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How Does a Virtual Classroom Work? 

myViewBoard

Recently, virtual classrooms have begun to offer intense competition to physical classrooms in the education sector. Virtual classrooms replicate many features of traditional face-to-face teaching, such as group learning, an expert teacher, and combined presentation and exercises. However, virtual classrooms now allow much more extensibility and adaptability and can serve vast numbers of learners and many different teaching models.

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3 Opportunities for education during the pandemic

Neo LMS

Almost two years ago, life took a different turn and the unexpected happened. The pandemic caused havoc and damage in every area of our lives. We all felt its impact more or less and we witnessed the unthinkable. Among all the negativity, this time has also provided us with awakening, collaboration, creativity, and evolution. I want to focus on this evolution, highlighting how the pandemic has offered opportunities for education to change for the better.

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Teaching Math

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every lower-grade teacher I know has huge numbers of students who love math but the older they get, the more those numbers shrink until by Middle School, they’re anemic, at best. The solution according to some students, is to instill the cerebral skills that support math prior to kindergarten. Here’s a great article from ASCD and EdSource on that subject: Math in early childhood is key, studies show.

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New Social Media Micro-credentials Support Social Mobility for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

In the quickly shifting workforce, digital skills have become fundamental for social mobility. Though an estimated one-third of US workers across industries and occupations would benefit from developing digital skills—particularly among workers of color —fewer than 10 percent of people who need digital skills training and support are able to access education services due to longstanding systemic inequities.

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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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The Health of Our Education System Is Revealed By How It Treats Its Teachers

Edsurge

My last article, about how teacher care is more than self care , was the most read on EdSurge for the month of November. And while I was pleased that the words resonated, it is also disturbing that something so fundamental as care and wellbeing is hitting a nerve with the education community. Nelson Mandela once said that “The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

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Meeting the Digital Promise

Digital Promise

The post Meeting the Digital Promise appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Facilitating Real World Learning through Youth Media

Digital Promise

The post Facilitating Real World Learning through Youth Media appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Watch2Gether- Watch Videos Together in Real Time

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Watch2Gether is a platform that allows you to watch videos with your friends and family remotely wherever they are in the world. While watching, you can also interact with each other via text and.read more.

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What edtech should schools keep in today’s new normal?

eSchool News

The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly thrown education for a loop. Even as classes resumed this past fall, many districts implemented widespread student and teacher quarantines and shifted to virtual learning as new outbreaks and variants emerged. What new tools, techniques, and innovations should stick around in primary schools even after COVID recedes (whenever that may be)?

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A Coaches Guide to Creating Effective Day Time Professional Development Workshops

TeacherCast

Who dares to TEACH must never cease to LEARN – John Cotton Dana For many school districts, the ability to create a dynamic and effective Instructional Coaching program is a challenge. You have a few hundred teachers scattered across several school buildings, each with their own comfort level digital learning, and only one or a few coaches to support everyone.

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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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In-home child care could be solution for rural working parents

The Hechinger Report

A dozen children sit on Chris Nelson’s waitlist. Their families hope a seat will open up in the child care program she runs out of her home in rural Vermont. Some of them could stay on the list for years: most of the children who pass through Nelson’s doors stay in the program until they age out at 13. And where Nelson lives in Troy, Vermont, a town of less than 2,000 residents on the Canadian border, there are only two center-based child care providers that serve a total of 33 kids.

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A Coaches Guide to Creating Effective Day Time Professional Development Workshops

TeacherCast

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]. Who dares to TEACH must never cease to LEARN – John Cotton Dana. For many school districts, the ability to create a dynamic and effective Instructional Coaching program is a challenge. You have a few hundred teachers scattered across several school buildings, each with their own comfort level digital learning, and only one or a few coaches to

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Discovery Education and TrueSport Partner to Present a Unique, Virtual Town Hall Exploring the Life Skills Students Need for Success Beyond Sports

eSchool News

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, January 27, 2022) — TrueSport – the outreach education arm of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) dedicated to transforming the culture of youth sport – and Discovery Education today announce a partnership providing powerful educational tools to equip students with resources that help build life skills and core values for success on and off the field of play.

