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Quantifying Innovative Practices

A Principal's Reflections

The critical element in this equation was skillfully purposefully employing digital resources while ensuring consistency and continuity in all our old and new practices. Step 3 : The data and evidence are tightly aligned to research-based rubrics to provide a detailed view of where a district or school is with its transformation.

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Students’ worry: education technology might predict failure before they have a chance to succeed

The Hechinger Report

The students invited to speak at EduCon had been discussing the use of data in education in class and doing their own research. Gilliard and Culik recently wrote about the drawbacks to predictive software in education. “At But the issue isn’t confined to community colleges. Read more about Blended Learning.

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This Student Saw Teachers Lacked a Place to Share Digital Resources. So He Created One.

ED Surge

When Bell became a librarian, back in the 1970s, these sorts of lists were called “pathfinders,” bibliographies meant to guide research on a particular topic. Nowadays, many college libraries around the country use LibGuides , an information-sharing system that’s used to set up research paths, Bell adds.

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Challenges and Possible Solutions for Edtech Procurement: Part 1

Digital Promise

Classrooms are evolving as technology influences the way students learn and educators teach. Educational technology (edtech) companies have capitalized on technology’s potential to personalize learning experiences for students, which can result in content that is layered with mechanisms to support the needs of diverse learners.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. Director of Research and Program Evaluation.

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New National Survey Analyzes Impact of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning

Digital Promise

Highlights from the survey include: Keeping Up Academically and the Digital Divide : Eighty-two percent of teachers say it’s been difficult for their students to keep up academically during the pandemic, though only 45 percent of parents have the same concern for their own child.

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