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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

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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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. Research suggests that this is one of the top reasons why so many principals are exiting their jobs.

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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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