A Principal's Reflections

JULY 11, 2021

Leadership is leadership. The same essential qualities and characteristics that exemplify what great leaders do have pretty much stayed the same. What has changed are the tools, research, and societal shifts that impact the work. Leadership is both an art and science with the goal of moving the masses towards achieving a common goal. Leading is not easy , and being effective at it is easier said than done.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 11, 2021

By Allen Drennan If the recent pandemic has taught educators anything, it’s that privacy is paramount to the teacher, trainer and student user experience, especially when minors are involved. Not surprisingly, system administrators in EdTech have legal and institutional obligations with which to comply, as well as district or corporate standards.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 11, 2021

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com. As you might know, I am very excited about STEM education! In fact, get ready even more STEM posts. For consultations and presentations at schools across the country I have developed these 15 questions you may want to ask as you develop or assess STEM possibilities for students. Also, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email, and join me on twitter at mjgormans .

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EdNews Daily

JULY 11, 2021

By LeiLani Cauthen The purpose of a learning model shift is to allow schools and teachers to retain relevancy, perhaps even supremacy, over fully consumer models available today, which by their very nature will be less teacher-humanized and lacking most of the benefits that an experienced teacher can bring. There are eight primary models currently in the K12 market for organizing learning with Hybrid Logistics.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 11, 2021

Ptable is an interactive periodic table that works on both desktop and mobile devices. Chemical elements on Ptable are organized by atomic number, properties, and electron configuration. Each element.read more.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 11, 2021

By Charles Sosnik The U.S. K-12 sector spent $35.8 Billion in 2020 on all things EdTech, including hardware, major software systems, digital curriculum resources and networks, a healthy increase of $7.5 Billion over 2019. This spike was largely due to the CARES Act and essential capital spending on EdTech to enable remote learning, especially in institutions that had to scramble to issue computing devices, software and urgent training for teachers and students.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 11, 2021

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark President Biden recently announced plans to fund efforts to address the shortage of teachers, a situation that has been building for many years and accelerated because of the pandemic. There is no question that the nation needs a larger, better trained and more diverse group of teachers. But having all the teachers we need can’t “fix” learning and believing that it can largely ignores what the science and the research tell us about student outcomes.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 11, 2021

Last week one of my readers emailed me asking about a Chrome extension called Dualless. This extension splits your browser windows into two with the ability to customize the ratio as you want. While.read more.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 11, 2021

Creating assessments in multiple languages means encouraging students to use their home language throughout the assessment process. Tan Huynh shares seven ways, including conferencing and self-assessing, to embed home languages into evaluations. The post How and Why to Assess in Multiple Languages first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JULY 11, 2021

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Francesca Rolley. . Gimkit. Wakelet. Slides. Forms. Meet. Zoom. Remind. Class Dojo. Quizizz. Quizlet. Nearpod. Pear Deck. Kahoot. Flipgrid. Kami. Loom. Edpuzzle. Edmodo. Menti. Moodle. Socrative. Securly. Hapara. Padlet. If you can comprehend the above lines at a proficient reading level, you might be a teacher transitioning out of the 2020-2021 school year.

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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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