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3 Ways to Streamline Expectations While Making Things Easier for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Students and families win as they have on-demand access to resources. Whether remote or hybrid, many schools have relied on a video conference platform for synchronous instruction and learning. For discourse and collaboration , selecting a video conference platform that has breakout room capability is a must, in my opinion.

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Improving Accessibility Often Falls to Faculty. Here’s What They Can Do.

Edsurge

But a common problem prevented that: some faculty have been slow to catch up with technological advances, and many wait until students ask for accomodations rather than having accessible materials from the start. “I It’s often up to faculty themselves to ensure all students can access their learning materials. Simply, awareness.

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4 Great examples of edtech that eases parent-teacher communication

Neo LMS

Teachers and parents can communicate in real-time within privacy guidelines. Seesaw keeps parents in the loop with permanent access to students’ digital portfolios where they document their learning. Teachers can post updates, share pictures, or schedule parent-teacher conferences.

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Creating a safe environment for online learning

Neo LMS

When setting up passwords for online access, students must use a complicated password that includes letters, numbers, and special characters. On the subject of communications, it is also a good idea to put guidelines in place for the types of emails that your students should and shouldn’t open.

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Science of Reading Training for Teachers: A Guide for School Administrators

Waterford

Specific laws and guidelines vary, which is why it’s important to familiarize yourself with the information on your state’s Department of Education website. Once you know your state guidelines, hold a survey or all-faculty meeting on possibilities for your training plan.

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Whether synchronous online course activities meet accessibility guidelines may depend on how you use them.

IT Bill

Web-conferencing can be used to prepare students for upcoming assignments, review recent material, offer virtual office hours, and more… but what about accessibility? Our campus recently adopted a policy that essentially requires all online instruction meet accessibility guidelines. to be read by screen-reader software.

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Should AI be STOPPED?

The CoolCatTeacher

We should not risk loss of control of our civilization (But then again, who can really claim control as we indiscriminately launch satellites into a largely unregulated space above the earth and provide Internet access to every corner, some of which may or may not want to be on the grid.) Every tech tool should protect the young.