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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

Today’s students are digital natives, and increasingly, so are their parents (and many of their teachers). This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. Non-natives could be considered “digital immigrants.”

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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

Ask a Tech Teacher

Blended Learning. Transforming Traditional Classroom Lessons to Online Learning. I can’t list them all, but here are a few I particularly liked: Though online, classes require only basic tech knowledge. A PDF program (like Adobe Reader) and Microsoft Word or Google Docs will satisfy most (all?)

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Resources You Need During Covid-19

Ask a Tech Teacher

A short curated list of resources for teaching online: How-to. Distance Learning with Google Slides –from Alice Keeler. Resources for Teaching Online –from Edublog. Online chats. Adobe Connect –fully-featured with lots of options for meeting students online. Google Hangouts –max. of 10-15 people.

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Social Emotional Connections in Distance Learning

EdTechTeam

For some the idea that “the show must go on…line” is uncharted territory; we can be most powerful if we unite as groups and communities that support learning of all types. . There are a number of online learning platforms or apps that lend themselves to keeping the social and emotional connections in distance learning.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Angela Maiers Tonight - LOTS of 2014 Global Education Conference Updates - Proposal Deadline, Keynotes, and Volunteering

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Sunday, October 19th - Saturday, October 25th Digital Citizenship Week , Join us for Digital Citizenship Week and engage students, teachers, and families in your community in thinking critically, behaving safely, and participating responsibly online. What can colleges do to help foster strong digital citizens?

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.