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April 22 Learning Revolution Mini-Conference: Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning: Survive, Thrive, & Plan for What Comes Next

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Often distracted and easily bored, these students are also critical thinkers capable of thriving in the online classroom while learning 21st-century skills. In moving from classroom-based instruction to online instruction, the role of the faculty member changes from the content presenter to the facilitator of online learning.

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Wednesday's "Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning" Mini-Conference - New Sessions Added

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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Can You Provide a Quality Preschool Education Over Zoom?

Edsurge

come together for a morning meeting and then spend an hour in the library or doing dramatic play before nap time and a hard stop at 3 p.m. In addition to giving busy parents a break, it allows kids to build connections with teachers and peers on their own, as they might in a classroom. Marisa Kaplan contributed research.

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2021:Year in pictures

The Hechinger Report

The first year of the Covid-19 pandemic was devastating: classrooms emptied, dorms shuttered, livelihoods shattered, millions of lives lost. A math teacher at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix teaching online in an empty classroom. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

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‘We want a kid you don’t have any idea what to do with’

The Hechinger Report

Emily Kaplan, for The Hechinger Report. Earlier this year, Ricketa Bluford, a teacher at the Elk Grove campus of the Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy (SAVA), assigned her students a personal narrative essay. Related: Personalized learning gives students a sense of control over chaotic lives. SACRAMENTO, Calif.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Education Week : “A bill shielding what is now Ohio ’s largest online school and its sponsor from the negative consequences of accepting thousands of former Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow students is headed to Gov. The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. John Kasich for his signature.”