EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Learning to read and improving literacy once hinged on traditional hard-copy books, but in 21st-century learning, there are far more tools at educators’ disposal. From audiobooks to augmented reality, next-generation reading tools help student readers and writers maximize their literacy education, with guidance from innovative K–12 leaders. These tools chip away at an alarming nationwide trend, in which a third of children in the earliest grades are missing reading benchmarks as a result of pand

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Social-emotional learning is a growing need for schools across the United States. However, teachers do not always have the time, resources, and proper training needed to really help students develop sustainable coping skills. Keep reading to learn about 3-must haves for any social-emotional learning solution that will build a student wellness program that hits goals and truly grabs students’ attention.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In 1997, the National Reading Panel issued a report on the findings of dozens of studies looking into the most effective methods of teaching and learning reading. The report offered specific recommendations for effective practices, such as intentional and explicit phonics instruction for all students. Lately, there has been movement toward codifying science-based literacy learning practices into law, but it took 16 years before the first state to do so, Mississippi, took such action.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

After you’ve checked out our favorite STEAM resources , here are some of those that teachers use to teach STEM and STEAM: Science. Technology. Engineering. Art. Math. #stem #steameducation #elemed. Copyright ©2022 worddreams.wordpress.com – All rights reserved. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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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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EdTech4Beginners

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

As Reading Curriculum Leader, one of my main focuses is to diversify the books we use in the classroom and school library. This is so important for many reasons, but essentially because representation matters. It is important for all children to be able to see and recognise themselves within the pages of a book. Diverse books can enable children to build empathy and provides a window into different cultures.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The post How to Engage Students in Science Through Real-World Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

We blink, and things change. While disruption is not new in any sense, it is happening at a more frenetic pace for a variety of reasons. I shared the following in Disruptive Thinking : With the exponential rate of change taking place in society, it is exciting to think about what the future may hold, despite many unknowns. However, we know that the future will be vastly different than what we are currently experiencing and that these changes will dramatically impact workforce expectations.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Parents and guardians of K–12 students are rather aware and concerned about student data privacy, but a majority are lacking specific information from their schools. A 2020 Center for Democracy and Technology report shows that without additional details about threats, 62 percent of parents showed some level of concern over student data privacy. However, the same report shows that less than half of parents (4 in 10) say their child’s school has discussed with them how it protects student data.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

While the effects of COVID-19 may have diminished for many thanks to widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity , the pandemic continues to have a significant systemwide impact and exacerbate social gaps. Students still experience elevated levels of pandemic-prompted emotional trauma, anxiety, isolation, and psychological distress due to schedule interruptions, remote learning, the deaths of family and friends, inequitable access to health care, and job insecurity.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

On October 19-21, the League of Innovative Schools convened in Los Angeles, California, for their biannual League meeting, which was hosted alongside Compton Unified School District and El Segundo Unified School District. Over two and a half days, district leaders explored how emerging technologies can support powerful learning, surfaced and shared innovative learnings and leadership practices, and helped us welcome the League of Innovative Schools 2022-2023 cohort.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has leaned hard into the 4 Shifts Protocol to support its schools’ technology integration and instructional redesign work. Over 650(!) Digital Learning Coaches (DLCs) across the state have received a copy of Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning and are working with their local educators to use the protocol to redesign lessons and units for deeper learning, greater student agency, more authentic work, and rich technology infusion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: What is Digital Literacy? Category: Pedagogy.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Stepping into GoGuardian’s newly created chief diversity officer position, Dionna Smith plans to tackle diversity, equity and inclusion both inside the company and externally. Conscious of the ways technology has, in the past, provided barriers to equity, Smith aims to turn the tables. She shared with EdTech her vision for educational technology that opens doors for historically marginalized groups.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Lumio is my go-to exam review tool and it can do so much more. Back in May, I wrote about Lumio and how it makes review and practice easy but now I'd like to share 11 Reasons Why Educators Love Lumio with some fellow educators who are putting Lumio at the center of their instruction.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The post Leveraging the Village for Community Science Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Ditch That Textbook

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This post is written by Sam Kary, Founder and CEO of New EdTech Classroom, a teacher-led professional development startup dedicated to helping educators design innovative classrooms with technology. Sam is a former classroom teacher and instructional coach of a decade who spent his early career skeptical of technology’s role in education. Sam is an ISTE […].

