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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

Kitaboo on EdTech

At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a sudden shift towards online learning not leaving teachers and students enough time to adapt to the new platform and technology.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

Gutierrez and Williams spent 90 minutes standing on the sidewalk outside the house in the Texas sun, at arm’s length from the students, showing them how to sign into Google Classroom on their school-provided Chromebooks and helping their father figure out passwords. We don’t have eyes on our students. Credit: Monica Williams.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

Basic tasks like following written directions eluded students. In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Then the pandemic arrived.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Brown’s virtual students aren’t required to turn on their cameras, so he can’t tell whether they’re paying attention. In person, his classes are fun, and the students engaged: “I relate whatever it is that we’re doing to something closer to real life,” he said. Few speak up. The effects are showing up in test scores.

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