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What is Digital Accessibility? (And Why It’s Crucial at Schools)

ViewSonic Education

Digital accessibility is about ensuring that all users can perceive, use, and operate web content, software, mobile apps, and other forms of digital media. Accessibility Guidelines and POUR principles . One of the indicators that digital accessibility awareness has gained in power is the presence of global guidelines.

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Metaverse Education: What’s Next for Virtual Learning?

ViewSonic Education

Furthermore, metaverse platforms can adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines’ POUR principles , which ensure content is perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust for all. . Many metaverse education solutions place a strong emphasis on the gamification of learning in order to make learning more enjoyable.

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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

Is your course mobile-phone friendly? Consider the academic and social supports students may need outside of class time, such as virtual office hours, time to connect with librarians, and opportunities for research and service learning. Can community guidelines help? Can you deliver content in smaller pieces?

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Empower Your Students with The 4 C’s Learning Menu

Shake Up Learning

Collaboration : Learning and working in groups or teams, locally and/or globally, to achieve a goal. Examples: Ensure there is a purpose to the collaboration and not just group work. Download The 4 C’s Learning Menu. The 4 C’s Learning Menu (template link). Below are two choices to download.

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

. - Mark Nichols, Digital Promise Fellow Citizen Journalism - Lesley Farmer, Professor of Library Media CLASS: Connected Learning Activities through Social Service - Sebastian Panakal, Chairperson Classrooms without Borders: A Teacher's Guide to International Collaborative Projects - Philip J.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 30 Edition)

Doug Levin

She said the age of 13 was related purely to the federal regulation, not safety or childhood development guidelines. NewsWorks → XPRIZE — the nonprofit known for holding ambitious public competitions — has picked eight mobile tools that are supposed to aid adults who read below a third-grade level.

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