eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

This year, education systems throughout the world were flipped upside down due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing a massive shift in how students are learning and how educators are teaching. Now, millions of students are learning remotely and teachers are suddenly adapting their teaching plans and techniques. As we close the chapter on 2020, education experts, parents, and students, are questioning what will 2021 bring in terms of educating K-12 students.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2021

By Amy Valentine There’s always a crisis in education. Covid-19 is the most recent and most significant, and it has challenged our education system in innumerable ways. But before the pandemic, there were already various challenges, both urgent and ongoing?the digital divide, lack of access in rural areas, weather-related disruptions, overcrowded classrooms, understaffed school buildings, bullying, and many more.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2021

It’s a question every K–12 school district leader in the country had to ask last spring and fall, and each came up with a slightly different answer: How could they support remote and hybrid instruction in a way that engages families, inspires students and keeps everybody as sane as possible? For most, the answer has included a thoughtful mix of training and technology.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2021

With all its challenges, the pandemic brought to light the need to either rethink or improve various aspects of practice. When it comes to leadership, the importance of effective communication skills to engage and empower families moved to the forefront. There are many reasons for this, but the most pressing was the need for information related to COVID-19, especially during the early months of the outbreak.

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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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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2021

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. – Eleanor Brownn. I have written about doing check-ins with students on several occasions, for example, see Emotional Check-Ins in a Teaching Webinar. What I find ironic about myself is that I haven’t discussed self-care of educators. This is especially negligent since I have a Doctorate in Counseling.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 4, 2021

Subscriber Special. Until January 18th: Free Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans. Two lesson plans to prepare for Martin Luther King Day in January: 1) Students research events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King’s impact on American history and share them with an Event Chain organized visually, including pictures and thought bubbles. 2) Students interpret the words of Dr.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 5, 2021

Remember Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz? At some point in the story, Dorothy sets off to find the famous Wizard of Oz and her journey begins with a first step on the Yellow Brick Road. She follows the road, makes some stops, encounters some friends along the way, and eventually arrives at her final destination. At the end of the story, both Dorothy and her companions achieve their individual goals, and the Yellow Brick Road played an essential part in that outcome.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 8, 2021

In the last ten months, teachers have had to design and facilitate learning for various teaching and learning landscapes. Teachers in states hit hard by the pandemic, like my home state of California, have been online since March. Some teachers are on a hybrid schedule seeing students a couple of days each week. Others are juggling the demands of the concurrent classroom, simultaneously teaching students in class and online.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 6, 2021

As someone who grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburbs and whose parents worked for the federal government, today’s events have been… challenging. I think that what I will say here is: Policymakers, you know how you’ve minimized the importance of history, government, and civics in all of your education reform efforts over the past couple of decades?

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2021

Cybersecurity threats are always evolving. And at Eastern Carver County Schools, IT staff work constantly to strengthen their defenses. That’s why Information Systems Administrator Craig Larsen ensures the district gets annual independent security audits and quickly fixes any vulnerabilities that are discovered. It’s also why in the spring, when the Minnesota district shifted to remote learning, and in the fall when ECCS implemented hybrid instruction, Larsen added new safeguards to better secur

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 5, 2021

This post is written by Megan Diede and Kara Risby. Megan and Kara both currently teach primary at Prairie Wind Elementary in Gillette, Wyoming. They are also the founders of IntegratED LLC a framework that challenges teachers to find a new norm and their teaching. Blockbuster Hollywood movies use green screen to create all sorts […]. The post 10 green screen project ideas for the classroom appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2021

Throughout the year, I post websites and apps the Ask a Tech Teacher crew’s classes found useful, instructive, helpful in integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Some, you agreed with us about; others not so much. Here are the reviews you-all thought were the most helpful in efforts to weave tech into the classroom experience: Quick Review of 7 Popular Math Programs. 4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom. 7 Tech Tools for PE Teachers. 15 Websites to Teach Financial Literacy.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2021

There is some incredible work happening right now related to women in P-12 educational leadership. Below are four initiatives that have caught my attention over the past few months… Women Who Lead. The first initiative is Women Who Lead , which is led by the always awesome Kim Cofino and her team at Eduro Learning. Women Who Lead has more than 500 curated video conversations with over 70 women who hold leadership positions in education.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2021

What are the key ingredients for a beneficial professional learning experience? At the top of the list, you will probably find that successful professional learning is ongoing, personalized, and of high quality. These components are naturally embedded within effective coaching and/or mentoring. Many school districts offer a coach or mentor to new teachers, and some even offer support to veteran teachers; however, most do not offer similar services to the coaches themselves.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 7, 2021

