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How to Engage Kids in Distance Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Whatever happens, online learning will play a huge role in our teaching. What better way to understand online learning than to take your summer PD online through Advancement Courses? With Advancement Courses, you never stop learning. She was a New York State Teacher of the year finalist for 2018 and 2020.

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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity. Thu, 09/27/2018 - 15:46. As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. About 4,600 people showed up for a recent webinar, Chang says.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. The sudden shift in the learning environment last year may have provided an obstacle for the way we wanted to see this happen. Read the article or watch the webinar. Thanks so much.

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#DLNchat: How Could Artificial Intelligence Shape the Future of Higher Education?

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Cali Morrison (@calimorrison) March 27, 2018. Farrar (@sent1nel) March 27, 2018. Register now for the EdSurge webinar, How Analytics Can Support Student Success in Higher Ed , April 25, 2018 at 12 pm PT | 3 pm ET. DLNchat [link] — Prof Straight (@RyanStraight) March 27, 2018. DLNChat — Joshua K. What do you think?

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#DLNchat: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning?

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If you learned what you needed to know by reading one chapter of a book, did you “fail” at reading it? DLNchat — Dhawal Shah (@dhawalhshah) April 10, 2018. Register now for the EdSurge webinar, How Analytics Can Support Student Success in Higher Ed , April 25, 2018 at 12 pm PT | 3 pm ET. Sponsored by Salesforce.org.

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When Teaching the Holocaust, Heed These Three Recommendations

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They seek to ensure that students learn the basic facts of Holocaust history—no small thing, given that a 2018 survey documented that 66% of American millennials cannot explain what Auschwitz was and 41% believe that 2 million Jews or fewer were murdered. Getting Started with Holocaust and Human Behavior : a self-paced online course.

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