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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar.

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In Teaching, How Much ‘Curation’ is Too Much?

Edsurge

The entire podcast series and the accompanying album would be excellent content in law schools, history courses and political science seminars. The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning, not “deliver” content. Use the concepts learned in a different context? Do I want them to reflect on what they heard?

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

We learned this lesson early on when we had employees with dogs barking in the background, kids running up to them to sit on their laps, and, yes, even a parrot on screen. Phone interviews are also a good way to develop case studies and success stories, preferably with photos of students and teachers using your product.

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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

Every time we interact with them, we learn something new. The lack of this connection makes the whole exercise ineffective. It is time to focus on both skill-based learning and lifelong learning. Additionally, Bloom’s taxonomy can be used to create learning objectives aligned with the course’s outcomes.

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Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

The Hechinger Report

And the team’s efforts have gotten some traction: The school district just approved a strategic plan that calls on staff to “ensure a learning environment that respects cultural diversity.” Teachers need to understand how students’ perspectives may be radically different than their own, and how that affects their learning,” said Guthrie.

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Incorporating Social Media and Digital Citizenship in the First-Year Experience Course

Mistakengoal.com

Part of that program requires (nearly) all undergraduate students to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course and one of the resolutions updated some of the specific outcomes of that course. First, students and faculty will discuss social media using (a) properties of social media identified by researchers and (b) case studies.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

Edsurge

Today, NewSchools and Transcend released a case study that looks at the first Collaborative. EdSurge talked to Benson about some of the findings in that study. They had already begun a process of designing a new middle school, called Nexus Middle School, to be a STEM-based school that incorporated personalized learning.