EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

COVID-19 upended virtually every aspect of business and society this year. Unfortunately, education hasn’t been spared. But there is an upside to the situation. As we continue to live in a more contactless world, innovation in education prevails. For instance, STEM educators are finding creative strategies to engage students remotely. I wrote about some of these strategies in a higher education context, but they also apply to today’s K–12 schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: 4 Stages of Keyboarding Growth. Category: Keyboarding.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Guest article by Thomas Russell By 2021, experts predict the world will face a shortage of 3.5 million cybersecurity professionals. In the U.S. alone, the cybersecurity shortage is expected to exceed 300,000 professionals. What does that mean for the country? And what does it mean for the world? For starters, it leaves businesses and government agencies vulnerable to data breaches — something that costs them millions of dollars and an incalculable amount in lost trust.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Nor is it the exclusive domain of scientists or mathematicians. In recent years, AI has quietly worked itself into our lives at home, work and school in ways that many of us may not even recognize. From adaptive software to recommendation engines to digital assistants, we now rely on these smart tools simply to get through the day.

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Teacher Tech

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Google Sites websites allow you to add a button to the pages. Buttons are very helpful to bring attention to links you particularly want students to click on. Insert Menu While editing your Google Site, notice the “Insert” tab in the right side bar. Scroll down a bit in the sidebar to find “Button.” Select […]. The post Insert Button into Google Sites appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina literally washed away the New Orleans public school system. You may not like the new charter school presence in New Orleans, but those schools came about because local educators seized the opportunities presented by Katrina and acted upon them as entrepreneurs. Organizational change in education is often preceded by an action forcing event.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Now is the perfect time to start a “passion career,” says Rob Kingyens, Founder and CEO of New York-based online learning platform Yellowbrick. But many people struggle to even identify their passions, let alone connect them to a viable career path. Through Yellowbrick, Kingyens is determined to teach creatives how to construct professions out of their passions.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Talk and Comment is a chrome extension that enables you to record voice notes and share them almost anywhere on the web. As a teacher, you may want to install and use it to share audio feedback in.read more.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In today's post we will dive in Chromebook accessibility features and share with you this handy text to speech tip we discovered through a tweet from Google for Education. As you probably know.read more.

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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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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

An Illinois charter school management company recently resolved allegations that it rigged bidding processes for E-Rate contracts it awarded for hot spots and internet connectivity. The post Charter School Company to Pay $4.5 Million Over Alleged Unfair Bidding in E-Rate Program appeared first on Market Brief.

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MiddleWeb

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Examining the human impact of climate change through texts allows students to connect climate science to the human cost of climate change, develop empathy for communities impacted by climate change, and discover more about climate justice, writes ELA teacher Kasey Short.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Today’s students, teachers, and administrative staff are facing unprecedented connectivity challenges as the 2020 school year brings more and more distance learning options. School districts’ commitment to the “no child left behind” mission takes on a new meaning with today’s technology and learning formats, as students must now have access to reliable, secure internet service in order to access all their educational opportunities.

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myViewBoard

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This November, we’re bringing in new treats to add to your bag of myViewBoard tricks. ? ? ?. Enhancements to Interactive Features. We’ve added a couple of improvements to some of myViewBoard’s interactive features: New in Poll/Quiz: We’ve made it easier to evaluate voting results at a glance. Starting from this release, the “Poll/Quiz” voting results page sorts the results in descending order.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

To recognize outstanding achievements in the field of social and emotional learning (SEL), the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has selected two recipients of the Mary Utne O’Brien Awards for Excellence in Expanding the Evidence-Based Practice of SEL and two recipients of the Joseph E. Zins Awards for Social and Emotional Learning Action Research.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. According to an Education Week survey, classroom teachers spent the first six weeks after school closures troubleshooting connectivity and software issues, resulting in a 75% drop in instruction. Even as late as into the spring, classroom instruction was still less than 50% of pre-COVID numbers with district staff and educators challenged to re-engage students with sound instructional practices from a distance.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents (ALAS) has announced its new executive board members. They are: Dr. Francisco Duran, President. Dr. Gustavo Balderas, president-elect and Director of Region 2 Northeast. Dr. Danna Diaz, secretary and director at large. Dr. Alex Marrero, treasurer and director of Region 6 Northeast. The board members were sworn in during the recent virtual ALAS National Education Summit.

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ExcelinEd

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Governor Tate Reeves recently announced his priorities to direct a portion of the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) funds to support effective, creative solutions to serve all students. The grants will enable school leaders and education organizations to accelerate innovative learning solutions for Mississippi’s most vulnerable student populations.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

New Jersey’s Camden City School District (CCSD) today launched a new, multi-year partnership with Discovery Education supporting PK-12 education. Through this new collaboration, all CCSD educators and students will receive access to dynamic digital resources that keep students connected to learning at home, in school, or wherever learning is taking place.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How vulnerable is student data at U.S. public schools? That’s a critical question now that many, if not most, of the nation’s 51 million students are learning online at least some of the time. Congressional watchdogs recently attempted to get a handle on the cyber security problem in schools. In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal

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Vizor

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes In an article from early last year, it was revealed that there are over 80 million students and educators using Chromebooks worldwide. This includes apps like Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, as well as Calendar, Jamboard, and Hangouts. There is no doubt that the popularity of Chromebooks is increasing. Schools are investing hundreds of thousands of dollars to improve curriculums and prepare students for the real world.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As I navigate this school year, I am keenly aware of the ever-present power of change. Each day seems to bring a new challenge, a new policy, a new online platform, a new protocol, a new expectation, and at times, new quarantines. As educators, we take a deep breath, strengthen our resolve, and carry on. But what about our students? How are they navigating this new environment?

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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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MindShift

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

By Trevor MacKenzie. The term “student agency” continues to be at the forefront of the educational discourse around the world. By encouraging children to have more control over their learning, educators hope students will leave our classrooms and schools with a range of skills that will support them in being lifelong learners, engaged humanitarians and empathetic people.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

America seems more ready than ever for long-overdue conversations about race, gender and opportunity. One setting where those conversations matter a lot is in our schools — the places that explicitly define opportunity in our children’s formative years. When we select people to lead our education systems, we send a loud signal to our children about what is possible for them.

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