Wed.Aug 19, 2020

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Asynchronous vs. Synchronous: How to Design for Each Type of Learning

Catlin Tucker

This school year will look very different for most teachers. Some are beginning entirely online and others are returning to school on a modified schedule where they will only see students in person a couple of days a week. So, the question many teachers are asking is, “How should I spend my limited time with students in the classroom or in video conferencing sessions?

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Music, Academics, and Keyboarding–Transferrable Skills

Ask a Tech Teacher

Dr. Bill Morgan is a frequent contributer to Ask a Tech Teacher. Today, he is sharing his experience and research on how keyboarding skills benefit other topics I found this every interesting: Finger Dexterity. Transferable Keyboarding Skills. Dr. Bill Morgan, Ph.D. “How do you play the piano as well as you do?” someone in the choir asked me last Sunday.

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The Remote Learning Checklist: Tools, tips and ideas

Ditch That Textbook

When the coronavirus pandemic hit, many teachers were sent scrambling. How do I teach? What do I assign? How do I do this remotely? What a difference it makes to have a summer to prepare. Setting up your classroom to succeed remotely can rely on a lot. Having a good foundation in place is key, much like […]. The post The Remote Learning Checklist: Tools, tips and ideas appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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How to Improve Teacher Training for More Successful Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

When K–12 leaders implement expanded remote learning — whether at the start of the school year or as needed throughout the semester — teacher training will be crucial. The quick-fix tech training many schools offered in the spring will not provide the quality online teaching students need. The scramble to implement remote learning in March left many educators with no option but to learn, apply and teach with unfamiliar virtual tools.

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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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Schools Will Never Return to Business as Usual. Here’s How They Can Make the Most of Our New Reality.

Edsurge

Right now schools are making—and, in some cases, already implementing— tough decisions about where learning should take place this fall. Elected officials are making decisions contrary to recommended guidelines that can leave school leaders in an impossible situation of shouldering accountability for health and safety while lacking the control to do so.

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Student-Run IT Help Desks Adapt to the World of Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

As educators dive into remote learning this fall, many will lean heavily on IT staffers for help. Some, however, will have additional tech support — from the very same students they’re planning to teach. Student-run IT help desks , where trained students address tech-related questions from teachers and others in their school communities, were popping up in districts across the country before the coronavirus pandemic set in.

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Using @Nearpod & Digital Notebooks for Formative Assessments With @MsBDuncan

Teacher Tech

Learning during these unprecedented times should focus more on process. The post Using @Nearpod & Digital Notebooks for Formative Assessments With @MsBDuncan appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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This New Nonprofit Is Training Better Online Teachers This Fall

Edsurge

Last fall, after schools had closed and students were forced onto Zoom and Google Classroom in a rush, experts and educators around the world clamored to make a rather fine distinction: What they were doing wasn’t online learning, but rather emergency remote instruction. Semantics aside, the phrase has become a somewhat euphemistic way to acknowledge that teachers simply did not have the time, training or opportunity to improve their online teaching craft.

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Schedules for distance learning are all over the place (and it’s making parents crazy)

The Hechinger Report

I feel so defeated,” the mom wrote as she posted a screenshot of an e-mail she had just received from her young child’s elementary school principal into a parent’s group on Facebook. The e-mail, written by a principal for an elementary school in central Texas, detailed a complex new plan for remote learning in the fall and was full of jargon: asynchronous time, maximum continuous minutes and a separate plan to teach special subjects like art, music and physical education.

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Screencasting Tools to Enhance Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

One way to boost your distance teaching during (and post) this pandemic is through creating and sharing screencasts and instruction videos with your students. In today's post we are sharing.

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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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Is it finally time for year-round school?

The Hechinger Report

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — When Harlandale Independent School District in south San Antonio shuttered its doors in March amid the coronavirus pandemic, Melissa Casey’s first thought about her students was, “How are all of their basic needs going to be met?”. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. In the small district, 88 percent of schoolchildren are economically disadvantaged and almost 75 percent are at risk of dropping out.

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Collaboration Platforms, Privacy Tools Critical to Driving Ed-Tech Innovation, Report Says

Marketplace K-12

Digital collaboration and online privacy tools are critical in driving K-12 innovation, including during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, says an organization representing district technology officers. The post Collaboration Platforms, Privacy Tools Critical to Driving Ed-Tech Innovation, Report Says appeared first on Market Brief.

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Embracing data-driven, tech-enabled learning through COVID-19–and beyond

eSchool News

Like so many districts across the country, the Greenville Public School District (GPSD) in Mississippi faced the challenge this spring of quickly pivoting to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Related content: Data vs. COVID-19: How one district runs the numbers. While Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves recommended state-wide school closings on March 14, 2020, GPSD had closed for spring break on March 6, creating even more of a standstill for ramp-up efforts to put distance learning int

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COLUMN: Come back to campus, we’re opening! Oh wait, not so fast

The Hechinger Report

People remove belongings on campus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The UNC system announced Tuesday that, due to the coronavirus outbreak, students should return to their permanent addresses unless granted an exception to remain in university housing. Credit: AP Photo/Gerry Broome. NEW YORK — The worst part about watching students pack up to leave one of the country’s largest public universities this week, just days after arriving?

