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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

The old-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is well-defined and will likely revolve around personalizing resources and texts to help students reach a goal defined by a teacher or the district. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different.

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Transitioning to a better solution: How one NJ district is switching to H?para for the benefit of all

Hapara

Our school has decided to go above and beyond and offer Google Meet for absent students to see what the teacher is teaching that day,” Duffett said. So teachers who were at home but felt well enough to teach online used Google Meet and H?para The pandemic definitely brought a priority to using these online resources,” Duffett said.

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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

Does the conference meet your school’s ed tech goals? This strategy also helps attendees save time that can be used instead for longer product demos, networking or simply for taking some reflection time in between sessions. The NEO team will be happy to meet you there! Why are you attending the exhibition in the first place?

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Understanding and Addressing the Surge of Chronic Absenteeism

Edsurge

This definition differs from truancy, which only calculates unexcused absences. It is typical to see a larger number of high school students marked as chronically absent, but at the elementary and middle school levels, there has definitely been an increase since COVID. While the U.S.

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How We Began Online Learning Successfully

The CoolCatTeacher

The teachers were trained on zoom before we left last Thursday Last Saturday, Google Classroom Guru, Alice Keeler streamed live with me for 2 1/2 hours as we did a duo demo of all of the things in Google Classroom showing both sides of how it works. I’m meeting more parents. This includes how to organize files, how to grade.

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The Social Institute Unveils Curriculum for 4th Graders on SEL

eSchool News

The Social Institute today announced that it has expanded its pioneering social-emotional learning curriculum to meet the needs of fourth grade students, available beginning in January of 2021. There is definitely a need for that conversation in fourth grade as so many students are getting laptops for the first time.

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ASU+GSV, the “Go-To” Conference for PreK-Gray

edWeb.net

I was still able to have the conversations, meet new people, experiment with new education products, and listen to extraordinary speakers who are, in myriad ways, changing the planet for good. Since that time, I’ve already dug into my own demo, set up by an extremely helpful and responsive staff. The feedback was resoundingly positive.