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Virtual Virtuoso: Optimal user experience features for e-learning

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Whether you’re an experienced educator or a parent struggling to adjust to remote learning in the face of the national lockdown, chances are good that you’re looking for ideas to help your student, or students, thrive in the unfamiliar world of the virtual classroom. Read more: Distance learning during the pandemic: Improvise.

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How to Foster a Positive School Climate in a Virtual World

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As COVID-19 upended schools across the country, leaders and teachers transitioned to a remote learning environment with unprecedented speed and managed an array of tactical issues. Professional development around remote learning that typically would have happened over months or years was condensed into a few days.

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3 best practices to create a STEM-focused school

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Even if a student doesn’t select a career in STEM, the soft skills they will learn at a STEM-focused school (critical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving and more) will serve them well in whatever they choose to do in life. Starting at age 5, we offer coding, robotics, virtual reality, STEM-related clubs, and competitive team opportunities.

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How to Keep Student Minds Open to New Worldviews Even When Campus Is Closed

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But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek. Given the importance of college for worldview development and cross-cultural exchanges, can interfaith learning continue in a virtual setting? We believe it can. But will it?

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Classroom Learning

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Key points: Traditional classroom learning is now modernizing Debates remain about online vs. classroom learning Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Classroom learning remains a cornerstone of education, fostering a dynamic environment where students engage with peers and instructors in real-time.

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Struggling With Substance Use Recovery — and High School — in a Pandemic

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Even with the masks and social distancing, it was a better therapy alternative for some students than Zoom. “I Alongside typical academic classes and extracurricular activities, they provide peer support groups, licensed counselors, drug testing and other accountability measures. He is also principal of William J.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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If a structurally sound bookshelf already proved hard to build, how can one ever manage the construction of a modern high-rise building with its intricate and interlocking web of requirements for structural support, safety, disaster preparation and project management, to name only a few of the complexities?

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