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8 Digital tools for engaging classroom presentations

Neo LMS

Whether online or face-to-face, teachers are always looking for ways to create engaging learning experiences. Integrating presentations in teaching is an accessible way to bring technology to the classroom and make the best digital tools available. A slideshow lesson conveys information effectively and supports learning since most of it is done visually.

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New Teachers–From Pandemic to the Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is a great article for new teachers who might not have seen the traditional classroom experience. One teacher offers tips to help new starters who did their training in lockdown to feel at home in their classroom: New Teachers: 10 Ways to Claim Your Classroom Space. The first terms as an early career teacher are daunting: and it can be a while until you feel completely settled in your new role.

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Getting started with STEM in your classroom!

Neo LMS

There is a growing need for STEM skills in the workplace, as it has been reported that there will be 3.5 million jobs available by 2025 that require STEM skills. In researching some recent statistics about job outlook for the future, I found a report from the World Economic Forum that shared predictions for the key skills needed by 2022. The skills that were emphasized included collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving.

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Student-Created Review: Engage Your Learners and Save Time!

Catlin Tucker

While coaching teachers this month, several expressed a desire to include review and practice activities in their station rotation lessons to help students prepare for end-of-the-semester assessments. Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game. These traditional approaches to review are problematic on three fronts.

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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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Curiosity: The Ultimate Learning Trigger

A Principal's Reflections

When I reflect on my childhood there were numerous profound experiences that impacted my trajectory. I still vividly remember spending my summers in Ocean City, NJ where one set of my grandparents resided. To this day there is just something magical about the beach. My grandfather Robert Lewis had many hobbies that intrigued me and my brothers. One of them was making jewelry.

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Schools Can Allot ESSER Funds to Revamp Transportation Tech

EdTech Magazine

K–12 schools saw drops in enrollment this school year, as students switched to permanently virtual options. Some districts made plans to offer fully virtual learning to students and families who opted to continue learning remotely. This shift in enrollment, combined with students quarantining for extended periods and a shortage of bus drivers, has left some districts struggling to maintain transportation efficiency.

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The Science of Reading: How to Understand and Apply the Basics

Waterford

Teaching students to read is so much more than sitting them down in front of a book. It takes an intentional mix of explicit classroom lessons, individualized support, and family engagement to help children develop strong reading skills. But, how do we know what strategies will work best? Have you ever stopped to think about what brain science says about how children learn to read—and how that might make your teaching even more effective?

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Empathy Is a Crucial Skill. Here is How We Are Teaching It to Our Students.

Edsurge

I had to use the bathroom. Badly. Yet, there were 22 students sitting in my classroom finishing their independent reading activity. The timer went off. Twenty-two heads snapped up to attention. One boy raised his hand—the same boy who always does after silent sustained reading—to ask, “Ms. Adams, what are we doing today?” Bathroom! My body reminded me.

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What K–12 Technology Departments Need to Know About Green IT

EdTech Magazine

The nearly 100,000 public K–12 schools in the U.S. sit on 2 million acres of land and are among the largest public energy consumers, according to K12 Climate Action. The Aspen Institute initiative launched in 2020 with the goal of enacting changes in schools that can help move the U.S. toward environmental sustainability. These measures include shifting to solar power and other clean energy sources, instituting more sustainable food use practices and switching to nonfossil fuel to run school bus

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International Education During the Pandemic

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, a passionate educational consultant for T4Edtech, traveled to Italy and surrounding areas and has some interesting insights into their education efforts during the pandemic: From An Italian Train: Education during the Pandemic. I recently returned from a long-awaited trip to Italy in which I spent a considerable amount of time traveling throughout the Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio provinces.

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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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What Bonsai Trees and Wildflowers Teach us about Personalized Learning

Education Elements

To many in the gardening and plant world, bonsais are among the most impressive trees. Bonsai is seen as a blend of gardening and art – a way to create living sculptures. A gardener might spend decades pruning the tree, little by little, year over year, so that it grows to the gardener’s exact vision. For instance, a Coast Redwood tree that, in the wild might grow to 100’-200’, may only grow to 1’ under the curated, decades-long care of the gardener.

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Lessons of Youth Activism, Climate Change, and Climate Justice

The Jose Vilson

“Yeah, so first of all, I just want to give a little context. So Shell and Siccar Point Energy are trying to push a new oil field on the UK Parliament, the Cambo oil field, which is gonna be off the coast of Scotland, which obviously is my home. I just wanna start off by saying you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself …” With that, climate youth activist Lauren MacDonald named the tension in the room and laid it bare for the watching world.

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Updates to Maximize Network Health and Minimize Disruption During the School Year

EdTech Magazine

Teachers and students within K–12 districts need a functional network to maintain a meaningful learning environment, especially as many districts continue to offer remote learning options. How, though, can IT leaders improve the health of their networks without disrupting classes when they discover their infrastructure isn’t holding up? IT professionals in K–12 schools must consider the three elements of their IT backbone: the wiring closet, the edge data centers and the main data center.

