EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Michael Hinojosa, former superintendent of the 16th largest school district in the nation, told a room full of educators at TCEA 2023 that Dallas is a tale of two cities: one of immense wealth and one of great poverty. Hinojosa has intimate knowledge of Dallas’s poverty. He has twice led the Dallas Independent School District, where he said, 90 percent of his students were economically disadvantaged, 95 percent were ethnic minorities, 72 percent were Latino and 48 percent were English-language l

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JANUARY 31, 2023

Digital Textbooks have changed the way we look at education in recent years. To state that they have revolutionized the K12 education system would be a gross understatement on my part. They have opened up new opportunities for students who now can access study-material from any device. While we are all aware of the advantages of eBooks or online textbooks, such as being more environmentally friendly than traditional textbooks or providing an interactive learning experience and even something as

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

By Chris McMurray One of the most valuable skillsets we can teach our students is the ability to code. Not only does it enhance their writing and math skills, but it also gives them a valuable mindset for future life and employment situations. Perhaps the top reason to teach our students how to code is that it gives them a strong basis for problem-solving and helps them understand the way things work.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The post Student-Led Innovation To Promote Better Mental Health for Teens and Teachers appeared first on Digital Promise.

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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 29, 2023

As a teacher, one of the most important aspects of your job is providing a comfortable and conducive learning environment for your students. However, this can often be challenging, especially when the classroom noise level becomes too high. This is where Lärmampel comes in. Lärmampel is a revolutionary app that allows teachers to easily and effectively manage classroom noise levels.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 30, 2023

There are a LOT of great books for teachers out there. Picking just fifty is no easy feat, but we’ve done our best to cover the best books for teachers from five different angles. All of these are exceptional reads.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

With Emergency Connectivity Fund and Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds winding down, many schools are returning their focus to the Federal Communications Commission’s E-rate discount program for technology budget support. While ECF and ESSER funds proved beneficial to many schools, they also resulted in challenges for administrators planning for a post-COVID learning environment.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 30, 2023

Educational videos can be a great way to engage students and create a more interactive learning experience. With the right tools and a bit of creativity, anyone can create an educational video that’s both informative and engaging. In this blog post, we’ll provide a step-by-step guide to creating educational videos to help you get the most out of your video-making efforts.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 30, 2023

Humans crave a deep connection when it comes to learning something new, especially if they initially don't see any value in what's being taught or facilitated. We expect this as adult learners, so it goes without saying that our students both want and need this as well. In the absence of authentic meaning there is a tendency to disconnect or go off task, putting the learning experience at hand in jeopardy of not being successful.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. Common Core–Math Lesson Plans 160 pages, 20 projects, over 114 Common Core standards, for 9 grades (K-8). On sale until February 4, 2023 How to Achieve Common Core with Tech is a four-volume series that focuses on using technology to meet Common Core standards in Language, Writing, Reading, Speaking/Listening (not yet available), and Math.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2023

There is no doubt that even with competing priorities, cybersecurity is top of mind for school districts. However, budget constraints can make it tough for K–12 schools to fully address all their cybersecurity concerns. That could explain why the “Cybersecurity on a Shoestring” session at TCEA 2023 in San Antonio was jampacked. “The average school spends less than 8 percent of its IT budget on cybersecurity, with 1 in 5 schools committing less than 1 percent,” notes a 2022 report from the Center

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Educational Technology Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Productivity and Organizing - resources Resources, Tips and ideas for being more productive and organized. A “poster” is at end. I've been working on my productivity and organizing for decades, starting with notebooks and binders, then paper organizers, PDAs and today's tools. All these tools are needed, but so are ways to be productive. Here are some resources for you: Resources and Links: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People-Outline , 7 Habits of Highly Effective People-Wikipedia Great for ever

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 29, 2023

Human resource is a part of business management that cannot be underestimated. How well it is handled determines how successful a business will be. The educational sector is not left out in the quest for good HR management. If employees are not properly managed, schools and other educational institutions will perform below par or even fold up with time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Tech industry has been working solidly for the last decade or so and promises the best careers to students. Our Ask a Tech Teacher contributor has a short list of professions that students can look forward to: The Future of the Tech Industry: What Professions Should Students Look Into? Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and cloud computing are transforming businesses.

