eSchool News

JULY 28, 2023

Key points: Educators need more information on AI-powered tools, and they need it yesterday Administrators will be tasked with staying up to date on what’s happening in the world of AI–and with helping teachers become more comfortable with it See related article: 5 things to know about ChatGPT in education As the ‘23-’24 school year comes into focus, there is now little doubt we are on the brink of a major technological revolution that will affect our schools, our jobs, and our lives in wa

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2023

For decades, our country has invested in creating a more diverse STEM workforce by launching efforts that increase the representation of women and people of color in the field. Out-of-school time programs have played a large role, funneling more girls and youth of color into K-12 STEM education programs that introduce them to the field. On the surface, this strategy makes sense — if we get more girls and young people of color interested in STEM early, we’re bound to make strides toward a STEM wo

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2023

Streamlining teacher work means finding (more) efficient ways to manage tasks, improve productivity, and enhance the teaching experience. Here are strategies to achieve this from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew: 5 Ways for Teachers to Streamline Their Workload It’s not easy being a teacher considering the amount of work you deal with every day. On the surface, you prepare lesson plans and determine the series of activities you will give for your next class.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 25, 2023

As K–12 ends one school year and prepares for the next, there are many challenges on the horizon, including teacher burnout and retention, budget shortfalls, learning loss and student behavioral issues. Fortunately, they can inspire forward-thinking administrators and educators toward further digital transformation in schools. The right strategy and technology can help.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Key points: It’s time to welcome ChatGPT into classrooms–and embrace the opportunities that come with it Using the AI tool in writing instruction can help students develop critical digital literacy skills See related article: 4 ways to use ChatGPT for learning and creativity When ChatGPT appeared in November 2022, most educators felt it could become a threat and change the whole niche forever.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT a little more than six months ago, students have quickly figured out how to get the free AI chatbot to do their homework for them. That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2023

Learning a second language for many is complicated. Some of us are naturals at linguistics, others, not so much. Teaching means adapting to different students who learn in different ways. Here are four proven approaches, from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew: 4 Approaches to Effective Second-Language Teaching In an article from the Michigan State University website, children who are skilled in at least two languages are known to possess cognitive flexibility.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2023

Key points: Gamification can encourage students to take ownership of their learning Discover the different gamified resources one teacher uses to engage students See related article: Are you teaching with Minecraft and Roblox? You should be Gamification is one of the biggest in education trends right now in education. According to ISTE, “Gamification is about transforming the classroom environment and regular activities into a game” (Haiken, 2021).

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2023

I struggle with perfectionism every day, and sometimes, it prevents me from authentically showing up for family, students and myself. I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. I would like to believe this is a personal battle, but this drive toward perfectionism also impacts our students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2023

PDF editors are valuable tools in schools that allow students with different platforms–Google Apps, MS Office, and others–to make annotations, add comments, edit content (with some restrictions), and collaborate. Students can submit assignments digitally despite differences between their home platform and school (say, they use MS Office at home and Google Apps at school).

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 27, 2023

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel recently announced a proposal for a three-year, $200 million pilot program to fund cybersecurity technologies in K–12 schools and public libraries. The announcement comes in the wake of a push for the FCC to include cybersecurity upgrades in E-rate funding. If adopted, the program would exist separately from E-rate so as not to “come at a cost of undermining E-rate’s success in promoting digital equity,” Rosenworcel said in a press

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2023

Editor’s note : This blog post originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permissions. When it comes to students in the classroom, they want to feel ownership and control of their learning. According to the American Institutes for Research , encouraging student agency is beneficial because: students who believe their knowledge can grow over time perform better on IQ tests, those with a growth mindset are more likely to set academic goals focused on mastering content versus s

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

Ian Cook, a longtime professor and social anthropologist, still remembers the first podcast he ever heard. It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. The podcast included not just the radio show, but an extended conversation, where the guests kept talking after the formal interview and covered points they didn’t have time to get to on the broadcast.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? Read how math teachers use modern tools, technologies, and techniques to teach the subject, from one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors: How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers Prospective teachers researching online teaching certification and hoping to learn all they can about being a math teacher will do well to include tech tools in their quest for knowledge.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

In my work supporting faculty, I have learned that professors always appreciate strategies to make their teaching more efficient. Many times, learning a new educational technology tool is time-consuming. In this case, I am proposing using technology that we already use in our daily lives and applying it to our classrooms. QR codes (short for “quick response”) are square-shaped codes that many of us use for restaurant menus, concert tickets, and church donations.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2023

Key points: Recently, there have been more federal efforts to recognize music and arts education as an essential part of educational curriculum In order to provide a rich, robust, and inclusive curriculum for youth, STEM needs to evolve to STEAM See related article: This art teacher helps students harness social media to build job skills I like to say I was raised by a combination of nonprofits and the arts.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Read the first part here. As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. Education researchers now know that Latino students were dealt an outsized blow to their learning by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 28, 2023

Tessellations are repetitive patterns of shapes that cover a surface without overlapping. With Excel (or another spreadsheet program), you can create tessellations by arranging shapes in a grid and using formulas and formatting options to make the patterns visually appealing. Here’s a step-by-step lesson plan to use Excel or another spreadsheet program to teach tessellations: If the lesson plan is blurry, click on it for a full size alternative.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. However, sometimes things do not go according to plan, and they may face obstacles that derail their goals.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2023

