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JUNE 22, 2021

The pandemic has changed my teaching.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. In-person schooling provided an environment for students with cognitive or physical challenges to be fully supported with personalized instruction, tailored supports, and customized technologies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

On April 20, Kentwood Elementary in Los Angeles opened its doors to students. It was news Lauren Phillips, 37, had been waiting for. After months of schooling on a screen, her daughter Lola, 6, would get the real kindergarten experience. As it turned out, in-person kindergarten wasn’t much different from virtual. Lola sat in a room with her classmates while her teacher, who was home for medical reasons, taught them online.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

I like to compare the teacher’s work designing learning experiences to the work of an architect. In my new book with Dr. Katie Novak, UDL and Blended Learning , I share a story about working with an architect to design a new home after my family lost our house in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. Over a series of three meetings, my architect asked me countless questions about what I wanted in a home and how I used the space.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 20, 2021

We learn, and remember for that matter, from experience. Thus, it is critical that the culture in your classroom and school positively impacts learners while adequately preparing them for their future, not our past. I shared the following in Chapter 7 of Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms : Almost all of us have heard the phrase, “Experience is the best teacher.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

First, his students learned to make a meal. Later, they figured out how to build low-poly houses. But what about in the not-too-distant future, when they move on to college or begin their careers? At that point, Jeff Larson hopes, the time they spent in the creative arts program at San Francisco Unified School District’s Balboa High School will start paying off.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 24, 2021

It has been a challenging school year for everyone. Even though we have experienced many changes, struggled with the unknown, and experienced exhaustion, there have been many positives. We have pushed ourselves to embrace new methods and technologies, and we have all grown personally and professionally as we worked through this experience together. Especially during the past year, becoming more connected made a difference for us as educators and for our students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2021

Every month, we’ll share five themed posters that you can share on your website (with attribution), post on your walls, or simply be inspired. This month: College and Career. –for the entire collection of 65 posters, click here. 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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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

Despite widespread efforts to bridge the digital divide through one-to-one device programs, connectivity challenges continue to leave millions of students and teachers trapped in the slow lane of the information superhighway. DISCOVER: Pandemic aid helps narrow Mississippi's digital divide. K–12 Schools Still Struggle with Connectivity Fewer than half of U.S. school districts meet bandwidth goals established by the Federal Communications Commission as part of the 2014 E-Rate Modernization Order.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 21, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sometimes devices just help us. They improve something we already do in powerful ways. In this post, I’ll highlight three such items. First, a very cool stylus called the Logitech Crayon doesn’t require pairing and can be used on any iPad. (Imagine the teacher going around the room and using it to annotate and help students on their tablet device!

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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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Digital Promise

JUNE 24, 2021

Many educators are asking, “How do I find the tools that we can leverage to achieve our vision for the 2021-22 school year?”. Public education is seeing an unprecedented investment from the CARES Act and CRRSA to support equitable instruction and learning acceleration. Districts and schools have significant flexibility in how the funding is spent, which presents opportunities to tailor investments to meet unique community needs.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 22, 2021

Student engagement is a big part of independent learning. We want students to actively interact with the learning material, no matter where they are and how they’re learning. As such, educational videos are nothing new, especially in the world of asynchronous and blended learning. It’s not a big deal since teachers have figured out that they can focus on offering individualized attention to students or in-classroom activities that don’t involve lecturing by pre-recording said lectures.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

There’s no denying that the pandemic upended education this past year. Like many school districts across the nation, Portland Public Schools pivoted to online and hybrid instruction. “Our teaching staff rose to the challenge and have done a beautiful job making instruction engaging for students in a remote environment,” CTO Don Wolff says of the Oregon district.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2021

I get thousands of visitors a day–over a million since I started. The most common reason why you-all drop by is for resources. I have lots of them–lesson plans, tips and tricks–but one area I have not enough depth is the experiences of fellow teachers: your personal teaching experiences. your informed take on tech ed topics. Education pedagogy.

