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Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer)

Dangerously Irrelevant

Others paid attention to the data and rising number of coronavirus cases and used their summers more wisely to design for better remote/hybrid learning and teaching than the mostly-low-level direct instruction, digital worksheets, and paper homework packets that we saw last spring. Instructional leadership with Virginia administrators.

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How Educators Can Support Families of Children with Disabilities During Hybrid or Online Learning

Waterford

The challenges of online learning are real, but there are some basic steps teachers and families can take to encourage educational success. Here are a few ways schools can support families of special needs students. Use Online Teacher Tools to Communicate With Families. United States Department of Education.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. She was also curious how students were faring in other schools. “I But I was wrong.”. Joffe saw an entrepreneurial opportunity.

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Getting up to Speed: Teacher Prep and Technology Integration

Ask a Tech Teacher

Institutions cannot achieve the goal without incorporating technology-based learning into the programs themselves.”. Exposed now are deficiencies of utilizing online learning management systems that school districts face. Here is an excerpt from the publication K-12 Dive recent piece on pandemic learning.

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K–12 Videoconferencing Offers New Opportunities for Understaffed School Districts

EdTech Magazine

K–12 schools are looking for new ways to connect qualified teachers with their students. Videoconferencing tools and online learning environments may be the answer. . With the teacher-to-student ratio increasing by 30 percent over the past three decades to 26.8 Videoconferencing Tools Allow Learning Anywhere.

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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

The change already delivers extraordinary results and 96% of teachers claim that EdTech increases student engagement in learning. The Kudan Elementary School in downtown Tokyo organized the first robot teacher testing as far back as 2009. Online learning. 5 New EdTech tools to watch. Conclusion.

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

Extrinsic motivation, however, is learning because of external factors. Students may be motivated to learn to pass a test, to gain a reward, or to avoid a punishment. An example of extrinsic motivation is a student who is studying so their parents will not ground them for poor grades.

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