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8 Goal-Setting Tips for Teachers to Prepare for an Uncertain School Year

Waterford

Keep an eye on community guidelines. Restrictions vary depending on the school district and will likely change based on local health department guidelines. One useful and timely teacher goal can be to stay informed about community guidelines as the COVID-19 crisis continues to develop.

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When Education Is Designed for All Learners

Edsurge

Learn more about the tools that Meeks uses in her classroom: The Perfect Pairing: Blended Learning and Edtech Tools For example, using Google Slides, I frame my lesson so that students can see what I'm teaching—meaning they have a kind of visual script—because some students learn best by seeing it, and some may do better with hearing it.

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5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

Have students read digital books and write reviews that can be added to the school library website. When they are ready to write the review, provide a book review guideline that asks them to include book essentials (such as title, age group, author, and copyright ), a three-sentence summary, and a recommendation. Updated Book Report.

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How Edtech Developers Design Around ‘Screen Fatigue’

Edsurge

Among them: “blended learning.” Here are a few guidelines I’ve come up with. Learning is fun and exciting, and technology should reflect that. Teachers have let us know that this strategy is working, with students heading to the library to search for the books they started reading on the site.

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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Week's Events - GlobalEd Waitlist - CoSN - Google Forms - Breaking Down Library Walls - Better Than College - OZeLive Kudos

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The call for proposals for the inaugural Learning Revolution Online Conference will open on Thursday and we''ll be sending a separate email to announce this. This event will bridge the conversations about learning that are taking place in schools, libraries, museums, work places, and home learning worlds. Thanks, Ted!

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

The partnership, entering its fifth year, enables Follett customers to enjoy seamless integration with their Destiny solution, and lets students begin their library experience without delay, saving district staff from having to carry out time-consuming updates.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning. While VLACS has guidelines for course completion time and students use an online chart to track their progress, there’s no bonus for mastering competencies faster than your peers or penalty for taking extra time. Read more about Blended Learning.