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How one educator made computer science a “must” during COVID

eSchool News

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. The eSchool Media K-12 Hero Awards program, sponsored by Trox , recognizes the determined and dedicated efforts of educators throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How to Create an Effective Incident Response Plan for Your School District

EdTech Magazine

2020 was a recording-breaking year for K–12 cyber incidents, according to the State of K-12 Cybersecurity 2020 Year in Review. With more than 400 incidents reported across the country — including everything from student and staff data breaches, phishing and ransomware attacks and distributed denial of service (DDoS) threats — districts can’t afford to wait until it happens to them.

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How Tech-savvy Teachers Do It

Ask a Tech Teacher

Education Week had a great article on how teachers are expanding their use of technology in the classroom. Here’s a peak: 5 Practices of Truly Tech-savvy Teachers. Education Week caught up with select teachers and instructional coaches who shared their thoughts on some essential practices to effectively implement technology into the practice of teaching.

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Core Four of Personalizing Learning

Education Elements

In 2014 Education Elements first introduced the Core Four, later publishing the “Core Four of Personalized Learning: The Elements You Need to Succeed” in 2016. Since its publication, this white paper has been downloaded over 3,000 times by educators across the world. The Core Four is our team’s most widely-recognized collateral. It is often the first resource we share with educators, it has been cited in research and position papers, and it has been adopted and customized by school districts.

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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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Students Learned So Much More During the Pandemic Than We Realize. Just Ask Them.

Edsurge

For Lucinda, a Chicana high school senior, the shift to online school—while not great for completing schoolwork—created new time and space for other kinds of learning. During the COVID-19 shutdown of spring 2020, she taught herself to garden and started reading a book about Mexican-American history—her own history, as she puts it—called Radicals in the Barrio.

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7 Educational Wikipedia Sister Sites for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Wikipedia is one of the most popular free online encyclopedias written and maintained by volunteer netizens. Using a system of open collaboration, Wikipedians author and edit entries thus creating a.read more.

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Schools are getting creative as they strive to improve indoor air quality

eSchool News

After shouldering responsibilities for keeping students and staff safe and healthy in a global pandemic – you may have felt the weight of the world on your shoulders for the past several months or still feeling this with expectations for next year. The changes and demands of the past year are a lot for school administrators – and their heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems – to handle.

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New Data Science Standards Are Needed for a Data-Filled World. Here’s What We Propose.

Edsurge

For more than a century there have been calls to increase "statistical literacy." And such cries have grown even louder in recent years, with the rise of big data and fast computing. The reality, though, is that an unacceptably high number of students fail algebra courses, which focus students on outdated methods and calculations performed by hand. These antiquated curricula have discouraged many students from persisting in STEM fields, and exacerbated inequities prevalent in the U.S.

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OPINION: Home-based child care providers deserve better pay, working conditions and respect

The Hechinger Report

Congress is considering President Joe Biden’s historic plan for transforming our social safety net, including the grossly underfunded care economy that includes the elderly, the disabled and young children. All sectors of the care economy need more resources, but caregivers working as home-based child care providers, who are disproportionately women of color, need the most.

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5 Digital Citizenship Activities with Buncee

Buncee

Digital Citizenship Week is almost here, which means it’s the perfect time to introduce and encourage safe online practices in your classroom! Digital citizenship skills are vital , not only for students’ academic and career success, but for their emotional and physical wellbeing as well. The digital citizenship skills they develop now will carry them through their school years, and will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

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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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Meet the passionate people who work on Turnitin’s AI

Turnitin

Because AI relies heavily on its designers and engineers, we want to introduce you to our AI team at Turnitin. Who are the people behind Turnitin’s AI?

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The Best Cocomelon Toys For Kids in 2021

Fractus Learning

Table of Contents Top Kids CoComelon Toys Compared Best CoComelon Toys For Kids Reviewed Adorable Plush JJ Bedtime CoComelon Toys: CoComelon Official Musical Bedtime JJ Doll Best CoComelon Toys For Little Musicians: CoComelon First Act Musical Keyboard 23 Keys Great Imaginative Play CoCoMelon Toys: CoComelon Mini Vehicle Fire Truck With TomTom Best Action Figures For CoComelon Family Adventures: CoComelon Official Friends & Family Best CoComelon Plushies For Sleep And Play: CoComelon JJ A

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Refreshing Students’ Equation Solving Skills

MiddleWeb

Michelle Russell’s math students were eager to learn as this school year began but found the mechanics of solving equations more challenging than Michelle's pre-Covid classes. After research and talk with colleagues, she’s trying several strategies to give kids the grounding they need. The post Refreshing Students’ Equation Solving Skills first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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What Should Your EdTech Integration Plan Look Like?

TeacherCast

This post was originally created and posted on the website TeacherCast Educational Network. The only place to read this as the original content is [link]. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.”- Unknown. What does an Educational Technology Integration Plan look like? More importantly, what does your Educational Technology Integration Plan look like?

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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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What Should Your EdTech Integration Plan Look Like?

TeacherCast

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.”- Unknown What does an Educational Technology Integration Plan look like? More importantly, what does your Educational Technology Integration Plan look like? In our previous section on School District Snapshots , we learned the importance of having a group of educational stakeholders take a step back to ask themselves and the community a variety of questions about what they would like to see in class

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