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Strategies to craft effective PD for schools and districts

eSchool News

Key points: The right PD helps teachers grow and strengthens a district’s overall strategy To boost teacher morale, reimagine the teacher role Addressing student absenteeism with faculty PD For more news on teacher PD, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub The best teacher professional development is an empowering experience that equips educators with the skills and insights they need to grow and thrive in their careers.

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Save Time and Spark Creativity with New Google Slides Templates

Teacher Cast

Google has recently unveiled a set of new templates for Google Slides, offering educators fresh and innovative ways to create engaging presentations for their classrooms. These templates are designed to save time and inspire creativity, making lesson planning more efficient and enjoyable. Much like you would see in other popular slide presentation apps (ahem, Canva) The post Save Time and Spark Creativity with New Google Slides Templates appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Network.

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A CTE teacher shares 8 strategies to increase student engagement

eSchool News

This article originally appeared on iCEV’s blog and is reposted here with permission. As classroom teachers, one of the many challenges we face is student engagement. With the changing landscape of education, how do we keep students focused and provide them with a foundation to learn our varied subject areas? There are many ways to tackle this question and no right response.

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Is There a Problem With ‘Mathbots’?

Edsurge

When GPT-3 burst on the education scene, it caused a flood of reactions, ranging from gleeful to apocalyptic. But more than that, it unlocked money. In 2023, generative AI claimed businesses in the U.S. and Canada claimed almost 45 percent of all private equity-backed investments, by one estimate, with an eye-popping value of $2.18 billion when much of the rest of the deals in that world were declining.

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AI-Enabled Personal Professional Learning Rural District Grant Winner Announced

eSchool News

North Carolina based QoreInsights announced winners of their 2024-2025 Grant for Rural Districts where they selected one school to win a free site wide license for unlimited use of their AI-enabled personalized professional learning platform, The Classroom Education Plan© (CEP). The granted award will begin in fall 2024 and extend until the end of the 2025 school year.

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Q&A: Embrace Age-Appropriate Computer Science Concepts for Elementary Students

EdTech Magazine

Everyone learns differently. Julia Darling discovered that for herself in college when she realized physically interacting with materials and concepts makes it easier for her to learn. Darling, who today works as a media specialist at Ann Arbor Public Schools and is the author of a three-book series on computer science in early childhood, brought this learning style to her students, first at Dexter Community Schools and then at Ann Arbor STEAM.

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14 Apps and 2 Projects for Thanksgiving

Ask a Tech Teacher

Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them (click for updated links) : Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app) Canadian Thanksgiving Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities Plimoth Plantation –a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.

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Gaining Initial Access Part 2: Password Spray Attack Detection, Defense, and Execution

Edtech IRL

An Attacker knows you use M365 and has a list of users in your environment… now what? As our attacker continues their research from part 1 , they have a list of 4 users in our org, a list of their usernames, and has verified that the accounts are valid. She’s added these to a file called userlist.txt d.parton@edtechirlacademy.net k.rogers@edtechirlacademy.net d.grohl@edtechirlacademy.net k.deal@edtechirlacademy.net Now that they know what organization and users they’re attackin