COSTA MESA, Calif. — BenQ , an internationally renowned provider of visual display solutions, announced that the ANTON learning app is now available on BenQ Boards. Trusted by over 15 million learners and teachers in over 60,000 schools, the ANTON learning app features learning material across a multitude of subjects, with the goal of making learning fun for students and easy for teachers to create and deliver engaging lessons.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools may signal the integration of technology into learning in profound ways; however, the long trajectory of edtech has not yet changed the fundamental organizing structure between teacher and student. Teachers—with the vast majority of schools still organized as one teacher for every 15 to 35 students—mediate students’ classroom experiences in myriad ways.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning. Academic and student success leaders tell me that they are particularly concerned with performance in foundational math courses and programs that rely heavily o

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. However, sometimes things do not go according to plan, and they may face obstacles that derail their goals.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Key points: Gamification can help engage students when they might otherwise lose motivation Engaged students are 2.5 times more likely to say that they get excellent grades and do well in school See related article: MDM solutions and gamification make perfect interactive learning partners In the past decade, students have been inundated with more and more distractions.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Students in American K-12 schools are increasingly diverse. But that diversity is often missing in the teachers at the front of classrooms. That’s especially true when it comes to the number of teachers who are Black men: the group makes up only 1.3 percent of American school teachers, according to a widely cited federal survey of the 2020-2021 school year.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs How can you better support adult learners who are parents or guardians? By Valerie Gipson About 3.8 million of today’s undergrad students are also parents—meaning they represent about one-fifth of the total undergraduate student population. But limited data on student-parents means that colleges and universities often overlook this population.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 25, 2023

In the age of social media, where ideas are unmediated but often gauged by “likes” and “hearts,” it can be intimidating to try to foster critical thinking in discussions of social issues in the online classroom. As instructors, we may be apprehensive of engaging in topics that evoke deep-seated opinions and emotions or reflect painful experiences. However, education and social research tell us that these discussions are important for fostering personal growth (Ford & Malaney, 2012).

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2023

Key points: Teachers need to know they won’t be penalized for trying new tech-based instructional strategies that may not be successful Administrators are instrumental in supporting teachers whether these attempts do or don’t reach success See related article: With greater access to devices, teachers are folding more tech into instruction Technology is quickly changing the way we learn and teach.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

Destinee Hodges decided last year that she was ready to open her own business. The Las Vegas resident has worked in child care since moving her family to Nevada seven years ago. She earned promotions with ease, eventually landing a job as a child care center director. This story also appeared in The 19th. But Hodges found, over the years, that she could not make a living in that role.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Infographic Mapping the Enrollment Landscape A convergence of crises over the past three years has greatly altered the college enrollment landscape, revealing strengths and vulnerabilities that previously went unnoticed, were underestimated, or were misunderstood. Use this infographic to reorient yourself to a higher education marketplace that is being transformed by ever-disruptive forces.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 25, 2023

In the age of social media, where ideas are unmediated but often gauged by “likes” and “hearts,” it can be intimidating to try to foster critical thinking in discussions of social issues in the online classroom. As instructors, we may be apprehensive of engaging in topics that evoke deep-seated opinions and emotions or reflect painful experiences. However, education and social research tell us that these discussions are important for fostering personal growth (Ford & Malaney, 2012).

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2023

Key points: ChatGPT-4 enriches curriculum, fosters collaboration, and prepares students for the challenges of the digital age As higher learning institutions embrace ChatGPT-4 and AI technologies, they contribute to shaping a future-ready generation of learners See related article: At ISTELive 23, balancing humanity with AI In an era defined by technological innovation, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has become a game-changer in higher education.

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Grant Lichtman

JULY 24, 2023

Phyllis Harris was born and raised in Cleveland, the daughter of a single mom who worked at a factory as she was growing up. She realized at an early age that I was different, and came out as a lesbian when she was 19 years old. She is the Executive Director of the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland. “I was born and raised here in Cleveland.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Check out our insight paper to discover four findings from EAB's 2023 survey of higher ed technology leaders. Thanks for your interest! To access this content, please log in or register for a free guest account. Log In Register The post Leading in a Complex Campus Technology Landscape appeared first on EAB.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

Key points: Generative AI can provide consistent, personalized feedback to students It’s crucial to remember that AI is a tool, not a replacement for teachers–it’s there to enhance the educational experience See related article: The importance of teaching generative AI Today, we’re going to take a peek behind the curtain of edtech to examine the developing phenomenon that’s on all of our lips: Generative AI.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2023

ATLANTA /PRNewswire/ — CENTEGIX , the leader in incident response solutions, announced that new customers of its award-winning CrisisAlert solution were the highest in company history and that demand in the first half of 2023 has exceeded the 2022 full-year result. School districts nationwide overwhelmingly select CENTEGIX’s CrisisAlert wearable panic button to protect staff and students.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

OAKLAND, Calif. – Today, Turnitin announced that more than 65 million papers have been reviewed since the April launch of its new feature that detects similarities to AI writing. The company also announced that of those 65 million papers, over 2.1 million – 3.3 percent – have been flagged as having at least 80 percent AI writing present. Nearly 6.7 million – 10.3 percent – have over 20 percent AI writing present.

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