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Want to Help Schools Closed by COVID-19? Don’t Pitch Them Right Now.

Edsurge

News that schools and districts across the country are closing campuses and preparing to transition their staff and students to online learning have led to a flurry of questions and, subsequently, people lending support. For that, I’m definitely grateful.” Still, she appreciates the sentiment from company officials. “I

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Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now.

Edsurge

Asmaa, Ismail and their peers in public education were caught in the perfect storm of school closures and an unplanned and awkward move to online learning. Just as school terms were ending in the U.S.,

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From digital citizenship to digital leadership in a South Carolina elementary school

Hapara

The certification training definitely helped us understand the ins and outs of H?para To differentiate levels of learning, we put students in groups through Highlights to create small learning groups. Highlights is also helpful when students are remote or online learning to guide browsing for students.

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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

The Hechinger Report

Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms.

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PROOF POINTS: Fixing online credit recovery remains elusive

The Hechinger Report

The online software was a lot cheaper than paying a teacher and graduation rates went up. Journalists discovered cheating scandals and evidence of low-quality instructional materials. Los Angeles had to pay teachers their usual salaries, plus the cost of the software license for the online program. ”We

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. education system.

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