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What is Accessible Education? Equality vs Equity in Inclusive Learning

ViewSonic Education

Equality vs equity: which one is more important in achieving accessible education? The answer is both. The two concepts sound similar but mean two different things and you can’t have inclusive learning if you’re lacking one of them. Educators and academic institutions already know this and aspire to provide s tudents with access to the best possible high-quality education regardless of their background and characteristics.

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Path to Digital Equity: Why We Need to Address the Digital Divide with Solutions Around Adoption

Digital Promise

Imagine creating conditions where every learner and community can fully access and leverage the technology needed for full participation in learning, the economy, and society at large. Simultaneously, every learner and community is equipped with connected devices, learning content, digital literacy skills, technical support, and a reliable, high-speed internet connection.

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4 Long-Term Benefits of Bilingual Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is such a great article on the benefits of bi-lingual education. Sure, we intuitively know what these are, but what are the real metrics? From an educator with a passion for her calling, see if you have any reasons you’d add: 4 Long-Term Benefits of Bilingual Education. Raising bilingual children is the norm in Singapore. From an early age, the children living in this multicultural city are exposed to a number of languages at home, in their preschools, and in their communities.

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10 Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers.

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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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Support Pedagogy in the Classroom with Educational Technology

EdTech Magazine

When schools transitioned to remote learning two years ago, tech took on a new role in educational instruction. After adjusting to using computers in their lessons daily during the pandemic, some educators have begun to view teaching-related tech in a different light, says Jennifer Hall, educational technology specialist for Atlanta Public Schools. “The comfort level got a little bit better,” Hall says.

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

Neo LMS

An intelligent learning platform (ILP) for schools and universities might be the tool you’ll start using soon if you’re a teacher, academic institution leader, student, or parent. Schools and universities have been leveraging the power of edtech for quite a while now. Especially during the past two years, the interest and necessity of online learning have skyrocketed. .

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Virtual Museum Tours: Ready to Take Kids on a Field Trip?

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. For those of you who want to go on virtual museum tours, the Museums for Digital Learning may have the perfect answer for you. The list of museums is long and growing and is a joy to see. For years, as educators, we've had to cobble together our own resources. But, now, we have museum-created resources around topics and objects.

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Students with Disabilities Develop Technology Skills to Expand Career Options

EdTech Magazine

At San Andreas High School in San Bernardino, Calif., students use advanced sensors and software to manage and monitor a state-of-the-art hydroponic growing facility and greenhouse. They document their processes using smartphones, tablets and video editing software. They package, market and track their products using QR codes and use web development tools to sell the greens to local restaurants.

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How Student Tech Teams are Creating New Leaders

Digital Promise

When Renee Dawson, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coach at Crawford W. Long Middle School in Atlanta, met John*, an eighth grader with learning and speech disabilities, they bonded immediately. Long had just joined the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program, and Dawson was recruiting members for her new student tech team. Student tech teams are an integral part of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative.

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What You Might Have Missed in March–What’s up in April

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of March. Social Media or COVID: Which is more dangerous to students? 5 (free) Posters about Learning. Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring. Guiding Students through the Crisis in Ukraine. A Lesson Plan for Addressing What’s in the News. Invention Convention is coming. Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day.

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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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H?para helps North Dakota district realize its mission of putting students first

Hapara

Neither the pandemic nor a recent district merger has kept Williston Basin School District #7 from continuously strengthening its commitment to putting students first. The combined district, located 60 miles south of the Canadian border in petroleum-rich western North Dakota, now has over 5,000 students and 700 staff. Social and emotional learning (SEL) is currently embedded into each school day to give learners valuable skills and the personal attention they so much need to navigate this challe

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Connected STEM Classrooms Break Down Learning Silos for K–12 Students

EdTech Magazine

When it comes to preparing students for the science, technology, engineering and math jobs of the future, some school districts are getting a head start today. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2030, the total number of STEM jobs will grow by almost 11 percent — increasing about 30 percent faster than jobs in the overall workforce.

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An example EduProtocols unit that supports UDL, SEL

Ditch That Textbook

EduProtocols activities can be used again and again to engage and teach. Here's how they look in a full unit. This post is written by Kim Voge, an educator, instructional coach, adjunct professor, and ed tech consultant from California. Kim is the co-author of Deploying EduProtocols: 20+ Ways to Use EduProtocols to Transform Your School […]. The post An example EduProtocols unit that supports UDL, SEL appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Preparing for College or Career

Ask a Tech Teacher

Preparing students for college or career is arguably the biggest goal for High School. I like the focus of this particular principal, spotlighted in an article in The 74 Million : Principal’s View: To Prepare Students to Enter a Tech-Focused Business World, Create Schools With the Workplace in Mind. Consider the world students face when they graduate.

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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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Exciting new updates for H?para Highlights

Hapara

April showers bring… Highlights updates! In the coming weeks, you may notice some small changes to Highlights that will make it a lot easier to see what your students are doing online and provide them with feedback. Here are some of the exciting updates we have in store: A dynamic, expanded student screen. In the Current Screens tab, you will be able to open an expanded student tile.

