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Schools Must Support Educators While Keeping Tabs on Tech Trends

EdTech Magazine

No matter what investments school districts make to create a modern learning environment, they likely won’t have much impact if teachers don’t use them. For more information on the benefits of modernizing the classroom, take a look at the CDW whitepaper, " A Modern Learning Environment.". CDW VV2 Strategy. Content Subtype.

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Shifting to a Digital Teaching Model? Here’s Some Advice

Edsurge

It required me to really rethink teaching, and how best to do it in a digital environment. I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students.

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Award-Winning Districts Discuss Their Strategies for Improving Learning Opportunities for Every Child

EdNews Daily

At the Learning Counsel’s National Gathering in Dallas, three of the districts receiving top awards met in a panel to share their successes, their failures and their strategies for moving their districts along a digital transformation to enhance learning for every child. The work was not easy. Take a look.

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Engaging All Students in Problems Worth Solving

Digital Promise

I very clearly remember my teacher standing at the front of the classroom, math book in hand, reading, “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle,” then scribbling the formula across the blackboard. Ensure the sustainability of digital learning initiatives.

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New Ownership for an LMS Giant: Private Equity Firm to Buy Instructure for $2 Billion

Edsurge

It’s now a waiting game to see how their strategy changes,” he said. Under his watch, Instructure purchased two companies: a digital portfolio tool for $43 million and a K-12 assessment platform for $42.5 This is not just about trading market share between us and Blackboard or others,” Goldsmith said. “We

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Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?

Edsurge

Any college professor who noticed a dramatic drop-off in attendance and participation in virtual courses that tried to preserve the existing lecture format could benefit from strategies K-12 educators learn in teacher-preparation programs regarding how to structure classroom time.

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Online Learning During COVID-19

edWeb.net

In a recent edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard, Dr. Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Chris O’Neal, a former teacher and current Blackboard Solutions Engineer, shared front-line stories and tips to provide insight into how to ensure continuity of learning for our students during this unprecedented time. Dr. Julie A.