eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2024

This AI Guidance document was written specifically for K-12 educator use, an area currently in need of such guidance. It focuses on the impacts of data compliance, ethical use requirements, and the challenges around disclosure for educators.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

K–12 Education’s Top Tech Hurdles to Innovation. Fri, 11/22/2019 - 12:10. A recent report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) identified five key roadblocks for K–12 schools’ digital transformation in 2020. shailaja.neela…. For example, Jersey City (N.J.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2023

Need help finding an old elementary school teacher? Our Ask a Tech Teacher team has several ways to track down your favorite educators from years past: How to Find Old Elementary School Teachers Do you remember the teachers who shaped your educational journey? There are various reasons why one would want to find their old teachers.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 24, 2022

While stations can, and do, work well in lower elementary classrooms they also have a very […]. The post Station rotation: Save time, engage students in any K-12 classroom appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2022

One of our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has organized the basics on how to teach Venn Diagrams to elementary-age students: What is a Venn Diagram. How to make it clear to elementary students (get crafty). How to Teach Venn Diagrams to Elementary School Students. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Blending in Technology Boosts K–12 Instruction. In California, students at Chula Vista Elementary School District’s Salt Creek Elementary improved their scores by 137 percent over the state average on California’s performance exams in the first year of introducing a blended learning program. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The funding cliff is looming over K–12 school districts this year. The last bucket of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding expires in September. To support learning, K–12 decision-makers bought everything from classroom displays to one-to-one student devices using ESSER funds.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 22, 2024

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund has emerged as a crucial resource for K-12 districts. These funds help support districts as they navigate through challenges and ultimately ensure that every student has access to high-quality education.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

How to Redesign the K–12 Media Center. MORE FROM EDTECH: How K-12 schools can bring digital transformation to their libraries. 3 Learning Space Trends Inside K–12 Media Centers. Teachers use group projects to better engage K–12 students and encourage collaboration. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

billion to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund. Three stimulus bills passed by Congress in 2020 and 2021 provided nearly $190.5 Many district leaders invested extra dollars into devices and connectivity initially, which may leave them searching for a way to allocate remaining funds.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

How K–12 Schools Should Define and Act on Digital Learning. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how these two popular blended learning platforms can improve K–12 classrooms. What Does Blended Learning Mean for K–12? eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 04/11/2019 - 15:35. To be honest, I hate the term blended learning.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

K–12 Videoconferencing Offers New Opportunities for Understaffed School Districts. K–12 schools are looking for new ways to connect qualified teachers with their students. K–12 schools remain at a crossroads as they move from analog to digital education,” researchers conclude. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Why K–12 Students Need to Be Taught to Guard Their Data Online. Fri, 12/06/2019 - 10:25. And with the increasing use of mobile phones, computers and tablets in K–12 institutions , it’s imperative that good data hygiene is inculcated in students far before they reach college. shailaja.neela….

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. Bullying can happen throughout a lifetime but is most common in early adolescence (10-12 years old).

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom. New K–12 pedagogies that focus on collaborative work and learner-centered education require schools to redesign their classrooms with the aim of encouraging these new curricula. After Kelly Almer, an elementary school teacher for Littleton (Colo.)

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

K–12 Schools Work to Incorporate Computer Science into Curriculums. Wed, 09/19/2018 - 12:15. Forecasts report that computer science skills will be essential for the future workforce, creating a need for K–12 experts to work harder to incorporate such lessons into the curriculum. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

4 Ways for K–12 Administrators to Master Google Classroom. Communicate with K–12 Stakeholders Like a Pro. Denise Neeb serves as the principal of Williams Elementary School, a STEM magnet campus in Lubbock Independent School District. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 09/19/2019 - 10:46. by Denise Neeb.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

4 Ways to Get a K–12 Student Help Desk Going. As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 03/06/2019 - 21:43. 4 Best Practices for a Successful Help-Desk Program.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Drones Take Flight as Latest K–12 Learning Tool. The New Media Consortium , which publishes its annual “Horizon Report for K-12” previewing the technologies likely to impact education in the coming five years, forecast back in 2015 that by 2019, we would see drones playing a role in education. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Most schools have moved to a one-to-one model, with 90 percent of district leaders reporting a device for every middle and high school student and 84 percent reporting the same for elementary students, according to an Education Week survey. However, student and educator devices aren’t the only ed tech gear clambering for bandwidth.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

