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News, Resources & Essential Information for 21st Century Educators & School Leaders
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Improving the world through disruptive innovation.
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It isn’t hard to imagine an ideal world in which all student data flows seamlessly and securely between software applications: a concept known as data interoperability. 
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A recent accreditation policy has many colleges -- particularly in rural areas -- struggling to find qualified instructors to teach popular dual-credit courses for high school students.
Steven Engravalle's insight:
As colleges and states scramble to comply with instructor credential rules for dual-credit courses, this is where #eLearning can flourish for high school students.
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Students often lack the metacognitive skills they need to succeed, but they can develop these skills by addressing some simple questions.
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Research shows that metacognitive activities can benefit children as young as age 3. This blog post reviews recent research and offers tips to promote metacognition in elementary, middle and high schools.
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If the information available is now accessible based upon the amount of money the provider is willing to pay, then the Internet will separate from being a place of democracy and become a place where money controls information!
Steven Engravalle's insight:
Essentially, net neutrality grantees consumers that we have access to all content regardless of perspective or source. Without it, providers will decide what customers receive and/or what is free and what is not. What information comes quickly and which will be slowed. Content will be offered to the highest bidder. Internet providers will make decisions for us.
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Data-driven personalized learning can be done with popular classroom tools and a proper infrastructure.
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Adaptive learning tech uses algorithms and data to present students with content matched to their current progress, with the idea being that it simplifies personalized and self-paced learning for teachers.
A report from Noodle Markets shows school district spending on adaptive learning technology has tripled to $41 million since 2013, with only 9% of those funds spent on teacher professional development.
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Google announced 10 updates to Google Classroom and Google Forms to help teachers save time and stay organized.
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The international association of teachers, administrators, ed tech specialists and other education stakeholders offers its top five predications for the 2017-2018 school year.
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It’s no secret that many teachers leave their jobs to pursue more lucrative careers. About one-third of teachers quit within the first five years of joining the profession. Where do they go? Some choose to stay in the field of education in a different way—by becoming EdTech entrepreneurs. Teachers who become EdTech entrepreneurs are often very successful. So why do teachers make some of the best EdTech entrepreneurs?
Steven Engravalle's insight:
The people who succeed in EdTech are those who understand education and care about it deeply...and nobody fits that description better than a teacher. | #edtech #K12 |
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"Beaverton School District's leaders became experts in disaster recovery after a data center meltdown.
Steven Engravalle's insight:
Oregon's Beaverton School District learned the hard way at the start of the school year that it needed an IT disaster recovery plan when administrators found the district's entire data center offline, according to EdTech: Focus on K-12.
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Part of NWEA’s widely used Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests, the new MAP Reading Fluency assessment focuses on the “learning-to-read” process and uses voice recognition technology to collect data on an entire class of students in about 20 minutes, the developers say.
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As learning needs change, learning spaces and their design are following suit
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A whitepaper from Evergreen Education Group and Fuel Education explores how three schools’ blended learning programs have redesigned their learning spaces to encourage student and teacher success.
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Apprenticeship programs and certifications give students the skills they need to thrive in the workplace.
Steven Engravalle's insight:
Survey findings: High demand for tech industry to offer more apprenticeships, classroom support
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You can leverage micro-writing—tweets, Instagram posts, and the like—to help students improve their communication and writing skills.
Steven Engravalle's insight:
Social media tools students are already using can enhance writing and communication lessons in the classroom, according to Edutopia.
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The District of Columbia, Illinois, Oregon, and Tennessee are the latest to get the green light for their Every Student Succeeds Act plans from the U.S. Department of Education.
Steven Engravalle's insight:
The District of Columbia, Illinois, Oregon, and Tennessee all won approval from U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy Devos Wednesday for their accountability plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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