The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 4, 2021

Joel Lookadoo, 2020 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, shares why he loves teaching. The Well-Rounded Educator Podcast (started in the fall of 2020). The post Joel Lookadoo: 2020 Arkansas Teacher of the Year appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2025

According to CoSN, 2023 saw a remarkable surge in legislative activity, with state lawmakers introducing 307 cybersecurity bills for education, marking a 250% increase from 2020. From those, 75 laws were adopted.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But 2020 happened to all of us all over the world, and we realized how things could change in the blink of an eye. Our favorite teacher memes for 2020. The post Our favorite teacher memes for 2020 appeared first on NEO BLOG. Read more: Our favorite teacher memes for 2019. The new normal. For everything you do, I thank you!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 8, 2021

Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2020: Top 10 Tech Tips. Here are the Top Ten tech tips from 2020. As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems which I share with you.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s 2020, after all, am I right? For my part, I also think that we should leave other things behind in 2020: learning myths! 7 Learning myths to leave behind in 2020. The post Top learning myths to leave behind in 2020 appeared first on NEO BLOG. And who should blame us? You know: We use only 10% of our brains.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2021

Throughout the year, I post websites and apps the Ask a Tech Teacher crew’s classes found useful, instructive, helpful in integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Some, you agreed with us about; others not so much. 4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom. 7 Tech Tools for PE Teachers. 15 Websites to Teach Financial Literacy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Here are Great Websites to Take You There Stem Education in 2020 How to Teach STEM Every Day @waterfordorg @efkcorp #stem #steameducation #elemed Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved. Click to view slideshow. …and articles: PASCO Motion Sensor–A Must for Science Classes In Love with Space?

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In 2020 and 2021, educators pioneered ed tech tools for their classrooms at an overwhelming pace. Districts with more than 1,000 students accessed an average 1,449 ed tech products online each month during the 2020-2021 school year, according to research conducted by LearnPlatform.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Families throughout the nation faced digital inequities before the pandemic became a factor in the spring of 2020. Between April and September 2020, the percentage of adults who reported computers were always or usually available to their children for educational purposes rose from 88 to 91 percent, according to the National Center…

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A 2020 study conducted by Omdia on behalf of the Security Industry Association showed the market for physical security equipment in K–12 and higher education was $716 million in 2020. K–12 districts are investing a larger portion of their budgets in new security technologies to create safer environments for their school communities.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Its audience increased by 38 million from 2019 to 2020, and it’s projected to reach more than 576 million by 2024. In recent years, esports has become increasingly popular. Female participation in the sport, however, hasn’t quite mirrored that pace. Sixty percent of female gamers in the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

2020 was a recording-breaking year for K–12 cyber incidents, according to the State of K-12 Cybersecurity 2020 Year in Review.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Despite kindergarten being a crucial time for literacy development, those classes saw an average 16 percent drop in enrollment nationwide in 2020, according to a report from NPR. Teachers have found it particularly difficult to teach early reading skills virtually.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

By contrast, in some California schools, students have not returned to school buildings since March of 2020. Some schools, like those in Florida’s Martin County, reopened for in-person instruction in August and have offered full-time, face-to-face instruction since.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 19, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter New Hampshire State Teacher of the Year 2020, Kim Piper, works within the prison population of the state. ” Kim is the 2020 NH Teacher of the Year. Education is a way to reshape your identity.”

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

It was spring 2020, in the early days of the pandemic. Oscar Rico describes his first days as technology director at Canutillo Independent School District in El Paso, Texas, as an effort to “swim an ocean” of information. He had experience as a biology teacher, high school administrator and middle school principal, but none in technology.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When Tropical Storm Zeta rolled through Georgia in October 2020, many residents woke to power outages, downed trees and other signs of storm damage. Despite the disruption — and the storm — Gwinnett County Public Schools stayed in session, with the district leveraging its remote learning capability to continue instruction.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 31, 2020

Dr. Elyse Eidman-Aadahl talks about the types of writing, research about writing, and how we can teach writing in the unique spaces and places we find ourselves this Fall 2020 in schools everywhere. No matter your teaching situation, you’ll find some ways that you can bring writing into your classroom. Subscribe to the Show Get Credit!

