EdTech Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

On May 26, the Consortium for School Networking released its annual EdTech Leadership Survey Report. This year’s report highlights the struggles that educators faced during the pandemic and will help the organization focus its efforts for the coming year. Based on a national survey of nearly 400 K–12 IT leaders from urban, suburban and rural school districts, the report shows cybersecurity and student data privacy as the top priorities for respondents, followed closely by digital equity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2021

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakehol

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

One of the first aspects of remote and hybrid education that Mariel Milano noticed last year was the increase in parent involvement. Parents became co-pilots in their children’s education, says Milano, director of digital curriculum for Florida’s Orange County Public Schools. Families of K–12 students had a front-row seat to learning for the first time.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? Or rope unwitting students into being the guinea pigs of your experiment without consent?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 9, 2021

Gone are the days when teachers could teach, influence, and monitor students in person. Today, with remote learning becoming the new normal, an array of educators may find it challenging to keep.read more.

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techlearning

JULY 9, 2021

From media literacy to source bias evaluation, Wikipedia is a great classroom tool that more educators should embrace.

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Edthena

JULY 9, 2021

Is teacher learning easier than ever? Lots of things adjusted with distance teaching, but the changes to professional development for educators has actually helped it become more accessible. Doug Fisher talked about new opportunities to learn and grow in an interview with Edthena founder & CEO Adam Geller for the teacher professional development blog PLtogether.

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Testpress

JULY 9, 2021

We had focused more on stabilizing the platform in terms of performance and reduced downtime. As a result, we could only churn out fewer features. Nevertheless here are the updates: Tags support for all your contents Make guest attempts searchable by email and phone in admin stats BHIM, Gpay, PayTM, and PhonePe support for white-labeled PayU Added tags support We deprecated Categories and moved to a robust Tagging system.

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eSchool News

JULY 9, 2021

From educators, IT teams, and school administrators to parents and students, nearly everyone with a stake in the education industry is aware of the promise new digital technologies hold to improve learning outcomes, increase student engagement, and add variety and depth to instruction and assessment. Whether they’re talking about one-to-one computing initiatives, digital textbooks, using “smart” interactive whiteboards and 3D printers in classrooms, or moving to full-scale “flipped” instructiona

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edWeb.net

JULY 9, 2021

In a recent edWebinar , sponsored by Scholastic Digital Solutions , the presenters discussed the reality of racial violence and inequity that students of color face and what we as educators and administrators can do to confront it rather than perpetuate it. They identified racial violence as violence incurred by students of color that can be overt and covert, taken for granted, an act of invisibilization, or the erasure of students’ identities and realities.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 9, 2021

Canva is a graphic design platform that allows users to create a wide variety of visuals and graphic illustrations including posters, infographics, flyers, brochures, newsletters, presentations,read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

CODY, Wyo. — It was clear to Soffy Anderson, 18, that the state needed to take action. She’d lost her sister to suicide and wished she’d known what signs to look for and how to intervene. When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win.

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