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US Edtech Policy Conversations Amidst Coronavirus Concerns with Tom Murray

The CoolCatTeacher

Advancement Courses has a free micro-course – Launching Online Learning. Now is the time we all need to educate ourselves on effective online teaching and I recommend this course as a great place to start. Register for this free micro-course. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it. About Thomas C.

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Coronavirus Chronicles 026 ? Sarah Pyle Academy

Dangerously Irrelevant

Recovery Mode: Educators Emerging From Unexpected and Rapid Change [free e-book]. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Some links to that work are immediately below. Pushing Boundaries website. Pushing Boundaries drop video and YouTube channel.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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 8 Strategies for increasing student self-efficacy in online education

Neo LMS

Develop the ability to plan for future goals. Be more successful in the future, in any career path. Read more: Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills. Why is self-efficacy important in online education? Scientists have researched the concept of self-efficacy in online environments. Wrapping up.

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Platform will beam lessons to rural schools via tablet

eSchool News

The Sri Chaitanya School, a leading K-12 network in the country, partnered with Mobiliya Edvelop to replace books with tablets. In addition to K-12 education, Mobiliya Edvelop has also been driving innovation and futuristic online learning in the Army Institute of Technology (AIT) in Pune, India.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

She has served on the board of the United States Distance Learning Association and has conducted research for the International Association for K–12 Online Learning (iNACOL). She is co-author of the book Digital Solidary in Education (2014). and Mark C.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.