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2020: A Clear Vision for Our Learners

User Generated Education

20/20 vision is perfect, high-definition clarity. The question is: How clear is your vision? Specifically, how clear is your vision [for your learners’] futures? ( How to Have 20/20 Vision in 2020 ). The year 2020 can act as metaphor for us, as educators, to have an overreaching vision for what we do.

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3 Reflections and Considerations For Teaching and Learning In 2020

The Web20Classroom

In March 2020 nearly the entire world’s education systems were thrown into the unknown when the COVID-19 Global Pandemic shuttered schools and teaching and learning moved to remote means. Some states are releasing guidance as to how to open safely while others aren’t taking any chances and will continue remote learning in the new school year.

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How to Navigate the Nuances of Anonymous and De-Identified Data in AI-Driven Classrooms

Edsurge

These definitions, while seemingly similar, often lack clarity and consistency in literature and research. A review of medical publications revealed that less than half of the papers discussing de-identification or anonymization provided clear definitions, and when definitions were provided, they frequently contradicted one another.

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How to Teach Divergent Thinking Skills in the Classroom

Waterford

Additionally, divergent thinking strategies teach students how to problem solve.[2] Play this Animal Soup Activity to teach students how to come up with many outcomes to a situation. How to Teach Divergent Thinking. February 2020. How to Teach Convergent and Divergent Thinking: Definitions, Examples, Templates and More.

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How to Introduce Historical Thinking Skills to Your Students, and Why You Should

Waterford

The definition of historical thinking is vague but encompasses several core concepts. Essentially it includes the reading, analysis, and writing necessary to tell historical stories—not just what we know about the past, but how we know about it.[1]. September 2020. What Is Historical Thinking? Sources: Teaching History.org.

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This Cal State Campus Is One of the First to Commit to Online-Only Classes for Fall 2020.

Edsurge

Colleges across the country are considering options for how to operate during the upcoming academic year , yet so far, few have committed publicly to either reopening their campuses or holding classes online. Closures have cost institutions millions of dollars—and in the case of the University of Michigan, maybe even as much as $1 billion.

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Cognitive Flexibility: Paving the Way For Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

The opening two paragraphs sum up the point of the piece nicely: By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology, and genomics. Others are not. What does this skill entail? Spiro & Jehn (1990, P.

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