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Build a Strong, Fun, STEM Foundation

EdNews Daily

By Mark Hendrickson To teach our kids to become passionate and capable readers, we read to them. Whether at bedtime, at the library, or in the classroom, early childhood years are often infused with stories. The silly voices, questions, laughing, and wonder that result from story time make reading feel less like a lesson and more like play — while at the same time laying a foundation for successful reading and writing for years to come.

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How to build a classroom escape room to spark curiosity in learning

Neo LMS

Are you looking for a new activity to challenge students to learn in a new way? ? Students spend a large amount of their school day sitting in their seats and may have few opportunities to move and interact with their classmates. However, there are many different methods that we can bring into our classroom to get students up and moving and more importantly, collaborating. .

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Mindfulness–its place in the classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teaching Channel is one of my favorite hands-on resources for how to teach. They offer lots of videos from the classroom, showing teachers at work, but also well thought out discussions on topics that impact education. This one is on mindfulness. I hope you enjoy it: Mindfulness to Calm, Focus, & Learn. By Alexa Simon on May 5, 2022. Mindfulness is a health and well-being practice utilized by families from around the world.

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How K–12 School Districts Can Prevent DDoS Attacks

EdTech Magazine

Distributed denial of service attacks against K–12 school districts have risen sharply over the past two years. The attacks come from outside actors and, increasingly, from students who discover they can buy a DDoS attack as a service online, as a way to get out of classes and tests. In Florida, for example, a teenage student at St. Petersburg High School launched an attack that crashed the entire network of the Pinellas County Schools district.

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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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Guest Post: The Papert Test: A Filter for Picking Powerful Edtech

Digital Promise

The post Guest Post: The Papert Test: A Filter for Picking Powerful Edtech appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Community Schools: Lessons Learned/Lessons Shared

EdNews Daily

By James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final installment of this series. For previous installments, see one, two, three and four Community Schools are a time whose idea has come, a solution that was waiting for the perfect storm – and the perfect storm is here. In part one of this article series, we made the case for community schools.

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What are teachers telling us? Are we listening?

Education Elements

This spring, Merrimack College and EdWeek Research Center released a whitepaper publishing their findings for their Teacher Survey. One of the takeaways? Forty-three percent of respondents said they were somewhat dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with their jobs. “The last two years have been fraught for teachers as their profession has consistently attracted public attention—much of it hostile—due to political and cultural battles over pandemic-related policies on masking and vaccines and new l

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Why Some Investors Say Edtech ‘Doom and Gloom’ is Overhyped

Edsurge

Like tech stocks in general, edtech has taken a nosedive over the past six months or so. There have been stunning valuation declines, with brand name failures like Robolex, once acclaimed as the “future of education”—seeing half its stock value vanish in the past year and with investors predicting more tough times ahead for the company’s shareholders.

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Nitro Type- Learn Typing through Competitive Racing Games

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Nitro Type is a free online car racing game that helps players enhance their typing skills through competing with other players in real-time. Each player has a race car whose speed is determined by.read more.

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PROOF POINTS: How do you find a gifted child?

The Hechinger Report

At one elementary school in rural Appalachia, most of the children are white and poor; 90 percent qualify for free or reduced priced lunch. Guess how many of the 800 students are gifted? The answer: three. At least, that’s the determination of a widely-used national intelligence test , on which few students living in poverty score highly. School administrators wanted to boost the number of gifted students and invited a team of researchers to come up with another way to find them.

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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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8 Ways To Create A Brain-Friendly Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

How can you create a brain-friendly classroom? By reducing stress, creating positive associations, and promoting feedback loops. The post 8 Ways To Create A Brain-Friendly Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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Some California colleges find it hard to shift away from remedial courses

The Hechinger Report

LOS ANGELES – The first in his family to attend college, Paul Medina was increasingly frustrated by his inability to get into a college-level math class. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times. Medina first enrolled in remedial courses at a Los Angeles-area community college in 2005 after an assessment test placed him three classes below college level.

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Cool Math Games- Free Online Math Games for Kids and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Cool Math Games offers access to a wide range of free math challenges that helps students sharpen their mathematical skills. These include free thinking, strategy, and logic games. Cool Math.read more.

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How one district is channeling the Power of One for student success

eSchool News

The Columbus City Schools recently released a new Strategic Plan that details how we are going to achieve our mission over the next five years. This plan is a new North Star for our district , guiding us as we work every day to ensure that all our students are highly educated, prepared for leadership and service, and empowered for success in a global community.

