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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

With limited education opportunities available inside the camp for the 13-18 age group, Hello Future saw a gap that could be bridged through media and digital literacy, the ability to find, create and share content online. Credit: Photo Courtesy of Charlie Grosso/Hello Future. They had something more important: basic digital literacy.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. I use this tool when students are making Scratch video games for them to record their games and explain their scripts. Listen Now. Enhanced Transcript.

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How one school is coping with mental health: Social workers delivering technology, food and counseling to kids at home, and open office hours all day — even when school is out

The Hechinger Report

Several times a week, Ericka Santiago-Diaz can be found driving around her low-income, underserved school community in New Jersey’s Asbury Park with bags of school supplies, replacement technology, food and donated clothing in the back seat to deliver to students. Sometimes the student needs a little bit more than that school counseling.”

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Orientation Inspiration 2017

NeverEndingSearch

games and Pokemon Go scavenger hunts. To collect the emoji, they will scan the Seesaw QR code, listen to the video in Seesaw, talk as a team, and cross the emoji off on their game board. game board to print. Game board image (PNG file) to download and add to your Seesaw class. Engagement. Gamification.

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How SBG Led Us to Empower: The Tyranny of 82% (Part 1 of 2)

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Let me give you an example. Last week we started a new unit on a concept he had never done before. I have often talked in Edtech Elixirs how digital tools should help us serve an academic objective. For our district, the need for effective standards based grading (SBG) began a search for a transformative digital tool. That's a B.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The New York Times. Indeed, because there was unequal access to learning, many districts initially shied away from offering anything educational at all online, sending only links to optional, self-directed activities, such as math games. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., on March 18, 2020.

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Critical Thinking in Academia and Calling a Spade a Spade

RafranzDavis.com

I started my career in education as a middle school math remediation teacher, a job created for me as a December college graduate. It would be years before I found “my voice” again in my teaching and advocacy. I experienced this with Common Sense media when calling them out on the ridiculous slave game.