Shake Up Learning

JULY 22, 2020

In this post, I will share how to integrate Google Classroom with Google Meet. Kudos to Google for stepping up to the plate during the 2020 school closures and giving us many free features and updates to help teachers, students, and parents. It’s definitely not a perfect marriage, but we have come a long way in a short time.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

There’s no shortage of peer support programs to evaluate, and tools used to deploy them are evolving to become more professional and accessible in an increasingly digital world. Definitely more scalable options.”. The post Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth? Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Media literacy’s simplest definition is “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms.”[3] The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media.

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Neo LMS

JULY 7, 2020

We have definitely experienced a challenging couple of months in the world and in our roles as educators. Some of the options available include learning how to play the banjo, guitar, harmonica, piano, trumpet, ukulele, or taking voice lessons. The summer break is the time to focus on taking time to reflect, relax, and recharge.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

We are excited to collaborate and take significant strides together toward making education more engaging and accessible.” It provides millions of definitions, spellings, audio pronunciations, and example sentences that shed light on the meanings of words. million linguaphiles eager to enrich their vocabularies.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Inside the spacious facility, students learn more than just how to throw a jab or perform pushups and plank exercises. Mostly state education agencies have spearheaded this charge in creating programming in areas that didn’t have access before, Grant says, adding that the local level paints a less encouraging picture.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Professional development courses on how to implement distance learning are in high demand. In addition, professional development was provided at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year; however, a dollar amount has not yet been allocated to the CARES Act funds.”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Schools across the country were forced to rapidly shift to distance learning last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the 2020-2021 school year began in the fall and teachers and students were still trying to adjust to this “new normal,” those in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program had an advantage.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

What Is Hyflex Teaching and How to Do It Well Part of the LearningRevolution.com “Survive and Thrive!” In this course, we will review the definition of hyflex teaching, talk about its use in both K – 12 and college/university learning environments, and focus on how to teach an effective, engaging hyflex course.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The nearly abandoned campus of Chatfield University, one of more than a dozen rural colleges that have closed since 2020 or announced that they will close. million, the college lost $373,520 in 2020 and $850,202 in 2021 , tax records show. “We The college has closed permanently.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Biologically speaking, their brains are bathing in a constant flow of stress hormones, which evolution has definitely not prepared them—or any of us—to handle. There was no playbook for educating in 2020. When Educators Lean into SEL We never imagined the salience of our letter to educators in March 2020.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The school system as a whole has a problem on their hands: that’s a lot of people who intend to be freelancers or business owners in the not so distant future, yet we don’t teach them how to, at least not at a K-12 level. Read more: How to enhance students’ work-ready skills. Entrepreneurship can definitely be taught.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

I definitely felt more welcomed,” Jeffrey said. Outside in a parking lot, others were learning how to pilot tractor-trailer trucks. The post One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis appeared first on The Hechinger Report. None of it felt forced.”. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

With digital learning likely to stretch into the fall due to COVID-19, how can we ensure every student has equitable access to powerful learning opportunities? Personally, I don’t believe people took the equity and access gap as seriously as they should have in the past because it wasn’t smacking them in the face.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Chris Chappotin has been serving as Assistant Superintendent for Boyd ISD in Boyd, TX since January 2020. Stay tuned at the end of the show for how to get a free account for you and your students. So how do we develop leadership now? Or does your assistant say, “hey, if this person calls, they get immediate access?”

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 4, 2021

How can we make it more accessible to all students? How can we make this happen even in urban areas with less access to nature? Making outdoor learning accessible and equitable. So how can we make it more accessible to all students? Benefits of outdoor learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Given that research predicts a 46% growth of wearables in education between now and 2020, we all need to understand them. Imagine putting a high definition 3D television set inside cool goggles. Furthermore, those pictures can be stored and accessed later when needed. Some even have sound built into them.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

Both are not only on track to graduate, but are working toward definite career goals. And although many of the Promise students would qualify for enough financial aid to attend college for free without this program, figuring out how to complete all the requirements can be daunting. That was definitely the case for Garza, now 19. “It

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Given these disruptions, it’s tempting for schools to narrow their focus on core content learning (language arts and mathematics) to make up for lost learning time in the spring of 2020. But could such a narrow focus prove detrimental? So, what have researchers discovered about social emotional learning in the classroom?

