eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Key points: STEM learning gives students the diverse skillset they need to thrive in the ever-evolving world Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades How to integrate a computer science curriculum into K-5 classrooms For more news on computer science, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub After the state of New Jersey revised its computer science standards in 2020, I was part of a professional learning community tasked with helping educators in all subjects understand th

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Los datos ya llegaron, y revelan algo interesante sobre los estudiantes bilingües de los Estados Unidos. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. No need to hop over to Google Translate. Chances are good that if you were one of the 5.3 million English learners in public schools, you’d know the opening line explains that recent data has something interesting to reveal about the U.S.’s bilingual students.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. Here are a few tips from the Ask a Tech Teacher team for High School students who want to get the most out of these important years: Creating A Digital Study Plan: Tips And Tools for High School Students Developing a digital study plan can be a game-changer for high school students aiming to improve their academic performance.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Many academics are aware of altering learning styles of those on the “Autism Spectrum.” When a student with Autism arrives in the classroom this changes how interactions occur between a neurodiverse (ND) student and a neurotypical (NT) instructor. How does this impact the classroom when the ND academic is the expert, and the NT is the enrolled student?

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Teach Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Co-teaching, where two educators work together to deliver instruction to a group of students is not just a growing trend in education, but an innovative approach that enhances and strengthens learning experiences for teachers , students, and the school. Here we’ll take a closer look at the numerous benefits co-teaching has to offer. Benefits for Students In a dual-teacher setting, students are offered a multifaceted educational experience.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Key points: Inclusion can drive more women to work in AI and tech fields Report finds persistent STEM career exposure gaps for women 3 free STEAM education resources to nurture student curiosity For more news on STEM equity, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the technology education sphere. As AI develops and integrates further into societal applications like careers, it’s essential to recognize the importance of gender equity.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As students settle back into classroom routines for the 2024-2025 school year, K–12 teachers and administrators face a host of pressing issues. Among them: how to navigate the use of artificial intelligence in education. While AI has been used for some time in educational tools such as Google Classrooms and GoGuardian, the meteoric rise of ChatGPT in November 2022 brought generative AI front and center in the classroom, as students and educators tinkered with its capabilities to figure out how i

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

18 Digital Tool Musts in the Classroom This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: Summary 18 essential digital tools for classrooms, emphasizing their impact on modern education. Highlights Annotation Tools: Essential for digital note-taking. Avatars: Promote digital citizenship and privacy.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Listen to the interview with Jocelyn Greene: Sponsored by EVERFI and The Wired Classroom Picture this: A group of students stands in front of the class taking turns speaking confidently about the content they’ve been studying. But they’re not just kids anymore; they are news anchors, talk show hosts, or curators at an art gallery. They are playing “as if” they are inside the locations in their literature or science.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Back in 2018, I decided to take the plunge and move to an OER textbook. Now, for those who aren’t familiar, OER, or Open Educational Resources, are course materials under an open license which allows others to access and reuse them at no cost. There’s been a movement lately in institutions, particularly community colleges, to incorporate more OER materials as a way to curb the rising costs of higher education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Key points: Enhancing leadership and expanding personal networks are top priorities Innovative solutions to meet diverse student needs What 1,000 families want your district to know about communication For more news on visionary leadership, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Ready or not, the start of the new school year is just around the corner.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Even more concerning is that only 9 percent of Black eighth-graders are at a proficient level, or above. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As the 2024-2025 school year begins, students return to classes, digital assignments and cloud-based educational technology tools. Lessons explore emerging technologies while striving to facilitate collaboration and engagement. And all of these workflows and learning opportunities rely on the internet. With K–12 schools’ heavy reliance on the internet for today’s teaching and learning practices, it’s the job of IT administrators to keep students safe online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Using digital books Category: Problem-solving As you discuss reading and the technology tools that inspire students in this activity, here’s a poster with nine reasons why students w

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Listen to my interview with Dave Edwards ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and The Wired Classroom This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? According to recent studies , the number of people who identify as nonbinary or transgender has risen steadily over the last 10 years or so.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Personal connections lead to success. As educators, it is our responsibility to make space in our classrooms for all students to feel welcomed and encouraged to be a part of our community. Danielle De La Mare, a former educator, and the creator of the “Self-Compassionate Professor Podcast,” said in a recent interview that “we all deserve to take up space in the world” and that this space allows “for our own gifts to change other people, to impact the work in positive ways (Newbury, 2013).”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This story on data privacy in special education originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Key points: Ensuring data protection helps prevent discrimination and stigmatization How to maintain secure access and data privacy It’s not business, it’s personal: Building a culture of trust to protect data For more news on data privacy, visit eSN’s IT Leadership hub Adam Garry is the former Senior Director of Education Strategy for Dell Technologies and curren

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are developmentally, what academic, social and emotional skills they bring, and what support they need to set them up for a successful school year. That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Role of Phosphorus Properties in Sustainable Technology for Classrooms When you think about how to educate the next generation, what do you hope to see? A school classroom of the future, one equipped with technology for students to learn and grow, is also designed to be sustainable. Some wouldn’t regard it as just a vision because phosphorus properties are special ingredients in the development of sustainable technology for education.

