What administrators can expect from regulation roll back on for-profit colleges

by Shalina Chatlani, Education Dive

The Department of Education is stepping back from two Obama era policies intended to make for-profit colleges more accountable for how they treat students. For one, it is completely withdrawing from the borrower-defense-to-repayment regulation, which provided relief to students who feel they were misled or defrauded by their institution. And, it is rolling back the gainful employment regulation, which holds institutions responsible for whether graduates find work, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is establishing a rulemaking committee to rework the gainful-employment rule, because “it became clear that, as written, it is overly burdensome and confusing for institutions of higher education,” according to the Department’s press release.

http://www.educationdive.com/news/what-administrators-can-expect-from-regulation-roll-back-on-for-profit-coll/445017/

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Why One Napa School Is Opting Out of Online Learning

By Sarah Craig, KQED

Nestled among rows of wine grapes, Stone Bridge School is a K-8 independent charter school in Napa County. On a recent afternoon, 28 first-graders sang during their main lesson. They can sing, paint, dance and sew. But what they don’t do — and are discouraged from — is use computers. Bill Bindewald, principal at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School, says their philosophy around technology isn’t a no-tech approach, but a slow-tech one. He says they place an emphasis on hands-on learning. But the school hasn’t gone cold turkey. By the time students reach sixth, seventh and eighth grade, they start doing reports and the state’s standardized tests online. The school has also developed a cyberethics curriculum to learn things like finding truthful sources online.

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/18/why-one-napa-school-is-opting-out-of-online-learning/

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21 AMAZING STEM RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

BY MATTHEW LYNCH, tech Edvocate

As the American K-12 system continues to look for ways to increase student interest and aptitude in STEM learning, technology is playing an increasingly pivotal role. Children who come to classrooms today have an inherent aptitude for technology and educators should encourage that skill set with resources that integrate STEM learning. Where do teachers find resources to incorporate into their STEM instruction? The easiest place would be via the internet. To save you some time we decided to compile a list of websites that provide teachers with the resources that they need to provide quality STEM instruction.

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ISTE and Microsoft collaborate to provide new school planning and professional learning resources

By ISTE and Microsoft

Multi-project initiative is to include first of its kind blueprint for school transformation, leadership courses, school development tools. At ISTE 2016 opening general session, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) and Microsoft Corp. announced they plan to combine and expand a host of their world-class initiatives to ensure educators and school leaders around the world have access to school planning and professional development resources. This collaboration stems from a shared belief that technology has the power to transform learning, and can do so most effectively when it’s embedded in how a school or educator thinks about and drives new learning opportunities.

http://www.pressreleaserocket.net/iste-and-microsoft-collaborate-to-provide-new-school-planning-and-professional-learning-resources/464157/

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Workbench Launches to Build Engaged Online Communities for Maker Companies

by Benzinga

Edtech company CWIST is expanding to become Workbench as it brings its branding in line with its core mission of creating online communities called “workbenches.” Workbench develops and maintains these communities on behalf of their education partners, which are some of the preeminent names in the maker space. Workbenches foster an engaged community where users can interact with the company and with one another to share programs, lessons and experiences. In addition, the content created in these workbenches can be leveraged by educators to drive interactive, hands-on learning in the classroom helping to meet NGSS standards. Teachers, students and fans can now share lessons that use drones, robots and circuits to teach STEM skills.

http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/16/06/p8152364/workbench-launches-to-build-engaged-online-communities-for-maker-compan

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Students in Credit Recovery Online Classes Need In-School Support

By Gayle Rich, How-to-Learn

Students in credit recovery online classes need in-school support, and a report from an education research group affirms the truth of that observation. http://leadershipandsoftskills.com/Education Northwest discovered that schools with higher passing rates offer more structure and support in school for students in credit recovery. Data from 2013-2014 showed a wide variance in passing rates from school to school, but many schools had small samples. At Montana Digital Academy, last year steps were taken to add more physical support for students in online credit recovery courses. “We were really excited to get that validation,” said Jason Neiffer, MTDA’s assistant director and curriculum director. “It really kind of takes a village to teach an online student. There’s lots of ways we can provide some efficiencies, but in the end, it takes a healthy group effort.”

http://www.howtolearn.com/2016/06/students-in-credit-recovery-online-classes-need-in-school-support/

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Report: Ed Sector Target of More Malware Events than any Other

By Joshua Bolkan, THE Journal

More than a third of all malware events in 2014 occurred within the education sector, according to NTT Com Security’s 2015 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR). The report, which analyzed more than 6 billion attacks for trends, points to the rise of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs. “[C]onnecting large amounts of users to public networks through a variety of devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones), cyber criminals know to target this vulnerable audience segment, resulting in this sector having the most detected malware-related events,” according to a news release. “Students and staff use these vulnerable networks to check grades, schedule meetings, log into financial assets and more, opening up their personally identifiable information to criminals.”

http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/06/23/report-ed-sector-target-of-more-malware-events-than-any-other.aspx

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Future of textbooks increasingly looks digital

By Lee Shearer, Athens Banner-Herald

Students and teachers in some University of Georgia introductory biology courses experimented with using a free digital textbook instead of expensive paper texts in fall 2013 courses, and liked it. About 86 percent of nearly 700 students surveyed after the courses said their online textbook was as good as or better than a traditional paper textbook. But that experiment was just a fraction of what’s coming, according to Houston Davis, executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer of the University System of Georgia.

http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/future-digital-textbooks-563/

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Common Core in Action Series

by Edutopia

Grade-level and subject-specific resources for Common Core-aligned lessons. This collection of blog posts highlights lesson plans, ideas, and other useful resources to help you bring Common Core-aligned lessons into your classroom. We’re actively building this repository of ideas every week, so make sure to bookmark this page. You can also follow #CCSS or #CCSSChat on Twitter for the latest updates.

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Connecting Across the Last Frontier

By Bridget McCrea, THE Journal

An Alaskan school district the size of Great Britain turns to technology to help develop a more streamlined maintenance process for its Macs. Managing remote machines is a challenge for any K-12 IT department. Add thousands of miles, sub-zero degree weather and remote villages that aren’t reachable by car to the equation, and the daily obstacles facing Bering Strait School District’s IT team begin to come into focus. Based in Unalakleet, AK, BSSD encompasses 15 campuses spread across 80,000 miles in the western portion of The Last Frontier. “Our district is the size of Great Britain,” said Gary Jacobson, educational technology facilitator for the district. BSSD uses 1,600 Macs across its campuses — which range in size from 40 to 250 students.

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Teachers going back to school with training, classes

by Ashley A. Smith, News-Press

School may be out for summer, but thousands of teachers are getting their own education in anticipation for the new year. There are hundreds of training opportunities over the course of the year, Schnabel said, adding that he attends at least one during the summer. “Typically, this is a busy time for teachers. They’ll take a week or two for vacation, which they deserve … but there is a tremendous amount of planning,” said Denise Carlin, Lee’s executive director of staff development. “They do their best thinking and planning over the summer.”

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The University Library as Incubator for Digital Scholarship

by Bryan Sinclair, Educause Review

By leveraging technology, we can open new doors to scholarly inquiry for ourselves and our students. Through new collaborations, we can create exciting shared spaces, both virtual and physical, where that inquiry can take place. The library is a natural home for these technology-rich spaces.

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