Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 13, 2023
Preparing for exams requires a systematic approach to ensure you cover all the necessary material and feel confident on test day. Here are some effective strategies to help you prepare from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew: The 4 Proven Strategies To Boost Your Exam Preparation One of the most stressful periods in a person’s life is when exams are looming.
EdTech Magazine
JULY 11, 2023
School districts without effective asset management systems in place tend to overlook the fact that technology does not age like fine wine. Modern technology enters a district, decreases in value over years of use and is discarded for the next evolution in software or hardware. During that time, IT teams navigate challenges ranging from an increased risk of cyberattacks to the sunk cost of maintaining technology that is far past its prime, limiting flexibility within a team’s budget.
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Education Elements
JULY 11, 2023
I have always aspired to open a new school that cultivates a school atmosphere centered on learning and student achievement. One that recruits and retains the best teachers and staff, meaningfully engages with students, families, and the community, and utilizes research-based and culturally responsive curriculum. I have not yet fulfilled that dream, but I had the opportunity to work alongside James Hopkins, a school principal in Durham, North Carolina, who has done just that.
Edsurge
JULY 10, 2023
Just because this school year has ended doesn’t mean the crisis facing our nation’s youth is over. In fact, the data suggests the exact opposite. During the 2022-23 school year, suicide skyrocketed to the second leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in the United States. Research shows some youth are more affected than others. Nearly 1 in 3 high school girls said they had considered suicide.
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.
EdTech Magazine
JULY 13, 2023
Schools store, handle and transmit some of the most sensitive data that exists about people, including grades, health status, addresses, Social Security numbers and even financial information. And that data is under siege: 29 percent of school and district members of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center have reported being victims of a cyber incident, some of which included data breaches.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 10, 2023
Here are great ideas from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew on how to keep tech fresh this summer. 3 Fun Ways to Use Tech in the Classroom in the Run-Up to Summer Summer is right around the corner and as a teacher, you might be in search of creative ways to leverage technology to ensure your classroom remains an entertaining, engaging and educational space.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Digital Promise
JULY 11, 2023
The post How Our Micro-credentials Platform Became a 1EdTech Learning Impact Awards Finalist appeared first on Digital Promise.
eSchool News
JULY 13, 2023
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.” I learned to love reading as a kid, spellbound by wizarding worlds and ghost stories. I wanted to share this love, so I became an intervention teacher, working with struggling readers and special education students. Kids love reading. I don’t care what think pieces say about screen addiction, children still gravitate towards books.
Edsurge
JULY 11, 2023
William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating. His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. Quarterman swore his innocence, though, and he was later let off the hook after he presented the log of changes he made in a Google Doc.
A Principal's Reflections
JULY 9, 2023
What is the essence of leadership? How do leaders effectively implement, sustain, and scale change? There is no shortage of responses regarding the topic, which is why questions are more important than answers. Narrowing down the most critical competencies can take time and effort. However, let’s look at it from the perspective of debunking what authentic leadership is, not to get at the heart of what it really is when it comes to agents of change.
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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
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 14, 2023
Citizen scientists come from all walks of life and have made invaluable contributions to scientific knowledge and understanding. Consider: Charles Darwin: Darwin often relied on the observations of amateur naturalists and enthusiasts during his research Mary Anning: a fossil collector in the early 19th century William Herschel: an astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus E.
Waterford
JULY 12, 2023
Use Expert-Led Communication Strategies to Engage the Families in Your District Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinars , including “ Driving Impactful Family Engagement with CARES ,” and learn how you can build a school environment that values families and advises teachers as they connect and collaborate with families. Regular family-teacher communication is a meaningful step to long-term family engagement.
Securly
JULY 11, 2023
According to the latest EdTech Top 40 list from LearnPlatform by Instructure, Securly is now a top 40 edtech tool used within schools for 2023. The illuminating LearnPlatform report finds that school districts accessed an average of 2,591 distinct edtech tools over the past year, a 1.7% increase on the prior academic year. Of the … Continue reading Securly named as a Top 40 EdTech Tool for Schools in 2023 The post Securly named as a Top 40 EdTech Tool for Schools in 2023 first appeared on
Edsurge
JULY 14, 2023
As educators, we know the potential that artificial intelligence (AI) has for our profession. Generative AI, a subset of AI that can generate new and original content, serves as a technology that amplifies our capabilities as educators and learners. Its ability to swiftly transform and transfer information surpasses previous boundaries, albeit with some initial apprehension from educators.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 11, 2023
Writing a comprehensive review is harder than it sounds! Authors must be sensitive to the particulars of the tasks, who the audience will be, and their overall purpose in sharing ideas. The Ask a Tech Teacher crew put together a basic guide for accomplishing this in a balanced, clear manner: Tips and Tricks to Write a Comprehensive Review Students working on research papers are well aware of the significance of a review.
