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ISTELive 21: The Classroom and AV Design Trends Emerging from Pandemic Learning

EdTech Magazine

Laptops and online collaboration dominated the learning space last year, but key audiovisual adoption trends are likely to carry over into the future, said Mike Peters, an educational strategy lead for CDW•G.

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Launches Free Online Reflection Tool for Students and Teachers

Edsurge

Sometimes even small talk can have enormous effects on students’ wellbeing. Giving kids a chance to talk with adults about their lives outside of class can be critical for their social-emotional development. But during the pandemic, online classes didn’t often allow the time for that individual attention. That was the thinking behind Along , a free digital reflection tool developed by the nonprofit Gradient Learning and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and announced yesterday at the 2021 annual co

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ISTELive 21: How to Create Memorable Online Professional Development for Educators

EdTech Magazine

Creating online professional development courses has made training more accessible to teachers. School leaders should consider keeping online PD even after the pandemic, to allow teachers to learn on their own schedule. We spoke with Manny Curiel, ed tech specialist at Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, about the logistical needs of professional development videos and how he makes them memorable.

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21 awesome AR and VR tools for learning

eSchool News

Nearly everyone has experienced augmented reality and virtual reality to some degree, and while they’re fun, AR and VR can also be incredibly powerful when integrated into classroom learning. During an engaging ISTELive 21 session , Jennifer Hall , NBCT, an educational technology specialist with Atlanta Public Schools, outlined an abundance of AR and VR apps for students and educators.

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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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ISTELive 21: Texas District Shares How It Remotely Secured 91,000 Devices

EdTech Magazine

For the Lewisville Independent School District’s IT team, spring break of 2020 was no vacation. They had only two weeks to figure out how to securely transition nearly 60,000 students and staff and their devices to remote learning. In a Tuesday evening session at ISTELive 21 called “We Did It! Secure Connectivity Outside of the District Network,” Chris Langford, Lewisville ISD’s director of network, infrastructure and cybersecurity, shared how his team worked with Cisco to secure connectivity fo

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This Is How to use Creative Commons and Royalty Free Content in Education

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Creative Commons (CC), in short, is an organization that provides licenses to use creative work, free of charge under a certain set of conditions. All CC licenses allow work to be used for education,read more.

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3 Questions We Can Ask about Informational Texts

MiddleWeb

Asking three basic questions can help middle grades readers connect with informational texts and make sense of their meaning. Literacy consultant Sunday Cummins describes several classroom-tested steps that can aid students in identifying and analyzing new information in nonfiction material. The post 3 Questions We Can Ask about Informational Texts first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Two Professional Development Events Teachers Should Not Miss During This Summer

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Looking for opportunities to help you with your professional growth during this summer? The resources below have you covered. These are resources provided by the Internet behemoths specifically for.read more.

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TEACHER VOICE: This wasn’t a ‘lost year’

The Hechinger Report

Back in February, on a cold Friday night in the middle of our pandemic winter, one of my ninth grade students emailed me a cry for help. The message contained phrases — “can’t take this anymore,” “a lot of pain,” “mental breakdown” — that signaled a serious crisis. Teachers have protocols to follow in situations like this. We document the signs of crisis.

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How to Boost Creativity In the Classroom

techlearning

Boosting creativity in the classroom is essential and easy with the right apps, websites, and best practices

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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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How teachers can befriend Blended Learning?

Linways Technologies

Blended Learning is an approach to learning that combines face-to-face and online learning experiences. Blended learning can be implemented in many unique ways. But at the implementation level, we can come across a lot of setbacks while we try to implement blended learning. Let us have a look at the benefits of blended learning and which are the factors that hinder the successful implementation of blended learning and how we can hack it.

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Three big ed tech projects: cashing out or historic investments?

Bryan Alexander

Over the past few days three big ed tech entities made major financial moves. I was struck by that coincidence and wanted to explore what the combination might means. ITEM: To start with, major online program manager ( OPM ) 2U purchased much of online class provider edX for $800 million. As part of the deal Harvard and MIT will launch a new and so far unnamed education nonprofit.

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Reimagining research publication workflow with Typeset

Turnitin

The story of Typeset and Turnitin’s partnership, from its beginnings and motivation factors to the successful outcomes of this alliance.

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Helping Students with Disabilities Thrive in Virtual Learning Environments

EmergingEdTech

Image Source Many of us sorely miss the traditional classroom. From face-to-face interactions with our students to conversations with educators to after-school activities, we’re simply yearning for. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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5 ways this district evaluates its digital content purchases

eSchool News

K-12 schools spend billions on edtech tools, but often, many of the tools go unused or aren’t evaluated for effectiveness. So how can district technology teams ensure an effective evaluation and purchasing process for digital content and new software? The Pickerington Local School District in Ohio has done just that, with a carefully-honed process that ensures communication and transparency between its curriculum and technology departments, as well as with teachers. “The big problem

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4 tricks I learned from #TeacherTikTok that boosted student engagement

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Madeline Newton Driscoll. . TeacherTok has been a constant companion in these last few months (ok the whole year) of pandemic teaching. I just paused to check my phone usage stats before starting this article … and I’m embarrassed to say my daily average is five … FIVE hours. I sometimes spend more time during the day scrolling through Instagram and TikTok than I do watching TV, and I can guarantee the same is true for many of our studen

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About Wanda

ignitionEDU

Twenty-­eight year educator Dr. Wanda Terral is the Director of Technology for the Lakeland School System (TN). A former band director, Wanda is constantly seeking information relating to techniques & practices related to the use of tech to empower students and educators. A Google Certified Innovator & Trainer, she is known for widely sharing useful resources and lesson ideas on Twitter and Facebook.

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Edmentum to Acquire Apex Learning, an Industry Leader in Virtual and Hybrid Learning for Middle and High School Students

eSchool News

Minneapolis June 22, 2021 – Edmentum (edmentum.com ), a global pioneer in education technology, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Apex Learning, a Seattle-based industry leader in digital curriculum and virtual learning with over 20 years of deep expertise providing high-quality, rigorous, and teacher-centered programs. Apex’s mission of making a difference in education complements Edmentum’s drive to amplify teaching and propel student learning forward.

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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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What is iCivics and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks

techlearning

iCivics is a powerful lesson plan tool for teachers that can help engage students better.

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‘Don’t go back to the old normal’: Opportunities for Adolescent Learning Revealed by COVID-19  

MindShift

Long before the COVID-19 shutdown forced schools to launch remote learning, the nonprofit Challenge Success tracked student wellness, using the findings to encourage schools and families to rethink what constitutes “success” for students. . In the early months of the pandemic shutdown, some students and families experienced silver linings alongside COVID-19’s many challenges.

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Blog Post and Podcast: "The Spirit of Service" by Dr. Steve Albrecht

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We've posted a new blog post and a complementary podcast from Dr. Steve Albrecht in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security" section of Library 2.0 : " The Spirit of Service " In this third part of our three-part discussion of customer service, we look at a collection of ideas about the Spirit of Service. The Spirit of Service is a set of 20 behaviors that can help all library employees focus on not just the “how-to” part of providing great customer service.

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Cultivating Joy Takes Work: 3 Ways to Turn Happiness Into a Habit

MindShift

Back in the fall, Michelle Shiota noticed she wasn’t feeling like herself. Her mind felt trapped. “I don’t know if you’ve ever worn a corset, but I had this very tight, straining feeling in my mind,” she says. “My mind had shrunk.” Shiota is a psychologist at Arizona State University and an expert on emotions.

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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.