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Understanding Teacher Engagement in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

2007; Klassen, Perry & Frenzel, 2012; McIlveen & Perera, 2016; Perera, Granziera, et al., Teacher engagement is a multidimensional motivational construct that reflects a teachers’ choice to dedicate energy resources to their work. What is teacher engagement? I love that the word connection is the largest word in this cloud.

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Balance Instruction and Feedback with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Hattie’s and Timperley’s (2007) research on feedback identified it as having a significant impact on student achievement and learning. They may jump in and out of digital documents leaving comments, suggestions, and linking students to additional resources to help them develop and improve their work. 77, 81–112.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. Be active: Prioritize active digital activities, like online learning games or interactive lessons, over passive activities, like watching a video.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

These experiences come from a wide variety of interests including school education, higher education, workplace learning, consulting, lifelong learning, training, and community education. An Introduction to Self-determined Learning (Heutagogy): Stewart Hase. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt.

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Teachers, cafeteria workers and school bus drivers should be next in line for the Covid vaccine

The Hechinger Report

By failing to pass legislation that would have given states and districts the funding for PPEs and resources to socially distance students, federal legislators avoided the question of how. The operative question is how can we return students to the schoolhouse safely to help restart other aspects of the economy.

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OPINION: U.S. public schools should be federally funded

The Hechinger Report

Schools that lack resources are less effective and resilient in the face of ordinary challenges, let alone unprecedented catastrophes like the coronavirus pandemic. At the local level, these resource disparities regularly align with — and exacerbate — longstanding racial, socioeconomic, ethnic and linguistic divisions in American society.

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. Yet few institutions plan on allocating more resources to enhance student success, advising, or mental health services for students. According to the American Psychiatric Association , the percentage of U.S.

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