Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Last March, Zoom, the ubiquitous online conferencing platform, became a staple of daily life for many students and educators as learning shifted online. Millions downloaded it—and first learned of it—back in early 2020, when lockdowns forced billions of students online, and at least 100,000 schools onto Zoom.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 24, 2020

I recently presented for the Minnesota Distance Learning Summit, Teacher Zen During Distance Learning. Below is a video recording of the presentation along with slides, tips, and copyable free resources to help you find some zen. Check out more amazing presentations from the summit here ! Presentation Slides.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 11, 2020

I recently presented for the Minnesota Distance Learning Summit, Teacher Zen During Distance Learning. Below is a video recording of the presentation along with slides, tips, and copyable free resources to help you find some zen. Check out more amazing presentations from the summit here ! Presentation Slides.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. The role of technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The last few weeks of school can be the hardest – even in a face to face classroom. Some teachers are finding that online, it is almost impossible.Are your grade books like Swiss Cheese? With Advancement Courses, you never stop learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2020

Student engagement and empowerment were evident at FETC 2020 in Miami, FL. Topics ran the gamut from the latest tech tools and personalized learning strategies to funding, supporting, and sustaining district technology initiatives. Related content: 5 reasons to integrate STEM into online learning.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 7, 2020

Schools that had the fundamentals in place in 2020 had a much easier transition to online learning then those who were only beginning to figure it out. This includes the following: · A learning management system (LMS) such as Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Schoology, or Brightspace. ·

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Neo LMS

MARCH 16, 2021

The global pandemic has changed the education experience as we continue to live in an extraordinary age of mass school closures and distance learning. billion – from 2019 to 2020. billion – from 2019 to 2020. Despite this growth, however, the pandemic has not been smooth sailing for schools and online education providers.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the nicest advantages that some students enjoyed about the spring version of online learning was the relaxation of the bell schedule. Read more: Adopting the asynchronous mindset for better online learning. Read more: How to facilitate meaningful discussions in hybrid or virtual classrooms.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. The change already delivers extraordinary results and 96% of teachers claim that EdTech increases student engagement in learning. 3D learning. Game-based learning. Online learning. 5 New EdTech tools to watch.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

Families are just saying “No” to the public classroom experience and instead are opting for homeschooling, charter and magnet schools, virtual schools or a blending of multiple options. It’s the 800-pound gorilla in the classroom. Students are walking out on traditional public schooling and into a better learning experience.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

Online learning bloomed, students helped each other, the community contributed with knowledge, moral and financial support, and social interaction was kept alive. This way, teachers kept students motivated and engaged in their online classes. When schools closed, education had to go on.

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Neo LMS

JULY 7, 2020

Each of these requirements would present a challenge in planning during the school closures as well as over the summer, when many schools provide learning opportunities and camps related to these areas for their community. Read more: Adopting the asynchronous mindset for better online learning. Connected Camps.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2020

If your teaching has been moved online in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, learn which webtools make online learning exciting for kids and easy for you in this class–starts March 23rd! MTI 562 starts Monday, March 23, 2020 . Develop the core of a Personal Learning Network. Click to sign up.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

As 2021 kicks off and we set our resolutions for the new year, we pledge our organizations’ continued efforts to respond to educators’ professional learning needs. For example, Gwinnett County Public Schools designed an online learning system (eCLASS) to support emergency online learning needs.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on August 13, 2020, in Open Access Government. The ideal learning process for a student is one that adapts to that student’s every need: the surrounding environment, the actual content of the lesson, the method of delivery, the types of assessment — and everything in between.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 22, 2020

prepare for online and blended learning, more and more schools are relying on Google Classroom and Google Meet to deliver online lessons and assignments. In this post, I will share how to integrate Google Classroom with Google Meet. Here’s what you need to know: What is Google Classroom?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

Two months after the COVID-19 crisis forced educators across the United States to leave their classrooms and start teaching online, the scope of the changes and challenges have now become clear, and educational leaders have started to identify what’s working and what still needs improvement. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today! Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect? Presenters have been invited to present on a broad range of education, teaching, and learning topics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2020

Here are some great suggestions for teachers who have to start fast with little preparation: Here are three webinars from the knowledgeable Richard Byrne: Three Free Webinars About Transitioning to Teaching Online . Distance Learning Strategies for Education Leaders, Part 1. Date: March 17th, 2020. Date: March 20th, 2020.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But they’re still teaching in classrooms and living rooms across the country. That alone is a comforting answer to how teachers rise to challenges and keep learning going. Their regimented schedules disappeared as well, leading many to wonder: How much time should students spend each day on remote learning?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. Let’s start with the basics.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were beginning in March 2020 and continuing up to present day, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us many things–chief among those lessons is that our educators are truly heroes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

That sounds simple, but it means that teachers have to track students who are only present in Zoom squares while watching others at desks in the room. Student failures during the 2020-21 school year prompted three districts in the study to abandon the dual approach and split into separate in-person only and remote only classes. . “You

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2020

-based think tank New America , the three authors—an instructional designer and two former teachers—lay out four possible scenarios for what school will look like in the 2020-21 school year, based on present understanding of the COVID-19 virus and health experts’ advice for school re-openings.

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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. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page .

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Math is cumulative,” Joel Rose, the chief executive officer of New Classrooms, a nonprofit company that sells math software to schools, once told me. You just can’t learn linear equations if you don’t know how to multiply.”. You would need to randomly assign classrooms ahead of time to each approach and see how the students fared.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Unfortunately, between 15 and 16 million K — 12 learners and 400,000 educators in the United States lacked adequate connectivity , a device or both in 2020. para to differentiate tasks and instruction delivery for specific learner needs and interests to make learning relevant. Relationships are at the heart of education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

From the earliest stages, as Pre-K parents search for activities and resources to nurture their child's growth, to K-12 schools adopting technology to improve student outcomes and operational efficiencies, the impact of modern learning tools is undeniable. Virtual classrooms became the norm.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

With new technologies in place, education leaders are challenged to align their recent investments to what matters most: enabling equity, advancing learning and fostering well-being among students and staff. Together view shows a snapshot of students' emotional states, so teachers can quickly gauge the emotional tone of the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The analysis found the average student lost more than half a school year of learning in math and nearly a quarter of a school year in reading – with some district averages slipping by more than double those amounts, or worse. Lampkin blames the year and a half his sons were away from school buildings from March 2020 until the fall of 2021.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And get a sneak peek of Kasey’s new book, Blended Learning with Google ! Thank you to Bowling Green Christian Academy for inviting me to virtually present! And as the technology and the world’s challenges and opportunities continue to shape the way we learn, these models continue to evolve and grow. Static Learning.

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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 Principal of Change

APRIL 22, 2020

But when an opportunity is presented, it is crucial to capitalize. Sometimes if you want to know if an opportunity is available, you might have to ask.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

About a third of higher education was entirely online before the pandemic, and the rest continued to be delivered face to face in brick-and-mortar classrooms, according to the research company Bay View Analytics. A student walks through a mostly empty college campus in Irvine, California, in October 2020.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

They just weren’t ready for distance learning, and a big part of that was that too many students lacked adequate WiFi access to get to virtual class. Cases like 2020’s Cayla J. Then, there are states that lacked laws prior to 2020, but began responding to the at-home learning requirement with new legislation for future needs.

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