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

While some districts stuck with remote learning for the entire 2020-2021 school year, others opened their doors to students and teachers last August. These schools…

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

We can dig in and find that in some excellent research from the 2020 State of Engagement report. To help you get closer to these answers, I recommend that all of you read GoGuardian ’s 2020 State of Engagement Report. The 2020 State of Engagement Report first observes the themes of engagement (Pages 7-9).

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

a workforce of more than 3 million people as of 2019–2020 — are no different when it comes to the need for up-to-date technology to do their jobs efficiently. Teachers in pre-K–12 school systems in the U.S. —

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On Friday, March 13, 2020, we shut down, and within the first couple of weeks we were watching the usage patterns of students and educators in our learning management system,” he recalls. “We The Broward County Public Schools CIO vividly remembers the shift. “On We started seeing this weird, huge spike around 10 at night.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In light of the new vulnerabilities, an FBI alert issued in the summer of 2020 warned K–12 institutions of new cyberattacks ahead of these schools resuming virtual learning. With the shift to online and hybrid learning, schools have found themselves more exposed than ever.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

When officials at Fort Smith Public Schools in Arkansas began preparing an online-only option for fall 2020, they expected to have about 500 sign-ups from the district’s 14,000 students. Instead, online enrollment hit 3,500. “As

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

Finding technology tools and solutions amid the challenging year that was 2020 often felt like Mission: Impossible at times for many school districts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Sponsor: GoGuardian The State of Engagement Report 2020 has valuable classroom research and information on distance learning best practices. Download the State of Engagement Report 2020 now! Check out the State of Engagement Report 2020 and listen to Mariana discuss some of the most important findings.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Some may say 2020 is the year of educational technology. When COVID-19 pushed schools to go remote, educators and students became more reliant on technology than ever before. The transition to this learning environment also revealed new insights on the state of technology in education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

“ Guest: Jason Thacker Original Release Date: July 1, 2020 Link: [link] Book: The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity by Jason Thacker, March 3, 2020. World Economic Forum – the Future of Jobs Report 2020, published October 20, 2020.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can’t look back on the 2020 school year without recognizing the massive — and transformative — impact of COVID-19. Across the country, school districts embraced remote learning environments and introduced metamorphic changes to the K–12 curriculum. However, the classroom wasn’t the only school function upended.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

While it’s unlikely that any school district in 2020 would claim to have been prepared for a pandemic, Portland’s administrators were already planning for post-pandemic learning without even realizing it. Last year, as part of a three…

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

In late February 2020, Maj. Allen Williams and a handful of his colleagues from Aberdeen High School returned home to Mississippi, feeling revved up about the Computer Science for All training they’d just attended in Washington, D.C.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Over 170 million students and instructors use Google Workspace for Education worldwide, and according to Business Insider, the platform now has more than 9 million paying subscribers, up from 6 million in 2020. Now, Google has integrated the power of generative artificial intelligence into all Workspace applications.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 22, 2022

Since mid-2020, the Coding with Culture program has offered project-based courses that incorporate cultural elements and computer science–based instruction.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Three stimulus bills passed by Congress in 2020 and 2021 provided nearly $190.5 billion to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund. 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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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With 2020 and everything going on, there are countless reasons why being kind is important right now, both in and out of the classroom. In 2020, his first book, Deep Kindness was released. We can be kind now in the classroom and online From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

In March 2020, teachers at every level of technological expertise jumped into virtual instruction with both feet because they had no other option. The term learning loss implies that teachers stopped teaching, when in fact teachers have been working harder than ever. They relied on…

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2022

According to a risk assessment survey of 120 school systems conducted in 2020-2021 by the Consortium for School Networking and Security… In addition to having a robust cybersecurity plan in place to protect their districts, schools should also have someone on their IT team who is dedicated to cybersecurity.

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