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Cultivating Digital Literacy through Real World Learning

Digital Promise

The post Cultivating Digital Literacy through Real World Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Best Monitor Calibration Tool: Hardware vs Software Calibration

ViewSonic Education

C olor accuracy is critical for all digital artists, and monitor calibration is the only way to ensure that the color displayed on your screen will be the one on paper or on screen when published. In general, the tools can be divided into software calibration and hardware calibration. While software calibration is easy to carry out and most crucial for everyday use, hardware calibration is a vital but more advanced process for professionals.

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Virtual College Tours Continue Expanding Opportunities for K–12 Students

EdTech Magazine

For many high school students, touring college campuses in person is a rite of passage. For others, it’s a practical impossibility. U.S. News and World Report estimated that families spend between $1,000 and $3,000 per college visit, depending on the proximity of the institution. These days, however, an in-person tour isn’t the only option for prospective students.

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12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

I posted this a few years ago, skipped the topic with all the craziness of the pandemic, and am updating it this year in articles about how to wrap up your school year.: Wrapping up your school technology for the summer is as complicated as setting it up in September. There are endless backups, shares, cleanings, changed settings, and vacation messages that — if not done right — can mean big problems when you return from summer vacation.

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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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24 ideas for creating a discussion-rich classroom

Ditch That Textbook

Discussion can engage students and help them to see different perspectives. Here are strategies you can use to create a discussion-rich classroom. "I want to tell you something about <insert topic> " "Let's have a discussion about <insert topic> " If someone approached you with these two statements, which would draw you in most? For many of us in many […].

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How to block websites in K-12 schools

Hapara

Across schools, students use devices like Chromebooks for learning because it has many advantages. But how do we protect learners while they are working online? It’s essential for schools to keep private information secure and block content that gets in the way of learning. Let’s take a look at how to safeguard students and block websites in K-12 schools.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

Digital textbooks are cost-effective and create equitable, engaging and flexible learning experiences. What’s not to love? There are many advantages to using digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom for schools and districts. But how do you start making the transition to digital and ensure that your learners have high-quality resources? . To help you begin, we’ve gathered digital textbooks across subjects and grade levels—all are openly-licensed and free-to-use.

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Why Improving Student Learning is So Hard

Iterating Toward Openness

Here are a few brief thoughts about why improving student learning is so hard to do. 1. Improving student learning requires changing student behavior – changing the things students do in order to learn. Students learn by doing – by playing, interacting, manipulating, reading, watching, listening, reflecting, arguing, summarizing, etc. Faculty can promote student learning only by influencing what students do.

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Student well-being and pedagogy by making learning contextual: Tapping into students’ life experience for learning

Hapara

Join H?para’s Senior Director of Innovation, Rich Dixon and Shayla Adams-Stafford as they discuss how providing students with a sense of belonging, keeping them feeling safe and including culturally relevant material is critical for their success as learners. Featuring: Shayla Adams-Stafford, Founder and CEO of AdaptiveX ( @adaptive_x ) Rich Dixon, Senior Director of Learning Innovation at H?

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What is Mood Meter and How to Use It to Boost Kids Emotional Intelligence?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Mood Meter is a tool from Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence that helps students (and everyone else) boost their emotional intelligence (EQ) through developing self-awareness and.read more.

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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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Kids’ access to recess varies greatly

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story was a special edition of the Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Subscribe today! Ask any young child their favorite part of a school day and you’re likely to hear it’s recess. Recess is often the only time kids get for free play during jam-packed school days— and it’s brief: The average length of recess is 25 minutes per day.

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Here’s how IT leaders can keep district networks safe

eSchool News

IT teams understand how important cybersecurity measures are, but many struggle to pinpoint where to begin when their resources are limited. And when COVID closed in-person classrooms, it also gave a boost to cybercriminals looking to infiltrate school district networks. Data security breaches–including ransomware attacks, phishing, and unauthorized disclosures–show no sign of slowing, and K-12 IT leaders need to be ready.

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Inside a college counseling center struggling with the student mental health crisis

The Hechinger Report

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Heidi Schmitt, a therapist at the University of Iowa, sat in her swivel chair and pulled on her snow boots: Time to move. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. It was just after lunch on a gray day this spring, but already Schmitt had seen one student suffering from panic attacks; another struggling to connect with peers after two years of pandemic-induced isolation; and a third who was having a hard time adjusting to college.

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Eason Rytter Of New York, Ny Named 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholar In The Arts

eSchool News

NEW YORK, NY (May 12, 2022) – Eason Rytter, 2022 YoungArts award winner in theater, from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music, Art, and the Performing Arts in New York City, has been named a 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. The U.S. Presidential Scholars award—one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students who exemplify artistic and academic excellence, leadership qualities and community service—is presented on behalf of the President of the United States and honors

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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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Transforming Reading Instruction to Include the Science of Reading

edWeb.net

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Changing the reading instruction provided by a school or district is a complex, multi-step process that can take years to accomplish, but as one presenter noted during the edLeader Panel, “ Leadership and the Science of Reading: An Honest Look at the Joys and Challenges of School Transformation ,” it can transform students’ lives as well as significantly increase their academic achievement.