As we’ve said in a previous article, emergency remote teaching enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic is not synonymous with online learning. Online learning comes with a different type of pedagogy that should address content, teaching methods, and student/teacher relationships. Of course, all of that is according to the characteristics of the new learning environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 8, 2021

Because AATT is a resource blog, we share lots of tips our group comes across in their daily teaching as well as materials shared by others we think you’d like. Some you agree with; others, not so much. Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2020: Top 10 Tech Tips. As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems which I share with you.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 4, 2021

In one of my favorite sections of The Passionate Learner , Robert Fried says: If we are to act boldly on behalf of passionate learners, we will have to stop wasting so much time in school. Most teachers and students waste 50 percent or more of their time in school. I say this with no disrespect. There are, of course, various ways of wasting time we all acknowledge as such: Teachers trying to get the class to settle down so the lesson can begin.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2021

Dave Termunde remembers the day well. It was a Friday in March, and Arbor Park School District No. 145 had just shut down because of the pandemic. His first order of business as the Illinois district’s CTO involved distributing devices to students and teachers who needed them to continue learning or instructing from home. From there, he says, his focus turned to device management.

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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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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 6, 2021

By Taylor Wiedemann From an early age, I knew I wanted to be a teacher. I enjoyed my learning experience at Olentangy Liberty High School in Powell, Ohio, situated within a school district that is consistently top ranked in the state of Ohio as well as nationally, according to U.S. News and World Report. It felt natural that I’d want to pass my love of learning onto others.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2021

Since we at Ask a Tech Teacher started this blog nine years ago, we’ve had almost 5.3 million views from visitors (about 10,000 follow us) to the 2,444 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. We have regular features like: Weekly Websites and Tech Tips ( sign up for the newsletter ).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2021

In an article about the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball , Howard Bryant said: Baseball should have taken the honest road, which would be to carry its stain and leave the tattered, piecemeal records of the various Negro Leagues as a historical reminder of its own destructiveness. Baseball did not do that — not because it was so important to give Josh Gibson a posthumous batting title but because like most of white, mainstream society, it does not want to carry its share of the respo

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2021

A few weeks ago, I participated in a webinar with K-12 students, parents and teachers about how online learning is going. You might be surprised to hear that the news was not all bad. The students, in particular, had some good things to say about their virtual experience: They liked that teachers were focusing more on everyone’s mental health and wellbeing, and less on grades.

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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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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 3, 2021

We’ve all been there: the need for tracking attendance at the beginning of the lesson is a true hassle that nobody wants to deal with. The students hate it for obvious reasons, but surprisingly, the instructors hate it even more: they want to teach, not to act as police officers. However, most academic institutes enforce attendance tracking, and rightly so: studies show again and again strong positive correlation between class attendance and grades.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 8, 2021

By Jamie Bricker Editor’s note: This is the latest in a monthly series on the impact of Affective Leadership in the school system. Affective leadership is all about working with people, rather than trying to work through them or simply going around them. All stakeholders become far more invested in the school, when they feel genuinely valued, respected, and heard by administration.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2021

Greetings, amazing CU Denver principal licensure students! Before we send you some logistical emails, we just wanted to reiterate how proud of yourselves you should be. . The past year has been awful, and yet you have survived every terrible day, every difficult thing, every horrible circumstance, and every horrendous heartbreak and loss. You’ve adapted.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

As someone who has dedicated her career to helping educators leverage online and blended learning to transform their classrooms, this pandemic has certainly provided an opportunity to do the work I love most. Let’s be honest, though. Just because most of us had no option but to take learning to an online or blended format doesn’t mean this is the perfect environment for it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

MEDFORD, Mass. — The Tufts University campus was a quiet place in the fall, where students were scolded to stay in their dorms, checked frequently for Covid-19 and — if they tested positive — quarantined in modular housing set up on the tennis courts. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. As with much in higher education this academic year, the real activity was online, where the university was busy launching a new virtual master’s degree in data science and an online program in compu

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 8, 2021

By Charles Sosnik Our traditional K-12 students are begging out of attendance at record numbers, often with no notification whatsoever. It’s a trend that began years ago, but has accelerated at blinding speed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, 27 percent of America’s learners chose alternatives to traditional public schooling including charter schools (6 percent), private schools (10 percent), and homeschool or unaccounted for (11 percent).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 7, 2021

There are different kinds of mistakes: careless mistakes, systematic mistakes, misconceptions, etc. Students need help understanding this. The post 9 Ways To Help Students Learn Through Their Mistakes appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Lest 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind—a hope more than a few of us hold—existing trends that accelerated during the pandemic will continue in 2021. That’s what lies ahead, at least in the realms of education and employment, according to three college presidents and executives at large companies. Their predictions revolve around the continued acceleration of the use of technology in education and work, an increased reliance on educational offerings that are lower cost and more convenient,

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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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