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‘Students Are Lonely:’ What Happens When Coronavirus Forces Schools Online

Edsurge

Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic. So far, the digital learning plans have been a boon to educators looking for advice.

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A Shopping List for Mathematics in the Digital Age

edWeb.net

Features to support equitable student discourse: An important part of developing problem-solving skills is listening to and learning from others. Rubrics to assess qualitative learning: While all work might not be graded, both students and teachers need to be working toward the same goals. Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning. School is a place where students are allowed to learn, experiment and make mistakes. While it is alright to learn from one’s mistakes, sometimes the mistakes are too costly to bear. Related: 9 Benefits of Interactive eBooks.

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The digital-first district where OER meets iPads

eSchool News

Central Valley is one of several Beaver County school districts finding ways to supplement or completely replace paper textbooks with online materials such as eBooks, downloadable apps and openly licensed educational resources. Teachers can modify and redistribute the materials without violating copyright laws.

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iPads in Students' Hands

wwwatanabe

This was our first year with iPads in the elementary classrooms, purchased with Title funding. Here''s an example from Mrs. Saggio''s class : This was a fabulous formative assessment because there were students who really could apply various meaning and creatively show this, while other students could only think of one way to use the word.

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Kasey Bell’s 8 Great Ways to Use Google Slides

The CoolCatTeacher

From stop motion to video controls and cool add-ins for formative assessment and graphics, learn about this Swiss Army Knife of Google tools – Google Slides. One of the ways that I think is one of my favorites is creating an eBook inside Google Slides. Google Slide Tip #2: Create an eBook. Kasey: Absolutely.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. Big Universe is now available in the U.S. exclusively through FuelEd.

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