EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jun Kim, technology director for Moore Public Schools in Oklahoma, watched as teachers began expanding their use of free digital resources. He understood that instructors were racing to bridge the gap between school and home to keep student learning on track, but in the back of his mind, a question lingered: What impact would these new resources have on student data privacy?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 20, 2022

How can teachers develop a practice of creativity and stay inspired in their classrooms? During a recent webinar, HP Teaching Fellows Brent Christensen , Vickie Morgado , Teena Hine , and Amanda Brace shared tips for igniting creativity in their teaching and learning practice. The webinar, hosted by Digital Promise as part of HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom initiative, highlights four strategies for encouraging creativity in students and how they stay creative in their own work: Practi

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2022

Student success depends mightily on three pieces: student, teacher, parent. But there are times as teachers we wonder if we are communicating effectively with parents. Teaching Channel addresses this in this fascinating article: 10 Ways to Manage Difficult Families. Middle School Math Teacher, Kelly Ann Ydrovo recently completed Learners Edge continuing education Course 859: Parent Trap: Achieving Success with Difficult Parents & Difficult Situations and outlined her top 10 strategies for

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 20, 2022

Helping students continue their education during the pandemic has been a topic of concern since the very beginning. It’s safe to say that it’s still a critical issue and one that needs all of our attention, especially when it comes to choosing the best edtech to teach and engage students. Since edtech is always evolving, attending conferences is the perfect way to find amazing edtech solutions.

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Personalized Learning

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

Last month, Adobe announced the release of Creative Cloud Express, a product that aims to bring design capabilities to all creators. Web- and mobile-friendly Creative Cloud Express is intended for a wide audience, including K–12 students working on presentations, students in art and design classes, educators and other content creators. DISCOVER: Interactive panels are a key tool for teacher-driven learning in K–12 classrooms.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2022

When I first began attending school, my teachers often seated me in the back of the classroom. My parents immigrated from Mexico and were farm workers who lived in Florida and migrated around the country based on the season. That meant I didn’t just attend school in Florida, but also in the states that we traveled to, such as Indiana and Michigan. At the time, I could not speak English, so it was easy for me to be overlooked by my peers and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Kesi Hatten’s daughter received her first suspension in sixth grade. She was being bullied, and the bullying escalated into a fight, Hatten said. Over the years, the girl, who is now 15, was suspended at least five times, by Hatten’s count — until the coronavirus pandemic brought a halt to in-school learning. This story also appeared in The Nation. “Everything was great when it was remote, because there was no interaction with these kids on a school level,” Hatten said.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 20, 2022

If you follow the fear-mongering mainstream media, you’d think today's youth is doomed as a result of the “learning loss” caused by the emergency remote learning students were involved in during the pandemic. Innovative educators (and their students) understand this is untrue. There is not one moment in time when any particular subject or topic needs to be learned.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Selecting instructional strategies and supplemental resources for supporting student learning recovery shouldn’t be a guessing game. District and school leaders seeking to address learning loss and accelerate growth must consider the importance of evidence-based practices: instructional skills, techniques, and strategies that a study or experiment has shown to be effective.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Students, parents and educators have spent much of January scrambling with yet another chaotic start to the spring semester as Covid cases surge across the U.S.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2022

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. Jan. 20, 2022 —As educators gear up for the remainder of the 2021-22 school year, school-to-home engagement continues to be a top priority. To unify all school communication and build stronger communities, school systems nationwide — including public, private, and charter school systems — have signed on to expand their use of ParentSquare, the premier unified school-home engagement platform for K-12.

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techlearning

JANUARY 20, 2022

Tech & Learning's judges deemed these products as standouts for supporting teaching and learning in 2021

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TutorMe , the online tutoring solution of the future, and Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) today announced an agreement to provide more than 35,000 K-12 students with free access to TutorMe’s online 24/7 tutoring service for the 2021-2022 school year. With more than 15,000 tutors available anytime to help with more than 300 subjects, TutorMe provides immediate expertise whenever and wherever students need it.

