Mon.Dec 21, 2020

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Review: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Powers Distance Learning

EdTech Magazine

Education for K–12 students looks a lot different these days, with almost all students spending at least some of their class time learning from home. This can be challenging even for the best-equipped students, but it’s even more difficult for kids who lack the right equipment to sustain the level of connectivity they need to succeed. For these students, the new Microsoft Surface Pro 7 tablet is well suited to support virtual learners from anywhere.

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How to Teach Divergent Thinking Skills in the Classroom

Waterford

To solve a problem they are struggling with, some students need only to “think outside the box.” This tactic is called divergent thinking, and it gets students to come up with several answers to a question and decide which is the best, most useful one. Read on to take a look at divergent thinking, why it’s important, and how it differs from its opposite, convergent thinking.

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2020: The Year Of the Edtech Paradox

Edsurge

In many ways, 2020 has been THE year of edtech. Technology experienced a meaningful surge in adoption by schools, districts and parents. The industry saw large capital inflows and more edtech “unicorns” than in any other prior year. Mergers and acquisitions are booming. Edtech funds closed larger funds, and top-notch venture capital investors including a16z , Lightspeed and Union Square Ventures have developed investment theses on education.

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Helpful Math Resources for Your Online Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is a collection of useful resources you can use in your remote math teaching. These are websites that provide you access to a wide variety of curricular materials to help you make the best of.

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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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Distanced Play. No Hugs. How Everyday Child Care Routines Are Changing.

Edsurge

“Circle time” conjures an image of children sitting close together, cross-legged, on a brightly colored rug as a teacher guides them through the day’s routines and lessons. The kids might be asked to describe what the weather is like, verbalize how they’re feeling or practice a new letter in the alphabet. And most likely, they’ll do it all while singing, clapping and laughing.

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On Distance Learning: 6 Great Books for Teachers and Educators

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As the current pandemic continues to ravage the world disrupting the flow of our social, economic, and cultural life, the virtual world becomes our go-to place for conducting business,read more

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Learning through gaming

eSchool News

When students are so deeply engaged in a task that they can’t wait to dive in — and at the same time, they’re learning fundamental skills that are critical for their success — it’s a magical combination. That’s what a lucky group of 20 students at Horace Mann UCLA Community School are about to experience as they take part in an innovative afterschool program.

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When nurses are needed most, nursing programs aren’t keeping up with demand

The Hechinger Report

LONG BEACH, Calif. — At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed a growing shortage of nurses, it should have been good news that there were more than 1,200 applicants to enter the associate degree program in nursing at Long Beach City College. This story also appeared in National Public Radio. But the community college took only 32 of them. The entrance to the Long Beach City College nursing program.

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How Educators Can Master Working in a Hybrid Learning Environment

EmergingEdTech

A day in the life of an educator is chaotic, time-poor and exhausting. Between online classes, student-teacher 1:1s, parent-teacher conferences, teacher appraisals and faculty/staff meetings, there. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Courage Required to Lead an Equity Agenda

edWeb.net

By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. While equity requires vision from its leaders, it also requires courage. During the edWebinar, “ Leading for Equity: Courage to Lead with an Equity Agenda, ” hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , Dr. Khalid Mumin, Superintendent of Reading School District (PA), and Marlon Styles, Superintendent of Middletown City Schools (OH), discussed the challenges they faced and the t

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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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Blended learning models can help schools reopen–here’s how

eSchool News

This story on how blended learning can help schools reopen during the COVID pandemic, originally published on June 15, was eSN’s No. 9 most popular story of 2020. Check back each day for the next story in our countdown. As educators start considering their options for the fall, the future is full of uncertainty. If schools remain closed, they’ll need to prepare for more remote learning.

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High schoolers report on what it’s like doing school in a pandemic

The Hechinger Report

NEW YORK CITY has two high school systems. One is for the affluent and well-connected. It promises elite opportunities for families able to sacrifice time and money to compete for them. The other primarily serves low-income students of color, concentrates them in the same schools, and offers them slim hope of college preparation. But most people here, including policymakers, have little idea what actually goes on inside this dual school system.

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Reflection Can Help Us Revive Our Best Selves

MiddleWeb

If there's ever been a year for reflection and pampering during winter break, then 2020 is that year. A.P. DeAnna Miller intends to set aside time to write and reflect on what worked and what needs changing. And she will "really and truly" revive and embrace the self-care routines she loves.

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How Historically Responsive Literacy Can Make Learning More Relevant to Students

MindShift

Today’s education system resembles much of what you’d see in the early 1900s: rote memorization, a teacher speaking to dozens of pupils who must remain silent unless called upon, curriculum at scale. Coronavirus-related distance learning pushed that same operation online, and because of the severity of the crisis, educators and parents understandably yearn for getting back to normal.

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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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Tracking SSH logins via process activity

Jamf on EdTech

Because major macOS intrusions often use the SSH service, here at Jamf Protect we’ve been researching the ways in which we can use the Jamf Protect agent to best detect malicious SSH logins and bring them to the attention of those who need to know.

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Blended Learning with Google Podcast Series

Shake Up Learning

The post Blended Learning with Google Podcast Series appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Ready for blended learning in a post COVID world? Say goodbye to boring lectures, sit and get, and the same old, tired projects. In this 3-part Blended Learning with Google podcast series (based on Kasey’s book of the same name ), we will show you how you can use Google tools to create dynamic, blended learning experiences for your students!

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Tons of Engaging Lesson Templates for Incredible Student Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! If you are a teacher who uses Google Classroom then you know how easy it is to assign a template of a Slide, Spreadsheet, Doc or Drawing for students to complete. Even if you don’t use Google Classroom. You can easily force a copy to students with a simple link. Creating these templates doesn’t have to take hours.

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Four Key Lessons on Addressing Equity in Schools

Insight Education Group

It’s almost impossible these days to read an education article, watch the news, look at social media, or even have a conversation with a friend or colleague that doesn’t somehow touch on racial equity. We’ve seen our country grapple with a worldwide pandemic while simultaneously trying to reckon with the gross racial inequities that are ever-present in our society and in our schools.

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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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Encouraging Students to Set Goals for the New Year

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! The first step in student ownership of their own learning is goal setting. We can help students identify what they know, how they want to grow and commit to plans to making this happen. One way I help my students set learning goals is by having them complete the vision board template below, which is free for you to copy and assign to students.

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Tons of Engaging Lesson Templates for Incredible Student Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! If you are a teacher who uses Google Classroom then you know how easy it is to assign a template of a Slide, Spreadsheet, Doc or Drawing for students to complete. Even if you don’t use Google Classroom. You can easily force a copy to students with a simple link. Creating these templates doesn’t have to take hours.

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