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What’s edtech got to do with growth mindset?

Neo LMS

It was the first week of fifth grade and I was so ready to learn History. I had spent the previous summer poring over an Ancient Egypt book so it had to become my favorite subject. As a consequence, the whole day was spent contemplating how will I ever get that knowledge and whether I was going to fall behind. Sounds familiar?

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15 Edtech items to include in your back-to-school checklist for teachers

Neo LMS

English Year 10/2022-2023 with an orange color scheme and a specific image is a good example of how to organize your classes easier even when you have two or three classes on the same subject and level. This way, everybody knows what to expect and how to behave online and offline. Add competencies for each class .

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OPINION: The time has come to stop assigning letter and number grades

The Hechinger Report

How can we maintain the same or a similar grading metric during times of unprecedented challenge? As educators, we have a responsibility to reimagine our habitual mindsets about how to evaluate student progress. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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OPINION: Why we need a new pedagogy for our post-Covid future

The Hechinger Report

The author’s daughter has spent much of the pandemic learning how to problem solve with her sewing machine. Early in the lockdown, my 10-year-old daughter learned how to use a sewing machine by watching YouTube videos. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

Edsurge

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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When to Teach Online Classes Live and When to Let Students Learn on Demand

Edsurge

Asynchronous Can Still Be Interactive If instructors get creative, they can build personalized interactions into asynchronous teaching, argues Michelle Eaton, director of virtual and blended learning for a school district in Indianapolis. Start with the skills for lifelong learning and learn those.”

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New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

The Hechinger Report

“We don’t have to focus on math, because they’re already good at math,” said Yoon Jeon Kim, a research scientist in MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab who is monitoring the effort to see how well it works. “We So we can concentrate on how to teach.”. So we can concentrate on how to teach.”. Yoon Jeon Kim, MIT Teaching Systems Lab.