eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on student engagement and online or hybrid learning strategies related to pandemic teaching. This year’s 5th most-read story focuses on under-the-radar digital learning tools. During pandemic learning, educators have seen a plethora of digital learning tools and resources, and they’re figuring out what does and doesn’t work for their instructional methods.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning? During the past decade, online education has been driven by enrollments, especially out-of-state enrollments.

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Teacher Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

For fun! Word Searches can be a fun thing for students to do on a rainy recess or after they have finished their work. Here is how to MAKE a word search. The post How to Make a Word Search appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Between school closures, learning loss, intensified educator burnout, widespread staff shortages and increased stressors at home, it’s been hard not to focus on the negatives in education this year. In fact, it’s human nature to get caught up in what went wrong—an innate survival mechanism called “negativity bias” vigilantly draws our attention to worries and risks so we can better remember and avoid threats.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This post was originally created and posted on the website TeacherCast Educational Network. The only place to read this as the original content is [link]. In this blog post, you will learn how to create a Microsoft Outlook Email Distribution List so that you and your organization can successfully transition to a Microsoft Teams environment for communication and file sharing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

A century ago, a bright and talented generation struggled to recover from the ravages of World War I. Their challenges were summarized in the epigraph to Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, “The Sun Also Rises”:“You are all a lost generation.”. Now, nearly a century later, many fear we are creating another lost generation. Even before the pandemic, many students — especially those from historically underserved groups — were leaving high school unprepared for the educational demands of good jobs and t

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Diversity, according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary , is the condition of having or being composed of differing elements, especially the inclusion of people of different races, cultures, etc. in a group or organization. As an educator, with over 17 years of experience, I’ve heard the word diversity used in various contexts throughout my career. However, over the last 16 months or so, the importance of diversity–and especially inclusion–has been highlighted to Americans across the co

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In this blog post, you will learn how to create a Microsoft Outlook Email Distribution List so that you and your organization can successfully transition to a Microsoft Teams environment for communication and file sharing. Is your district thinking about making the transition this year to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams ? Over the last few months, I have had the opportunity to work with districts across the country, make the decision to transition away from the Google platform, and adopt Micr

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As the school calednar changes to another semester, once again millions of students are facing paying tuition bills. That’s never a fun task. If you are a college student, you probably are looking for whatever grants and scholarships you can to help lighten the financial load. Scholarship Owl claims to help make this process easier by putting relevant scholarships in front of you and helping you apply.

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Think Exam

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The ongoing health crisis has moved education and talent assessment online. Since nobody knows how long the examination will take, companies, colleges, and universities will be working online. Universities and colleges are taking the help of online exam software for conducting easier examinations using remotely proctored exams.

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The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This post was originally created and posted on the website TeacherCast Educational Network. The only place to read this as the original content is [link]. In this post, you will learn how to create a series of Microsoft Teams environments based on the creation of Microsoft Outlook Groups. To read the first blog post in this series, please CLICK HERE.

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Think Exam

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The ongoing health crisis has moved education and talent assessment online. Since nobody knows how long the examination will take, companies, colleges, and universities will be working online. Universities and colleges are taking the help of online exam software for conducting easier examinations using remotely proctored exams.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The first year of the Covid-19 pandemic was devastating: classrooms emptied, dorms shuttered, livelihoods shattered, millions of lives lost. Then came 2021. “No matter who I talk to, they tell me: ‘This is the hardest year that I’ve ever had in education,’” one school leader told The Hechinger Report this fall. The gaps between children with more and children with less cracked wider.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In this post, you will learn how to create a series of Microsoft Teams environments based on the creation of Microsoft Outlook Groups. To read the first blog post in this series, please CLICK HERE. Is your school district or organization thinking about making the big transition to Microsoft Teams? The journey from “Point A” to “Pont B” can be simple, but often you might find yourself looking back and wishing you might have done a few key steps differently.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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