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Digital Learning Theories and Frameworks to Elevate Instruction

Teacher Reboot Camp

Currently, I teach the online course, Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage the Power of Distance Learning for graduate and continuing education credit. I often reference the ideas and research by McIsaac and Gunawardena in the Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. Picciano McIsaac, M.

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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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MLTI is not a Tech Buy or Commodity. It’s a Learning Initiative.

More Verbs

The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) has been around since 2001, providing 7th & 8th Grade students and teachers with devices and more. Recently a new piece of “Concept Draft” legislation popped up: LD 137: An Act To Make the Maine Learning Technology Initiative More Cost-effective.

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New Dean of Harvard Business School Online Aims for Modular Courses, More Diversity

Edsurge

EdSurge: Did you experiment with online courses while you were leading Barnard College? So we set up this committee that I called the COOL committee—the Committee Of Online Learning. We asked, “How do you take a small women’s liberal arts college in Manhattan and how should we go online?” Debora Spar: Barnard is small.

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. This is essential to access education”.

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How Three Nonprofits Are Connecting Kids With Diverse Mentors During the Pandemic

Edsurge

and Mexico, Kenya and Kuwait joined the calls and learned about STEM careers and other cultures, opening up opportunities for these students that may have never existed if not for the pandemic. They traveled the country in a green RV, interviewing a wide variety of people to learn how they found their path in life.

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Top Tips for Teaching Online From Educators Doing It Now

edWeb.net

And to provide a stable structure for the school day, she keeps to routines and established office hours, follows the Indiana time recommendations for continuous learning, and disconnects in the evening. In regard to the online content she provides, Olivia focuses on making it accessible through the use of pictures, emojis, and screen shots.