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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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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

A team from Irving Independent School District led a session at TCEA 2023 sharing the lessons they have learned over the past 20 years of running a one-to-one program. Though their session was titled “A 20-Year Success Story of District-Wide 1:1,” James Tiggeman, assistant director of digital learning, admitted, “We haven’t had 20 years of success. There were bumps in the road, and we are happy to tell you what went wrong and how to fix it.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

By Duncan Young and Jerry Barone Editor’s Note: This is the first of a four-part series on the student mental health crisis and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for in-school mental health resources. Our children are facing a mental health epidemic. From 2009 to 2021, the share of American high school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to 44 percent.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Measuring the effects of extreme weather requires extreme numbers. Climate change racked up an eye-popping $165 billion damages tab in the U.S. last year, as tallied by a recent federal report. And back in September, around 82 percent of Florida school districts closed for at least one day — keeping roughly 2.5 million students out of school. With experts predicting more extreme weather in 2023, that undoubtedly means schools will suffer more disruptions in a K-12 education era already defined b

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Here are some activities for Groundhog Day–February 2nd: Fun Facts About Groundhogs –video Groundhog Day Digital Activities –grades 3-5 Groundhog Day for Kids –a video Groundhog Day Games Groundhog Day Teaching Resources History of Groundhog Day –from History.com Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Website Why Groundhogs Supposedly Predict the Weather –video If this is the 100th day of school, here are resources for that: Geography As a class, come up with two locatio

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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.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Education leaders looking to keep schools safe must take a more holistic approach. That was the message coming out of TCEA 2023. During a CDW panel discussion featuring a cybersecurity and a physical security expert, both agreed that schools face a variety of threats every day that should be comprehensively addressed.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

Years ago when I would speak to people about Google Docs I would get funny looks. It was an incredible tool that was just starting to be adopted by schools. I remember the first time I told someone that there was no save button in Google Docs because it saves automatically. I’d drawn them in by invoking the deep emotional pain of work lost by exiting without saving.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. But getting and holding the attention of students has become more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. A couple months ago I visited a big public university – Texas State University – and observed three large lecture classes, to get a sense of what teaching looks like these days.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

I’ve posted this before but it’s worth repeating. Then share it with friends, colleagues, parents, even older students. When I teach professional development classes, by far the topic that surprises teachers the most is the legal use of online images. And they’re not alone. On my blog, in educator forums, and in the virtual meetings I moderate, there’s lots of confusion about what can be grabbed for free from online sites and what must be cited with a linkback, credit, au

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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.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

By LeiLani Cauthen There are several divergent points of thinking when it comes to considering adoption of a Matrix Digital Model of teaching and learning. Becoming organized and more efficient digitally involves a recasting of many of the methods and procedures of traditional schooling. These are the essential ones Distinguish Analog vs. Digital Every point of the GVC needs a clear distinction between teaching content via human discourse or interaction, and self-directed learning or information

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

WHAT IS ChatGPT? How can teachers use it today? HOW ABOUT STUDENT USE? What about cheating? WHAT’S NEXT FOR AI IN EDUCATION?…. In this EdTechTeacher Webinar, our expert panel will be discussing this and more! Join us and ask your own questions to our experts! Join our Expert Panel live on February 15th at 7pm ET or come back here for the recording. PANEL MEMBERS: MATT MILLER ( @JMattMiller ), DitchThatTextbook JANE ROSENZWEIG ( @RosenzweigJane ), Harvard University SCOTT MCLEOD ( @mcleod ), Univ

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

For 50 ninth graders, showing up to school this fall meant taking part in an experiment. The students had enrolled in the latest effort by Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, the online tool he started by making videos on YouTube that is now used by hundreds of districts in the U.S. Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

On Feb. 1st, World Read Aloud Day celebrates the pure joy of oral reading with kids of all ages. Created by LitWorld , past years have found over 1 million people in 100 countries joining together to enjoy the power and wonder of reading aloud in groups or individually, at school or home, and discovering what it means to listen to a story told through the voice of another.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen, talks with Nicholas Feroce, Ph.D., Research Scientist at Lexia Learning about research design in the area of emergent bilinguals, and program causality to effect notable gains among that population. Click Here to Listen The post Podcast: EdTech for Emergent Bilinguals: Interpreting the Research first appeared on EdNews Daily.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

With the start of a new year and education conference season just beginning, educators and industry leaders are discovering the biggest education trends for 2023. The past few years have seen a significant transformation for education and edtech, and 2023 will continue to bring new ideas and emerging technologies. This year, schools are placing a focus on supporting students’ individual needs and recovering pandemic learning loss.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

When COVID-19 forced college courses online, Stuart Middleton, a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia, was having trouble connecting with his remote students. So he decided to try to meet them where he heard they were happy to spend time — on TikTok. He started creating videos on TikTok, and he worked to make his posts fit the playful spirit of the platform.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 30, 2023

Critical thinking is the suspension of judgment while identifying biases and underlying assumptions in order to draw accurate conclusions. The post What Does ‘Critical Thinking’ Mean? appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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