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Data and Your Digital Adoption
Utilize these strategies for using data to inform decision making around technology rollouts, learning initiatives and professional learning.
Authentic Writing and Literacy
Acquire strategies for engaging learners in authentic writing tasks, and digital tools for creating deeper literacy learning experiences.
We’re off to see the wizard: visualizing the road to digital adoption
Your school district has decided to go all in on education technology. Your teachers are using G-Suite and/or other cloud-based tools in their classrooms, and every learner has a device. Maybe you’ve even seen slides about the SAMR model.
Education game changers: EdTech to watch in 2017
Recently, Hapara CEO and co-founder Jan Zawadzki and Hapara’s VP of Business Development, Chris Buja joined Jim Connor on Game Changers Silicon Valley to discuss some of the new technologies that are currently making their way into the education system, including Hapara.
Using data to measure digital literacy
Digital literacy is not a new term. It’s not a buzzword that will fade away in a few years, it is a critical part of teaching learners the skills they need to be successful. Most of us interact with a computer of some sort on a daily basis.
What’s trending from iNACOL 2016
We talk to teachers and educators every day, but attending conferences like iNACOL really amplifies their conversations and reveals some of the big trends happening in K12 education. Below are the top 4 topics we heard trending at iNACOL 2016.
Teaching in the cloud: How to be present with learners
In order to create an environment that is safe and conducive to learning, we have to to find a balance between micromanaging learners’ digital experiences and letting them navigate a digital world without any guidance.
How to make ISTE 2016 a learning adventure
ISTE 2016 is almost here! We’re super excited to meet with teachers from around the world next week in Denver, but we also know that ISTE can be a little overwhelming. So, here are our tips and tricks for making ISTE an awesome learning adventure.
Using technology to rethink summer learning
Summer is a time for learners (and teachers!) to relax and reset. It’s important to keep kids learning, but summer assignments have to be highly engaging to have any real impact.
Congrats, Hapara Certified Educator graduates!
Congratulations to Cohort 3 graduates!
District offers secure exams with Hapara and G Suite
What if you want your secure examinations to be learning experiences and opportunities for learners to express their creativity, and to demonstrate a wide spectrum of their understanding and capabilities? Add the challenge of using Google Apps, and web content. Then what?
Hapara student voice podcast
Hapara Certified Educators Jennifer Struebing and Lisa Harrison spoke with Larry Jacobs of Education Talk Radio to share how they use digital tools to raise student voice in their respective schools.
Hapara Workspace as professional learning hub
Workspace has commanded the attention of our global community of education innovators. Within two weeks of the release of Workspace in August, individual Workspaces had aggregated more than one million views.
Catch learners in the act with Hapara
Educators Cat Tompkins and Tammy Howerton offer five ideas for using Hapara Highlights in this blog post from their desks in Chesterfield County Public Schools, Virginia.
Three ways to magnify student voice in the digital classroom with Hapara
For some, the phrase student voice invokes images of endless student government meetings where the debate about school lunch ends up right where it started. For others, a strong and healthy culture of student voice is the key to motivating students to work hard, be creative, and take care of each other.
Student agency Hapara Certified Educator podcast
Two Hapara Certified Educators, +Aida Awad, and +Evyan Wagner, share their thoughts on student agency with Larry Jacobs on Education Talk Radio.
Hapara Certified Educator Spotlight: Aida Awad, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
The Hapara Certified Educator (HCE) program is designed to help edtech integrators, professional developers, instructional coaches, and teacher-innovators adopt best practices in leveraging Hapara Instructional Management.
Hapara is EdtechDigest Cool Tool finalist
Hapara’s Instructional Management solution for digital learning with Google Apps was chosen as a finalist for EdtechDigest’s Cool Tool Award.
Hapara Certified Educator Spotlight: Anthony Speranza, Melbourne, Australia
Anthony Speranza is a member of our Hāpara Certified Educator (HCE) program designed to help edtech integrators, professional developers, instructional coaches, and teacher-innovators adopt best practices in leveraging Hapara Instructional Management.
Hapara plays nicely with your LMS
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are growing in popularity in primary and secondary education settings. At Hapara, we are getting more requests from schools that use LMS’s like Schoology, Edmodo, and Canvas to make it easier for Hapara’s Instructional Management System (IMS) to seamlessly integrate with these LMS’s.