K–12 Leaders Get Creative to Make the Case for Network Upgrades. Thu, 06/20/2019 - 12:02. Two years ago, IT Services Director AJ Phillips needed to persuade her school board to purchase new network infrastructure, so she tapped her prior experience as an elementary school teacher and presented a show-and-tell.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Until just a few years ago, school-issued laptops, tablets and hotspots were largely considered a luxury in many K–12 schools. However, by 2022, about 90 percent of middle and high schools reported providing students with devices, and 84 percent of elementary schools said they were doing the same, according to a 2022 EdWeek survey.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2019

Project-Based Learning Engages K–12 Students with Real-World Challenges. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Fri, 06/21/2019 - 14:43. When Kimberly Head-Trotter, a teacher at McKissack Middle School in Nashville, Tenn.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. We had growth data in every elementary school like we’ve never seen before. A reading program that everyone loves.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA – In a groundbreaking move set to revolutionize elementary math education in the post-pandemic era , Carnegie Learning has launched ClearMath Elementary , its first core elementary math solution. About Carnegie Learning, Inc.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2023

North Dakota has become the first state to require computer science and cybersecurity education for all K-12 students. Our vision is to integrate and underscore the importance of computer science and cybersecurity instruction into the classes our students take as they move through our K-12 system,” Baesler said.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2024

Elementary Research on the Internet Provide a list of websites on a topic, specific questions on a worksheet to answer, citation sheets to complete. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Online Spelling Practice.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

There are many advantages to using digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom for schools and districts. They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Their focus is digital textbooks for the K-12 classroom. What’s not to love?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 18, 2019

Next-Gen Voice and Presence Technology Keep K–12 Districts Safer. Mon, 03/18/2019 - 12:01. When one of the district’s elementary schools suffered a two-day internet outage last winter, the IT team used Jive to seamlessly reroute calls to administrators’ mobile phones. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

While the emphasis on computer science curriculum is often placed on middle and high schools, the need for elementary students to acquire the skills necessary for success in a technology-driven world is becoming increasingly crucial. To learn more about CodeHS Elementary, visit codehs.com/elementary.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs. Sun, 04/29/2018 - 20:12. Our list of Must-Read K—12 IT Blogs includes a mixture of teachers, instructional technology specialists, IT leaders, administrators and consultants. Elementary teacher Amy Pietrowski adds a dash of STEM into all of her classes.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2020

A tornado decimated Goodman Elementary School in 2017, mangling the roof and strewing cinder blocks, insulation, furniture and other debris. The tornado had a silver lining, as it gave us a fresh start,” says Samantha Hamilton, principal of Goodman Elementary. “The The destruction of the Goodman, Mo.,

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2020

A tornado decimated Goodman Elementary School in 2017, mangling the roof and strewing cinder blocks, insulation, furniture and other debris. The tornado had a silver lining, as it gave us a fresh start,” says Samantha Hamilton, principal of Goodman Elementary. “The The destruction of the Goodman, Mo.,

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2020

A tornado decimated Goodman Elementary School in 2017, mangling the roof and strewing cinder blocks, insulation, furniture and other debris. The tornado had a silver lining, as it gave us a fresh start,” says Samantha Hamilton, principal of Goodman Elementary. “The The destruction of the Goodman, Mo.,

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

K-12 schools and districts are turning to digital textbooks for in-person, hybrid and remote learning. Here are the best sources for digital textbooks you can use in K-12 grade levels. Here are the best sources for digital textbooks you can use in K-12 grade levels. What are digital textbooks? . OER Commons.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Bridging Barriers to Access When it comes to who is participating, white high school students nationally make up 48 percent of high school students and 48 percent of 9-12 computer science students, according to the report. The report found that disparities in participation are the lowest in K-8 classes.

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