As more connectivity and innovation are implemented in schools, you immediately become vulnerable to cyber threats. You need to keep IT assets and data secure in today’s digital transformation age, while enabling required services and applications.
Podcast Series: Innovations in Education
Explore the full series of eSchool News podcasts hosted by Kevin Hogan—created to keep you on the cutting edge of innovations in education.
Key considerations for a network edge refresh on campus
Your campus relies on a high-performing, reliable, secure network for wired and wireless connections, especially at the edge. Consider performance, management and TCO to help you make decisions that best serve your campus today and tomorrow.
Learning is social. Is your school collaboration ready?
Social learning helps your students learn by watching, listening, and doing whether in class, online or as a hybrid. Deliver interactive classrooms that connect from campus, home, or anywhere else, with a simple web browser and internet connection.
Could digital citizenship be the most important pandemic lesson?
When the pandemic prompted schools to quickly shift to distance learning last spring, educators became responsible for using online technologies to teach students. This was the first time that many educators had to grapple not only with virtual classroom management, but with helping their students learn the ins and outs of staying safe online. This included a crash course in learning and behaving online.
This set of “online manners” is referred to as digital citizenship, which is how we should behave when using digital tools, interacting with others online, and becoming better stewards of technology.
As a leader of a nonprofit where young kids connect and learn online, we prioritize teaching kids these important skills that will take them well into adulthood. …Read More
How can comprehensive, integrated data improve student outcomes?
All school districts strive to be data-driven: to use data to get early warning of students at risk, to identify learning gaps, and gain visibility. How can we achieve that goal? Download Using Timely, Actionable, and Comprehensive Data to learn how.
2 teacher perspectives on ELLs and learning loss
Since the pandemic started, teachers and students have had to transition from brick-and-mortar classrooms to virtual environments, and back. During this time, learning loss–the reversal of academic progress due to disrupted formal education–has been of significant concern to educators. Unfortunately, studies show that English Language Learners (ELLs) have been disproportionately impacted by learning loss, as compared to their peers.
According to the OECD, school closures and distance learning measures have put ELLs at a greater disadvantage compared to the general student population. A learning gap, which existed prior to the pandemic, is widening across the United States. At the same time, the demands of virtual and hybrid learning have put incredible strains on teachers throughout the pandemic.
This issue has become a point of controversy for English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers, who do not feel the term ‘learning loss’ accurately describes the complex situation faced by ELLs in America. …Read More
6 key recommendations for choosing the best LMS platform
The shift in education has created a reliance on integrated technology tools to capture learning beyond the classroom. Canvas creates an equitable foundation for learning, allowing students to access high-quality, engaging content anytime, anywhere.
Celebrate National Distance Learning Week Nov. 8-12 with Live, Daily Free Programs for K-12
North Mankato, Minn. – Distance learning has long been a part of the education landscape. In the midst of the second pandemic-disrupted year the field has flexed, adapted and evolved to encompass a myriad of teaching methods to a wide-ranging student population. In May 2020 demand for online educational courses was up 250% from the previous year. Virtual learning has become a permanent fixture in modern academia.
This year, the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) is honoring National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) by offering 10 live, virtual lessons and field trips with topics ranging from scientific to historical to artistic. Below is a list of the two free classes offered each day during NDLW along with a link to registration.
Monday, Nov. 8: American Indian Stories: The Three Sisters By Booth Western Art Museum, for Grades 1-3…Read More
UV Disinfection: No Magic Bullet, Just Smart, Layered Protection
When the global pandemic hit all of us in Spring 2020, school districts had to go into crisis mode, pivoting to digital instruction in a matter of weeks, many closing their doors while they sorted through mountains of information, often contradictory, on how best to protect against COVID-19.
Developing Strong Language Skills in the Early Childhood Classroom
Early childhood classroom activities should develop strong language skills for all learners. Classroom observations show that it can be challenging to have a meaningful conversation with every child every day. For example, it is easy to ask too many simple questions that require only a one-word response (Deshmukh et al. 2019). It also takes considerable time to prepare child-friendly definitions for intentional vocabulary instruction. Too often vocabulary instruction becomes incidental rather than systematic (Wright and Neuman 2014). But a curriculum that helps teachers establish daily routines for supporting language with purposeful questions and systematic vocabulary sets the stage for teachers to have multiple-turn conversations with all children, even those with limited initial language skills.
A Holistic Approach to Teaching Early Childhood Mathematics
A curriculum Teaching young children mathematics is more than a collection of activities; it needs to be coherent, focused on important concepts and skills, accommodate a range of learners, and support teachers’ implementation. A good early childhood math curriculum is designed to not only provide teachers with ideas about what to teach, but also how to teach with respect to the developmental needs of young children and how to teach a particular set of concepts and skills in the content areas. An effective curriculum guides teachers to plan and instruct, at the same time encouraging them to think and explore with adequate support.
Phonological Awareness
Phonological awareness is the growing awareness of sounds within speech, from the largest to smallest units of speech. Typically, young children first learn to identify individual words within spoken sentences, then syllables within words, then individual phonemes within words (called
phonemic awareness). As individual children progress through phases of phonological awareness development, they may show signs of developing more complex levels of PA even as they are still mastering lesser levels (ILA, 2019). This overlapping progression underscores the need for repeated
PA experiences in the classroom.