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21 Tools I Use to Manage Distance Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today I share the tool kit and tips that have helped streamline distance learning at my school. Scroll down to see the list of links and listen to the show to hear how I’m using these tools with teachers and students. Sponsor: See 10 Professional Development Courses to Improve Your Online Classroom which I shared recently on my blog.

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Continuing education for e-learning instructors

Neo LMS

Today’s digital technologies have changed the way we work, communicate, and get our entertainment. But they’ve done more than that. They’ve also changed the way we learn — and the way we teach. Educational technologies are evolving so rapidly today, in fact, that teachers can find it nearly impossible to keep up. And yet, now more than ever, the future of the classroom seems to be digital.

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Powerful Learning at Home with Edcamp

Digital Promise

As schools and districts across the country transition to distance learning, educators are seeking new ways to engage their students in powerful learning experiences at home. In this post we highlight the power of Edcamps to support educators to learn from each other, and invite educators to participate in Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home , an online professional learning event hosted by Digital Promise and Edcamp Foundation.

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Coronavirus Chronicles 020 – Arrow Academy Charter Schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Episode 020 is below. Thank you, Jim Christensen, for sharing how the Arrow Academy Charter Schools in Texas have been adapting to our new challenges and opportunities.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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169 Tech Tip #73 7 tips for Netiquette

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: 7 Netiquette Tips. Category: Internet.

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How K–12 Schools Can Bring Elective Classes Online

EdTech Magazine

When school buildings close, districts have to think strategically about how they’ll continue teaching students beyond classroom walls — especially in times of a crisis. Educators have to adapt lesson plans to their district’s chosen remote learning approach, whether that be using learning management systems, collaboration suites, take-home packets or all three combined.

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How K–12 Schools Can Bring Elective Classes Online

EdTech Magazine

When school buildings close, districts have to think strategically about how they’ll continue teaching students beyond classroom walls — especially in times of a crisis. Educators have to adapt lesson plans to their district’s chosen remote learning approach, whether that be using learning management systems, collaboration suites, take-home packets or all three combined.

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MicrosoftEDU Webinars with Alice Keeler

Teacher Tech

If your school is using Microsoft O365 and Microsoft Teams join me for some webinars on using these tools. These webinars are sponsored by Microsoft. Registration is not required. The link to join the webinars are on the alicekeeler.com/microsoft page for you to click on for the webinars. The webinars are done in Microsoft Teams […]. The post MicrosoftEDU Webinars with Alice Keeler appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Can a Residential College Sell an Online Experience in a Crisis?

Edsurge

With financial losses mounting the longer campuses are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, securing tuition dollars for next academic year is a top priority for colleges. That may be difficult. Students and their families who have experienced job layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts—or whose college savings plummeted with the stock market—may have new difficulty paying for higher education.

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Developing Our MathMINDs—Week 2: A Glossary for New Math Teachers

MIND Research Institute

Developing Our MathMINDs series of conversations and resources about math that is intended to be a journey of growth with families over several weeks. Each week, MIND's Lead Mathematician and Product Director Brandon Smith and Content Development Manager Nina Wu will be talking about the adjustments families are making to learning at home, and the opportunities this situation provides for changing our relationship with math.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

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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Here Is A Very Good Tool to Engage Students in Remote Writing Activities

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Since the outbreak of the pandemic several digital platforms and mobile applications started incorporating features designed specifically to support distance learning. We have already featured.read more.

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Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around

The Hechinger Report

A PhD candidate at Harvard University tilts his screen while teaching an online class from his dorm. Credit: (Photo by Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images). A professor at Loyola University New Orleans taught his first virtual class from his courtyard, wearing his bathrobe and sipping from a glass of wine. Lafayette College showed faculty how to make document cameras at home using cardboard and rubber bands.

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Creating A Learning Ux: 25 Design Concepts In Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

Designers use movement to guide viewers with lines, shapes, and colors. Educators can use this principle, guiding students to key ideas. The post Creating A Learning Ux: 25 Design Concepts In Education appeared first on TeachThought.

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How this district moved online with a moment’s notice

eSchool News

The coronavirus outbreak has halted regular school days for the foreseeable future, pushing instruction to online learning environments as administrators work to ensure teachers and students have the devices and connectivity needed for continuity of learning. In the Sewanhaka Central High School District , located on Long Island just outside of New York City, educators moved as quickly as they could to ensure as little interruption to learning as possible.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Graduation 2020 - Ideas When #RemoteLearning

The Innovative Educator

Graduation in 2020 will be unlike any graduation before it. While the thought of losing the traditional pomp and circumstance is difficult, there are some innovative options available. Minecraft! Elementary school students in Japan created a Minecraft graduation. Inspired by that, college students took it to a new level. Fortnite is another option. Get Social Celebrate each graduate on social media with specific information such as a quote, memory, what they'll miss, and what's next.

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Thinkster Sought an Investment From an Adviser. Instead, It Bought His SAT Prep Company.

