Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! is a free multimedia tool for creating dynamic digital presentations and interactive images like the digital calendar below. Canva is a web tool and app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. The post will not appear until that day.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students still enjoy creating physical storybooks, but now their stories can be preserved digitally forever with free web tools and apps. I still remember the storybooks I created when I was younger. Storybird – Web tool that is easy to create a written storybook.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2019, an estimated 32 million American adults were classified as illiterate. Visit a library. Libraries are underused but important spaces for improving literacy skills and sparking excitement. Engaging with a local library is one of the best ways to foster a love of reading and language. You can: .

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms. Thu, 11/07/2019 - 15:06. We have about 20 in our high school libraries that students can check out. keara.dowd_i47Z. School districts can’t just invest in laptops, mobile devices and other hardware, then call it a day. Our next step is to order more hotspots.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! They will also have access to a library full of templates, frames, effects and more to create incredibly imaginative video projects. Powtoon is a web tool to create fun animated videos with a library of music, text, and characters to choose from or upload images.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students of all ages enjoy learning with comics and creating comics. Has a library of characters, frames, and backgrounds. Book Creator – iOS and Chrome app to create digital books, including comic books. Students can collaborate on a comic.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

Proponents of digital learning, as well as those committed to closing the nation's “homework gap,” rejoiced on Thursday when the U.S. students without home internet access, many of whom are now expected to use digital learning every day to access class materials and complete homework assignments. The same holds for U.S.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students can also participate in digital greeting exchanges with students in other cities or countries. Students can create and send incredible digital greetings or print them. Students can also work from one of the holiday templates.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. Four different categories of proficiency were celebrated in the National Digital Transition Survey Awards. Rehumanize.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! is a free multimedia tool for creating dynamic digital presentations and interactive images like the digital calendar below. Canva is a web tool and app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. The post will not appear until that day.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students still enjoy creating physical storybooks, but now their stories can be preserved digitally forever with free web tools and apps. The post Tips and Tools to Support Students in Publishing Their Own Digital Storybooks appeared first on Teacher Reboot Camp.

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Tools STEM Android Elementary 195

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Acquisitions and partnerships are a cornerstone of Byju’s early learning programs: It bought Palo Alto-based Osmo in 2019, which combines digital learning with manipulatives, an approach the companies call “phygital.” With partner Disney, Byju launched its learning app for pre-K through 3rd graders in India in 2019.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Teachers, principals, librarians, and other educators are invited to start planning for DLDay 2019 on February 28, 2019. The eighth annual celebration of great teaching paired with technology will feature events in classrooms, libraries, schools, and districts across the country.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

Statista predicts that approximately five billion people will use a smartphone by 2019. High-quality digital learning content. Digital learning content and tools that can be used to design and deliver engaging and relevant learning experiences. Imagine what this number will be in years to come.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It has since added other features, including attendance trackers, gradebooks and presentation tools, to build what it calls an “active learning platform” that lets students interact with their instructors and materials. Last year, Top Hat devoted its energies—and monies—to shoring up its content library.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

At the October 2019 UNESCO General Conference meeting, multiple governments agreed to adopt a set of legal and technical standards for OER materials so that they can be better shared across borders. The Open Textbook Network has curated the Open Textbook Library , which links to nearly 700 titles.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2021

But first there will be DLAC, the Digital Learning Annual Conference , set for June 14 to 16 in Austin, Texas—with a parallel track running online. It’s what’s known as a “hybrid” conference, blending both live and virtual elements similar to how many schools slowly filtered back to full-time learning last fall.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Tomorrow is Digital Learning Day 2019.  Join  Join thousands of teachers and students celebrating DLDay in classrooms, libraries, schools, and districts across the country and mark your spot on the official DLDay map, adding to the more than 1,700 events present.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