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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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IT MOVED: Reset the Google Classroom Code

Teacher Tech

Class Settings As always, you can change the Google Classroom code in the settings of your class. Click on the settings cog in the upper right. The General section of the settings is now updated to allow you to use a LINK to invite students to the class. To accommodate this the “Reset” option moved. […]. The post IT MOVED: Reset the Google Classroom Code appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Plus, a parking sticker. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U. in 1965.

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Best VR and AR Systems for Schools

techlearning

Get the best augmented reality or virtual reality system to enhance your school experience

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HEARBUILDER Online Foundational Literacy Program Builds Basic Skills in Young Students

eSchool News

With the onset of the COVID virus, millions of PreK to Grade 5 students across the U.S. may have fallen critically behind in the basic skills they need to become good readers and be successful in school. Now more than ever, parents, educators and specialists are focused on helping their young students make up for lost learning time. The HearBuilder online, research-based, foundational literacy program provides an excellent way for students to build their early education and literacy skills.

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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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IPEVO's cool new DO-CAM

Kathy Schrock

Since many K-12 schools and universities may still be including some type of remote or blended teaching and learning in the education mix for this coming school year, having a document camera can help support both the students in the classroom and those watching online. In addition, when meeting with students for content support, a doc cam can allow you to show the doc cam video in a Zoom or Google Meet window for the students.

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Almost half of parents uncomfortable with in-person schooling

eSchool News

A new series of surveys of almost 40,000 parents reports that nearly half of respondents say they are uncomfortable sending their children back to school for in-person learning this fall. When asked “Do you feel comfortable sending your child to school for in-person learning?” 43 percent of parents responded “No” while only 36 percent responded “Yes.”.

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5 Ideas for SEL in a Remote Learning Environment

The Principal of Change

In my newly released, self-paced course, “ Developing the Innovator’s Mindset Through Remote, Face-to-Face, and Blended Learning ,” there is a focus throughout on the following question: “How do we build relationships in remote learning environments and address the social-emotional needs of our students?” In this series of posts, I have shared ideas and the importance of building relationships in remote learning settings as well as ideas on how to empower learners.

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Fame Kids Light the Way for the Next Generation of Names in Lights

eSchool News

High school students from LaGuardia High School, aka the Fame School, have been hosting a series of free public information sessions for New York middle school students. These sessions are designed to help the next generation of young artists determine whether, and how, to pursue admission into LaGuardia, New York’s only public specialized high school for the arts.

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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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Some Thoughts on Hybrid Teaching

The Innovative Educator

Districts around the globe are talking about having a hybrid model when returning to school. In a hybrid model, students attend school 1 - 3 days a week. In some districts, they'll have a remote teacher and a face-to-face teacher who will teach them at a six-feet-apart distance and students will be six feet apart from each other. How will this work?

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Coaching during COVID-19

eSchool News

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a sudden shift to distanced teaching and learning that upheaved education as we knew it. Newly-virtual teachers had to learn new technologies, processes, and instructional strategies on the fly. While at the same time, newly-virtual coaches had to figure out how to best support these educators in this new reality. Just like the need for teachers to connect with students, how can coaches connect with teachers in meaningful ways when they are not physically together?

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Find Out Where Your Learners Are Now

MiddleWeb

Using the case of Grade 7 teacher ‘Mr. Thomas,’ teacher educator Curtis Chandler walks us through a 3-point strategy that can help teachers detect what kids know, what they missed last spring, and what’s most urgent to learn now. Written with new and veteran teachers in mind!

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How our changing world is shifting the way Gen Z is influenced by post-secondary marketing

eSchool News

COVID-19 has affected many aspects of the post-secondary student experience. It is an essential time for marketers to be cognisant of prospective students’ anxiety about what school will look like and utilize the right tools to build trust and connect with students. Glacier and Academica Group’s annual White Paper Report, ‘State of Advertising to High School Students in 2020′, sheds light on Gen Z’s changing social media habits and how they respond to advertising.

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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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Spark Learning Masterclass: Part III Recording

Cycles of Learning

Click here to access the final of three recordings for my "Spark Learning" Masterclass. This session explored research and strategies related to delivering and applying content in response to student exploration.

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Dean Transportation to treat all vehicles with MicrobeCare™ antimicrobial

eSchool News

For over 50 years, Dean has placed the safety of its passengers above all else, having a long history of advocacy for passenger safety. As students begin returning to school this fall, Dean Transportation has worked diligently to create safety protocols for staff and passengers that aim to minimize the spread of COVID-19 and other illnesses. To augment regular disinfectant use, Dean has announced an industry-leading commitment to treat the more than 1,600 school buses it operates throughout the

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Could Year-round School Provide Vulnerable Students with Needed Help?

MindShift

This story about year-round school was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter. . SAN ANTONIO, Texas — When Harlandale Independent School District in south San Antonio shuttered its doors in March amid the coronavirus pandemic, Melissa Casey’s first thought about her students was, “How are all of their basic needs going to be met?”.

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Public and Private Organizations Nationwide Choose Rave’s Coronavirus Recovery Solution to Safely Reopen and Keep Communities Informed

eSchool News

Corporations, educational institutions and government agencies across the United States are relying on Rave’s Coronavirus Recovery Solution to equip them with the recovery tools they need to design and deploy a successful and safe reopening strategy during the pandemic, including streamlined communication workflows, automated daily health checks, support for individual wellness and engagement with key constituents.

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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.