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School librarians facilitate meaningful learning despite massive school closures

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As teachers work to share curriculum in new ways, school librarians face a similar challenge: how best to reach students? Today’s school librarians possess extraordinary expertise in collaboration, research, and use of technology–attributes that are serving them well during uncertain times.

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Edalex selected for the HolonIQ 2022 ANZ EdTech 50

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Edalex’s international collaborative research project explored the impact of Credentialate on learners’ confidence to express their workplace skills and the ability for employers to use the evidence presented as a signal to hire. – This was quickly followed with the launch of a series of Skills Meet-Up events.

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. They observed classrooms.

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‘Why Am I Just Learning About This?’ In New College Board Offering, Students Explore the African Diaspora

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Those are some of the emotions Mario Herrera’s high school students experienced as they learned about the African diaspora, as part of a two-year pilot for the College Board’s new curriculum on the subject. So far, that hunch has proven correct, Herrera says, which he feels helps with buy-in for the course.

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Enhancing Teacher Productivity With Acer Devices

EdTech Magazine

Todays teachers are expected to wear many hats: instructor, curriculum developer, assessor, collaborator, researcher and mediator. While this list doesnt cover every role they fulfill, it offers insight into the variability and variety of all that teachers do.

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10 Tips for Teachers who Struggle with Technology

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Now, all teachers are expected to have students work, collaborate, research, and publish online. She is the editor/author of dozens of tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and dozens of books on how to integrate technology into education.

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169 Tech Tip #130: 7 Google Tricks Teachers Should Know

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Share/Collaborate –multiple students can create and use the same document and automatically save it to their Google Drive. This is great for note-taking, projects, collaborative research, and plan/revise/edit/rewrite requirements. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years.