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Teach Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

As we navigate the new school year, having a rock-solid classroom management plan is key. Without it, you might find yourself in a whirlwind of chaos. Communicating your expectations, rules, and procedures from the get-go sets the tone for a smooth year in your classroom. Let’s dive into the top classroom management mistakes you’ll want to avoid this school year.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Nursing is one of the most arduous careers due to job demands that can cause physical and emotional exhaustion, which greatly affect nursing educators. Nursing Educators are critical in shaping the future of nurses by teaching students the most up-to-date knowledge, skills, and values that they need to succeed by providing students with ways to stay motivated, feel supported, instill compassion, encourage professionalism and growth, and the development of skills for the real-life challenges of n

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

College students around the world have deep-seated fears, if not despair about the existential threat of climate change — fears they may have harbored since childhood. As the frequency of severe weather events increases and the Earth’s temperature inches upward, emotions have intensified for a lot of students in the United States and it turns out that many keep their concerns about living on a warming planet to themselves.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Coding has become an essential skill in the modern K–12 classroom. While more schools are making computer science mandatory and creating more opportunities for students to learn to code, those who are blind or have low vision are often left out of this largely visual experience. Lacking this 21st-century skill could be an obstacle for those students when entering the workforce, an already difficult endeavor: According to Cornell University, nearly half of working-age adults with visual disabilit

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A friend of mine (who I’ll leave anonymous, at her request) struggled with the challenges of teaching and personal life. Teaching was her passion, but its demands soon overshadowed her personal needs. Last year, she was assigned a particularly large class whose requirements consumed too many evenings and weekends, leaving insufficient time for her kids and husband.

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Teach Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As a new teacher, you don’t have the advantage that veteran teachers do. Experienced teachers have the luxury of looking back on past years to see what worked and what didn’t. Starting out, you’ll be hit with a ton of new information from learning to juggle classroom management to fostering a classroom community. This might feel overwhelming. Don’t worry, as you prepare to inspire the leaders of tomorrow you can use this advice to help you navigate your first year with confidence.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

It started with a yawn. I saw it contagiously meander through the classroom. I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! How was it possible that my students weren’t enjoying this as much as I was? Could it be that they were…bored? Though it pains me to remember it, this was an important moment in my pedagogical journey.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Key points: Chronic absenteeism remains a pain point for school districts Addressing the root causes of chronic K-12 absenteeism 3 tips to combat chronic absenteeism in high schools For more news on absenteeism, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the country, teachers and education leaders continue to fight rising rates of student absences.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

For many years, educators have envisioned personalized learning as a way to tailor education to each student's unique needs. With advances in artificial intelligence, this vision is becoming a reality. AI has the potential to transform classrooms by offering personalized learning experiences that align with individual strengths, interests and learning needs.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

When the public cloud first emerged as a computing and storage option, many K–12 IT leaders (as well as those in other sectors) were reluctant to move resources to an environment outside of their control. But as cloud-hosted student information systems, collaboration suites and learning management tools have become the standard, nearly all districts today have some sort of cloud presence.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: 40+ Word Study Websites 15 Webtools in 15 Weeks–the video Creating and Using Curriculum Maps Video Tech Ed Resources for your Class–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum Tech Ed Resources for your Class–Digital Citizenship Tech Ed Resources–K-12 Tech Curriculum Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans 35+ Online Audio Resources 20 Online Resources About Digital Storytelling Here’s How to Get Started with Ask a Tech Teacher Here’s a preview of what’s coming up

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Teach Hub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When it comes to fostering a love for reading in students, there’s a powerful tool that goes underappreciated: the read-aloud. Read-alouds have the power to transform how students perceive books and reading. Whether it’s sharing the warmth of a beloved story with younger students or diving into the exciting world of a thrilling novel with older students, read-alouds can have a magical effect.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At our university’s inaugural faculty-staff research symposium last fall, the two of us met on a drug history and policy panel, and discovered we were both teaching courses on drugs the following semester. What would happen if we connected our courses? Over coffee, we met several times and came up with a list of shared activities and projects, ranging from a student-created pop-up exhibition to a discussion panel on harm reduction that would bring university faculty and staff together with front

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Key points: We should do more to make teachers’ jobs easier–AI can help 5 ways to restore your passion for teaching School leaders of color face high burnout–here’s what they need to thrive For more news on teacher burnout, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub As we turn the corner into a new school year, teachers need a break more than ever.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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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