MESD & CESD Digital Learning News

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Welcome to the MESD+CESD Digital Learning Newsletter! This monthly newsletter includes resources and information to support digital learning in the classroom to empower students to become active critical thinkers, creators and responsible digital citizens.

This month's newsletter includes:

AI Empowered EDU Conference: Registration Open
News Literacy Project: District Fellowshop Program
East County Library to Open May 16th
Oregon Google Educator Group
Articles for Thought
Monthly UDL Resources
AI Resources
Monthly Tech Highlight: Google Vids

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General Registration is Now Open for our AI Empowered EDU Conference! The Conference is scheduled for May 12th at the University of Portland. We have many great speakers lined up and look forward to another great day of learning and conversations. Grab your ticket today before they run out!!

Tickets are going fast!! Get Yours Today!

Join the Library Advisory Board!

Make an Impact on your Community!

East County Library seeking 4 new members - and we especially want young voices at the table.

Members help shape library policy and the budget.

We’re encouraging applications from youth, people of color, and East County residents (east of 82nd Ave).

🗓 Meetings: 2nd Tuesday of every month

Find out more & apply online (printable application also available):

🔗 https://multcolib.org/governance/library-advisory-board

Did you know that Oregon has a Google Educator Group that meets the first Thursday of every month?By joining this group, you will become part of our community and learn more about the innovative ways educators are using technology to support teaching and learning by using Google for Education tools and more. We share in-person and virtual events which you can join and will invite you to take part in community events run by both us and out partners. Click here to learn more and join the Oregon GEG!

The Visible Learning research synthesises findings from 1,400 meta-analyses of 80,000 studies involving 300 million students, into what works best in education. Click here to see 250+ influences on student achievement.

A two-part infographic. Top section: "From Reactive Triage" (digital translation tools where the machine does the cognitive lifting) versus "To Proactive Tier 1 Systemic Design" (translanguaging using a student’s full linguistic repertoire to build conceptual understanding). Bottom section: "Building Systemic Support" via three strategies: 1. Comprehensible Input (visuals and gestures), 2. Strategic Partnering (mastering content in L1), and 3. L1 Planning with L2 Production (bridging thoughts to English drafts).

One of the first large-scale studies to explore how young people’s AI use intersects with their social lives, emotional wellbeing, and the relationships around them.

Surveying 2,400 people ages 13–24, we asked not whether AI is good or bad — but what’s actually happening, for whom, why. What we heard back was a story that was much more nuanced, human, and insightful than the dominant narrative about this generation and this emerging technology.

Click here to read the full report