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School Districts Turn to Outside Experts to Beef Up Their Cybersecurity Posture

EdTech Magazine

When it comes to cybersecurity, what you don’t know can hurt you. That’s especially true for school districts, which are increasingly in the line of sight of hackers looking for a quick payday. Since many districts don’t have all the necessary security expertise in-house, a growing number are turning to outside partners to strengthen their security posture and stop ransomware and other cyberattacks that can disrupt education.

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Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI

User Generated Education

My gifted students, grades 4th-6th, selected Artificial Intelligence, as their elective during Spring, 2022 semester. (For more about this see Offering Electives to Elementary Students.) The Generative AI learning activities I describe below are part of their larger Artificial Intelligence elective as well as being part of the ISTE AI Explorations course I am taking.

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National Library Week April 3-9

Ask a Tech Teacher

National Library Week is April 3-9, 2022. It allows us to promote our local libraries and their workers. Find more about here at the American Library Association. Because I know most of you online only, I thought I’d share my favorite online libraries with you: For Children. Aesop for Children –collection of fables. Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.

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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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Personalizing Learning: Getting it Right

Education Elements

I can’t remember how many times I have been asked “Am I doing it right?” I’ve heard this question so many times in my support of over 150 schools as they implement personalized learning that I no longer count. Teachers and leaders want to know, am I “doing” personalized learning right.

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Don’t Leave Money on the Table. Get CDW’s Help Securing K–12 Grants

EdTech Magazine

When it comes to funding for K–12 schools, there are two types of grants: formula-based (such as Title funds) and competitive. Formula-based grants are allocated to schools that meet the criteria for the fund. Most come from state and federal government and are assessed yearly based on several criteria. Lesser known are the competitive grants. School leaders must apply for this funding, which is limited to a certain number of recipients.

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Education Needs a Reset. We Can Start by Listening to Our Teachers.

Edsurge

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war. Because my work as CEO of the national Breakthrough Collaborative involves middle-schoolers with college aspirations and college students who aspire to become advocates and teachers, I’m always inclined to take the optimistic view.

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Do Not Let Them Be a Helicopter, but Rather a Responsive or Open-to-Learning Parent

EdNews Daily

By John Hattie and Kyle Hattie It did not take us long after becoming parents to stop criticizing other parents, as we learned we could not always control our own kids. They can say the darnedest things. Art Linkletter was a US personality who probably was one of the first to host a reality show. His show involved interviewing children, and the premise was that: Children under ten and women over seventy give the best interviews on the air today for the identical reason: They speak the plain unva

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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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What Is Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs?

TeachThought - Learn better.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a theoretical framework comprising a tiered model of human needs often depicted as a pyramid. The post What Is Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs? appeared first on TeachThought.

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CoSN2022: Excitement Builds for the In-Person Event Highlighting Digital Innovation

EdTech Magazine

After two years of online-only experiences, attendees can come together in person for the Consortium of School Networking’s 2022 conference in Nashville, Tenn., April 11-13. CoSN2022, which will also offer a selection of uniquely virtual sessions, will feature panels and workshops that evoke this year’s conference theme: “Amplifying the Power of One.

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Students Have Different Thinking Speeds. Inclusive Teaching Means Realizing That.

Edsurge

Many classroom environments favor a certain kind of thinker, usually the students who are quick to recall a fact when the instructor asks a question. But that’s not the only type of mind, and it’s not even always the best kind of mind for learning. “Research has shown that shy learners—the ones who sit in the back and they don’t really say anything—they can be slower learners, but they’re actually the most flexible and they can be the most creative problem solvers,” says Barbara Oakley, a profes

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Technology Transforms a School into a Community

EdNews Daily

By James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen Editor’s Note: This is part three of a five-part series. (Click to read part one and part two) This may be the first time in history that the technology exists to make true community schooling a reality. Here’s what you need to know. In part one of this article series, we made the case for community schools. In a nutshell, Community Schooling is a concept that has been around for more than 30 years.

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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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i-Ready Learning System: Full Review for Teachers and Parents

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

i-Ready is an online instruction and assessment platform that covers reading and mathematics. As a teacher, you can use i-Ready to identify students learning needs, provide differentiated.read more.

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Top 3 Ways to Future Proof Your K–12 Network

EdTech Magazine

Across K–12, endpoints proliferate: Students are increasingly equipped with one-to-one devices, and classrooms are laden with Internet of Things technology. In such an environment, some school leaders find connectivity a challenge. As schools ramp up their engagements with educational technology, IT professionals at the K–12 level need a way to keep these advancements online, ensuring that the district’s network supports appropriate speeds and bandwidth.

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This Edtech Critic Was Supposed to Become a Bridge Between Educators and Edtech. How Is It Going?

Edsurge

While they’re both ostensibly working to make education as strong as possible, educators and edtech don’t always see eye to eye. Observers of the space, for instance, have long noted that teachers are often excluded from edtech procurement , as are higher ed faculty and staff. But if they want to thrive, both groups might need to learn to meet each other’s gaze.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. Sitting at her family’s kitchen table in Dallas while her mother prepared dinner, she printed the arithmetic over and over in a yellow, spiral-bound notebook. When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests.

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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.