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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

Edsurge

In 84 of 124 reopening plans (68 percent) analyzed by the Center for Reinventing Public Education, a research organization affiliated with the University of Washington, the district is offering guidance or training to parents on how to help students learn at home. Translate important information shared through video, websites, or documents.

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Going Back to School to Learn About Blended Learning

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Education Elements offers personalized learning consulting services and can help schools walk through the process. Portability, community learning, data visualization, learning hubs and learning options. Developing a Video Solution for Low-Bandwidth Classrooms. So that means more blended learning.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

The data just don’t support optimism. According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. CoSN members have been turning to each other for advice and support about how to approach coronavirus and virtual learning. But Holland is not optimistic.

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Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

Digital Promise

We’re excited for the opportunity to spread the word of what’s happening – and what’s possible – in education. Advances in technology and hardware have reinvigorated interest and experimentation in immersive video. VR for Good – Can “Cause-Based” VR Save Us? Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!

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Personalized learning can be a tool for equity or a barrier to it

The Hechinger Report

Juliana Finegan is a managing partner at The Learning Accelerator, a nonprofit that advocates using data and technology to improve instruction. Morgan Tigert, high school special education teacher, Corcoran Unified School District in central California. ”. Flexibility is key, she said.

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How do teachers know if they are getting personalized learning right?

The Hechinger Report

Through working with thousands of teachers and designing hundreds of instructional models, all with the intention of changing what teaching and learning looks like to provide for a more personalized experience, Education Elements identified four core elements that should exist in every personalized learning environment.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

He spends a couple hours by himself, making snacks, doing his homework, and playing video games. The teacher assigns each student to a group and lesson based on her knowledge of that student’s strengths and weaknesses, determined in part by data provided through learning software. That’s what a teacher does.”.