Digital Promise

AUGUST 28, 2020

Communities around the country are facing unprecedented challenges that have exposed and exacerbated deep inequities across our society and educational systems. But those same communities are also responding to these challenges with remarkable urgency, flexibility, and ingenuity. As school starts again this fall amid the ongoing crisis, the Digital Promise Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) network demonstrates the value of partnerships between school systems and their surrounding commun

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2020

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in August: Tech Tips. 21 Websites and 5 Posters to Teach Mouse Skills. 9 Great Websites to Inpsire 2nd Graders. 9 Websites to Inspire 5th Graders. Favorite Shortkeys for Special Needs. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 28, 2020

By Amy Valentine The pandemic has given everyone in America an object lesson in education – but the emergency response experienced in the spring is far from the blended schooling model needed to thrive in the future… In the second half of the 2019-2020 school year, the American educational system underwent its most remarkable phase in history, forcing itself through a near-total shutdown of in-person learning and navigating midstream to an unanticipated, extended stretch of schooling from home b

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Ryan Bravin has reported to his classroom every day for the last few weeks to teach English to ninth and 10th graders at his school, located in Vance County in Eastern North Carolina. He leads discussions on literature from behind his desk. But there’s no one else in the room. All his students are logging in from home. It’s not quite the experience Bravin had envisioned when he applied to join Teach for America during his junior year of college.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 28, 2020

New curriculum is available free to high schools across the U.S. Every generation can lay claim to the shared experience of a divided nation. Yet many young people, especially Gen Z, are learning about polarization in today’s society through a barrage of soundbites, headlines and social media posts. This means that, now more than ever there is a critical need, as evident in the latest NAEP Civics Assessment, for young people to learn how to participate in our democracy in more meaningful ways.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2020

Now that a global pandemic and its multiple impacts on education have coincided with a renewed focus on equity, there’s a lot to be mindful about. And with the new school year about to present even more challenges and uncertainties, staying mindful and staying focused on providing an equitable education are likely to prove more difficult and important than ever.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 28, 2020

Now that all of us, teachers and educators, have turned to distance education as the primary mode of doing our work, certain digital functionalities will prove more pertinent than others. One of.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 28, 2020

After the devastation COVID-19 has done to the American economy, many of us don’t know how we can help. The simple truth is that now as always, there is a direct and immediate relationship between education and the economy. As the recovery begins, schools are finding themselves at ground zero in the economic recovery efforts. Their importance is crucial, and this Learning Counsel virtual discussion will help you and your team to stand on the front lines, as schools become the epicenters of our e

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 28, 2020

Recently Google has updated the interface for how to share documents. By default documents you create are private. Changing the settings then defaults to sharing at your school. To allow parents and those outside of your domain to see your documents you need to take an additional step. Share Button In Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, […]. The post Essential Google Apps: Anyone With the Link Can View appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2020

When classes were abruptly moved online last spring in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, Texas high school teacher Aletha Williams was ready. An award-winning veteran educator and tech expert, she thought teaching online a few hours a day would be no problem, easier than her regular long days in the classroom. She quickly realized she was wrong.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2020

FSR , a leading manufacturer of a wide variety of infrastructure solution products for the audio/video, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), education, corporate, hospitality, and government markets, has released its new Symphony Pedestal, extending the company’s popular Symphony Collection of power and charging solutions. The new Symphony Pedestal power and charging tower makes waiting areas and workspaces an inviting place to plug in, offering 4 AC outlets for users to remain cha

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Linways Technologies

AUGUST 28, 2020

Scaling an educational institution is about finding the optimized workflows and boosting the productivity of teachers and other non-teaching staff. Here’s why you should have a scalable workflow in your institution, You can cater to a larger number of students with a better education. Make room for quality assessment and improvement. Stay relevant through the future transitions of education and student demographics.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2020

In partnership with eSchool News, Illuminate Education is spotlighting teachers in a series recognizing educators, the way they have moved instruction online during COVID-19, and how they have prioritized the needs of their students. Dr. Kathryn Sampilo-Wilson. 6th Grade Teacher. Buena Park School District. “We have to create a program that enables students to thrive and grow, to engage students and make them feel loved.”.

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techlearning

AUGUST 28, 2020

Topeka Public Schools is using edtech to close opportunity gaps and support remote learning

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2020

InsideTrack — the national student success nonprofit that established the use of coaching for higher education enrollment, completion and career readiness — today announced the launch of an ambitious new initiative designed to deliver emergency coaching services for students experiencing crisis situations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Georgia Test Prep

AUGUST 28, 2020

Math has a bad rep, and the reason is that a lot of people feel at least some level of math phobia. For them, anxiety and math just go hand in hand. The truth is that math anxiety isn’t a natural condition, but that it develops in our minds early in life. If math anxiety is not addressed early on in a child’s life, it can lead them to develop an emotional block and cause a mental paralysis when they are faced with math.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2020

Need another negative for this forced migration to remote learning? Students become even more vulnerable to the dangers of what Advait Shinde calls the “modern Internet”. On this episode, the co-founder and CEO of GoGuardian talks about how his company is adjusting its products and services to these new scenarios and offers some hopeful insights for moving forward.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2020

My parents tried to shelter me from the realities of the world in order to protect me from certain hard truths. But when I grew up to find out about my family’s undocumented status, it didn’t protect me from the reality that I wouldn’t have the same opportunities as my friends and classmates. Like all immigrants, DREAMers– undocumented immigrants who came here as children and have had no way to adjust their status – can attest to the struggle of assimilation into the American culture.

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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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