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

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Families throughout the nation faced digital inequities before the pandemic became a factor in the spring of 2020. However, with the shift to remote learning, the conversation around the digital divide became impossible to ignore.

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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. Teachers tried their best this year to deliver online classes that are engaging, fun, and also educational, but sometimes the connection was not the best. The new normal.

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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. I include lots of links for readers to sites that will help them integrate technology into education. Between these ten, they had over 183,000 visitors during the year.

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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. Shedding light on some popular education myths guides us towards much better, evidence-based practices. And who should blame us?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2020

Despite the complexities of the moment, educators are creative, resourceful problem-solvers. There is an emerging widespread awareness that digital learning is critical to the success of students’ education—certainly now, but also in a post COVID-19 world as we work to finally close the Digital Learning Gap.

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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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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. Google Duet AI instantly gives the power of artificial intelligence to tens of millions of educators.

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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. A software update broke their hearts.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Here’s an article from Hechinger Report , a national nonprofit newsroom that reports only on education, that’s pretty interesting: Can an AI tutor teach your child to read?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The need for digital and technological equity became clearer than ever following 2020’s shift to remote and hybrid instruction. Internet access is the electricity of the 1930s and ’40s; it is that crucial to everyday life and learning,” said New York Commissioner of Education Betty Rosa said in a Feb. 24 press release.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

National STEM Day is November 8, 2024, the unofficial holiday that celebrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education throughout the United States. Many add ‘art’ to the celebration for the acronym, STEAM. Earth Networks has developed creative and compelling STEM curricula on a variety of weather topics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 31, 2020

Advancement Courses is the distance education PD opportunity that I recommend for teachers. ” The post 10 Trauma Informed Principles for Educators During the Coronavirus with Dr. Eric Rossen appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Despite the current challenges of remote and hybrid learning, new possibilities also have emerged, especially around the use of educational technology. Schools and districts have realized that educational technology is crucial to preparing students for a rapidly evolving world.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Despite the current challenges of remote and hybrid learning, new possibilities also have emerged, especially around the use of educational technology. Schools and districts have realized that educational technology is crucial to preparing students for a rapidly evolving world.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 21, 2024

The World Economic Forum predicted in 2020 that AI would take away 85 million jobs ; however, this powerful phenomenon would create 97 million new jobs. As I have been teaching with and using these newest round of AI tools since January 2023, I've also been interviewing experts and other educators and sharing the learning here on this show.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, a passionate educational consultant for T4Edtech, traveled to Italy and surrounding areas and has some interesting insights into their education efforts during the pandemic: From An Italian Train: Education during the Pandemic.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2022

Throughout my career in education, teaching has been prodded, pushed, tweaked, nudged, and reformed. Education is focused on college and career with tech an organic, transformative tool. These are big enough to require an updated curriculum, but now, according to US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, it may be time for a huge reset.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Educational technology trends for 2022 look a bit different. In 2020 and 2021, educators pioneered ed tech tools for their classrooms at an overwhelming pace. In response, they are now seeing an increase in teachers and students who are burned out on technology.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Despite the current challenges of remote and hybrid learning, new possibilities also have emerged, especially around the use of educational technology. Schools and districts have realized that educational technology is crucial to preparing students for a rapidly evolving world.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Despite the current challenges of remote and hybrid learning, new possibilities also have emerged, especially around the use of educational technology. Schools and districts have realized that educational technology is crucial to preparing students for a rapidly evolving world.

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Neo LMS

JULY 15, 2021

Higher Education (HE) has significantly lagged behind other industries on the road to digitization. Despite the growing demand for edtech and online learning, face-to-face lectures and on-campus activities remained the core part of how students accessed their education. 4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education.

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Digital Promise

JULY 6, 2020

Click to enlarge and download the “Actions for White Education Co-Conspirators” infographic. To date, hundreds of white education leaders have answered the co-conspirator call to action —funders, school board members, policymakers, non- and for-profit leaders, superintendents, and educators. . Every step is required.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As a digital learning team, we were assigned the responsibility of exploring the full spectrum of AI in education. The broad nature of this request led to investigations of AI in cybersecurity, data science, marketing, healthcare, and education. On the 6th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on ethical AI use.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2021

David Bott is the Associate Director of the Institute of Positive Education. David is a sought-after speaker and education consultant who works with government organizations and some of the world’s leading schools to help guide wellbeing vision and strategy.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2023

Cybersecurity is a growing concern in education, and for good reason. Since 2020, “there has been an immense uptick in cyberthreats aimed at K–12,” says Ryan Eick, Google Workspace strategist at CDW•G. He says cybercrime is expanding at an alarming rate, with schools representing the most targeted U.S. segment for ransomware exploits.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For example, 54 percent of IT professionals in education said employees put data at risk by sharing it in the cloud without their knowledge, according to a 2020 Netwrix report. Meanwhile, 65 percent of educational organizations don’t review permissions regularly. However, the cloud is not without risks.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Educators are going through a lot right now. Organizers say that while things remain difficult in education, the convention will be an opportunity for thousands of attendees to just spend time with others who understand the unique challenges educators are facing today. 7-10 in Dallas, aims to be a respite.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 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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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 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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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

I want to focus on this evolution, highlighting how the pandemic has offered opportunities for education to change for the better. When schools closed, education had to go on. The pandemic triggered some beneficial changes for education, which will surely last beyond this period.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“The educators who had the greatest impact on me as a youth recognized my personhood by actively developing a relationship with me, challenged their explicit and implicit biases in visible ways, and valued multiple perspectives within their classroom.” – Maima Chea Simmons, Black Girls’ Literacies. 2016; Harmon et al.,

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For example, 54 percent of IT professionals in education said employees put data at risk by sharing it in the cloud without their knowledge, according to a 2020 Netwrix report. Meanwhile, 65 percent of educational organizations don’t review permissions regularly. However, the cloud is not without risks.

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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. The K–12 sector accounted for about 56 percent of that amount.

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