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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education

EdTech Magazine

As K–12 schools continue their E-rate processes for 2019, districts should be considering what tools are worth investing in to provide their students with the best outcomes in the coming year. . Digital transformation in schools is already happening at a rapid rate, and there seems to be no sign of slowing down.

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CoSN 2018: 10 Tips for Running IT in a Small School District

EdTech Magazine

Battaglia, who works in a district with four buildings and 1,800 students , added: “Make sure to cross-train team members to fill in if someone is out, even if it’s work at a higher level.”. Small districts also can resell equipment, take advantage of E-rate funds and evaluate systems yearly for redundancies or other unnecessary spending.

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What schools should know before launching an LMS [INFOGRAPHIC]

Neo LMS

At the same time, there are many factors to consider, including stakeholders, the goals that you want to achieve, teacher training, and so much more. A successful launch means higher adoption rates and a higher level of satisfaction with the new platform. Train teachers and staff. Teach students about the LMS. Make it fun!

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Where Are the School Librarians? New Study Shows 20 Percent Decline In Past Decade

Edsurge

What we knew from our work since 2018 is that we've been losing school librarians at a pretty alarming rate for a decade,” says Keith Curry Lance, a library statistics and research associate with the RSL Research Group, and co-author of the study. The dropping rate of districts with librarians isn’t a recent change.

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Education in the Era of COVID-19: Why Connection Matters

Digital Promise

It’s just been a joy to see educators across the country, on social media specifically, just celebrating the positive cultures and what they do inside their school buildings with kids, because even from a distance it’s been a pure joy.”. Prior to spring break, we had a virtual district-wide fire drill.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

It doesn't have information that is false or there's unconscious or implicit biases either from our own input, from what we're asking, or from the datasets that the AI is trained on. So when you're looking at giving some feedback on what you're doing and asking ChatGPT or another Chatbot, you know, to look at this and how would you rate this?

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Web Filtering: equally beneficial for your 5-year-old & 15-year-old

Securly

Web filtering is required by law, as long as schools wish to receive e-rate funding to supply their digital classrooms. CIPA also requires schools to monitor student online activity and provide training for responsible technology use. Some schools leave social media open, some schools restrict access, etc.