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Navigating Your Journey to Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

In Mount Olive, school officials were initially doubtful the district could support virtual learning. The district distributed 1,300 Chromebooks to its middle school students and decided to pay $4,600 to provide wireless access for any student who didn’t have it at home. “We Then they hatched a last-minute plan. Thanks @E_Sheninger !

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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

eSpark works on all devices–desktops, Chromebooks, iPads (with the free app)–pretty much whatever digital device you use in your classroom. In fact, some students can be working on Chromebooks while others use iPads. This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use. How to get started.

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5 Digital tools for making the virtual classroom more inclusive

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Inclusivity is achieved through teaching and assessment methods that create a sense of community , provide personalized learning solutions and offer opportunities for active participation. Therefore, online education has to live up to these standards and make students feel safe, confident, and respected to reach their full potential.

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Don’t forget about pedagogy when chasing technology!

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You can’t just order a bunch of Chromebooks and iPads, throw in some software as well, and assume everything else will turn out to be alright. But making investments in ed-tech and urging teachers to embrace technology is the smallest and easiest thing school leaders can and must do.

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The Great Learning Management System Debate: Featuring Canvas, Schoology and Google Classroom

TeacherCast

With personalized learning at the forefront of many school initiatives, the use of learning management systems has become a hot commodity among schools. Coupled with a variety of added benefits, each LMS comes with its own positives and negatives. Classroom isn’t a full-blown LMS. And which one do I choose?”.

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The Big 3's War Over EDU: A Comparison of Apple, Google, and Microsoft

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The collaborative nature of tools and the access to the Drive App Store gives Chromebooks a level of collaborative creation that is good enough for most. The Chromebook struggles are with the deeper levels of multimedia creation like video and audio. As an instructional device and set of tools, they also get the job done.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education. If so, what are they?