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Want Your Teachers to See Great Teaching? Quickly Build a Teaching Video Library

Edthena

Here’s a better solution: a 3rd-grade teacher working on checks for understanding searches for that term in your district’s Edthena video library. Edthena makes it possible for districts to build and host a private video library that becomes available to all teachers across the district, accessed securely using their district emails.

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How to Do a Close Reading Lesson in Any Subject

Cult of Pedagogy

Most academic subjects are taught at least in part with some kind of text, whether it be books, articles, or digital resources, and each field has its own unique vocabulary, syntax, and ways of constructing and interpreting meaning. (Last year we explored the debate over early reading instruction.) Come back for more.

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OPINION: Why creating and maintaining accessible digital resources is neither easy nor optional

The Hechinger Report

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. The Berkeley case teaches us to be attentive to accessibility up front, not simply because of legal requirements but because digital resources designed to meet accessibility standards support increased access for all. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. Wayne Grimm, Library Instructional Technology Teacher at Westview High School, Beaverton, Oregon.

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How Schools Can Implement Mindful Media

TeachThought

See also Roles For Artificial Intelligence In The Education In the realm of online content consumption, streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ provide children with access to a vast library of movies, TV shows, and animated series.

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Developing a “National Geographic Explorer” Mindset in the Classroom

Digital Promise

Teachers can use our digital Resource Library to find engaging and informative resources for their students. Teachers planning lessons for micro-credential submission can draw on our extensive library for student materials.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

But it could be that students who enjoy reading receive lots of books as presents or bring more books home from the library. While disadvantaged students are catching up in terms of access to digital resources, their access to cultural capital like paper books at home has diminished,” the OECD report noted.

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