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Scaffolding: What is it and Why is it Important?

Studies Weekly

Human-recorded audio has synchronized highlighting so that the students can see reading modeled and bring general and domain-specific vocabulary into their oral vocabulary. DOWNLOAD RESOURCE The post Scaffolding: What is it and Why is it Important? Scaffolding is a research-proven method of leading students along this path.

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Benefits of Primary Sources: Humanizing History With primary sources, students as young as kindergarten age can grasp difficult concepts and glean meaning from past events. To connect students to important historical events that have shaped America and the world, we often must go to the source. The primary source.

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

Digital Promise

While those automated tactical strategies work well at the district enterprise level, digital safety and security really starts with the humans. Do not click on links or download items from senders you do not know. As we embark on a new school year, it’s a perfect time to review basic tenets of digital safety with students and staff.

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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

ED Surge

Spierenburg, whose company helped support the development of the app explains that every activity is directly aligned with a standard and has an accompanying lesson plan in Verizon Innovative Learning HQ , a free online education portal empowering educators to help bring new ways of learning and next-gen tech into the learning experience.

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OPINION: Is a new kind of online ‘resource room’ boosting morale for teachers?

The Hechinger Report

They have discovered that the download-and-use resources allow them to take a break from the constant lesson-planning and creation. Leave this field empty if you're human: The strength and sustainability of a society is in part based on its schools. Related: The exhausting life of a first-year teacher. Weekly Update.

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AI Guidelines for K-12 Aim to Bring Order to the ‘Wild West’

ED Surge

“How many of us have downloaded the updated agreement for our iPhone without reading it?” Teachers use generative AI to create lesson plans, and any school district employee could use it to help write a work document. “The Smith says. “If Is AI Your Co-Writer? It’s not just student use of AI that needs to be considered.

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Curating a More Inclusive Library

Cult of Pedagogy

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools.

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