EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

While many Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solutions run in the cloud, some school districts prefer to host their VDI on local servers. Here are a few considerations to keep in mind when deciding which version of virtualization is the best fit. RELATED: Modern app delivery paves a pathway to affordable career training. IT Capabilities Does your IT department have the resources and expertise to devote to VDI deployment and server management?

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I have a strong emphasis with a few groups of my gifted students in integrating physical computing into my instructional activities. I’ve discussed the benefits of physical computing in Scratch and Makey Makey Across the Curriculum. As I have my students in my classes for several years during their 2nd through 6th grade education, I start teaching them block coding using MakeCode and Scratch in the early grades.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For K–12, educational technology represents a multimillion-dollar investment in support of improved outcomes. Education professionals look to digital tools to elevate the way students learn, teachers teach and schools operate. But as K–12 administrators and IT professionals look at their budgets, they must remember that technology isn’t just an upfront expense.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

? Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Think about all the things you do during a work day at school. On top of that, you have bills to manage, grocery lists to organize, laundry, meals to make. If you have kids of your own, you probably have piano lessons, playdates and sports to juggle, too. It’s a lot to keep on top of as an adult. But your executive functioning skills help you succeed in day-to-day life.

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Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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Ditch That Textbook

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence continues to grow by leaps and bounds. For many of us, when we met ChatGPT for the first time, we started asking lots of questions.What can these AI assistants do -- and what CAN'T they do?Will students use these to cheat? How will this change the workforce -- and what we need to do […] The post Why artificial intelligence won’t replace teachers appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Students who completed Digital Promise’s free online modules on global competence in the workplace reflect on their learnings.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Global EdTech leader Discovery Education announced the addition of new games, interactives, career resources and more to its award-winning K-12 learning platform, Discovery Education Experience. This new content nurtures student curiosity and supports educators’ efforts to engage all learners more deeply in instruction. Connecting educators to a vast collection of high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, intuitive quiz and activity creation tools, and professional

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Alicia Garcia first enrolled at College of the Desert, she felt lost. Her first semester grades at the California community college were not good, she says, and she didn’t know much about financial aid or academic advising. But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this post, you will learn how to create an effective Staff Needs Assessment to Support Your Instructional Coaching Program. The post How To Conduct a Staff Needs Assessment That Supports Your Instructional Coaching Program appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Network.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Key points: Edtech tools can provide an important bridge between teachers and their goals Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve? Check out the latest news on AI in education For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning page Technology plays a crucial, and expanding, role in today’s schools. The availability of tech tools, including those with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, continues to grow – as do their potential applications in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that: Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

AN NASSP SHOW with Dr Suzan Hyatt, a Georgia based Principal Extrodinaire and NASSP Board Member and how she has worked wonders in SEL, Student Council and school culture in general. The post A GREAT PRINCIPAL ON GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND IN SEL, STUDENT SAFETY AND SCHOOL CULTURE appeared first on American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

SAN JOSE – Since the launch of Ignite Reading ’s partnership with Alpha: José Hernández School in November, the organization announced today that students participating in the virtual, one-to-one literacy tutoring program have recorded an average of nearly three weeks of reading progress per week of tutoring instruction , with no achievement gaps for students of color, students with IEPs, multilingual learners, or students receiving free or reduced-price lunches.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This story was produced by The 19th and reprinted with permission. In 2023, Diamond Harriel was looking to make a career switch. She had a 10-month-old daughter and had recently gone back to school for a business administration degree, hoping it could help her earn higher pay than the temporary administrative jobs she had been working. One day, through a program that helps single moms, she saw a flier about a new city initiative in Rochester, Minnesota, that aimed to bring women of color into th

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This BrainPOP lesson plan will help you implement the teaching platform into your class

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MiddleWeb

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Educator Mike Schmoker paints a disturbing picture using "brutal facts" to explain why so many students are not learning at high levels. Cathy Gassenheimer says that reading Results Now 2.0 is disturbing but notes Schmoker includes a way out of "the current education quagmire." The post Opportunities for Swift Achievement Gains first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Teaching math? A tape diagram visualizes math problems. If you are looking for ways for how to create DIGITAL tape diagrams try this. The post How to Create Digital Tape Diagrams appeared first on Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

SchoolNow, formerly known as Campus Suite, offers districts a way to manage a mobile apple, website, notifications, social media, and a live feed through one platform. The post K-12 Dealmaking: SchoolStatus Acquires SchoolNow; CentralReach Buys SEL Platform appeared first on Market Brief.

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The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up.

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Minga

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Let’s face it, getting kids excited about school can sometimes feel like trying to convince a cat to take a bath. But what if we flipped the script and transformed the school into a place students are eager to attend? Today, we’re diving into some game-changing strategies that are making waves in classrooms across the country, making attending school more engaging and building a community students are proud to be part of.

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Josie Ahlquist

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

How would you describe the state of your division’s marketing and communications? Are strategies effective and consistently funded? Is staff centralized or dispersed? In a new bi-annual study, Dr. Josie Ahlquist sought to discover trends, challenges, and strengths in student affairs.

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Minga

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Let’s face it, getting kids excited about school can sometimes feel like trying to convince a cat to take a bath. But what if we flipped the script and transformed the school into a place students are eager to attend? Today, we’re diving into some game-changing strategies that are making waves in classrooms across the country, making attending school more engaging and building a community students are proud to be part of.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Global edtech leader Discovery Education today announced the addition of new games, interactives, career resources and more to its award-winning K-12 learning platform, Discovery Education Experience. This exciting new content nurtures student curiosity and supports educators’ efforts to engage all Keep Reading Discovery Education Enhances K-12 Platform with New Resources to Nurture Student Curiosity The post Discovery Education Enhances K-12 Platform with New Resources to Nurture Student Curi

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This post on CTE Month originally appeared on iCEV’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Key points: CTE is a valuable experience for students–here’s how to highlight opportunities Voters skeptical of college, more supportive of CTE Companies go to high schools for career training For more news on CTE, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub As a career and technical education (CTE) teacher, you know the importance of preparing students for the workforce–no matte

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N2Y

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Download our study of the time needed to write an IEP using Polaris vs common IEP development processes. The post IEP Time Study: Polaris appeared first on n2y.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Trina Cornell is a reading specialist in St. Ann MO schools and is the author of a recent article in District Administration Magazine entitled, 5 ways leaders can help teachers inspire students to love reading The post HOW SCHOOL LEADERS CAN HELP TEACHERS IMPROVE READING appeared first on American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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