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Peer Feedback: Making It Meaningful

Catlin Tucker

As a learning community, all members should play a role in providing thoughtful and substantive feedback. Peer feedback is most effective when it is focused, and students have clear guidelines for giving feedback. I believe rubrics should be provided at the start of any assignment, task, or project that will be assessed using a rubric.

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5 Digital tools for podcasting in the hybrid classroom

Neo LMS

Teachers can create personalized materials for lessons, content for research and revision, fun facts, and guidelines that students can easily access on any device whenever and wherever they want. Read more: How to give feedback to students in the online learning environment. Podcasts stimulate and promote creativity.

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TEACHER VOICE: Already affected by crisis in their own countries, refugee students are left behind in online learning

The Hechinger Report

What does this mean for teaching and learning? As reopening guidelines remain varied and in seemingly permanent flux, we must remember that children across the country simply haven’t experienced consistent online teaching and learning. How do we, as educators, stay connected with our students and families?

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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

It can help schools create an active learning environment that is sustainable, collaborative, coherent, focused on specific subjects, and that allows for educators to learn throughout the year. Here are a few guidelines to help you create successful online PD for teachers: Establish what teachers need.

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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. Adding to the cacophony are experts who say that focusing too much on time runs contrary to the fundamental nature of remote learning.

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How to grow your confidence with using edtech these days

Neo LMS

Online education requires the use of edtech, and if we are to continue to educate students, we can’t ignore the online learning environment. It’s easy to get caught in the whirlwind of conflicting ideas, unclear guidelines, and the fear of the unknown. How to grow your confidence with using edtech these days.

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Applying Universal Design for Learning in remote classrooms

Neo LMS

When educators utilize the UDL Guidelines , lessons are designed that provide multiple means of: engagement, representation, and action and expression. From initial learning experiences through assessment, students are offered varied supports and choices that are “designed to the edges” of student interests and abilities.

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