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7 Black History Month resources to use the whole year

eSchool News

This year’s 8th most-read story focuses on Black History Month resources educators can use throughout the school year. During Black History Month, educators have the opportunity to delve into the difficult–and often uncomfortable–experiences of Black people in the U.S. and around the world.

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4 edtech tools that can transform student teamwork

eSchool News

One might assume that the most desirable skills for someone entering a STEM field would be things like vast scientific knowledge or a laser-like attention to detail. Nearly every great advancement in human history involved multiple people working together to accomplish a common goal. Ive wondered about this myself on a few occasions.

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Smartphones Have Changed Student Attention, Even When Students Aren’t Using Them

Edsurge

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. EdSurge connected with Turner to learn about this new world of fragmented attention and what educators can do to reach these increasingly distracted students. You use a phrase for this that you call ‘budgeted attention.’

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Is this the moment in history when K–12 school systems get disrupted?

eSchool News

When Clayton Christensen first described this phenomenon in the mid-1990s, it captivated the attention of the business world because it explained how leading incumbents in an industry—the organizations that seemed to be doing everything right—were routinely upended by new entrants with seemingly inferior products.

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Make Your Teaching the Cynosure of Attention 

Faculty Focus

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. We can take a leaf out of the oriental history as an example.

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The Fight to Preserve—and Teach—African-American History

Edsurge

With speeches, music and drumming, they mourned the long history of American slavery and racism that began on Virginia’s shores, but also celebrated the myriad cultural contributions African Americans have made to the nation. “It Woodson, whom members of the association cite as a pioneer in the field of African American history.

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Hands-on learning will help Gen Alpha reach new levels of technical innovation

eSchool News

Generation Alpha will likely be the most technically innovative generation in history, but what will they do with that knowledge? This encourages attention to detail and creative problem-solving. It’s hard to wrap our heads around the immense knowledge that future generations will possess.

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