On campuses like Saint Louis University and Arizona State University, Alexa-enabled devices are being used to create smart campus environments in dorm rooms, libraries, common areas, classrooms and conference rooms. Categories like Productivity, Education & Reference and Kids saw triple digit growth in 2019.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Online teaching is the joy, fun, and magic of bringing teaching and learning into the online environment. Karen Costa (@karenraycosta) January 8, 2019. Partnering with the librarians and library service team is essential. DLNchat — Connie Johnson (@DrConnieJohnson) January 8, 2019. Hello #dlnchat. It's a village!”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

I was humbled by these early teachers’ feedback and the learnings they shared. Fast forward to 2019. They’re using technology as an integral part of their instruction and personalizing instruction for a classroom of students with diverse learning needs. At the same time, we knew that technology was nowhere near a silver bullet.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

Also driving that growth is Coursera for Campus, which the company launched in late 2019 to let colleges offer its library of online courses to their students. More than half (51 percent) of its revenue came from outside the U.S. Shortly after the outbreak, Coursera made this available for free to higher-ed institutions until Sept.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2020

“We need to make sure that in this sale, student data is not going to be sold—that it’s not going to be monetized,” said Cristina Colquhoun, an instructional developer at Oklahoma State University’s libraries, who coordinated the letter-writing effort, which was jointly edited by many in the edtech community using a shared Google Doc.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools. The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy. billion in 2019.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

To prepare students for success in a remote learning environment, Learning.com is adding remote learning lessons to its EasyTech content library. Based on real-life applications and digital tools, lessons in Essential Skills for Remote Learning guide students through technical concepts in a fun, game-based environment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This year, I resolve to … Support high-quality learning. For 2019, our IT emphasis will be on cybersecurity and on high-availability, high-resiliency, high-speed wireless access to support 24 x 7 x 365 learning. Esra Murray, library media specialist, Cider Mill Elementary School, Connecticut.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Instructors can upload a video or post a YouTube link within Canvas to your Arc library. Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) January 2, 2019. As a person who primarily engages in reading via digital devices , I get to participate in a version of this kind of history showing up in the margins when I am reading a digital book.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 21, 2024

OVERVIEW: Our first Library 2.0 School Library Summit is " School Libraries and AI ," and will be held online (and for free) tomorrow, Thursday, August 22nd, 2024, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. Please also join the Library 2.0 Please also join the Library 2.0 We look forward to gathering online with you!

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edWeb.net

JULY 12, 2022

Partially spurred by the pandemic but also by a desire to increase equitable access to reading materials, district leaders made a digital library one of the seven essential tools in all of the schools. Next, school leaders would talk about the digital library many times throughout the year, showing support that goes beyond money.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

But students at some colleges and universities still rely on print , which is a problem when bookstores and libraries have closed. As colleges seek to provide alternatives to print textbooks, one digital book provider, BibliU, has launched about 100 pilots globally since the pandemic started, says CEO David Sherwood.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. Students will need to craft a research question, read relevant sources and synthesize what they learn in a short paper. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. But he does work in a library. That’s cool.’”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 19, 2024

OVERVIEW: Our first Library 2.0 School Library Summit is " School Libraries and AI ," and will be held online (and for free) this Thursday, August 22nd, 2024, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. Please also join the Library 2.0 Please also join the Library 2.0 Everyone is invited to participate in our Library 2.0

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In their district-wide tech plan for 2016 to 2022 , Renton set a goal of reaching a 1:1 device-to-student ratio for all middle and high schoolers in the 2019-2020 school year. Everyone is saying ‘we are in a digital world,’ so how do we support every student, especially those that might not have WiFi access at home?”.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Moore says that before any rollout of sustainable and effective professional learning, there are four factors that school leaders must consider. Gaddis explained how Wake County focused their professional learning by first identifying three groups: teachers, leadership, and school library media coordinators.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 1, 2020

Given the disruptions caused by the pandemic, the FCC Order: Waives the service implementation deadline for special construction for all funding year 2019 applicants and extends this deadline by one year, from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Under Commission rules, applicants must complete special construction (e.g.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Nearly 200 colleges face federal civil rights investigations opened in 2019 about whether they are accessible and communicate effectively to people with disabilities. Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards.

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