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And just like that, summer has ended, and pumpkin spice lattes are back. It’s that time of year: the Winter Holidays are among us! Like other times during the year, this is a great moment to pause and be intentional about centering educational equity in your school and district. Consider these 5 tips as we head into the holiday season.

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Written by Marika Ismail. Director of Inclusive Curriculum at Waterford.org. My 4-year-old son Niko recently started transitional kindergarten at our local elementary school. It’s been a rough time for us, with a few tears. Some days he tells me he’s scared and misses his friends from preschool. During the first weeks of school, Niko and I listened to “ Make New Friends ,” a song from Waterford’s new Sing Around the World series , in the car and at home.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For all that education has changed in recent times—from the disappearance of cursive lessons to the rise of computer science in classrooms to pandemic-forced remote learning—one thing has remained stubbornly unchanged. That’s stress and anxiety over math. Even before worries mounted over “ learning loss ” and the ongoing youth mental health crisis , researchers observed math anxiety in children as young as 6.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Post by Tom Daccord. “Web 3.0” has been the center of much discussion this year. Advocates believe that Web 3.0 will unleash a radical and beneficial transformation of the Internet. Detractors claim that Web 3.0 is little more than a buzzword for marketing purposes. The following Q&A aims to introduce EdTechTeacher readers to Web 3.0 and outline how it may affect education.

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Use of social media as a research tool among students continues to increase.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. Many of its 7,000 middle and high schoolers, mostly Hispanic and low-income, were struggling in their studies and course failure rates had spiked.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? You likely asked yourself on more than one occasion, "When am I ever going to use any of this in real life?” Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By Dan Kemp from the Book Creator Team. A new update to this popular content creation tool just dropped – let’s bring your favorite PDFs to life. We know from the popularity of websites such as Teachers Pay Teachers that worksheets and PDFs are still very popular. It makes sense – when used well they can help scaffold learning, practice skills and help with assessment.

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Data privacy is a priority at Lafayette Public Schools. Jim Farmer, the chief technology officer, discusses how the district made that happen.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The pandemic saw countless education institutes scramble in a bid to offer remote learning, which just highlighted how ill-prepared they were for future learning. But in this transition, we also learned something vital: Edtech learning helps to level the playing field for those who are unable to join regular classes due to location, illness, or financial constraints.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The community of Orangeburg, South Carolina, is home to two Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unsurprisingly, these institutions—Claflin University and South Carolina State University—make the internet available to their students and faculty. In fact, earlier this year, the latter institution installed a brand-new, very zippy system. But just off campus in the surrounding neighborhoods, high-speed internet is hard to come by, and it tends to be expensive for folks in a county where C

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the heart of Louisville, Kentucky, Rikaiya Long recently stood at the front of the courtroom, presenting oral arguments from the law brief she’d authored a week prior. Legal scholars listened intently while she defended her position in the case of strict liability. Rikaiya is not a lawyer, though — she’s a high school student. And the legal scholars were student teachers from the University of Louisville.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A 17-year-old high-school student recently walked into a high-stakes test without the accommodations that he had received for years. This was not an arbitrary administrative decision; it was his choice. “All my life,” he said, “they have been giving me everything modified, adapted or adjusted. In 10th grade, I realized that none of those crutches would be available in the real world.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Digital equity in the classroom goes far beyond the need to deliver internet connectivity and devices. All students need and deserve a safe, reliable, and adaptable edtech ecosystem to support and nurture their learning experience. Behind the obvious laptops and countless other tech tools used by everyone in today’s schools sits what could arguably be labeled the least discussed aspect of K-12 technology: the vast software systems that nearly all schools use to store and update student data – in

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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