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How Long Should a Remote School Day Be? There’s No Consensus

Edsurge

In an effort to provide more definitive answers, districts, schools and a handful of states have begun issuing guidelines on shaping the school day into something both manageable and productive for students. Variable Guidelines Still, some things are a given, Rice says.

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Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

The Hechinger Report

18, Richmond received an email from the Jefferson County School District: AJ was suspended while the district evaluated his risk of violence, a formal process known as a behavioral threat assessment. Still, policymakers increasingly see the use of threat assessment teams as a viable way to prevent mass shootings.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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What are the benefits of interdisciplinary teaching?

Neo LMS

A widely-quoted definition of interdisciplinary studies appears on the Association website and was given by J. The interdisciplinary projects do not provide strict guidelines to follow. Students are coordinated by a manager who assigns roles such as editor, video director, social media manager, writer, actor, news anchor, etc.

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Offline and Off-Screen Activities for Minds-On Learning

Graphite Blog

Striking that balance can be tricky, especially when schoolwork requires a screen and games and social media are so compelling. Older kids could definitely do a more sophisticated version of this activity. Teachers can even use this activity as a formative assessment. Offline and Off-Screen Activities for Giving.

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101 Ways For Teachers To Be More Creative

TeachThought - Learn better.

If there’s always a definitive right and wrong in your classroom then there won’t be much room for creative thought. ASSESS CREATIVELY. Change how your lessons are presented, assess students in different ways, or give them new and unexpected challenges. Teaching classroom creativity social media teacher'

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Creative Communicator: Unpacking ISTE Standard for Students #6

Tech Helpful

In this case, I'm talking about adults but it definitely transfers over to our students seven-fold! He told them to think of it like creating an Instagram post, but since social media is closed to students at our school, they created their posts using a slide deck. Your students may not have access to social media but you do.