Edsurge

The app presents students with a typical fifth-grade math question—turn 29 / 9 into a mixed fraction. The student may attempt to solve the equation through long division, perhaps drawing the numbers on a tablet computer with a finger. The app records each key stroke, pen stroke or touch every millisecond. It sends the recording to a tutor, who watches the recording, noting the steps and mistakes for grading and to prepare for a one-on-one session.

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Remote Learning and Digital Equity: Best Practices

techlearning

T&L discusses best practices to support digital equity in remote learning with Diane Doersch and Kali Alford of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools and Digital Promise.

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5 key components of successful online courses

eSchool News

Two months ago, nobody would have predicted that education at every level, from kindergarten through graduate programs, would either shut down or move online. Most teachers don’t have prior experience or professional development in teaching online courses effectively. While it might seem like a simple transition to post slides or a recorded lecture online, teachers need to be intentional with course design to effectively mirror what students experienced in the classroom and make the transition a

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Two Useful Citation Generators for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In today’s post we are sharing with you two interesting citation generators from Chegg students can use to help them with crediting the sources they include in their research papers. These tools.

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Comments on the US DoEd Proposed Rule – Open Textbook Pilot Program

Iterating Toward Openness

I submitted the following comment today on the Department of Education’s proposed rule “ Open Textbook Pilot Program.” The deadline to submit a comment is April 30, so read the rule and get your comments in soon. It may surprise readers to find me arguing against requirements of openness in some of my comments. But in the spirit of “pragmatism before zeal,” I argue in my comments specifically against three unintended consequences of open requirements as they pertain

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Videos and Discussion Webs

SpeechTechie

(sorry email subscribers for that last incomplete email, I hit Publish too soon) Discussion webs are described in one of my favorite articles, The Magic of Once Upon A Time: Narrative Teaching Strategies (Hoggan & Strong, 1994). How nerdy that I have favorite journal articles, but anyway it was very influential for me and helped me see all of the activities that could spring from (any) context.

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Getting feedback quickly and easily

eSchool News

To help strengthen support to teachers, coaches, and school leaders in this time of need, Insight ADVANCE is providing its ADVANCE feedback ® video coaching tool, powered by the Vonage Video API, free of charge. As a custom-built solution, ADVANCE feedback helps teachers, instructional coaches, and school and university leaders connect on a deeper level than off-the-shelf video conferencing tools, by using secure video for self-reflection, peer feedback, and instructional coaching.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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Ensuring Continuity in Learning in the Times of COVID-19

Kitaboo on EdTech

Over the past few weeks, all you must be hearing about is COVID-19 and how governments of different countries are coping with it. Every sector, no matter what products or services it deals in, is highly impacted due to this pandemic. As state-imposed lockdowns continue to hamper business activities, companies are finding out ways to mold themselves in this ‘new normal’ situation.

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Free Remote Learning Resources for STEM Teachers and Students

eSchool News

To keep students engaged in STEM learning during school closures, Vernier Software & Technology is offering a robust collection of free remote learning solutions for teachers and students. The resources, which support students at both the K–12 and college levels, cover a wide range of scientific disciplines including biology, chemistry, physics, and physical science.

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Purpose and Passion through Design Thinking

MiddleWeb

Dr. Lindsay Portnoy’s sound research, detailed checklists, and illustrative classroom stories in “Designed to Learn” will inspire you to fine-tune or jump-start your design thinking approach to instruction, writes teacher, author and curriculum leader Sarah Cooper.

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Online Teaching Reflection: Day 16

Cycles of Learning

Approximately EVERY teacher or student I have spoken with today is really burnt out. I feel it.they feel it.there is something in the distance learning air today. So, with that said, this is going to be a short post giving SERIOUS LOVE to Padlet. If you go back and read the 20+ post in this " Online Teaching Reflection " series, you will see my commitment to keeping my technology simple/reduced to Google Tools only.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Educational materials for middle and high school from PBS

eSchool News

On the heels of Earth Day, WGBH Education launched a collection of digital resources featuring content from the new film H 2 O: The Molecule That Made Us , the landmark three-part series that tells the human story through our relationship to water. With kids now learning from home, these resources are aimed at providing both parents and teachers alike with the resources they need to continue schooling remotely.

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A few silver linings emerge in a dark time of closed schools

The Hechinger Report

Some students will have an easier time landing internships during the pandemic because they’ll be able to work online and not have to move to an expensive big city. That’s one of the surprising bits of good news about education that has come to the attention of Delece Smith-Barrow, a senior editor for higher education at The Hechinger Report.

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How It's Done: Remote STEM Learning

techlearning

Opportunities for remote STEM learning are all around

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The Key Role of Tech in Accessibility for All

edWeb.net

WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Every two or three years, state and federal laws regarding accessibility in education change. However, the goal is always the same: making sure that every student, at every level (classroom, building, district), has access to the resources they need to meet their learning goals. During ClassLink and CoSN’s edWebinar, “ Accessibility for All: Creating an Equitable Learning Ecosystem, ” the presenters discussed the lessons they’ve learned, especiall

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.