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An Update on Digital Storytelling

Ask a Tech Teacher

An Exercise in Digital Storytelling. To engage my 11th-grade English students during the 2020–21 school year, I created a digital storytelling unit. Whether they attended school in person or remotely, it was a success. Students were able to explore various frames of reference, identify a personal story to share using digital media, and experience empathy throughout the process.

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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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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

Edsurge

Scientists agree that climate change is real and urgent. But many kids in the U.S. aren’t necessarily sure—even ones who have experienced its effects firsthand. That’s one thing Katie Worth, a former reporter for the PBS show Frontline, found while researching her new book, “ Miseducation ,” about how schools teach climate science. During a visit to a science class in Paradise, Calif., following a devastating wildfire that destroyed most of the town in 2018, she made a startling discovery.

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COLUMN: Surrounded by pandemic angst, what do middle schoolers want? A welcoming, safe place to learn

The Hechinger Report

To understand the pandemic’s impact on middle schoolers, picture the pain of lunchtime. A bunch of uncomfortable adolescents are navigating social distancing rules while figuring out when and if to take down their masks. It’s not going well. Some have given up eating lunch entirely, which worries Phyllis Fagell, a school counselor and author of the book Middle School Matters.

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CDW Tech Talk: Modernizing Educational Infrastructure

EdTech Magazine

For educators and students, the pandemic has presented a whole new set of challenges. In this excerpt from a recent CDW Tech Talk webcast, learn how technology has enabled remote learning and kept students and faculty connected under difficult circumstances. WATCH MORE: Emily Bell shares how Georgia's Fulton County Schools navigated the digital divide.

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16 Sites, 3 Apps, 2 Projects for Thanksgiving

Ask a Tech Teacher

Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them: Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app). Canadian Thanksgiving. Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities. Plimoth Plantation –a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.

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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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The Benefits of Online Learning Are Also Its Weaknesses. That’s Where Advisors Help.

Edsurge

The last time I taught in a physical college classroom was in 1999, when my adult students shook off their weariness from a day of working and taking care of their children to pay attention to their classmates and me for three hours. Much has changed since then, as the world of online learning built for working adults has grown. As an advisor at an online college, I know that adults are attracted to the flexibility of an asynchronous online learning environment and the pace of accelerated semest

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5 Lessons For Teachers From Ted Lasso

techlearning

Hopefully, Ted Lasso is not all that you get, but the optimistic soccer coach does model some good behavior for teachers.

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‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

The Hechinger Report

AUSTIN, Texas — Most years, by the third week of first grade, Heather Miller is working with her class on writing the beginning, middle and end of simple words. This year, she had to backtrack — all the way to the letter “H.”. This story also appeared in USA Today. “Do we start at the bottom or do we start at the top?” Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary.

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6 Alternatives To Bloom’s Taxonomy For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

Why might you need alternatives to Bloom's Taxonomy? While wonderful, it neglects important ideas that see the whole child. The post 6 Alternatives To Bloom’s Taxonomy For Teachers appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Why Schools Can’t Talk About Family Engagement Without Talking About Race

Edsurge

Last summer, not far from the doorsteps of Oakland Unified School District, a group of parents came together to build an academic program from scratch in an effort to close the gap between the education their children were getting in school and the education they deserved. Leading this group of parents was Lakisha Young, co-founder and CEO of The Oakland REACH.

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How to Create Google Slides Games

Teacher Tech

Free Game templates for Google Slides that use Dice. Install Dice Slides by Schoolytics to have Google Dice. The post How to Create Google Slides Games appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How online education serves special needs students

eSchool News

Over the past few years, the pandemic made online education the de-facto schooling format for nearly all Americans. While it proved viable for many, it also exposed some of the common pitfalls in the traditional online education landscape, leading to a common perception that online education formats don’t yield the same level of instruction and retention for students.

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The 45 Best Websites For Taking A Virtual Field Trip

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What Are The Best Websites For Taking A Virtual Field Trip? Don’t have the budget for a field trip to … The 45 Best Websites For Taking A Virtual Field Trip Read More. The post The 45 Best Websites For Taking A Virtual Field Trip appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Can Higher Ed Help Early Ed Grow Up?

Edsurge

When Texas cleared the way for community colleges to create bachelor’s degree programs in fields with high demand for workers, leaders at Dallas College jumped at the chance. They considered three career tracks—nursing, IT and early childhood education—and decided to start with the latter. One reason why was the need in North Texas for thousands more people trained to serve children from birth through third grade.

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3 Google Sites Things to Try

Teacher Tech

Google Sites is a great way to provide students tutorial documents. Try these 3 features to customize your Google Sites pages. The post 3 Google Sites Things to Try appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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GoFormative Full Tutorial for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

GoFormative is an educational platform that allows teachers to create various types of assignments that students can interact with in real time and across different devices. Teachers can view.read more.

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What Are Costa’s Levels Of Questioning?

TeachThought - Learn better.

Costa's levels of questioning feature three tiers of questioning designed to promote higher level thinking and inquiry. The post What Are Costa’s Levels Of Questioning? appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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.