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techlearning

JANUARY 20, 2022

The viral word game Wordle can be used in the classroom to promote problem-solving and other skills.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2022

Classroom technology is essential, and nothing made that more obvious than the COVID-19 pandemic that forced learning to go virtual and hybrid. Technology upgrades help make students feel included and achieve their full potential. But funding for classroom tech tools is always a challenge. Funding challenges aren’t impossible to solve, however.

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techlearning

JANUARY 20, 2022

Factile is quiz platform designed to look like a gameshow while bringing all the learning functionality educators want.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, January 19, 2022) — Shawnee Mission School District (SMSD) in Johnson County, Kansas has initiated a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education. Through this collaboration, educators in all 34 SMSD elementary schools have now joined their peers nationwide in integrating Discovery Education’s award-winning suite of flexible digital resources into science instruction.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

If there's one thing we can be sure of, it's that kids use screens -- a lot. And while there's a lot of debate about how much is too much, research seems to suggest two things: The quality of the content and activities that kids access on screens makes a difference, and finding balance with offscreen activities is important. Striking that balance can be tricky, especially when schoolwork requires a screen and games and social media are so compelling.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Palo Alto, CA– Award-winning STEAM brand, Osmo from BYJU’S, announces Peter Glovin’s appointment as Senior VP of Educational Sales, effective immediately. In this role, Glovin, a seasoned senior edtech sales executive, will develop and implement a U.S. sales strategy for the brand’s educational sales division, Osmo Education , as well as expand its sales team, targeting the Pre-K to Grade 5 education market.

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Edthena

JANUARY 20, 2022

With so much change happening in schools, it’s hard to know which coaching best practices to commit to for now and for the long term. But according to two learning coaches from St. Vrain Valley Schools (Longmont, CO), there are three specific best practices that “will continue to go a long way in supporting the ongoing success and well-being of teachers.” In this eSchool News article, Violet Christensen and Courtney Groskin outline three key areas to invest your coaching effort

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 20, 2022

A Teacher’s Guide to Mentor Texts offers a winning combination – a structured lesson approach, a range of suggested mentor texts, and an overall message adaptable to specific students. Teachers at multiple levels of experience will find it invaluable, writes Sara Pennington. The post All You Need to Select and Use Mentor Texts first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Edthena

JANUARY 20, 2022

With so much change happening in schools, it’s hard to know which coaching best practices to commit to for now and for the long term. But according to two learning coaches from St. Vrain Valley Schools (Longmont, CO), there are three specific best practices that “will continue to go a long way in supporting the ongoing success and well-being of teachers.” In this eSchool News article, Violet Christensen and Courtney Groskin outline three key areas to invest your coaching effort

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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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Josie Ahlquist

JANUARY 20, 2022

I started to write this during hour 6 of what ended up being a 10+ hour flight delay-turned cancellation-turned next day reschedule. I was part of the massive Skywest server outage (one of the largest regional carriers in the US) that affected hundreds of flights and thousands of people. As I went through the rollercoaster of pressing refresh on the United app, interpreting vague text message.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 20, 2022

Celebrating the first check outs. The 2021-22 student book budget team just completed their project for the year. Over 115 books were added to our library this year thanks to their work. We are so happy that this year’s books can be enjoyed for the second half of the school year. We are also happy that we were able to do this project in-person this year.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

MUNCIE, Indiana – Students, teachers, and administrators across the country have faced unprecedented challenges since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But researchers at Ball State University have concluded that various modes of instruction—whether in-person, virtual, or hybrid—did not play a significant role in learning loss among students in Indiana public schools during the 2020-21 school year. “ What Contributed to COVID Learning Loss in Indiana’s Schools?

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techieMusings

JANUARY 20, 2022

If you haven’t tried Genially yet, this video is for you! Genially allows you to create highly interactive and animated presentations, graphics (ie: images with hotspots, eye-catching social media posts), infographics , videos, and more! In this video walkthrough, I start by creating an interactive graphic that looks very similar to Linktree. This could be a fun opportunity for your students to make an about me page or even create one for a person/character they’re reading/learning about.

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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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