The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Tomorrow is our second Library 2.020 mini-conference! Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. Children are learning how to be even more resilient, and technology is helping that happen.”.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Here are four areas we can start: Rapidly Train Our Teachers to Harness Tech Amid historic challenges, with no roadmap and often no experience in remote learning, educators worked tirelessly to keep students learning during the heigh of the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The Class of 2020 is graduating from a distance. That means we must prepare now for the potential that colleges and universities that swiftly shifted to online instruction as the pandemic swept through the country and forced campuses to shutter will have to continue, and even ramp up, those efforts in September.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

As schools, teachers and families face the shock of abruptly shifting to online education, one small question has been how to shift these read alouds to Zoom, Facebook, Google Hangouts and YouTube, the spaces where many classes continue to meet. note : On Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. What Is Fair Use? to 2:30 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Fielding a barrage of texts from then-New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo telling the small liberal arts college how to handle Covid, Jacobson knew she needed more advice. We also learned empathy, new ways of teaching, how to work remotely online and why being together can be so important.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 29, 2020

How to Integrate Google Classroom with Google Meet. How to Use Google Templates and Assign in Google Classroom. How to Package Your Digital Assignments. How to Package Your Digital Assignments. How to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom. General Remote Teaching and Learning. © Shake Up Learning 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Using data from three California Community College districts and student demographic information, researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses. It also doesn’t regulate how colleges handle unpaid fees.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

How to Become a Google Certified Trainer – Learn about the entire process, the application, and everything that’s required! How to Pass the Google Certified Educator Exams – Great tips and information to help you do your best! PottyPD: How to Make the Most of a Captive Audience (FREE TEMPLATE) – SULS043.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. Published with permission.

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PlagiarismCheck

MAY 8, 2023

Just as computers replaced typewriters and Internet searches replaced trips to the library, plagiarism checking has changed the writing process, once again by significantly improving it. After all, they learn to develop their own ideas and think critically, studying other people’s or AI sources. Bus Res 13, 1115–1143 (2020).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

As the struggle continues, a few overarching lessons learned — about equity, expectations and communication — are now helping schools navigate this crisis on the fly. on March 18, 2020. After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 12, 2021

How to integrate BombBomb into the classroom: During the pandemic, BombBomb has been an incredible way for us to communicate and keep connected to our students and their families. Obviously, 2020 wreaked havoc on that daily tradition. BombBomb shows you who opened your email and what they clicked/engaged/watched while they were there.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2021

Fletcher, who is 78, has been teaching for 50 years, but the days since March 2020 have been some of the bleakest of her career. We had to remain calm and do everything we could to help make the students feel more at ease and comfortable with online learning.”. “It I know in my mind I’m doing the very best I can.

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Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

I don't work in a school or a library. I don't maintain the learning management system or the library management software. I don't help faculty move their courses online. People can now see just how impractical and inferior it is to face to face classrooms. Game over." — Tom Bennett, founder of researchED (2020).

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

" Tagged on: July 23, 2017 Education Division Strategic Plan | National Governors Association → NGA's Education Division has a new strategic plan (2017-2020), which includes a focus on personalized learning. Critical Reflection | Inside HigherEd → Achievement (grades) and learning are not always (often?)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

DATE: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 COST: Free REGISTRATION: To register for the mini-conference, join LearningRevolution.com. In moving from classroom-based instruction to online instruction, the role of the faculty member changes from the content presenter to the facilitator of online learning.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 11, 2021

How to integrate BombBomb into the classroom: During the pandemic, BombBomb has been an incredible way for us to communicate and keep connected to our students and their families. Obviously, 2020 wreaked havoc on that daily tradition. BombBomb shows you who opened your email and what they clicked/engaged/watched while they were there.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

