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It’s the Start of the School Year; Let’s Start Digitally Safe

Digital Promise

As we embark on a new school year, it’s a perfect time to review basic tenets of digital safety with students and staff. While those automated tactical strategies work well at the district enterprise level, digital safety and security really starts with the humans.

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A Turning Point For People and Planet

Digital Promise

Through the online platform , participants get access to digital resources and a virtual community to help them through the creative and production process. Each year, new MY World 360° creators join a growing community of talented and engaged creators and storytellers that spans across world regions, languages, and backgrounds.

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

The Hechinger Report

They expressed worry that they often don’t get to see the data that is being kept on them, and that computers lack the ability to form human relationships needed to gather contextual information about their lives. During the panel discussion at EduCon students expressed worry that they would be subjected to similar programs.

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Can public schools replicate the Mooresville model for digital learning success? Former superintendent Mark Edwards says they can

The Hechinger Report

Building a focus on student achievement while using digital resources and creating conditions for teachers and schools to thrive are the key frames that are essential to building this out. What are the best ways for schools to measure the success of a digital learning program?

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

In his book, " How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching ," Josh Eyler reminds us that: “In order to learn something, we must first wonder about it.” Give them ample opportunity to wonder about what they’re learning. Assess Creativity Ok, so how do you grade these creative assignments?

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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Zinn Education Project

General Granger’s order was less directed toward offering news to the enslaved than it was about commanding lawless human traffickers and insurrectionists to obey the Proclamation issued two years earlier. The National Museum of African American History and Culture offers the digital resource, Juneteenth: Celebration of Resilience.

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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Students of History

For US History, that can be reading (or even listening to) this short article on the stock market crash of 1929 and then organizing the important parts of the article into their interactive notebook: This allows students to be hands on with their learning and easily combine a digital resource with a paper/pencil activity.