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Bridging the Digital Divide: A Path to Empowerment for Underserved Learners

Digital Promise

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Cybersecurity Pilot Program for Education Earns an ‘A’

EdTech Magazine

Nation-state adversaries and cybercriminals continue to launch cyberattacks at an unmatched pace across all industries, and the education sector is in their crosshairs. Education is among the most heavily targeted sectors due to its vast stores of valuable data and its comparatively weak security measures. Adversaries are aware of the personal data that schools, district offices, libraries and other targets hold, as well as the security shortcomings that create a low barrier to entry.

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How One District is Scaling Student Tech Teams to Support Sustainable Technology Systems

Digital Promise

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How My Students Turned a Challenge into an Opportunity for Innovation

Digital Promise

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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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Goal Setting for a Fourteen-year old

Ask a Tech Teacher

Can a high school freshman be goal-oriented? Should they—or is this too early? Though many deliberate, no one yet has invented a time machine to unring the proverbial bell. And high school requires the ringing of many academic, social and economic bells. Many future-shaping decisions become final based on these four years. Zoe, like your sons and daughters, is thinking about which college she wants to attend.

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Compliance vs Engagement

A Principal's Reflections

One of the best aspects of the work my team and I at Aspire Change EDU do is getting into leaders as part of the coaching process. During this time, we begin to collect qualitative evidence aligned with growth opportunities that they have set during initial meetings. No matter where our travels take us, one of the most common areas districts and schools want to improve is shifting from compliance to student engagement.

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Full Steam Ahead with Badge Engine: Introducing Our New Open-Source Badging Technology

Digital Promise

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4 Websites that Explain Elections

Ask a Tech Teacher

In about half the world–mostly those where people live under socialism, communism, dictators, or autocracies–law and order is decided for the people. In the 1700’s, when the brand new United States of America, newly liberated from the British aristocratic rule that relied on Kings and Queens, wrote its very first Constitution and Bill of Rights, it decided to establish a system of government by the people.

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How 21:9 Aspect Ratio Ultrawide Display Transforms Meetings

ViewSonic Education

The arrival of the ultrawide display with 21:9 aspect ratio is reshaping how we conduct meetings. These innovative displays provide significantly larger screen real estate, enhancing the meeting experience by offering more space for content display. This reduces the need for multiple screens, boosting efficiency and streamlining presentations. Read on to discover how a 21:9 ultrawide display can elevate your meetings or explore the ViewSonic ultrawide interactive display (touchscreen) or ultr

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Q&A: Missouri Equips Mobile Incident Command Centers for School Safety

EdTech Magazine

Known sometimes as “the lockdown guy,” John McDonald’s experiences make him a valuable asset for K–12 schools preparing for or responding to a crisis. He spent 14 years as the executive director of school safety for Colorado’s Jeffco Public Schools — the district that’s home to Columbine High School — where he helped create an incident command system.

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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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10 fun, techy Halloween classroom ideas

Ditch That Textbook

Let the Halloween classroom fun commence! If you’re looking for some quick, creative Halloween fun, these activity ideas can help …1. A Halloween “add and pass” activity (and template!)Get this Halloween “add and pass” activity here.Students get a Halloween-themed image — something fun you can create easily with an AI image generator. One of them […] The post 10 fun, techy Halloween classroom ideas appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Subscriber Special: November Great Deal on Coaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. November 2-7th: Coaching or Mentoring BOGO — Buy one month; get the second free Do any of these sound like you? Your kindergartners don’t know what ‘enter’, ‘spacebar’, ‘click’ or many other techie words mean but you need to teach them to keyboard, internet, and become digital citizens.

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How I Became Invisible as a Teacher of Color in the Classroom

Edsurge

It is the weekend before my students arrive for the new school year. I am in my classroom listening to Lofi beats, pondering what has been and what is to come. All around my room are reminders of my identity as a 6’2, 280-pound Black and Puerto Rican man, husband, father, math teacher and basketball coach. I have come to find solace here; yes, these are part of my identity, which I hold dear to my heart — but as I have grown older, I have learned that few people ever see beyond them, including t

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2 out of 5 child care teachers make so little they need public assistance to support their families

The Hechinger Report

Caring for children during their first few years is a complex and critical job: A child’s brain develops more in the first five years than at any other point in life. Yet in America, individuals engaged in this crucial role are paid less than animal caretakers and dressing room attendants. That’s a major finding of one of two new reports on the dismal treatment of child care workers.

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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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Protecting kids from unhealthy AI relationships

Ditch That Textbook

Some of us saw the warning signs. For others, it had to hit the news before they realized. Unhealthy relationships between kids and artificial intelligence? It’s a threat. In essence: the relationships we build and maintain with artificial intelligences can …influence us into bad decisionsimpact our human relationshipstake us down a dark and twisty road that we […] The post Protecting kids from unhealthy AI relationships appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Tech Tip #135: 5 Tips on Internet Research

Ask a Tech Teacher

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: Category: Parents Here’s a poster with five tips that will help students as they use the internet for research: Review these with students when they’re ready for each tip.

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What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?

