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Show Me the Money: How to Ace Your VC Meeting

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

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20 virtual field trips for your classroom

Ditch That Textbook

Virtual field trips allow us to take our students where the bus can’t. Students can make connections with locations, concepts or people through the power of virtual field trips. What are the best virtual field trips out there? And how can we take the learning even further? Here are 20 field trips and 10 activities […]. The post 20 virtual field trips for your classroom appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Subscriber Special: November

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Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. November. Coming soon: Discounts on Google Play products. Stay tuned! If you aren’t a subscriber to our newsletter, sign up here. Then get your monthly freebies! xx. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher).

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Adaptations for Flexible Learning in a Resilient School District

Education Elements

Fenestration, in architecture, is the way windows, doors, and openings are placed and arranged on a building. In medicine, fenestration refers to a new opening in the body made through surgery. There is another meaning of the word and it is used to describe openings in the leaves of plants. Where I live in South Florida, there are a number of plants with leaf fenestrations, perhaps the most common of which is the monstera deliciosa.

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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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Ed Tech Needs Will Increase, Educators Say

EdTech Magazine

A majority (86 percent) of educators believe that technology needs in schools will increase over the next three years, according to a recent survey by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development and the EdTech Evidence Exchange, a nonprofit affiliated with the university. With the sudden shift to remote learning due to COVID-19, achievement gaps among students in U.S. schools widened.

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6 Common Mistakes to Avoid for a Stronger Data Culture in Schools

Education Elements

On January 28, 1986, the space program experienced one of its most catastrophic events to date when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just over a minute after launch. All seven crew members died, including Christa McAulliffe, a school teacher who would have been the first teacher in space. If you’re familiar with the event at all, you know the accident was caused by a failed O-ring seal in the solid rocket booster.

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Can kindergartners learn coding?

eSchool News

We know early childhood is prime time for teaching new skills, ideas, and languages. But are kindergartners ready for computational thinking, problem solving, and coding? Our team took a trip to West Bend, Wisconsin, to visit a district that presented its approach to early childhood education at ISTE , supporting the claim that, yes, a kindergartner can learn to code.

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Make The Best of Google Meet In Your Instruction with These Handy Tips

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Meet is increasingly becoming one of the best video conferencing platforms for the education community. The recent new features are one example of how this platform is planning to.

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The Day After: How Do We Teach Now?

MiddleWeb

Here’s how Sarah Cooper taught her 8th grade social studies class today, as the nation went about determining a presidential winner. Unlike the day after the 2016 election, “I’m feeling not so much shock as the need to shore up my teaching and once again dig into difficult topics.”.

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Online learning: How the future blends technology and academia.

Linways Technologies

It’s said that necessity is the mother of all inventions. However, that quote does not always hold true. Though student centricity and technology integration has long been a crucial necessity in education, they’re only catching up. But one thing for sure is that they are here. Specifically, online learning. As a global pandemic made us close down all sorts of social spaces, education became everywhere.

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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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MiEN Company Introduces New Furniture Product Offerings to Solve Learning Space Challenges

eSchool News

Educators are rethinking the layout of classrooms and other learning spaces in terms of optimizing use of those spaces for student wellbeing and study. MiEN Company, a global company serving the education industry with innovative furniture products and services that promote and support active and interactive learning environments, has introduced four new product offerings to help institutions take active learning spaces to a new level.

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Election Results: A Muddled Picture for K-12 Funding and the Education Industry

Marketplace K-12

The results of the Nov. 3 election carry potentially big implications for companies in the market. Check back on EdWeek Market Brief for the latest results. The post Election Results: A Muddled Picture for K-12 Funding and the Education Industry appeared first on Market Brief.

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Frontline Education Acquires SuccessEd

eSchool News

Frontline Education, a leading provider of school administration software for the K-12 education community, today announced that it has acquired SuccessEd, a Texas-based K-12 software provider. With this acquisition, Frontline enhances its commitment to serving the special education community. “This new partnership between Frontline Education and SuccessEd brings a best-in-class relationship management and customer care model together with continuous technical innovation in product functionality

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When the Principal Gets COVID-19

MiddleWeb

When Principal Rita Platt tested positive for COVID-19 and isolated at home, her staff put pandemic plans into action while she concentrated on self-care. Writing from Wisconsin, Rita shares her coping strategies and praises her staff’s response to going all-virtual again.

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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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Why I’m optimistic about bridging the digital divide

eSchool News

Preparing for the unexpected is easier said than done – especially when it comes to education. Long-term school closures caused by a global pandemic were certainly not at the top of educators’ priority lists at this time last year. While administrators have gone above and beyond to address students’, parents’ and teachers’ needs when schools shifted to remote learning, it has become clear that districts were not prepared to deliver solutions that would ensure every student could embrace re

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Buncee Boards: Bringing People Together

Buncee

It’s safe to say that this past year has come with its own unique set of challenges. With social distancing still being practiced in many areas, technology provides a way to stay connected with friends, co-workers, students, and family members. Like many companies, here at Buncee, we’ve had to make the adjustment from seeing our co-workers daily at the office, to working from home and connecting virtually.

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Enhancing the Apple education experience with Jamf School

Jamf on EdTech

Jamf School is an ideal management tool in today’s modern digital classroom. To be more aware of the capabilities with Jamf School, we’ll suggest some tips that you can benefit from going forward.

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Students Are Learning Outside of School. Why Don’t They Earn Credit for It?

Edsurge

This spring, while educators were pivoting to new teaching frameworks from home, I witnessed students shifting into new roles too. I saw a brilliant high school student named Curtis help his father build a shed in the backyard and initiate a Black Lives Matter activism project. He was resourceful and creative, yet he was prevented from graduating with his classmates in June because he didn’t complete a half credit of an art class.

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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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Get-Out-the-Vote Efforts for Youth Went Digital During the Pandemic, Aiding Record-Breaking Turnout

Edsurge

On the morning after Election Day, results were inconclusive about who would serve as the next U.S. president. But the contentious contest did produce at least one clear victor: young voters. Voters ages 18 to 29 turned out to the polls in force in 2020, making up about 17 percent of voters across the country, according to tallies as of Nov. 4. That’s a 1 percent increase over the 2016 election.

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