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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

NCCE 2020 here in Seattle has just wrapped up. 2003 – In Saudi Arabia due to terrorism in the country, I helped my school set up and run Moodle to do Virtual School. For example, the iPhone was only 3 years old and smartphones were just taking off in 2010. This was our #1 take away from Virtual School in 2010 in Bangkok.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020), you will probably have these characteristics: "You see roadblocks as opportunities, and you have tons of creativity that keeps you from getting bored. Zodiac animal: Rat Rat in Chinese culture is associated with affluence, wealth, and surplus. If you were born in the Goat year (e.g.,1931,

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020.

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

The spring and summer of 2020 were some of the darkest times of my life, personally and professionally. 2020 was a tough year for everybody, and for many people, it was far worse than it was for me. The truth is, I was having more low days than functional days by July and early August of 2020. Y’all know that. Why bother?

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9 Key Classroom Management Skills Backed up with Research

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

[link] Simonsen B, Fairbanks S, Briesch A, Myers D, Sugai G.(2008). Evidence-based practices in classroom management: Considerations for research to practice. Education and Treatment of Children , 31:351–380. Further reading Burden, P.R. Classroom Management: Creating a Successful K-12 Learning Community , 7th Edition. Conroy, M. Stichter, J.

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Preventing Student Debt Problems Begins With Financial Literacy Education

Edsurge

set a new record high for student debt in 2020, surpassing $1.7 As for the share of student debt millennials have amassed, as of the fourth quarter of 2020, 14 million student loan borrowers between the ages of 25 and 34 accounted for $472.6 Department of Education. Yet even those increases can’t account fully for how the U.S.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

airing on Discovery in 2020.) In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. In 2004, she started her Rethinking Learning blog in My eCoach.