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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As such, parents and educators must be more proactive in managing technology use to mitigate these health consequences. To address this, parents and educators can engage in conversations with students to identify the emotional drivers behind their social media use and help them find ways to meet those needs in real life.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Today, for Thought Leader Thursday, we are talking to Tom Hierck, 41-year educator, and author of 25 books. Subscribe to the Show This week's guest Tom Hierck has been an educator since 1983 in a career that has spanned all grade levels and many roles in public education including as a sessional instructor for UBC.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

Studies show that mathematical reasoning ability is crucial in early education, and when children understand math before entering elementary school, they have higher achievement on both reading and math tests later in their school years. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2023

In this context, Digital Promise welcomed four exceptional student interns from Sunnyside School District—Anjelica, Citlalli, Iracema and Judith—enrolled in the Education Professions career and technical education class taught by Elizabeth Skeggs. The result was a life-changing experience for the students and the adults.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Little kids make better philosophers than most adults. And he worries that too often, teachers and other adults brush off or ignore kids when they ask things like, “Are we all just a figment of someone else’s dream?” It can be easy for adults to brush off some of these questions that kids have. I think there's something to that.

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JULY 31, 2023

During a panel discussion at 1EdTech’s Learning Impact Conference in Anaheim this summer, distinguished educators shed light on their districts' digital transformations and emphasized the crucial role of collaboration, professional development and buy-in to ensure the effective integration of technology and curriculum.

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Computer Science Teacher

JULY 15, 2022

One thing that fits that is what are the really big tech companies doing to support CS education. This program offers curriculum for all levels of K-12 as well as resources and opportunities for teachers. Engineer for the Week | Facebook but also at Engineer for the Week (fb.com) The curriculum has a strong “coding for good” component.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This is especially true in educational settings, where equipping students with digital citizenship skills is essential for their safe and responsible navigation of the digital landscape. The bill is aimed at increasing media literacy education and helping students navigate disinformation, ultimately strengthening digital citizenship.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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: . Category: Keyboarding.

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MARCH 28, 2024

ABCYa Easter Egg Hunt Preschool-Kindergarten Like all of ABCYa’s games and activities, Easter Egg Hunt is a colorful and intuitive educational game for young children. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Educators Technology

AUGUST 30, 2022

Generation Genius is an educational website that offers standards-based K-8 video lessons covering various science and math topics. Generation Genius also offers a monthly homekit that contains supplies to help kids (under the supervision of adults) carry out hands-on science experiments at home.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

It focuses on building student creativity, critical thinking, and independence–skills students need to become prosperous, happy adults. Content is vetted, curated, and reviewed by qualified teachers to ensure its educational rigor. Why select a platform that doesn’t do education the way it’s always been done?

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JANUARY 3, 2022

As teachers move from a “teacher-lecturer” model of education to a “teacher-guide”, peer-to-peer learning–acquiring knowledge from a select peer group–has become a popular education strategy. Lessons are given by young adults, your students’ peer group. ” –Albert Einstein.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Most teachers hold a master’s in education, so you’ll need at least four to five years to earn your degree. If paying for your education is an issue, you even consider asking your parents to cosign a loan. You get to talk to them in a more adult-like fashion, which is a great way to make them feel respected and understood.

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MAY 5, 2023

Furthermore, technology provides access to a vast array of educational resources, enabling students to learn at their own pace and tailor their educational experiences to their individual needs. As parents, educators, or guardians, we hold the key to providing a positive digital experience for our young ones.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

SmartBrief, news on technology in education, recently published an article, Uniting technology and SEL to teach the whole child, on the importance of SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) in an educational landscape shaped by COVID-19. In part, they shared: Social-emotional learning is seeing a surge in mentions in the educational landscape.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020. “[Now] some of them have blossomed, some of them have overcome that.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

