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Sharpening skills for the digital classroom

eSchool News

Key points: Students and teachers need access to digital resources and opportunities How 5 educators use digital tools in the classroom A new teacher’s perspective: Today’s best edtech resources For more news on digital resources, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub When I first started teaching online, I served a group of high schoolers who were budding professional tennis players.

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How to Future Proof Your K–12 IT Infrastructure

EdTech Magazine

While the IT needs of K–12 schools are always changing, it seems that the number of student, educator and staff needs has grown exponentially over the past few years. One major change on the horizon for how schools use data is through artificial intelligence. Staff and students are leveraging AI-based tools that require large pools of data for analysis, as well as processing power and storage for resulting data.

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Increasing K-12 tech accessibility

eSchool News

Key points: Schools must ensure greater access to the tech tools students and teachers need The digital divide still holds students back DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable For more news on classroom equity, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Believing that all students have the same access to technology is a mistake. According to the U.S. Census , 90 percent of American households have a broadband internet subscription, and 95 percent have a computer–but that doesn’t mean kids ar

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Cash-Starved Districts Are Turning to Four-Day School Weeks. Will That Harm Students?

Edsurge

The need was becoming dire. A school district in Brighton, in the Denver metro area of Colorado, was having a hard time keeping teachers. The salaries in the district, 27J Schools, were low for the region. And in Colorado, voters have to approve higher property taxes to send additional dollars to schools, including for salary bumps , but by 2018 voters had refused six straight times.

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Leverage Artificial Intelligence in K–12 Education

EdTech Magazine

How can K–12 leaders ensure artificial intelligence is appropriately integrated into classrooms? This is the question educational technology experts will tackle Oct. 8 in a CDW Education webinar titled “Achieving Better Student Outcomes with AI and Interactive Solutions.” Trusted leaders from CDW, Newline Interactive, GoGuardian, Merlyn Mind and Acer will coalesce to discuss artificial intelligence technologies today, how they should be used in the classroom and where schools should start when i

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To Address the ‘Homework Gap,’ Is It Time to Revamp Federal Connectivity Programs?

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One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic was that many families didn’t have reliable internet access at home. As schools closed and classes moved online, educators rushed to improvise solutions for families without robust connections, setting up mobile Wi-Fi access points in school buses, sending home portable hot spots to those who needed it and more.

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QoreInsights Launches AI-Enabled Professional Learning Grant for Rural Elementary Schools

eSchool News

Waxhaw, North Carolina – North Carolina based QoreInsights, an innovative education technology company, is excited to announce the launch of its AI-Enabled Personalized Professional Learning Grant for Rural Districts. The grant will award one elementary school a site-wide license for unlimited use of QoreInsights’ award-winning platform, the Classroom Education Plan© (CEP), for use in the 2024-’25 school year.

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Big Deals—Pearson Expands Online Learning Programs

eSchool News

Pearson and its Connections Academy , the fully online public school program serving K-12 students, announced last week the expansion of their college and early career program into more than 20 schools. The program, now in over half of the Connections Academy-supported schools in the country provides tens of thousands of middle and high school students with opportunities to earn college credits and industry certifications, giving them a head start on their higher education and career journeys.