DATE: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 COST: Free REGISTRATION: To register for the mini-conference, join LearningRevolution.com. Bell 5:00 PM A 7-step Plan to Improve Your Online Learning Program for Maximum Student Engagement (60 minutes) with Ernie Delgado 8:00 PM Learning and Leading During Emergency Remote Teaching (60 minutes) with A.J.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

How to Become a Google Certified Trainer – Learn about the entire process, the application, and everything that’s required! How to Pass the Google Certified Educator Exams – Great tips and information to help you do your best! PottyPD: How to Make the Most of a Captive Audience (FREE TEMPLATE) – SULS043.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Dr. Gonzales’s district is reaching out to local non-profits for help with the shift to 100% online learning, which cannot be done quickly or cheaply, especially at a time when the district is receiving less state funding. Understanding ESSER, ESF-REM, and GEER. Staying Organized and Healthy. Arati has an M.Ed.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

“At Savvas, we have made it our mission to give educators and families the solutions they need so that their students can get the most out of their learning, no matter where it takes place this year.”. This includes lesson plans, instructional tools, and readiness assessments specifically geared for distance learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In addition to a brief outline of what kids should learn in each grade, they include eight standards for mathematical practice that frame how to do math. Some parents of older kids are finally seeing the long-term benefits of all that early focus on how to think about math. Credit: Jamie Reagan. I know very little about it.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

In early 2020, Nashville boasted unprecedented job growth and low unemployment—good news for residents of Tennessee’s largest city. Nashville Public Library. Nashville Public Library. Service industries like restaurants, hospitality, and skilled construction offered rewarding job opportunities for residents. Begin Anew.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

And now you know how to meet me in the morning.” And that’s true even when online teachers have experience and training with online teaching. Interestingly, Justin Reich, an online learning researcher at MIT, says this isn’t necessarily the best approach to use, especially in the younger grades.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Choosito is a student search engine and digital library. Provide students with tips on how to conduct better searches on popular search engines. Show students how to change the search engine’s settings to discover more credible and relevant results.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead. During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s “Opening” series , we profiled five school communities that successfully reopened during the 2020-2021 school year. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Both of these rural districts faced challenges with online learning, as many families did not have Wi-Fi at home.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Choosito is a student search engine and digital library. Provide students with tips on how to conduct better searches on popular search engines. Show students how to change the search engine’s settings to discover more credible and relevant results.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unlike other popular math practice sites, such as Khan Academy, IXL or ALEKS, in which a computer controls the content, ASSISTments keeps the control levers with the teachers, who pick the questions they like from a library of 200,000. The study, set to test how well the students learned math in spring of 2020, was derailed by the pandemic.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2021

In a New York Times article this past April, entitled " How to Help Your Adolescent Think About the Last Year ," writer Judith Warner notes that: "On and offline, parents are trading stories — poignant and painful — about all of the ways that they fear their middle schoolers are losing ground."

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Library of Congress ) The photos, shot in black and white, are from the early 20th century, and the disease in question was tuberculosis. They created a sort of how-to manual for outdoor learning, detailing everything from campus site assessments and classroom infrastructure to case studies and curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2020, Baltimore County Public Schools was hit with a cyberattack that disrupted the district’s remote learning programs, froze its operations and cost the school system nearly $10 million. Last year, a similar data breach of the Los Angeles school district led to thousands of students’ psychological records uploaded to the dark web.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When the pandemic started, Upchurch knew this would permanently change how students learn. The challenge was how to quickly adapt to the circumstances and make sure all students in the district had easy, affordable, and quick access to the technologies needed to succeed throughout the school year and in years to come.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As Jones County leaders will tell you, this dynamic, one-stop-shop of connected solutions and professional learning services positioned the district well to face the unique challenges presented by COVID-19 and the 2020-2021 school year. Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sophia Joffe, a high school senior who launched a database for enriched remote learning, at her family’s home in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Guiding high school peers through online learning maze. As the coronavirus pandemic intensified in March, Sophia Joffe’s school in Toronto nimbly transitioned to remote learning.

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