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Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin

Ask a Tech Teacher

In fact, it’s transformed 21st-century education, offering a normative tool for adapting to varied student needs, a scalable approach to differentiating for student learning styles, and a collaborative must-have with its vast offering of virtual meeting and storage options. Infrastructure. Online Course delivery system.

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Remote Learning Teaching Tips

A Principal's Reflections

Leverage an adaptive learning tool if your school or district has purchased a license. If not, consider this PreK – 12 resource from Khan Academy or some tools highlighted HERE. If technology resources are available, then the best comprehensive strategy to pursue is real blended learning.

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Developing Asynchronous Remote Learning Tasks

A Principal's Reflections

To create empowering opportunities for all kids that involve more ownership over their learning requires us to think beyond synchronous learning that is just online. Asynchronous learning provides much-needed flexibility that better meets the needs of both students and teachers by relinquishing the familiar rigidity of school.

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Looking for Summer Activities? Try These

Ask a Tech Teacher

In summer, we can meet students where they want to learn with topics they like by offering a menu of ungraded activities that are self-paced, exciting, energizing, and nothing like school learning. Service Learning. Khan Academy. Think about what students don’t like about school. Write an ebook.

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The Benefits of Video in the Digital Classroom

ViewSonic Education

Digital-based learning benefits students. Blended learning and flipped classrooms. When teachers leverage technology, learning outcomes improve. Educators are striving to transform learning environments to meet changing needs. 84% said that school tech adds value to their child’s learning.

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Coronavirus opens doors to rethinking education

The Hechinger Report

With school buildings closed and students in need of more flexibility while they work from home, the idea that students should get credit for meeting learning objectives no matter how they prove it or how long it takes them seems like a particularly logical alternative.

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8 Essential Books Every Tech-Minded Teacher Should Read

Ask a Tech Teacher

From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning. This book is a collection of essays which demonstrates how modern technology is challenging the traditional models of education in order to meet the needs of today’s students. Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. by Michael B.