With the volume of time kids are spending online, on computers, mostly unsupervised by adults, protecting their privacy and safety has become of huge importance. Also, you can choose various educational programs and appropriate content that enhances your child’s skills and abilities. Educate Your Child about Privacy and Protection.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With schools closed for in-person learning and many children being educated at home, parents are scrambling for quality alternatives that work in a home environment. Homeschooling is a progressive movement where parents educate their children instead of sending them to public or private schools. Traditional Homeschooling.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Families with social and economic capital tend to provide their children with more educational tools and opportunities, including enrichment activities, access to technology and familiarity with the learning process. It takes content knowledge to evaluate and select effective curriculum materials.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

I published this several years ago, but with the current dissatisfaction of many parents with traditional education, it’s worth revisiting. The Goal of PDL In a phrase: … the goal of Purpose Driven Learning is NOT about a curriculum that lasts a year. In-place curriculum. Be prepared for this discussion.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Educate Yourself on Coding Even if you understand coding, teaching it requires a deeper understanding, and it never hurts to brush up on your skills. If you are thinking about broadening your college education, you could even tap into the value of your home to finance this venture.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 10, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, we share a must-listen podcast for educators who want to help their students succeed financially. With April being financial literacy month, there's no better time to tune in and learn how to integrate financial literacy into your curriculum.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

There’s no set curriculum or schedule; students learn what interests them with guidance from involved adults. In fact, if you look at the list of traits valued in popular education programs such as Habits of Mind and Depth of Knowledge , the reasons why parents unschool their children mirror the traits included in these lists.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

She has dedicated much of her career to helping educators integrate technology with purpose into their curriculum. Here, she discusses the challenges involved in getting adults to take play seriously, as well the many life lessons that may be imparted through effective educational gaming. So, I joined her team.

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MARCH 15, 2023

What many had hoped would be a transformative tool, allowing educators to teach differentiated lessons, cover more material, and deliver in more authentic ways, became a daily struggle. The money required to fix these problems was measured in the thousands of dollars–tens of thousands.

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APRIL 7, 2023

ABCYa Easter Egg Hunt Preschool-Kindergarten Like all of ABCYa’s games and activities, Easter Egg Hunt is a colorful and intuitive educational game for young children. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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MAY 19, 2023

Here are a list of sites that offer digital books for kids to adults: Bookopolis Bookopolis is a large collection of fiction and nonfiction books for ages 7-12. Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

District leaders, school administrators and educators need sustained support to effectively and respectfully implement the shifts behind a curricular mandate like this. In Illinois, individual districts are ultimately responsible for creating an implementation plan and revising or developing curriculum, but that’s a lot of pressure.

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MAY 20, 2022

As digital equity discussions matured and hyperbole became reality, educators found that those loudly-touted digital devices often became paperweights. Here are a list of sites that offer digital books for kids to adults: Bookopolis. Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Thank you so much to Norah Colvin for inviting me as a guest on her wonderful education blog, Norah Colvin. Today, my teacher colleagues tell me kids arrive at school already comfortable in the use of iPads and smartphones, doing movements like swipe, squeeze, and flick better than most adults. Build on these every year.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Content is vetted, curated, and reviewed by teachers to ensure its educational rigor. When I dug into Tract, one (of many) pieces that appealed to me was how well it fit into so many parts of a student’s education journey. The importance of SEL has made it a sought-after add-on to a school’s curriculum.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. These seemingly ordinary people made reading, writing, discussion, and debate a part of their everyday lives, knowing they could use their education as a tool to pursue justice.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Sure, in its absence, kids–and adults–could use their finger, but there are a lot of reasons why a stylus is better: It’s faster for notetaking and more precise for drawing. They are typically paired to a particular computer that always seems NOT the one the student (or adult) is using. Enter the stylus.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

According to the National Center on Education Statistics , the number of adults with children under the age of 18 reporting that “computers were always or usually available for education purposes” has risen to 94 percent. Over the past few decades, there have been great strides in this area.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

More lives lost, more families devastated, more educators operating in fear. As the founder of an organization that provides social-emotional learning (SEL) experiences for preK-12 students, educators and families, and a mother of three, I spend a great deal of time considering what this crisis means for schools and communities.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Summer jobs for many high schoolers (myself included) was a right of passage, where we stuck our toe into the adult work-a-day world for a brief period before returning to school for more education. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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