Waterford
JULY 12, 2023
Use Expert-Led Communication Strategies to Engage the Families in Your District Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinars , including “ Driving Impactful Family Engagement with CARES ,” and learn how you can build a school environment that values families and advises teachers as they connect and collaborate with families. Regular family-teacher communication is a meaningful step to long-term family engagement.
Iterating Toward Openness
JULY 13, 2023
Last week I asked a “What if?” question about the way generative AI might change the ways that learners interact with instructional materials like textbooks. This week I’d like to ask another. I’m at the GRAILE workshop on AI and higher education in Denver today, and sitting here in this space I’m hearing things through a slightly different filter.
Edsurge
JULY 13, 2023
The child care sector was already fragile when the pandemic struck, causing immense damage. In 2021, recognizing the urgency of the situation, Congress stepped in and issued $52 billion in grants , primarily through the American Rescue Plan, to stabilize the industry. These grants, which were provided to states to improve the affordability, availability and quality of child care, became a lifeline for child care programs and families across the nation.
Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions
The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.
eSchool News
JULY 10, 2023
MENLO PARK, Calif. (Newswire.com) – According to Gloria Mark, Ph.D., attention spans are declining, averaging just 47 seconds on any screen. This is making it harder than ever for educators to develop their students’ interests in learning. Now AI is about to make that even harder by putting the cognitive challenges that used to require sustained attention a click away.
Hapara
JULY 10, 2023
Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Were you at ISTELive 23 this year, or did you follow along with #NotAtISTE? This year’s event in Philadelphia was one of our favorites! We were energized to see Hāpara community members in person and thrilled to make new friends, too. Thank you to everyone who stopped by the booth to say hello. We appreciated every conversation about digital citizenship, ethical screen monitoring, powerful web filtering, effective online teaching and more.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2023
As public confidence in the value of higher education wanes, state and national higher education leaders must do more to invest in programs that have demonstrated success at improving college completion rates and helping students find well-paying jobs. A good example is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , or ASAP, at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Edsurge
JULY 13, 2023
When VaNessa Thompson wants to truly focus on doing homework for her doctoral classes at Oakland University near Detroit, she gets out her smartphone, props it on her desk, and starts streaming live video of herself on TikTok. “People that follow me on TikTok, they’ll get a push notification, ‘VaNessa’s going live,’” she explains. For the next two hours or so, she says she’ll do whatever reading or paper-writing she has due, occasionally stopping for a break to look at her phone, where text comm
This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.
Discovery Education
JULY 10, 2023
Education is constantly changing—from how to engage today’s students to updated technology in the classroom, there’s always something new to learn. So how can professional learning help keep educators up to speed with all these changes? Flexible, practical professional learning options are easier to manage over traditional, hour-long sessions (or even webinars), so the learning […] The post Practical Professional Learning for Teachers appeared first on Discovery Education Blog.
eSchool News
JULY 10, 2023
Key points: There are simple and proven tactics to help schools avoid common cyberattacks Remaining vigilant and knowledgeable helps educators form safe habits to dodge cybercriminals See related article: Defending against the most common cyberattacks It’s not a topic we’re unfamiliar with: Criminal hackers are increasing their activity and they’re targeting K–12 schools, threatening districts with damaging financial and learning-downtime costs.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2023
A growing problem in American classrooms is that teachers don’t resemble the students they teach. Eighty percent of the nation’s 3.8 million public school teachers are white, but over half of their students are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and mixed races. The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student po
Edsurge
JULY 12, 2023
Last fall, Gisela Sance’s landlord approached her family about raising the rent. He wanted $2,000 a month, an astonishing hike over the $1,300 she and her husband were paying for the house they lived in with their young son. The decision to leave was painful but not hard: There was no way they could afford a 50 percent increase in their rent. This story also appeared in The 19th.
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The Innovative Educator
JULY 9, 2023
The popularity of generative AI has made it more clear than ever that educators must take on the responsibility of helping students understand how to verify information and determine what sources are credible and reliable. Organizations like Common Sense Education are doing their part by empowering students with strategies and techniques to examine the legitimacy of online content.
eSchool News
JULY 11, 2023
The Report: CoSN 2023 State of EdTech Leadership Survey Highlights: Cybersecurity As it has since 2018, cybersecurity continues to rank as the number-one concern for EdTech Leaders. Cybersecurity is also the topic with the greatest interest for expanded professional learning. Digital Equity Students are less likely to receive support for off-campus broadband access than they were in 2021.
Discovery Education
JULY 14, 2023
STEM is once again a hot topic in classrooms across the country, and it’s all because the rapidly growing career fields. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, STEM careers are expected to grow by 10.8% by 2031! That’s why teachers everywhere are focused on building exciting STEM lessons and engaging activities that introduce […] The post Engaging Activities to Extend STEM Learning appeared first on Discovery Education Blog.
Edsurge
JULY 11, 2023
Companies like Amazon and Facebook have systems that continually respond to how users interact with their apps to make the user experience easier. What if educators could use the same strategy of “adaptive experimentation” to regularly improve their teaching materials? That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator.
Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon
Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks
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