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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

What’s causing these trends is no mystery.” Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor. The pandemic made a bad situation worse.

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We All Teach SEL: Gratitude

Graphite Blog

Students take online assessments to measure their strengths and challenges. Students can use the site library, or create their own text in a story about a time they were grateful to someone and how they might be able to pay the kindness forward. Celly is a mobile social network, like a private version of Twitter.

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We All Teach SEL: Gratitude Activities and Tools for Students

Graphite Blog

Students take online assessments to measure their strengths and challenges. Students can use the site library, or create their own text in a story about a time they were grateful to someone and how they might be able to pay the kindness forward. Celly is a mobile social network, like a private version of Twitter.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - National Library Week. National Library Week is this week, and the theme is "Lives change @ your library®." How does your library manage digital collections?

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The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit - 110 sessions + 80 replays #homelearningsummit #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Sessions are free to watch for five days, then become part of the Home Learning Summit library. Libraries and Librarians ? Online Learning ? We have several sessions each day, with (lots) more coming ( and that could include you! ). A current list is below. Hacking Your Education ? High School ? Higher Education ? Innovation ?

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. And their high profile presence on Instagram, Twitter, and the like to exacerbate inequality and re-inscribe a conspicuous consumption of gadgetry as a sign of “innovation.”.

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