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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So then I told the principal I wanted to come out of the library. I really need to get back into the library so that I can do media studies and media literacy.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

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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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Reading Logs Are Used to Hold Kids Accountable, But They Can Make Reading Feel Like a Chore

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They set up their classrooms, consult the curriculum, make lesson plans and determine their routines. Very often, teachers make well-intentioned and thoughtful plans to encourage their students to read daily in order to practice skills and strategies taught in class, as well as to build a lifelong reading habit.

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Can AI Aid the Early Education Workforce?

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Hau shared that K-12 educators are using the technology to improve efficiency in a number of ways, including to draft individualized education programs (IEPs), create templates for communicating with parents and administrators, and in some cases, to support building lesson plans.

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Could the Bridge Across the Digital Divide Be Paved With TV Signals?

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Now, we're ready to help teachers seamlessly create lesson plans and send them out to all students — even those who don't have broadband. We will package all of that content, whether it's an ebook or an educational video, along with the notes from the lesson plan and send it where it needs to go.

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Bring Real-Time 3D Into the Classroom, and Teach for the Future

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Unity Learn Educator Hub The Educator Hub on Unity Learn is a one-stop library of free teaching resources, including professional development courses, syllabi, lesson plans, scope and sequences, standards alignment (including ISTE) and more.

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Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change

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Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.