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 24, 2020

On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Signed into law on March 27, 2020, the CARES Act includes four grants and funds that are allocated for different education-related purposes. No-cost access to ST Math. This post was originally published on April 24, 2020, and is updated continuously as new information becomes available.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

Many students in the class of 2024 had their high school experience cut short in 2020, missing prom and graduation, and went on to a freshman year that was either fully remote or required them to spit in a test tube before moving into the dorms, where they lived relatively isolated lives to prevent the spread of the virus.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Given these disruptions, it’s tempting for schools to narrow their focus on core content learning (language arts and mathematics) to make up for lost learning time in the spring of 2020. But could such a narrow focus prove detrimental? So, what have researchers discovered about social emotional learning in the classroom?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2024

Yet the mistakes have been numerous and serious enough that high school counselors and advocates for college access now fear that promising students from the Class of 2024 will end up not going to college at all. If not enrollment, then definitely matriculation,” she added. At times they can sound like a retro gaming cheat code.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 14, 2022

We also spend time learning how to use some technologies, and that’s a mix of my showing them things, them trying them out, and me helping individuals. Top 10 IT Issues, 2020: The Drive to Digital Transformation Begins. Open education definitions: SPARC and Lumen. Open access definitions: SPARC and OSI.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Now, after two years of cobbled-together pandemic learning, many college students not only are less prepared than they should be, they’ve forgotten how to be students. From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

We've been working with a couple of different equity consultants and looking at our achievement data, discipline data, who's participating in our extracurriculars, and looking at our policies to make sure that we're eliminating obstacles to AP classes and access to extracurriculars or anything along those lines. How do we find resources?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

Pines, who took office in 2020. is how to open those opportunities to a wider group of potential students. officials said they are trying to help high school students who may not have access to challenging coursework or expert college counseling. Recruitment and enrollment. In 2019, federal data show, U-Md.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

A 2020 Common Sense research report, Teens and the News , found that a whopping 77% of teens get their news primarily through social media. Make copies of the "Conspiracy Theories 101" student handout (or access the Google Docs version from the handout). Why Are Conspiracy Theories So Popular? Activity steps: 1.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. JULY 19, 2020 · 1:26 AM | EDIT. JUNE 28, 2020 · 7:23 PM | EDIT. JUNE 9, 2020 · 3:18 AM | EDIT. If an LMS is in use, perhaps many educators had just started learning how to create class content area for students and parents online.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Several bills in Congress, including the 2020 College Affordability Act, have proposed requiring colleges to report what they spend on marketing and advertising or ban them from using federal money for marketing if they fall below a minimum amount of spending on instruction. Not everyone can afford to spend this kind of money.

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MindShift

JULY 2, 2020

Currently a children’s author and founder of a media organization that celebrates little-known achievements by African Americans, Parsons was one of several panelists in a recent town hall on “ How to Raise and Teach Anti-Racist Kids ,” hosted by the International Literacy Association. Learn and Reflect. Be Radically Pro-Kid.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 8, 2020

So, enjoy this post written on March 19, 2020 as we were just beginning distance learning… Two weeks ago today my Headmaster put on my radar to be ready to lead forward should our school have to close. This includes how to organize files, how to grade. We have to make learning accessible. Everything you need.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this course, we will review the definition of hyflex teaching, talk about its use in both K – 12 and college/university learning environments, and then focus on how to teach an effective, engaging hyflex course. Large-scale institutional access for viewing with individual login capability: $249.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 17, 2020

It’s not easy to teach, and it’s definitely not easy for our young students to master, let alone enjoy. They aren’t motivated to learn how to make their writing better in many cases, because they don’t fully understand the language, or just aren’t engaged. . © Shake Up Learning 2020. What Are Their Next Steps? .

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