eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Increasingly, district leaders are incorporating video into school-home communication. Many districts that tried video options out of necessity during the pandemic are seeing the benefits that video can provide for parent engagement and are expanding video options even as schools are back to in-person instruction. Districts are finding that using video can improve school-home communication by making the process of engagement easier for parents.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2023

When it was time for New Albany–Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. in Indiana to upgrade its aging server and storage hardware, it could have purchased another server and storage area network. However, a traditional server and SAN setup would have been expensive for this district of 12,000 students and 1,200 staff. Plus, managing a traditional data center is not exactly easy.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 9, 2023

The post Launching an OpenSciEd Community to Support Research and Practice appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for

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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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Education Elements

JANUARY 9, 2023

Recently I attended an event called, “Synergy in the Sciences to Support Literacy Instruction” hosted by Lexia Learning. It was a small round table discussion, including higher education leaders, researchers, politicians, policymakers, and district administrators. As the Chief Learning Officer of Scholarus Learning , I was there to provide inputs on how change might be implemented since Scholarus works with thousands of schools providing consulting, surveys, and custom curricula.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 9, 2023

contributed by Samantha Saumell As teachers, we may have moments where we stand in front of our bright-eyed students, and … Sight Word Literacy Activities And Assessments For Elementary Students Read More. The post Sight Word Literacy Activities And Assessments For Elementary Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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techlearning

JANUARY 9, 2023

Google Scholar can be a great tool for teachers and their students. Here’s how to get the most out of it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. For the past 25 years, U.S. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 9, 2023

The purpose of this post is to share with you this collection of cartoon avatar makers that you can use to create beautiful and expressive cartoon avatars that look exactly like you. For us in education, avatars are great alternatives to students using their real pictures on online platforms. Avatar pics are also fun. I have been using them for a while now and my favorite app is Bitmoji.

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techlearning

JANUARY 9, 2023

How to teach about technology, with technology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

After several years of disrupted learning, schools are taking stock of the range of challenges that need to be addressed—challenges resulting from the most significant disruption to K-12 education in history. Across the nation, the pandemic has taken a toll on our children’s mental and physical health, behavioral development, social and emotional well-being, academic achievement, and plans for their future.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

LIGHTHOUSE” DISTRICTS OF AASA: Beacons of Transformation Prek_12 AASA has selected designated Lighthouse districts, beacons of tranformation, if you will. Visiting today are Supts Mike Nagler and Caroline Johns and from Collegiate Edu-nation ( working in Rural Schools) , special. Keep Reading “LIGHTHOUSE” DISTRICTS OF AASA: Beacons of Transformation PreK-12.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

BLUFFDALE, UTAH – Listen Technologies Corporation , a leading provider of wireless listening solutions for 24 years, is proud to report that Listen EVERYWHERE has helped a high school student with hearing loss participate more fully in his school’s musical theater production of Anastasia. . Fremont High School (Plain City, Utah) Senior Hayden Reeve has a cochlear implant and utilizes an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter, but that was not enough to help him keep track of lines, songs, and

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 9, 2023

Having volunteered for her district’s PBIS Tier I committee, Dina Strasser looks into the current viability of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports with help from a new federally funded meta-study. She finds lots that hasn’t worked but also some potential. The post You May Be Surprised About This PBIS Info first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

ROSWELL, Ga. – 7 Mindsets, the leader in PreK-12 mindsets-based learning and well-being solutions, today announced the launch of an app designed to offer free access to the research-based principles for developing human potential from The 7 Mindsets to Live Your Ultimate Life: An Introduction. The company is committed to its mission of driving greater success, happiness, overall well-being and improving school climate and culture.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

COLLEGE READINESS MATERIALS NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER FOR EQUITY Equity Award winning Company U World is our guest featuring their Prep Content Director Phillip Bates. working to give all students an equal shot at higher education. This is great stuff , recognized as. Keep Reading COLLEGE READINESS MATERIALS NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER FOR EQUITY. The post COLLEGE READINESS MATERIALS NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER FOR EQUITY appeared first on Equity & Access Pre K-12 | The American Consortium for

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Durham, N.C. – The Social Institute today announced Chris Valada has joined the company as Head of New Partnerships, leading a team of representatives from across the country to bring positive social media and tech education to more schools. Valada spent his career in EdTech sales and has worked across K-12 and Higher Ed. . “Chris joins us at an important moment for our company,” said The Social Institute Founder and CEO Laura Tierney.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

We’re so happy to introduce Contributing Writer Micah Miner! Micah was chosen as a Champion of Equity in Technology Leadership in the 2022 Excellence in Equity Awards and we believe his insight and experience are extremely valuable to the equity. Keep Reading Q &A with Micah Miner, Instructional Technology & Social Studies Coordinator in District 89.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are now offering educators new digital resources to address the dangers of counterfeit drugs. The new array of science-based lesson plan and videos equip students in grades 9–12 with an understanding of what counterfeit drugs are and why they are so harmful to individuals and communities. .

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 9, 2023

Sponsors. Thank you to our sponsors for this mini-series on STEM and MakerSpace. Check out both StemSports.com and MackinMacker.com today. Find all the offers from all our sponsors at [link]. Episode. On this episode, we explore the joy of tinkering, the social-emotional case for making, and we question the benefits of cultivating a beginner’s mindset.

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