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School librarians facilitate meaningful learning despite massive school closures

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Administrators, teachers, and staff transitioned quickly to take learning online, a move that provided new opportunities even as it brought consistent challenges. As teachers work to share curriculum in new ways, school librarians face a similar challenge: how best to reach students? From great change comes great opportunity.

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10 Tips for Teachers who Struggle with Technology

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With technology moving out of the lab and into the classroom, it’s becoming a challenge for some teachers to infuse their teaching with tech tools such as websites, educational games, simulations, iPads, Chromebooks, GAFE, and other geeky devices that used to be the purview of a select group of nerdy teachers. Attend webinars.

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Enhancing Teacher Productivity With Acer Devices

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

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Today’s tip: #130: 7 Google Tricks Teachers Should Know. Sub-category: Search/Research, Classroom Management. Share/Collaborate –multiple students can create and use the same document and automatically save it to their Google Drive. Category: Google Apps. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years.

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What Factors Influence Your Tendency to Plagiarize in School?

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If you want to stop it–and every teacher I know does–you have to get at the reasons why kids think they can steal another’s work and call it their own. Plagiarism is everywhere, leading many teachers to believe that it has become a nationwide epidemic. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.