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Student collaboration in shared Google Slides

Ditch That Textbook

Teamwork is a desirable job skill in today's economy. When we let students collaborate, we prepare them for the future! Here's how Google Slides can help.Part of the reason social media has taken off so much are the connections. Seeing other people’s reaction to what you’ve shared. Learning from others. We can get the same attraction […]. The post Student collaboration in shared Google Slides appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Grade Your Cybersecurity Preparedness Checklist

EdTech Magazine

The cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving. With cyberattacks on the rise, particularly against K–12 schools, IT administrators need to be sure their district’s network is protected. Taking every precaution won’t stop bad actors from trying to access valuable student data, but these steps will make it harder for them to breach school networks.

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National Bullying Prevention Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Bullying is no longer relegated to the playground or the neighborhood. It now regularly happens in the cyberworld. Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying.

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Personalizing Learning: The Goal is Student Ownership

Education Elements

Think back to when you had a deep sense of ownership in your learning; a time when you went above and beyond the expectations because of your own curiosity or passion. For me, this was in seventh grade during a career exploration project. I wanted to be an architect, and I not only wrote a report about the profession, but I created an entire imagined autobiography of myself as an accomplished architect, complete with sketches of a model home.

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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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A ‘New Normal’ Requires New Tools for Attendance and Family Engagement

Edsurge

Mini arrived at the Office of School Culture in Michigan’s Lansing School District in December 2020. She came on board to help us assess our attendance goals and strategies several months into a global pandemic. Mini immediately organized our scattered data and got to work pushing critical information about attendance to families by sending positive “nudges” via text messages, offering empathetic support and guidance.

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From Strategic Planning to Strategic Practice: Three Key Actions to Keep in Mind

Education Elements

Strategic planning is the process of setting short and long-term goals, deciding on actions to achieve those goals and assembling the teams and resources needed to take those actions. Districts of all sizes benefit from developing a long range plan that formalizes the district’s mission, vision, values, goals, and objectives, while engaging the community, with the ultimate goal of both improving operational efficiency and providing an exceptional educational experience for all stakeholders.

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Here Is How to Use Google Drawings to Create Digital Badges

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A few weeks ago I reviewed Magic Digital Badges which is a Google Drive add-on that enables you to easily design and assign digital badges to students. In today's post, I am sharing with you.read more.

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Middle school minds: Figuring out who you are in the midst of global turmoil

The Hechinger Report

Isabella Juma turned 13 on February 19, 2020, just weeks before Covid-19 changed the world forever. The first year of teenagerhood would have been a milestone any year, but for Isabella and her peers, a global pandemic, a contentious election and racial conflict forced them out of childhood abruptly. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. Gone were the days when she could be just “happy” and “jolly,” she said.

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How to Edit a Google Form

Teacher Tech

How to edit a Google Form. You've made a Google Form. now how do you go back and make changes? The post How to Edit a Google Form appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How School Librarians Are Evolving

techlearning

School librarians must excel at research, teaching, technology, digital and information literacy, and library design to lead today’s school libraries

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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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Here Is An Excellent Screen Recording Tool for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

There are numerous web tools that you can use to record your screen and create a wide variety of educational video content. In today's post I am sharing with you this awesome screencasting tool.read more.

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PROOF POINTS: Focusing on glasses in schools

The Hechinger Report

An argument for providing social services in schools is that students will learn better when their basic needs are met. The national lunch program exists because children don’t learn well on an empty stomach. By a similar logic, it’s hard to learn to read or multiply if you can’t see the whiteboard. It’s estimated that more than 1 in 5 school children are nearsighted or have another vision impairment that can be corrected by glasses, and nearly 40 states screen all school children for vision pro

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Leverage Claris integration with Jamf

Jamf on EdTech

Claris recently announced the general availability of their new purpose-built app created by iSolutions, to address the device, data and document retention requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission ECF (Emergency Connectivity Fund) Program.

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Students turned their love for their pets into a business breakthrough

eSchool News

Americans love their pets. Turns out, two out of every three American homes include a pet, and 95 percent of households consider their pets to be family members. But where do those pet parents turn to when they need help? How do you know if your pet is getting the proper nutrition? We wanted to provide a resource for overwhelmed pet owners and created WellPets.

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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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OPINION: Younger students were among those most hurt during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

As the school year begins, there has never been a more important time to address pandemic learning loss. The fast-moving Delta variant and the increasing numbers of children hospitalized mean that plans for the next academic year must be flexible and adaptive, as schools could be forced back into remote or hybrid learning. Warning bells of Covid-related learning loss have already been rung, but it remains to be seen just how effective efforts to address the losses will be, and what we can do abo

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A district gets creative as it distributes iPads to students during lockdown

eSchool News

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. The eSchool Media K-12 Hero Awards program, sponsored by Trox , recognizes the determined and dedicated efforts of educators throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Do You Sometimes Miss the Mute Button?

MiddleWeb

Dina Strasser's mute button moment hooks us into a reflection on student interruptions and their cultural roots. Consider this: How do we balance middle level kids’ natural tendency to run over each other verbally with their eager desire to engage in what we're teaching? The post Do You Sometimes Miss the Mute Button? first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Dynamic New Virtual Field Trips from Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Help Students Explore STEM in the World Around Them

eSchool News

Silver Spring, Md. (Monday, October 4, 2021) — To help students explore the exciting the many ways STEM is shaping the world around them, Discovery Education—the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art K-12 digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—and leading corporate and community partners proudly introduce four new engaging, no-cost virtual field trips (VFTs).

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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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School Ventilation & Cognition: Air Quality Is About More Than Covid

techlearning

The research is clear: improving school ventilation improves test scores and student cognition.

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Leverage Claris integration with Jamf Pro mobile device management

Jamf on EdTech

Claris recently announced the general availability of their new purpose-built app created by iSolutions, to address the device, data and document retention requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission ECF (Emergency Connectivity Fund) Program.

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Best Laptop Cases for Teachers

techlearning

The best laptop cases for teachers can make a more mobile life far easier.

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Why Most Ivies Offer Few Online Degrees—And What’s Happening to Change It

Edsurge

Writing about online learning in higher education over the last several years, I often noted the steady growth of remote learning nationwide against the sluggish adoption of digital instruction among most Ivy League colleges. Virtual instruction continues to whiz across the country, racing recently with unprecedented gains. But getting your degree at an Ivy League college means mostly sitting in a classroom.

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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.