School violence and teacher strikes dominated education news during 2018. But last year also saw empowered students voicing their frustrations: Youth activism surged around gun control, safer schools, immigration, voting and LGBTQ issues.
Nearpod, an instructional technology company, has teamed up with Agora Cyber Charter School to deploy the company's more than 6,500 lessons with K12 teachers across Pennsylvania. The charter school provides full-time, tuition-free, public schooling for students through online instruction provided by teachers who lead classes remotely. Nearpod, the instructional technology partner helping districts and schools […]
NBC Learn and Newsela are providing students and teachers access to premium education videos and digital content tailored for grades K12. Both NBC Learn and Newsela.com will refer users to related content on the partner’s respective digital platforms, providing teachers with the ability to connect classroom topics to the real world and current events. NBC […]
An increasing number of educators use elements of the design-thinking process—empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test—to find solutions to and think analytically about problems around them. Michael Cohen, printmaking and design expert turned educator, says district leaders can use design thinking to address systemic educational issues such as high dropout rates and poor student engagement.
A new curriculum for teachers, developed by the nonprofit organization Journeys in Film, in partnership with the USC Rossier School of Education’s Center for Engagement-Driven Global Education, will give educators more resources to help students make sense of prejudice and hatred, drawing on the life of Oskar Schindler as an entry point. With anti-Semitism on […]
As the Kahoot game-based learning platform has gained popularity, so have student attempts to hack into the program. Some students log in using fake names to bombard the teacher with distractions, to program bots to stop a quiz or to steal the answer key. Others post their classroom quiz PINs to online forums so other […]
The most effective district PD initiatives are characterized by four distinct attributes: They are personalized, job-embedded, tied to evaluations, and ongoing and sustainable. These qualities will ensure PD efforts are successful. In this web seminar, presenters discussed these four pillars and how to ensure a district's PD aligns with them. Two New York school administrators […]
What are some ways technology is increasing personal learning? We are seeing a significant digital transformation. Mobility, cloud, storage, faster networks and innovative device form factors are combining to create a major change in how technology can be used in the classroom. The confluence of Common Core, E-rate policy, digital curriculum and tech innovation that […]
Educators and administrators struggle every day to effectively incorporate emergent technologies within their buildings and classrooms. Outdated systems and legacy network infrastructure impede the ability of modernization and digital transformation initiatives to improve the level of safety, collaboration and efficiency within our schools. In this webinar, a CompuCom Education presenter outlined how to build a […]
An increasing number of educators use elements of the design-thinking process—empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test—to find solutions to and think analytically about the many ails plaguing the world around them. Michael Cohen, printmaking and design expert turned educator, says district leaders can use design thinking to address systemic educational issues such as high dropout […]
