EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When Steve Smith took the job of CIO at Cambridge Public Schools in Massachusetts, little did he know that he would become a trailblazer. In the 27 years he has spent leading technology in New England schools, the founder of the Student Data Privacy Consortium has probably become best known nationwide as a student privacy crusader. Smith spoke to EdTech about his district’s student data privacy journey and how schools can easily shore up data privacy to stop staff from inadvertently oversharing

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In today's episode, we sit down with Stephanie DeLussey, a dual-certified veteran special education teacher, IEP coach, and author of the upcoming book “The Intentional IEP.” Stephanie shares her unique insights into the often daunting process of writing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The post Digital Promise Launches FutureLab to Investigate Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Time: About 30 minutes Steps: Open MS Word. Add a title–Where We Are (or your choice)–centered, bold and font 14. Use this to teach students about the tool bar’s alignment tools, bold, fonts and font size Insert a graphic organizer ( insert-diagram or one you have pushed out to students). Have this as part of a series of lessons that use graphic organizers and never use the same one.

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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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The post How One Bay Area District Is Addressing the Teacher Shortage through Affordable Housing appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Polarization of Education: As consultants at Education Elements, my teammates and I have the incredible opportunity to support districts around the country as they solve some of their toughest challenges. These challenges range from “How do we change our practices to increase students’ agency over their own learning?” to “How do we use quantitative and qualitative data to determine our priority areas over the next five years?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Halloween decorations are the topic of our blog post today! The season of spookiness is upon us, and if you’re anything like me, you’re probably buzzing with excitement to get your outdoor space looking like something straight out of a horror movie. But hey, choosing the right decorations can feel overwhelming, right? Don’t sweat it; I’ve got you covered.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. As Rodin’s famous sculpture of the thinking man propping his chin on his hand, we imagine the mind as all in our heads. But what if those typical metaphors for our brains are limiting our capacities to think and learn?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Key points: Home-school communications systems help to build trust and establish consistency in a school community Districts must be clear in their communications, and to do so, they must select the right platform See related article: Your top 5 school-home communication challenges, solved The importance of effective home-school communications has never been higher.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Free interactive STEM spreadsheets can get your students started in both simple and complex computations.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

CHICAGO – Education leaders representing 44 school districts and regional offices of education will join a national fellowship focused on social and emotional learning (SEL), hosted by field leader CASEL. Selected from an impressive pool of applicants, the 2023 cohort of the SEL Fellows Academy take part in a 10-month engagement to deepen their SEL leadership and build systemic implementation strategies in support of their students, educators, and communities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As higher education leaders in California and Louisiana, we see the impacts of the changing climate across the communities we serve. Propelled by historically warm oceans, after the hottest July ever recorded, Hurricane Idalia wreaked deadly havoc across the Southeast. In Louisiana, the record heat exacerbated hundreds of still-burning wildfires. In California, when Tropical Storm Hilary hit, the National Weather Service warned of life-threatening flooding, the streets filled with mud and reside

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Editor’s note : This story on 10 back-to-school resources for edtech leaders originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. 1) Digital Equity Dashboard CoSN’s Digital Equity Dashboard is an innovative and practical tool designed to help school districts and communities leverage data to close digital equity gaps.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Save time and support students better with 100 prompts for ChatGPT to Support Students. Join Alice Keeler for her OTIS workshop on how to write prompts in ChatGPT and get the most out of AI. The post Join!! 100 Prompts for ChatGPT to Support Students appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Editor’s note : This story on 10 back-to-school resources for edtech leaders originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. 1) Digital Equity Dashboard CoSN’s Digital Equity Dashboard is an innovative and practical tool designed to help school districts and communities leverage data to close digital equity gaps.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Today, any definition of digital prints should include advanced algorithms, big data, location data, and new global privacy laws. The post The Definition Of A Digital Footprint appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

TUCSON, Ariz. /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Illustrative Mathematics (IM) , a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a world where all learners know, use, and enjoy mathematics, announced today the upcoming release of IM® 360, its innovative new curriculum for grades K–12. Guided and inspired by educators doing extraordinary things since its inception in 2011, IM is continually improving curriculum support for its problem-based instructional model based on feedback from school leaders, teac

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The post Inspiring Students with AR All Year Long – SULS0201 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this week’s episode, I’m chatting with my friend and augmented reality expert Jaime Donally. Jaime shares some incredible insights and ideas for using AR in the classroom, including unique apps and resources from Verizon Innovative Learning HQ (a free online education portal).

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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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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The more I look around higher education, the more clearly it seems to me that there are three practices which we carry out every day – which seemed baked right into the very DNA of our current system of higher education – that are inimical to the actual purpose of higher education. Those practices are: Lecturing , Traditional grading , and Student evaluations of teaching.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Laura Stewart, Chief Academic Officer of 95 Percent Group which builds on science to empower teachers – supplying the knowledge, resources, and support they need to develop strong readers., is our guest today The post THE 95% GROUP AND THE SCIENCE OF READING appeared first on Equity in Education.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This year Katie Durkin’s 7th grade ELA students are involved in a weekly routine of G.R.O.W. work (Grammar, Reading, Open Write, and Word Work). Each 15-minute lesson aims to ‘grow’ stamina and literacy skills they can apply in her class and across the academic disciplines. The post Routines Can Help Grow Student Literacy Skills first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As a school district IT professional, you have a web content filter deployed to be in compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). However, your role as a school district IT professional has grown more important and more difficult than simple CIPA compliance. Comprehensive web content filtering is mission-critical to effective digital learning, particularly since schools have provided devices to students for learning.

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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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SplashLearn

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Did you know that kids who read for just 20 minutes a day are exposed to 1.8 million words a year? That’s like having a world of adventures at your fingertips! Let’s look at how words can become magic, and stories come to life. In this blog, we’ll explore some of the best reading activities. […] The post 16 Best Reading Activities for Kids: Raising Young Readers first appeared on SplashLearn Blog.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The following video provides a brief understanding on two new features in Google Slides. 1. Live Pointers: allows you to easily point out specific text or visual elements within a Slide in order to highlight important information and content. 2. Following Feature: allows you to select a collaborator to jump to whatever slide they are on, and continue to move with them as they navigate and make changes to a presentation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

BOSTON — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. This story also appeared in The Associated Press “They’re all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they’re engineers, they’re scientists,” said Tran, who is 17. “And you can’t do any of those things without math.” Tran also loves math.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As Columbia University puts the last touches on its brand-new campus in Harlem, it has reached a milestone: The university is now the largest private landowner in New York City. This story also appeared in The New York Times In a city where land is more valuable than almost anywhere in the nation, the school now owns more than 320 properties, with a combined value of nearly $4 billion.

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