Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

We educators understand online learning, probably have taken classes this way, but we haven’t yet wrapped our brains around how to make it work in OUR classes. In fact, the biggest question I get from teachers in my online classes and on my blog is: “How do I do it?” Curricula for online teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

Students on the quad at the University of Washington, one of the first institutions to shift classes online because of the coronavirus. The vice provost promises instruction online will improve. It does kind of turn me off to the idea of online education,” said Abi Glaum, 20, a junior at the University of Minnesota.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2019

In Albemarle County, Virginia, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, radio towers rise above an apple orchard on Carters Mountain, outside Charlottesville. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

The threat of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is forcing educators across the country to think about what they’ll do if they have to close their schools for weeks or even months at a time. State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

They just weren’t ready for distance learning, and a big part of that was that too many students lacked adequate WiFi access to get to virtual class. First, there are states that lack any laws about what connectivity should be provided for education. Cases like 2020’s Cayla J. For instance, prior to COVID-19, Section 12100.8

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2023

Done right, this could be a pivotal moment for higher education to also revamp the postsecondary experience for other underserved learners, including those coming from underresourced rural areas and environments that lack college preparation programming. Currently, there are few educational options for people convicted of a crime.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That changed when his school district in Fairfield County, South Carolina, switched to online learning during the pandemic. Online, he has no problem asking the teacher a question,” said Woodward. That last part is one of the biggest barriers to remote learning in rural areas. Credit: Image provided by Patricia Woodward.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Many offices were arguably ready to go online. Education wasn’t, and the consequences are dire. Related: Coronavirus opens doors to rethinking education. The pandemic should serve as a mandate to recognize, finally, that making education open and accessible to every child involves more than providing seats in a classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

And research indicates that students from low-income backgrounds could fall further behind their peers if learning stops too long and the country sinks into recession. That makes the conversation about education equity essential. But the term doesn’t just mean equipping students with the same devices and broadband access.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. education system. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? Anastasia Betts, VP of Curriculum Planning & Design, Age of Learning.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

.” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. I dislike fraudulent courses. I think the latter."

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But even the best online program is not a panacea, of course. However, it remains clear that more work and investment are needed over the long run to address the digital equity challenge of today and provide robust broadband connectivity for all students in and outside of school.”. Read more about Blended Learning.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

One of libraries’ main goals has been to help children, many of whom have already missed out on a lot, stay engaged, reading and learning at a time when they can’t physically be in the building. For schools that closed and moved to online learning due to the coronavirus, digital access became a necessity overnight.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 8, 2014

We’ve heard a lot of talk these days about open educational resources and online courses and how these platforms can make high-quality learning available for all. The code.org campaign has been touting the potential of online courses to teach kids how to code.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

” Sadie’s teacher reminds her that they’ll be using the educational software that she is already familiar with from her face-to-face classes at Ortega Elementary School: “It’s iReady, so we’ve got that. And that’s true even when online teachers have experience and training with online teaching.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

. - Mahatma Gandhi The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

The tally reveals that Discovery generates more energy through its solar array than it uses over the course of the year. But the K-12 schools leading the net-zero charge are uncovering major educational benefits as well. Everywhere you walk through this building, you can learn from it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Johnson also didn’t want her children to go through the next two months with no educational tools beyond the worksheets she’d picked up from the Greenville Public School District and limited access to online materials through Kentiona’s phone, shared between the four of them. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Kemper is a dedicated advocate for education and learning for people of all ages and backgrounds. Kemper also recently served as chair of the board of directors of the Schools, Health, & Libraries Broadband Coalition, which supports open, affordable broadband connections for local community organizations.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

The post Google Workspace for Education (and other updates you need to know!) – SULS099 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Google just made some HUGE announcements about your favorite Google products, including Google Classroom and officially renaming G Suite as Google Workspace for Education. Listen to this article. .

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Eileen Wood, a first-grade teacher in Stoneham, Massachusetts, joined educators last month in a parade through town to greet students after schools closed. The conversations reminded me why the relationships teachers form with children – and vice versa – are so often the key to educational success. How will we graduate?” said Glick. “I

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity. The organizations referenced in this post are also leaders in the field of educational technology. URL: www.christenseninstitute.org/education. Organization: Code.org ®.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last week I sat on a panel as part of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the education think tank Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). to discuss how public education will adapt to a rapidly changing world. The event brought more than a hundred people to Seattle, Wash., Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

In short, online learning is the reality for a majority of students this fall. The earliest standardized test scores coming out show modest learning loss for students in math, but there are worries that the most at-risk students are not being tested at all. “We could take this as a learning moment,” Weathers says.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the election over, now is the time for legislators and leaders in states and the federal government to turn their attention back to education. First, we have had a total failure of federal and state leadership on education. We have had a total failure of federal and state leadership on education.”.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the series I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. So enjoy all this educational doom while you can.). National) Education Politics. Education in the Courts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The Federal Communications Commission is reconsidering how it regulates the flow of information online, and academic groups are making their case to protect so-called “net neutrality” rules. Mitrano pointed out that the voice of higher education and libraries “dominated when the internet was first made public.”

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Department of Education (ED). education funding overall, with major reductions to after-school and professional development programs. The department also did not respond to questions around how the budget could affect the Office of Education Technology and its programs. Title IV-A received $1.65 billion in fiscal year 2017. “No

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Emergency online teaching. Or just plain online learning. There’s just one problem: millions of students in the country don’t have a reliable way to get online. And among those who do have access, not all have a broadband connection. Of course finding the funds for such purchases is another story.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology. Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

Before enrolling at schools in Utah this past winter, she and her brothers missed out on roughly two years of regular education while their family sought refuge in the United States. Throughout their journey, Vásquez tried to continue educating her children, teaching them addition, subtraction, vowels, painting, and whatever else she could.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Then, without missing a beat, she switched the smartboard display and launched into a multiple-choice quiz using a game-based online learning platform called Kahoot! That would have brought everything—email, online testing, cloud-based records systems and student research—to a halt. More bandwidth, of course, is always better.

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