User Generated Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

I definitely liked the thrill of winning but equally so interacting with my friends while we played the games. The pandemic has brought about huge disruptions in normal life for humanity as a whole. I understood this was a problem throughout our time doing remote learning from March, 2020 through the end of the 2021 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Not reading yet or knowing how to use a computer or mouse or knowing how to use a keyboard — everything takes longer and requires my help. million — pre-pandemic prediction for 2020-21 kindergarten enrollment. In West Virginia, kindergarten teacher Holley said she feels better about the experience of her in-person students.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 17, 2021

Teach your young students how to protect themselves from phishing attacks and how to use multiple email features such as mass emailing. The internet can be an amazing place for your students to learn about subjects they may have never known about before, but there are still dangers online. Photo courtesy of Pexels.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Today I'm talking about six apps for digital note-taking. First of all, let's talk about selecting your software. If a paper notebook works for you, use it and be unapologetic about it. They have over 100 mil users on all their apps, so they did just release in January 2020 for a new interface. They fixed search.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Most people naturally follow routines in their everyday or professional lives, whether we think about it much or not. In your brick-and-mortar classroom, routines let your students know when to come and go, where to sit, when and how to complete assignments, and how to enter and leave the classroom. How to submit work.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Iditarod Teacher: How to Connect and Learn from the Iditarod Race. So Heidi, tell us about this opportunity and what you’re going to be doing. Vicki: What do your students think about this opportunity? How are your students feeling about you going? They love learning about the Iditarod. Enhanced Transcript.

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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. As we think about summer options for either taking a break throughout the day or looking for ideas to use in the future, it is important to focus on options that will provide more than just learning experiences related to the content.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Keep reading to find out more about the design and research activities that informed the making of the app and other CT learning activities for preschoolers. How computational thinking can support early learning. Want to learn even more about our work with CT and early learners? Co-design as an inclusive approach to innovation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2024

In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. In summer 2020, EdSurge profiled nine first-year teachers to understand what it was like for them to launch their careers during the pandemic year (2019-20). Read the original story, from August 2020, here.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

2] Read on to learn how we got here, why it matters, and how teachers can build media literacy in the classroom. Media literacy’s simplest definition is “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms.”[3] Today, social media plays an outsized role in how people get their information.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The murder of George Floyd in 2020 changed American culture, in part by invigorating interest in diversity, equity and inclusion. The report, “ Equity: Definitions and Perspectives of U.S. Educators ,” sought to figure out whether there was consensus among educators and administrators about what equity is.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Definitely.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

It provides millions of definitions, spellings, audio pronunciations, and example sentences that shed light on the meanings of words. Its dictionary is curated by a team of expert lexicographers—the foremost authorities on the American English language—who write definitions and chronicle the history of words.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

In the C&I department, Katie supervises a team of 15+ instructional design coaches that serve about 20 school districts, oversees a national coach mentorship program, and also created and oversees Edge•U Badges, an anytime anywhere professional learning program for educators. To learn about Lumio and how to sign up for FREE, head to LUM.IO

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Educator shea martin knows a few things about being a frustrated teacher—and not being able to say anything about it. Back when they were in the classroom, martin, who uses they/them pronouns and styles their name in lower case, says they would often get complaints about their social media posts relating to racism and education.

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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. Chris is passionate about leading empowerment organizations, designing innovative instructional systems, and accomplishing both in the context of meaningful, team-oriented relationships. So how do we develop leadership now?

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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 Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

Yet UMaine has managed to increase its undergraduate enrollment during that period by about 5 percent. Incoming freshmen at the University of Maine pick up information about student clubs. It’s not about, ‘We want to have you.’ I definitely felt more welcomed,” Jeffrey said. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The rapidly evolving conditions for teaching and learning in response to COVID-19’s collision with other, simultaneous disasters—natural and man-made—disrupted and overturned everything we thought we knew about educating our students, maintaining a positive school climate and community, and supporting educators’ and students’ health and well-being.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. If we want to truly equip our students to understand and navigate the political environment that exists today, we have to think about how we teach the discipline of history more broadly.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2024

At the University of Connecticut, a rule took effect at the start of the fall term about what it calls motorized personal transportation vehicles – they cannot enter any campus building. Kirsten Gillibrand said at a press conference last year about the grant. Back then, the primary concern was accidents.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Definitely, download the lesson plan and entry forms now. Then, enter between November 1, 2019, and January 31, 2020. How to Use the U.S. Consequently , this contest will also spark practical discussions about the history of automobiles. Specifically, this art contest combines design thinking and the arts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This important insight has echoed in my mind over the years, and it raises serious questions about the role schools play in supporting students’ mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that schools need more mental health counselors, but what about when trauma occurs in schools?

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

AUGUST 9, 2022

I'm definitely experiencing a lot of emotions as I look back both at my professional journey in Shelby as well as thinking about my daughter reaching the halfway point of her schooling. In an article about the NGLC report in Forbes magazine , our vodcast series was mentioned again at length. That brings us to last month.

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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. Talk About Race Early and Often.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite its efforts, the district suffered a big ransomware attack in 2020. It can amount to states saying “do better” without explaining to districts how or what that would even look like, she says. In some cases, state laws aren’t even clear about what the privacy officer job’s definition is, she adds.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Their idea: train career and technical educators to teach students about the field and build a pathway from K-12 to a career.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

During the COVID-19 shutdown of spring 2020, she taught herself to garden and started reading a book about Mexican-American history—her own history, as she puts it—called Radicals in the Barrio. Kamal, a Tajik-American senior, taught himself about cryptocurrency and how to invest in stocks. She was not alone.

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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. Lately, he’s in good spirits, in part because he feels ownership over how he spends his time after school. The organization also began surveying both youth and instructors about what their needs were.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

She had a “near photographic” memory and didn’t need to study, she said, so she never learned how to. I’m sure for everybody, including the big systems, like universities, it’s not a simple transition to this new way of thinking about neurodiversity.” In part that’s because definitions of neurodivergence vary.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

What about competitive video gaming? As it turns out, there’s no one definitive answer. Choose one definition and esports qualifies as a sport. Let’s look at what some experts have to say about the matter. ” At first glance, this definition seems to back the assertion that esports is not a sport.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

Just about the only traffic on the way is an occasional stray chicken. 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. The college has closed permanently.

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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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