Fri.Aug 07, 2020

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JotForm Reports–A Fresh Way to Energize Remote Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

The teachers taking my online classes this summer tell me they’re having difficulty with remote teaching. Problems include administering and grading assessments, taking attendance, finding backchannel tools that enable them to stay in touch with students, and keeping viewers engaged during video presentations. Sure, they have tools that can do each of these but they either aren’t robust enough or only do part of the job or don’t excite students enough to participate.

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Barriers to Education’s Digital Transition

EdNews Daily

By LeiLani Cauthen Editor’s Note: This is part two in a three-part series What is normal? Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been talk of the new normal. But in this new reality we are facing, conditions are anything but normal. Even prior to the pandemic, school districts in America were struggling with the challenges of a rapidly changing education landscape.

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U. of Arizona Bought a For-Profit U. for $1? Actually, the For-Profit Paid Millions to Be Acquired.

Edsurge

The University of Arizona announced this week that it plans to buy the for-profit Ashford University for $1. Well, it’s sort of a sale. Except that Ashford’s parent company will end up paying millions to Arizona to make it happen, leading New America’s Kevin Carey, the group’s director of education policy programs, to argue in a widely shared Tweet that “it’s not really a purchase at all.

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Podcast: New Norms of Hybrid Professional Development

EdNews Daily

The Learning Counsel’s EduJedi Report Presents: Guests Tyce Miller, the CEO of Mobilemind and Sarah Porisch, Director of Technology, Brainerd Public Schools, discuss what’s happening now with teaching the teachers. Where schools once had those eight-hour days of intensive professional development, training is now shifting to on-demand and highly personalized through advanced technology.

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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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Why Black families are choosing to keep their kids remote when schools reopen

The Hechinger Report

Public schools in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, are scheduled to reopen in September, after an abrupt shutdown last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. Although the district is one of the most racially diverse in the state, school officials are expecting a fragmented return along demographic lines as more families of color than white families opt to enroll their children in online learning.

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Out-of-the-Box Thinking Is So Five Minutes Ago

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik “Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand Whose wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine? Must have been a dream I don’t believe where I have been Come on, let’s do it again.” –Peter Frampton I was speaking to my friend Sal Gerardo this past week. For those of you who follow my columns, you have probably heard his name before.

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Helpful Tips for Teaching Remotely During COVID-19

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As every parent and teacher can confirm, the novel coronavirus has had a profound impact on education in the U.S. With many schools shifting to remote learning, the manner in which children receive.read more.

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Putting interrupted learning back on track

eSchool News

The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked academic havoc. With schools closed around the country, more than 55 million students needed services from afar. And who knows what the fall will bring. Will schools open? Will online learning continue? And then the bigger question: How far behind did students fall? In a recent edWebinar , “Articulating a Plan for Addressing Interrupted Learning: Best Teacher Practices for Back-to-School 2020,” NWEA Strategic Content Design Coordinator Brooke Mabry highlighted instr

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What if public schools never reopen?

The Hechinger Report

American public schools may never fully recover from the coronavirus crisis. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In the next few weeks, public schools in the U.S. will embark on a grand experiment, balancing the safety of 51 million students with their academic, social and emotional needs. The coronavirus pandemic forced schools across the country to switch to remote learning this spring.

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Importance of Assistive Technology

N2Y

For many students with disabilities, assistive technology (AT) is critically important in removing barriers to mobility, communication, socialization, and learning. This white paper discusses the array of assistive technology devices and services and how these can help students minimize the challenges of their disability and participate more fully in their education.

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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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How to Plan for Hybrid Teaching and Learning

Graphite Blog

As school districts continue to make and revise plans to open the 2020–2021 school year, many are considering adopting blended or hybrid learning-based schedules. There is widespread hope that some form of face-to-face interaction can be safely combined with remote learning. And just like during the abrupt transition to remote instruction, we teachers will have to adapt quickly to new instructional challenges.

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An overview on Holistic Education in classrooms

Linways Technologies

4 characteristics of a holistic teaching style. One key goal of the new National Education Policy (NEP) is to develop a holistic learning style in our educational institution that’d prepare our students to build a better future. Among many restructuring and updates, the NEP hold this holistic approach at the core. So let’s explore this concept and find what makes up for a holistic education in classrooms.

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How to Host a Virtual Back-to-School Night

Graphite Blog

Back-to-school night is an exciting annual ritual for parents and caregivers, teachers, and administrators. It's when we begin a new relationship with our classroom community and meet the adults who will be our partners in supporting our students' education. Given the restrictions on large-group gatherings and the fact that many schools are not returning to in-person instruction for the time being, back-to-school nights are going to look a lot different this year.

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Staying Connected During COVID-19 [Teacher Spotlight]: Marisabel Soliman

eSchool News

In partnership with eSchool News, Illuminate Education is spotlighting teachers in a series recognizing educators, the way they have moved instruction online during COVID-19, and how they have prioritized the needs of their students. Marisabel Soliman. 8th Grade Science Teacher. Pembroke Pines Charter Schools. Broward County School District. “We never cease learning, and as educators, this is a great time for us to add more skills to our bag of tricks.”.

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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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How VR and AR Can Be Used to Support Students with Special Needs

techlearning

VR and AR offer capabilities that resonate for students with special needs

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Organizations, Jamf Nation answer the call for help during COVID-19

Jamf on EdTech

Hear some of the inspiring stories that happen when individuals and companies come together for the betterment of others.

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Online Proctoring System – Know about its features and Pros & Cons!

Think Exam

An online proctoring system is an advanced AI integrated tool that has been created for ensuring a cheat-proof test environment when the candidate is attempting an online test from a remote location. It increases the scope for the administrator to conduct online exams from any remote location without worrying about any sort of misleading act or attempt during the test.

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SupportMyMac teams up with Connected Canadians to assist seniors

Jamf on EdTech

We’re excited to share news about an initiative that’s bringing connection and accessibility to those in need, even in our new, socially distanced normal.

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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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For Some Districts, Tech Was Messy This Spring. Now They’re More Prepared.

Edsurge

Too little technology makes remote instruction nigh impossible. Too much makes it a hassle. Such was the two-sided dilemma that many educators experienced in the spring. Computers, hotspots and other devices were in short supply. At the same time, the number of digital tools used across schools and districts seemingly multiplied. Across Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District in Texas, teachers used a “hodgepodge” of learning management systems—Canvas, Google Classroom, Google Site

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Another problem with shifting education online: cheating

The Hechinger Report

When universities went online in response to Covid-19, so did the tests their students took. But one of the people who logged on to take an exam in a pre-med chemistry class at a well-known mid-Atlantic university turned out not to be a student at all. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. He was a plant. An imposter. A paid ringer. Proctors — remote monitors some schools have hired to watch test-takers through their webcams — discovered by reviewing video recordings that this same pe

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Snagit for Screenshots, Video, and Animated GIF’s

Teacher Tech

I LOVE SNAGIT! I can not live without it. It is how I do almost all of my screenshots. This is how I record my videos usually. It is a one button click to create an animated GIF that I can drag into my Google Apps. It’s amazing, easy, and powerful. Educator Discount Snagit is […]. The post Snagit for Screenshots, Video, and Animated GIF’s appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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