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Leveraging AI to help special education teachers

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Districts have reported a shortage of special education teachers since the late 1990s. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures , 37 states identified special education as a teacher shortage area during the 2023-2024 school year. MagicSchool.ai MagicSchool.ai

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Teachers and IT: How to keep kids safe on Chromebooks

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Chromebooks are in many ways ideal for classrooms, allowing teachers to leverage online resources to provide richer, more differentiated educational experiences to your students. Google’s Chromebook has almost completely replaced Apple’s iconic tablet as the first choice for classroom-tech initiatives.

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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers

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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers The internet has provided teachers with numerous tools to enhance their students’ learning experience. But what scams and crimes are teachers most likely to encounter? Internet Safety Tips for Teachers Today’s educators can no longer do without technological resources.

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Promethean Announces iKeepSafe Student Data Privacy Certification in the U.S. for ClassFlow Software

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It also helps teachers deliver dynamic lessons to students’ devices and brings interactive classroom displays to life for effective hybrid learning. It protects the privacy of student education records and allows parents and eligible students certain rights related to the review, control, and confidentiality of those records.

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4 steps to combat ransomware in schools

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Walking through the parking lot, your office manager sees a USB flash drive labeled “Teacher Cutbacks” on the ground. Your lead teacher receives an email that appears to be from your IT person requesting a password reset. In December, the FBI and other federal agencies sounded the alarm. Train Your Staff.

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Vivi and Headspace Partner to Bring Mindfulness to K-12 Classrooms

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We are excited to give teachers and students easy access to resources needed to build mindfulness skills, to help them focus, recharge, and get the most out of every lesson,” says Simon Holland, co-founder of Vivi.io Vivi is helping over 400,000 teachers and students around the world collaborate and communicate in the classroom.?

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Creating IEPs with GenAI while ensuring data privacy

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Firstly, all students have a right to privacy, and their personal and sensitive information must be kept confidential to protect them from unwanted exposure of their Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and its potential misuse. By targeting a specific task, it is also easier to set specific guardrails and train teachers.