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Personalized Learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 25, 2021

Some faculty members are like race horses out of the gate. They’re focused Assistant Professors, they’re publishing immediately in ‘top tier’ journals, they’re presenting at conferences, they’re connecting strategically with grant funders and research colleagues, and they slide right into the tenure track slipstream and travel quickly through the Assistant Professor / Associate Professor With Tenure / Full Professor pathway.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic appears to finally be waning in America. Kudos to district leaders for guiding their school districts through the ins and out of technology integration and remote learning for more than a year. School communities have learned a lot about both the amazing capabilities and the dire failures that embedded technology in the learning process can bring.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

When officials at Fort Smith Public Schools in Arkansas began preparing an online-only option for fall 2020, they expected to have about 500 sign-ups from the district’s 14,000 students. Instead, online enrollment hit 3,500. “As we got closer, we were surprised to see our estimate keep growing,” says Gary Udouj, director of career education and district innovation for FSPS.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 25, 2021

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: How to Create a Chart Really Fast.

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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

JUNE 21, 2021

Fresh out of college with a mandate to effect change through the gift of educating the nation’s youth, teachers of every level come into the profession with great intentions. So many of them, however, have come through educator preparation programs that have not properly prepared them for the diversity they will face in today’s classrooms, and consequently they will not meet with the success that could be—an unfortunate outcome for both the teachers and the students.

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Waterford

JUNE 22, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced educators across the country to pivot on the fly and adjust their style of teaching. The disruption was unprecedented, stressful, scary, and physically and mentally taxing for teachers and students. But it also created a once-in-a-generation opportunity: A chance to rethink education to meet the needs of all students. As the first full school year since the pandemic has drawn to a close, it’s a good chance to reflect on what educators have learned and rethink the sta

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

During Black History Month, Aberdeen High School Principal Dana Bullard invited some former students to speak to her current students at the Mississippi school about their careers. One former student, a young Black man who now works at Netflix in California, emphasized that technology skills are important for virtually every job. A pharmacist may need to program a robot to help sort medicine, he suggested; a truck driver may need to manage an autonomous tractor-trailer.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 22, 2021

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of

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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

JUNE 21, 2021

With battle cries of “Digital on day one!,” districts launch into back-to-school planning around this time each year. But the pathway to a successful start to the new school year is littered with technical landmines. And they aren’t new problems—they happen every single year. The pathway to a successful start to the new school year is littered with technical landmines.

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Waterford

JUNE 22, 2021

For many students, summer vacation means a leisurely and relaxing break from school. But it can also present challenges—academic and beyond. Educators know summer learning loss is a real issue, and it contributes to achievement gaps for all kinds of learners. Teachers can help fight this academic summer slide by providing summer reading challenges, gifting an end-of-year book to students, or checking in with families over the summer, among other things.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

As most K–12 schools prepare to return to in-person learning in the fall, many students are eager to reconnect with classmates, and educators look forward to getting back into the classroom. To make this possible, however, measures must be in place to help prevent the spread of disease. While COVID-19 infection rates have fallen, younger students are not yet able to be vaccinated, and new variants have some experts concerned about potential outbreaks.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2021

Just as teaching with video games might be 'controversial,' so is teaching with what on the surface seems to be a superficial distraction. The post 8 Strategies For Using TikTok For Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2021

Who gets to go to the best public high school in the country? That has been a contentious question for a community just outside of Washington, D.C., after school officials made changes to the admissions process for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology last year. The stated goal was to increase the diversity of students at the public magnet school, which U.S.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 24, 2021

WeVideo is an excellent screen recording and video editing tool that can be used for a wide variety of educational purposes. Whether teaching remotely or in-person, WeVideo can help transform your.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2021

As graduation season winds down, throngs of college graduates are entering the workforce. Many may not be ready. Employers rate “ability to work in teams” as the most important skill required of college graduates; 62 percent of employers said this skill is “very important,” while another 31 percent rated it as “somewhat important,” according to a recent employer survey conducted by the Association of American Colleges & Universities.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 21, 2021

Instead of asking, 'How can we slow their loss of academic progress?" we might asked instead, "What do children need?". The post 6 Ways To Motivate Students Cognitively During Summer Break appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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