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

Digital Promise

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! This spring, we will be focusing on strengthening the process by which schools identify and utilize digital math resources. 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. .

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

ED Surge

Location, Location, Location AwesomeSTEAM has inspired some enthusiasm, with a K-12 teacher in Canada even offering to translate the project into French. Bir’s site may have attracted so many users because traditional library resources aren’t on the top of people’s minds.

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How and When to Choose the Right LMS for Your School Community

Digital Promise

In this final post, Michigan Virtual outlines how and why they created an LMS guide for K-12 in collaboration with other educators. In this blog post, I share a resource created for school leaders — a free guide to selecting an LMS for K-12 — and the rationale and process that went into creating it.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

While watching TV in her free time, Joffe was struck by another idea: a ‘Netflix of online learning’ that could recommend digital resources to users. “I Still, research shows that digital-resource usage hasn’t reached its full potential.

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

Digital Promise

While a year teaching and learning with COVID-19 looming unveiled inequities that have always existed, what was learned can inform how the nation proceeds in transforming educational systems designed to understand and address the learner variability of each student.

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OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? Create an impressive principal pipeline

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic also made it impossible to ignore the inequities faced by Black and Latino students — such as limited access to digital resources, rigorous coursework and skilled educators. So how can K-12 districts capitalize on this outsized potential role that principals can play in creating an atmosphere of excellence?

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Challenges in Curation: Successfully Integrating Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Digital Promise

As the moderator of a SXSWedu panel covering the Challenges of Curation in K-12 Schools, I held several brainstorm calls with the panelists, sent them thought-starter questions, solicited feedback from teacher and librarian contacts in the industry, and thought I was as ready as I could be. Librarians are trained master curators.

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