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4 innovative online learning practices educators should keep

eSchool News

Over the past two years, education systems across the nation have been challenged with oscillating shifts, from classroom learning to remote and online learning, and even hybrid approaches, due to COVID-19 precautions and responsiveness. Amid these ongoing changes, educators reimagined the ways they engaged with their students, and many turned to museums and other community organizations for support to better understand how to leverage our collections, educational resources, and expertise creati

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

CS First is a great way to get started with teaching students computer science even if you as the teacher do not have experience with coding or computer science. First s. science! It is critical thinking. The post First S appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Can web filtering really harm the kids?

eSchool News

Web filtering is undoubtedly an essential when it comes to school cybersecurity. However, when the service is not set up correctly or a number of blocked categories is way too high, it starts to annoy both staff, and kids. Let’s see how to use web filtering to stay safe out there on the internet and make full use out of it. Starting with the basics, it makes sense to remind ourselves what CIPA is.

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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 Passionate! Innovative Ways to Leverage Technology | @MyEdTechLife Podcast #edtech #TechWithHeart

techieMusings

I had a chance to sit down with Fonz Mendoza to record episode 109 on his show: My Edtech Life. The title captures the excitement I felt throughout the recording: Get Passionate! Innovative Ways to Leverage Technology. If you have not had a chance to check out the My Edtech Life podcast yet, let me tell you – Fonz does his research and makes sure each episode communicates the guest’s story.

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Case Study: How Weston School District Built a Digital Strategy with Digital Signage, 15 Minutes at a Time

eSchool News

(May 12, 2022) –– Rise Vision has released a new case study of Weston School District, a small school district which serves three rural communities of Cazenovia, Hillpoint, and Lime Ridge, Weston and has a student population of 300 students. While Weston School District doesn’t face the problems a very large school does, it does face its own challenges.

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How To Setup Virtual Reality Or Augmented Reality In Schools For Free

techlearning

Want virtual reality or augmented reality? Here's how to get it free.

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Pivot Interactives Announces New Iris™ Technology to Increase Students’ Active Phenomena-Based Learning

eSchool News

(May12, 2022) — Pivot Interactives introduces a new set of tools, Iris , which make learning critical science concepts—such as heat transfer, Beer’s Law, light emission, population density, temperature (infrared and blackbody), pH, and wavelength—accessible to students regardless of classroom equipment or teaching experience. With this new patent-pending collection of color and light measuring tools, students can now take quantitative measurements of color & light for themselves direct

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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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Kindergarten School Supply List

Fractus Learning

Table of Contents Should You Use A Printable School Supply List? Check If Your School Provides A School Supply Directory School Supplies List By Grade: Where To Shop For School Supplies Purchase Prepackaged Supply Kits For School Shop Online For School Supplies Take Your Kids Shopping Locally What's the Best Time To Shop For the School Season Basic List of School Supplies Other Items You'll Need For The 2022-2023 School Season Back-to-School Shoes Clothing For School Glasses or Contact

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VHS Learning’s New Flexible Courses Expand Student Options for Online Course Enrollment

eSchool News

Boston – May 12, 2022 – Scheduling flexibility is frequently cited by students and teachers as a major benefit of working with VHS Learning’s asynchronous online courses. Starting in August, students will be able to take advantage of an even more flexibly paced course format. The new Flexible course model will be available for 16 courses beginning in the 2022-2023 academic year: Algebra 1 Flexible AP® Calculus AB Flexible AP® Calculus BC Flexible AP® Computer Science Principles Flexible AP® Envi

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Funny Teacher Memes For 2022

Fractus Learning

Table of Contents Teaching Profession Memes Being A Teacher Is A Tough Job When A Teacher Waits For A Quiet Class There Is Always That One Parent… Happy Teacher, The Kids Understood A Little Sarcasm Classroom Teacher Patience Children Taking Chances It Was Only A Minute Saying Out Loud What Teachers Think Back To School Funny Teacher Memes Another School Week Get Ready For School Summer Break Privacy Before The School Year And After… Middle School Teacher Memes Course Related Teacher

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ShopWithScrip Rebrands as RaiseRight, Announces Lou Agnese as Chief Executive Officer

eSchool News

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (May 12, 2022)— ShopWithScrip, the largest gift card fundraising platform in the United States, has rebranded as RaiseRight and announced that Lou Agnese, an executive with extensive experience in consumer-facing digital marketplaces, has been appointed as chief executive officer to drive a new era of growth. “Our new brand and website more strongly reflect our mission to offer non-profits and community-based organizations the easiest, most effective way to meet their fu

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Parent Strategies for Improving Their Child’s Math Grade

Georgia Test Prep

Math is among the most essential and fundamental aspects of our existence. Before infants even learn to sit, we use mathematics to interpret and describe the forms and spaces around us. Because we all employ mathematical knowledge from the minute we open our eyes to this environment, how we train and improve our arithmetic skills has a big impact on our lives.

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How to Build Any School into a Success Story

MiddleWeb

Every school leader needs a focused, intentional process to move a school from what it is to what it can become, writes veteran principal Frank Hagan. Robyn Jackson offers a “new way of thinking” through the phases of her Buildership Model and its 90-day iterative blueprints. The post How to Build Any School into a Success Story first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Double Shift: 6 Stories of Teachers With Side Hustles

Edsurge

Bartender. Nanny. Waitress. Retail worker. Painter. Housekeeper. Graphic designer. One of the realities of classroom teachers in the United States is that many do not make enough money to rely solely on their salary. So they seek out second jobs and side hustles, sometimes juggling several at once, to supplement their income. Over the last several months, EdSurge has interviewed dozens of K-12 teachers who work at least one other job outside of the classroom.

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OPINION: Will textbook bans change how students think?

The Hechinger Report

Florida’s rejection of 42 math textbooks for including “prohibited” topics obscures a more nuanced and important issue: Decades of educational research are colliding with American views about freedom and morality. The books were rejected for including newly prohibited topics like social-emotional learning and critical race theory. At a recent news conference, Republican Florida Gov.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.