Edsurge

Do new AI tools like ChatGPT actually understand language the same way that humans do? It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.

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Dual enrollment has exploded. But it’s hard to tell if it’s helping more kids get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

Share of new college students in the fall of 2015 who were still in high school and taking a dual enrollment class. Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. Dual enrollment is exploding. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 million high school students took college classes, simultaneously earning high school and college credits.

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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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Transform any online resource into interactive learning with Brisk Boost

Ditch That Textbook

This post is sponsored by Brisk TeachingAs teachers, we have all sorts of learning resources for our students -- documents, web pages, slide decks, YouTube videos, and more.Getting students to consume our content -- and understand it -- and know how to apply it?That's the tricky part. With Brisk Boost, it's easy to add an interactive […] The post Transform any online resource into interactive learning with Brisk Boost appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Baked-in bias or sweet equity: AI’s role in motivation and deep learning

eSchool News

Key points: It is critical to monitor AI systems for bias and impact on student groups AI use guide helps students navigate AI in learning AI’s transformative role in accessibility For more news on AI and bias, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In the quickly evolving landscape of AI, education stands at the forefront. New AI tools are emerging daily for educators and students; from AI tutors to curriculum creators, the AI education market is surging.

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What the Data Tells Us About How ESSER Spending Did and Didn’t Help Schools Recover

Edsurge

What difference did $190 billion make for student success coming out of the COVID-19 health crisis? Not as much as you might think. An ESSER spending analysis by Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University found some puzzling instances where funneling more money into a pandemic-worsened problem didn’t help schools recover. The data ultimately points to no “silver bullet” in spending aimed at improving students’ academic performance since the pandemic, says Marguerite Roza, director of Edunomics Lab.

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Which Content Is Most Important? The 40/40/40 Rule

TeachThought - Learn better.

The 40/40/40 Rule: An Overview by Terry Heick I first encountered the 40/40/40 rule years ago while skimming one of those giant (and indispensable) 400 page Understanding by Design tomes. The question was simple enough. Of all of the academic standards, you are tasked with ‘covering’ (more on this in a minute), what’s important that students understand for the next 40 days, what’s important that they understand for the next 40 months, and what’s important that they

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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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Going to college? Use our toolbox to help choose a school and plan the costs

The Hechinger Report

There’s a lot to consider when deciding where to apply to college. Tuition costs, financial aid offerings and student loans are high on the list, but so are questions about campus culture and free speech policies. We’ve created a whole suite of tools with brand new data that can answer your questions and help you research what life might be like at thousands of colleges and universities across the country.

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How to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools

eSchool News

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of students who are chronically absent—defined as missing just under one month of class—has doubled to 26 percent nationally, reaching crisis levels and threatening the educational foundation of our nation’s youth. Chronic absenteeism is estimated to be responsible for up to 27 percent of the overall decline in math test scores and a shocking 45 percent of the drop in reading scores between 2019 and 2022.

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How do we balance innovation and ethics?

The Thinking Stick

On this week we speak with Dr. Federica Fornaciari, who is a Professor, a researcher, a children’s book author, and the Academic Program Director for the MA in Strategic Communications at National University. She received a doctorate in Communication with a concentration in Electronic Security and Privacy from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication from Marshall University.

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20 Questions To Help Students Think Critically About News

TeachThought - Learn better.

Help Students Think Critically About News With These 20 Questions This post was originally published in 2019 and updated in 2024 by Terrell Heick 1. In the article, headline, or social share, ‘who’ is saying ‘what’? That is, what specific author and publication are making what kind of claim about what topic or ideas? 2. Is what’s being stated or claimed fact or opinion?

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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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OPINION: Parents should be not freaked out when their kids want to pursue an arts education

The Hechinger Report

In my career as an arts educator and school administrator, I have met countless families whose children are excited to embark on a college education focused on filmmaking or acting. The parents are often less excited than their children, however: They seem both apprehensive and determined to steer their children to more “practical” pursuits. Given the financial realities regularly confronted by the arts and the high cost of postsecondary education, a bit of hesitation may be natural.

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Helping K-12 leaders use data more effectively and confidently

eSchool News

Key points: Confidence in K-12 data use is rooted in a comfortable understanding Data-informed decision-making in education: A comprehensive approach Creating smart campuses to transform student life For more on data use in K-12, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Autumn is a universally familiar season. Whether you live among the redwoods of the Pacific Northwest, or in the sunny southern states, the cooler air, shorter days, and yellow school buses are all a part of our collective fa

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Random Groups for Math Discovery and Practice

MiddleWeb

Michelle Russell recently revisited random grouping for her math students and found the environment was much better. Students were talking more together, and there was more work being done during discovery activities and concept practice. Included: a free grouping card site. The post Random Groups for Math Discovery and Practice first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Role of Gamification in Modern Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

The Role of Gamification in Modern Education Gamification is used in many fields and industries. It is meant to promote customer loyalty in business: ” Find a discount among our 5 latest emails to get 50% off dedicated server hosting.” It’s a little different in education. Gamification in education aims to provide a more interactive learning experience for students while providing evidence of their progress through rewards.

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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.