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Visual learning made easy with Lucidchart

A Principal's Reflections

After an initial demo, I was quite impressed and wanted to pass this along to my readers. They have hundreds of shapes in their native library, and you can also import Visio stencils and shape libraries, which are available all over the web. Plus, Lucidchart is completely free for educators and students.

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New Year, New Adventures

A Principal's Reflections

I purchased iPads for each of my administrators to collect the walkthrough data and then we demoed multiple programs to see which was the best fit for us. These include not sharing the results with the teachers, using the data as part of their evaluation, and not allowing them to have input into the specific form to be used.

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Los Angeles School District Launched a Splashy AI Chatbot. What Exactly Does It Do?

ED Surge

EdSurge recently sat down with the developers of the tool, custom-made for the district by Boston-based AI company AllHere, for a demo, to try to find out. For instance, in a demo for EdSurge, Toby Jackson, chief technology officer at AllHere, showed a sample Ed dashboard screen for a simulated account of a student named “Alberto.”

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Could the Bridge Across the Digital Divide Be Paved With TV Signals?

ED Surge

IEI learner dashboard demo Where does datacasting fit on the road to universal broadband? The teacher can either work through our learning management system, which has content from Sesame Workshop, PBS member stations and soon other libraries, like Khan Academy, or through Google Classroom, Schoology and Canvas and create the lesson plan.

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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2019 SXSW EDU PanelPicker!

Digital Promise

See a prototype demo of the solution! Libraries as Maker Magnets. What happens in a Future Ready Library? Explore why and how libraries are becoming ground zero for the maker revolution, where student are creators,empowered learners, innovative designers, and global collaborators. Students consume less and make more!

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This may be the best way to train teachers, but can we afford it?

The Hechinger Report

Toward the end of Studio Day, visibly exhausted, Velásquez and her classmates gathered around a library table at Adams Elementary School, snacking on popcorn and tangerines. Without a healthy working relationship between the partners that created STR, Maria-Elena Velásquez and her classmates may be among its last graduates.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Over a lifetime, a dual-headed household with bachelor’s degrees and $53,000 in college debt loses $208,000 in lifetime wealth — nearly four times the amount borrowed, according to a 2013 brief by Demos, a left-leaning policy organization. She recently opted to eat lunch in the library, finding it less chaotic than the cafeteria. “I