindset was on the agenda. “Growth mindset” was pioneered by Carol Dweck, psychologist and professor at Stanford University. It’s the idea that a person can learn anything or develop any particular skill through effort, dedication, and the right frame of mind.

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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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Clever Releases Latest Identity Management Tool, Adding Microsoft Active Directory Support to Google Workspace

eSchool News

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 14, 2022 – Clever, the most widely used and trusted digital learning platform in U.S. K-12 schools, today announced an expanded identity management offering with new support for Active Directory, used by thousands of districts to manage users’ access to software applications and devices. Clever IDM helps school districts automate provisioning and management of their Active Directory and Google Workspace user accounts, saving districts time while helping to improve ac

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Best Quizzes for Kids to Help Nurture Their Curiosity

SplashLearn

Quizzes for kids are a great way to encourage children's curiosity and aid their learning. Here are the top quizzing sites to help your kids start with them right now! The post Best Quizzes for Kids to Help Nurture Their Curiosity first appeared on SplashLearn.

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VHS Learning Supports Students’ College and Career Readiness via Expanded Catalog and New “Exploring College & Careers” Infographic

eSchool News

Boston – April 14, 2022 – Giving students the chance to explore subjects beyond those in a standard core high school curriculum is a crucial step in readying them for college and careers. Students taking online high school courses through VHS Learning will start the 2022-2023 school year with many unique for-credit options, from Python Programming to Law, thanks to the nonprofit’s newly expanded course catalog.

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Dr. Steve Albrecht New Blog Post: "Library Customer Service - Hawaiian Style"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We've just posted a new blog post by Dr. Albrecht in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security " section of Library 2.0 : "Library Customer Service - Hawaiian Style." The Queen's Medical Center, or the Queen's Hospital, as it's known, was founded in 1859 by Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV, and is located in downtown Honolulu on Oahu. The mission of the hospital at its founding was to provide healthcare for all Hawaiians.

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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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Discovery Education’s K-12 Learning Platform Earns Learner Variability Product Certification From Digital Promise

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, April 14, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose digital services support learning wherever it takes place—announced today that its award-winning K-12 learning platform has earned the Learner Variability Product Certification from Digital Promise. Working at the intersection of education leaders, researchers, and technology developers, Digital Promise seeks to improve learning opportunities for all and close the Digital Learning Gap. .

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50 Strategies to Create Classroom Communities

MiddleWeb

As educators seek to return to a safer and more predictable learning environment, Barron and Kinney’s We Belong can be a valuable easy-to-use classroom management resource for teachers wanting to connect with their students so they thrive both academically and emotionally. The post 50 Strategies to Create Classroom Communities first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Go Slow to Go Fast: Blended Learning at John F Kennedy High School

Education Elements

“ When you drive up to John F Kennedy High School in Cleveland, OH, you are immediately taken by the sheer scale of the building. Set against a backdrop of single-family historic homes, JFK is an imposing and beautiful modern structure. The vision of the school was simple: to combine the staff from 3 previous high schools, including the “old” JFK, to create the New JFK.