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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

After helping teachers transition to online learning during the pandemic, she began writing about her experiences, including a chapter on online learning in Like No Other School Year. She also wrote a full guide to online and digital learning, A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning. .

EdTech 301
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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

They can fill out a simple Google form, add their name to ClassroomQ, or put a post-it note with their name in a box labeled “waiting room” on the front board. When I facilitate training sessions on playlists, I use a backward design approach to guide teachers through the process (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005).

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Coping with COVID in the Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

She graduated with a BS in Education in 2005 and set out to teach in the gorgeous green Pacific Northwest, where she and her husband lived. Over Spring Break we set up Google Classroom pages, learned how to do Zoom, and created packets of papers for students’ families to pick up and drop off outside the school weekly.

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Online Learning Does Not Mean Sans Engagement

Fractus Learning

It’s now 2016 and educators still have not discovered the power of infusing a balance of asynchronous and synchronous technologies, as well as engagement into their online classroom. Online learning does not need to be mechanical in nature. Engagement needs to take place in the online learning environment.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

2005 – In Shanghai I helped to set up, run and train teachers to go Virtual School-though we didn’t end up closing due to SARS. In the two times that I was in Virtual School, we learned that teachers often gave way too much work for students to do at home. This was our #1 take away from Virtual School in 2010 in Bangkok.

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New Semester, New Students Begins With A Promise

Fractus Learning

Joseph Cavanaugh’s research has found that teaching a course online consumes more instructor time than teaching the identical course face-to-face (2005). What you will not see in the halls are the online educators. I am told through folklore, we also appear on Google Hangouts and Skype. Be A Social Butterfly.

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Build Labeling Games with Quizlet Diagrams

Learning in Hand

Quizlet has been around since 2005, and the study tool continues to add new features. After your diagram is created, you can copy its URL and share it anywhere: Google Classroom, through a QR code, URL shortener, website, hyperdoc, etc. If you want to learn more about Google Drawings, then you’re in luck!

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