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How mixed reality glasses can help struggling readers

eSchool News

Imagine you are a struggling reader. You dread reading…in any class. You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. One day, your science teacher brings in a Microsoft HoloLens headset. You put on the mixed reality glasses and pick up the science article that the teacher wants you to read. You begrudgingly begin reading. After only a few sentences you are lost because you don’t know what “light energy” means.

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School Resiliency: Not as Simple as Remote vs. In-Person Classes

techlearning

A new study found that schools had great variation in student math scores that couldn’t be explained by in-person vs. remote school alone.

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Legacy Technology and Systems Open the Door for Cybercriminals

EdTech Magazine

Legacy devices and legacy systems commonly provide opportunities for cyberthreats to enter the school’s network in two instances: when they are not or cannot be updated. Frequently in K–12 settings, and across many industries, end users choose not to shut down their computers. While it may make life easier in the short term, this prevents the device from installing necessary updates.

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Subscriber Special: Discount Summer Tech Camp

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. May 9-11th. Summer Tech Camp Survival Kit. From Ask a Tech Teacher. Are you teaching a Summer Tech Camp to Kids? We have the solution: Build Your Own Adventure. $230 value for $179. This is not training for you (you can find Teacher Training options here ).

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Enhancing Higher Education with Generative AI: A Responsible Guide

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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4 Ways to Weave Teacher Appreciation Throughout the Year

Education Elements

We all know that teachers should feel appreciated every day. As a former high school science teacher, I was filled up by the positive notes from students, small gifts, and verbal affirmations received during teacher appreciation week. Recognition is an important way for teachers to feel appreciated; we believe that in our four essential elements of teacher belonging ( Agency, Development, Equity, and Wellness ), appreciation is relevant to all categories, especially Development and Wellness.

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Students Need Summer Learning That Doesn’t Feel Like School

Edsurge

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. In many ways it was. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back. In other ways, this school year was harder.

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Forget Unpaid Internships. Instead, Colleges Should Offer Work-Based Courses.

Edsurge

What if students could earn work experience, wages and university credits at the same time? Sounds too good to be true? Not really. Colleges have already come up with a model for this by offering work-based courses , which pair students with businesses and other organizations to solve real-world problems. With COVID-19 normalizing remote work, creating this kind of program is easier than ever.

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Create Your Own Interactive Activities using BookWidgets!

TeacherCast

This post was originally created and posted on the website TeacherCast Educational Network. The only place to read this as the original content is [link]. Have you ever wanted to create something interactive and dynamic for your students but just don’t have all the time in the world to put something together? Perhaps you are in the middle of creating a lesson with your teaching team and you wanted to add that last bit of awesomeness to an activity to put it over the top?

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Transforming summer school with high-dosage tutoring

eSchool News

Summer school as we’ve traditionally known it hasn’t worked well for a long time, especially from an equity standpoint, but we all know that change tends to come slowly to educational institutions. I would submit that in 2022, after two years of extraordinary learning loss, a transformation shouldn’t wait any longer. Today’s students have different summer learning needs, and we have better tools and methods to teach them.

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Print Google Slides™ Speaker Notes

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

Send your speaker notes from a Google Slides to a Google Doc. Easily print your Google Slides speaker notes or share them. Print Google Slides Speaker Notes. The post Print Google Slides™ Speaker Notes appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Enhancing School Device Management for Improved Learning

Schools face increasing challenges as technology becomes integral to education. Efficient device management is essential for maximizing technology use and safeguarding investments. Our article discusses the importance of tracking devices, outlines current challenges, and suggests modern solutions that go beyond traditional methods like Excel. Learn how advanced tracking systems can streamline operations, improve maintenance, and offer real-time updates for better resource allocation.

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New Education Policy Roadmap Aims to Ensure High School Graduates in Every State are ‘Future-Ready’

eSchool News

CHICAGO – Parents and educators agree that a key goal of K-12 education is to ensure that students are “future-ready”—with the knowledge, skills, and drive to navigate their careers and lives. Americans look to the education system to equip young people to succeed in this environment, but traditional approaches have often fallen short with the rapidly changing future of work.

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OPINION: Earth Day is over, but there’s a lot more schools can do to address climate change

The Hechinger Report

Last month, schools across the country celebrated Earth Day, many bringing children and families together to clean parks and plant trees. That’s excellent, but it’s time to talk about the other 364 days of the year. We’re not minimizing what happened on that one day. Trees are desperately needed on our hot, blacktop-covered school playgrounds, and parks that welcome children and families matter deeply.

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Implementing Authentic Exploratory Research (AER) into Teaching

techlearning

Authentic exploratory research provides an opportunity for reality-based learning.

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PROOF POINTS: Seven questions for Jennifer Randall 

The Hechinger Report

Jennifer Randall, an associate professor of education measurement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, founded the Center for Measurement Justice in January 2022. She is joining the University of Michigan in the fall of 2022. Credit: Courtesy of Jennifer Randall. Jennifer Randall is a firebrand inside the staid field of psychometrics, a quantitative area of education that uses multiple choice tests to measure IQ and student achievement.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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How Assessment Squelches the Summer Slide

EmergingEdTech

Continued COVID-19 school policies followed immediately by a couple months off has the potential to make the summer extra-slidey. Assessment to the rescue. There’s no way to avoid it: summer break. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Here’s How to Get Kids Talking in Math Class!

MiddleWeb

We know how to get those same 6 students talking and raising their hand each day. But how do we engage every student in truly explaining their thinking and sharing their math reasoning? Middle grades teacher Mona Iehl shares 3 ways to structure questions that pull them in and keep them talking. The post Here’s How to Get Kids Talking in Math Class! first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Best STEM Toys For Toddlers – Science Learning and Fun!

Fractus Learning

STEM toys are educational toys introducing toddlers to important scientific concepts they will use as they grow older. The best STEM toys for toddlers provide hours of fun while learning to focus, solve problems, think critically, use their imaginations, and develop crucial gross and fine motor skills. According to the National Science Board , opportunities for jobs in science and engineering continue to increase.

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What is Padlet and How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks

techlearning

Padlet digitizes the notice board for a rich media space that makes education communications better.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

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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What Is A Read-Aloud?

Fractus Learning

Table of Contents What Is A Read Aloud What Is The Purpose Of Read-Alouds? Benefits Of The Read-Aloud Process Students Listening Level Fun Experience Background Knowledge Comprehension Growth Vocabulary Development Active Conversation Communication Skills Word Pronunciation Benefits Of Reading Aloud To Older Students Read-Alouds Teaching Strategies How To Read Aloud Select The Read-Aloud Text Access To Read-Aloud Text Comments About The Text Emphasize Sections Of Read-Aloud Text Interactive Re

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Wrapping Up the School Year with Buncee!

Buncee

It is hard to believe that we are just about to wrap up another school year. It has been a busy year, full of opportunities to learn in new, authentic ways and of course, at times, has been challenging as well while we navigated any transitions in our learning spaces. As we start to wind down, it is important to keep pushing through strong to the end of the school year which makes it the perfect time to try some new ideas and engage students more in learning through choices in how to show what t

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A Future Focused on Critical Hope. Leading Change in Higher Ed

Josie Ahlquist

What immediately comes to mind when I say “change” in higher education? I recently posted this on Twitter, and I wasn’t surprised by the GIF responses. Numerous posts depicted the slow (if not glacial) pace of change within the industry. pic.twitter.com/FPUEo7cR10 — Mallory Bower (@MalloryBower) April 20, 2022 Others made it quite clear that the word and request to change was a no-go.