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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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The Gift of Rejection

The Principal of Change

I love this video on “The Gift of Rejection” from Jia Jiang on “rejection therapy” for not only the smile it provided but the power of its message: @wearetalkit Jia Jiang – The gift of rejection #motivational #inspirational #explore #fyp ? original sound – We are Talk It. I am going to totally start asking for burger refills!

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Motivating Teachers in Challenging Times

MiddleWeb

Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn have advice that can help school leaders stay attuned to today’s constantly changing school environment, recognize the stress of external factors, and use strategies that encourage teachers’ intrinsic motivation and sense of self-efficacy. The post Motivating Teachers in Challenging Times first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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What Is Unity Learn And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks

techlearning

Unity Learn is a place to learn code for gaming and more, in a course led format.

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Mastering the FUND-amentals

eSchool News

In this week’s episode of Innovations in Education , hosted by Kevin Hogan: • It’s time to invest in tech equity in education • How to fund your CTE program • How to make the most of your COVID relief funds.

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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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Hybrid Hype in Higher Ed – Is your campus ready?

Josie Ahlquist

When I first began my work researching and writing about social media, I considered myself an ambitious cheerleader – maybe even a hype woman – for campuses to adopt the latest digital communication tools to better tell their stories and connect with students. In 2012 it was Twitter and Instagram; today it’s TikTok or Discord. But adoption does not equal impact.

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Summertime Learning and a New Tool and Game

N2Y

Summer will flow more smoothly than ever with the latest updates to your solutions. In Unique Learning System’s Summer Unit, students will learn about camping, hiking, and the importance of trying new things—plus, we’ve added guides to adapting the unit’s leveled books. Everyone will love the new marker tool in SymbolStix PRIME. And an L 3 Skills game offers a pleasant way to beat the heat while working on fractions and identifying numbers and& objects.

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Do flashcards help kids with dyslexia?

Brainscape

I once heard dyslexia described as like trying to read a James Joyce novel after having a bottle of wine. As a prolific reader, writer, and wine drinker, I can fully attest to the veracity of this sentiment. But while there isn’t much one can do to improve one’s complex reading post-wine, there are thankfully quite a few helpful strategies for learning with dyslexia , particularly for younger learners whose minds are still developing.

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Acceptable Use Policy for workplace technology

Jamf on EdTech

Organizations use Acceptable Use Policies (AUP) to set forth guidelines for employees and company practices. This aligns them with industry best practices, laws and regulatory compliance. In this blog, we go into further detail as to: What is an AUP? Why are they important? What do AUPs commonly include?

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Having All Voices Heard in the Classroom & Beyond | @QuietAndStrong Podcast #introvert #edtech @PearDeck @Flipgrid

techieMusings

I’m extremely excited to share a conversation I had with David Hall of Quiet and Strong. On the podcast, I talk about discovering my own #introvert superpowers & how I’ve rethought the classroom dynamic to empower all voices. Susan Cain’s Quiet had a PROFOUND impact on my teaching & has driven much of the work I’ve done since.

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"Starting a Side Gig" (Tonight) + "Parenting for Academic Success" (Summer Course) + Urban Librarianship (Mini-Summit)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

STARTING YOUR OWN SIDE GIG: ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS, AND OTHERS Part of the LearningRevolution.com 'Survive and Thrive!' Series With Steve Hargadon OVERVIEW : As an educational entrepreneur for 20 years, Steve gives you a simple step-by-step starter formula and overview for building an idea into an educational side gig, whether you are just looking to follow a personal passion or build a full-time business.

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What in the World is an Educator to Do?

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik These are unusual times, to say the least. The two biggest storylines in the school world are the teacher shortage and the student shortage. It seems like they can’t both be true. But they are. The bigger story, and the one that is causing administrators the most angst, is the teacher shortage. In an article a couple weeks ago by Learning Counsel CEO LeiLani Cauthen, she states. “28 percent of teachers have quit, been lost, or shuffled into different roles, mostly promotions in

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OPINION: Why community colleges are the perfect partner for green jobs — and good jobs

The Hechinger Report

President Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom are investing significant federal and state dollars in new technologies — all in the pursuit of clean air, clean energy, healthier lives and green jobs for our communities. The discussions related to jobs are often framed from a historical perspective of competing interests — economic sustainability versus sound environment practices, corporate profits versus healthy communities.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Engaging Lessons for the Next-Gen Connected Creators – SULS0160

Shake Up Learning

The post Engaging Lessons for the Next-Gen Connected Creators – SULS0160 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, Kasey chats with Dr. Monica Alicea, a Technology Training and Integration Specialist, about strategies and tools to engage students. Monica loves getting students connected on a global scale and loves to use digital tools like Lumio to create interactive lessons to engage her students.