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4 Whole-Child Strategies To Engage Students In Your Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

Instead, schools that are working at implementing whole-child strategies should do so within the context of everyday teaching and learning. The post 4 Whole-Child Strategies To Engage Students In Your Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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The State of Utah Empowers Educators to Close the Career Exposure Gap for Students Across the State

eSchool News

AMERICAN FORK, Utah, Jan. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — YouScience , the only fully-integrated platform provider of highly accurate aptitude-based assessments, personalized career guidance, and industry-recognized certifications, today announced the results of its new statewide talent report of Utah middle school and high school students, ” 2022 Utah Talent Report.” These initial findings reveal that while Utah students possess the necessary talents needed for Utah’s in-deman

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How Do I Screencast a Lesson?

techlearning

Screencast a lesson as a way to educate remotely and make flipped classrooms even more effective. Here's how.

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Arizona Department of Education Names i-Ready® Assessment an Approved Universal Literacy and Dyslexia Screener

eSchool News

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., January 27, 2022— The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment as an approved universal literacy and dyslexia screener for the 2022–2023 school year. With this approval, schools across the state can use the online Diagnostic and offline literacy assessment tasks to screen for risk factors associated with dyslexia.

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How to Search ALL Your Open Tabs in Google Chrome

Shake Up Learning

The post How to Search ALL Your Open Tabs in Google Chrome appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Have too many tabs open? I am a tab hoarder and always have way too many tabs open. Then I can’t always remember what I’ve already opened or find what I’m looking for. But Google Chrome let’s me search ALL my open tabs in one easy location.

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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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VHS Learning Celebrates Twenty-Year Partnerships with Schools and Educational Consortiums

eSchool News

Boston – Jan. 27, 2022 – VHS Learning is pleased to celebrate its partnership with four educational organizations that have been with the program for twenty or more years. These schools, districts, and consortiums helped to pioneer the use of VHS Learning’s online program to build equity and expand educational opportunities for their students. . “In 1996 we were awarded a U.S.

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Study finds lower math scores in high schools that switched to 4-day school week

ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

A recent study analyzing the impact of a shorter school week for high schools found that 11th-grade students participating in a four-day week performed worse on standardized math tests than students who remained on five-day schedules.

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For COVID catch-up, don’t remediate–accelerate

eSchool News

One of the biggest changes educators will see in 2022 is the shift to accelerated learning. Educators have been experimenting with accelerated learning for some time, but in the last year or so, as districts looked for new strategies to address pandemic-related learning losses, organizations like The New Teacher Project have released reports on the effectiveness of the approach.

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – January 2022

Edthena

It’s the start of a new year, and we’ve rounded up this month’s top resources for teachers and coaches! This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes edtech predictions for 2022, how school leaders can foster safe spaces, and resources for teachers on being lifelong learners. Our top picks for important January reads are below, with the highlights, article links, and related content for you.

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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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PowerSchool to Acquire Kinvolved, Expanding K-12 Platform to Provide Critical Messaging and Communication Solution

eSchool News

FOLSOM, Calif. PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinvolved, a leading provider of K-12 communications, attendance, and engagement solutions supporting over 250,000 students and used within three of the top four school districts in the U.S. Adding Kinvolved’s leading communication engine to PowerSchool’s Unified Home solution will enable schools and districts to strengthen and simplify overall

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – January 2022

Edthena

It’s the start of a new year, and we’ve rounded up this month’s top resources for teachers and coaches! This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes edtech predictions for 2022, how school leaders can foster safe spaces, and resources for teachers on being lifelong learners. Our top picks for important January reads are below, with the highlights, article links, and related content for you.

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Supporting Long-Term Understanding of Math

MiddleWeb

In Making Math Stick, David Costello offers advice to help teachers make the shift from “teach, test, move on” to “teach, connect, apply.” His detailed learning and instructional strategies will help you deepen student knowledge and improve retention, writes Lisa Hudson. The post Supporting Long-Term Understanding of Math first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – January 2022

Edthena

It’s the start of a new year, and we’ve rounded up this month’s top resources for teachers and coaches! This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes edtech predictions for 2022, how school leaders can foster safe spaces, and resources for teachers on being lifelong learners. Our top picks for important January reads are below, with the highlights, article links, and related content for you.

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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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An Awesome Font Generator – Font Meme

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

My Go-To Font Generator Transform any text with popular fonts in seconds. It’s quick, easy, and free, with no log-in required. From products and video games to movies and TV shows, Font Meme’s Font Generators have you covered. Font Meme I’ve previously featured meme generators on Nick’s Picks, but some fonts are so widely recognized.

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New Library 2.0 Webinar, "Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in Your Library: How to Start Talking About DEI"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

"Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in Your Library: How to Start Talking About DEI" Part of a special Library 2.0 series in partnership with Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : A 60-minute training webinar and Q&A with Maurice Coleman, presented by Library 2.0. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are hard but necessary issues to address globally, nationally, and locally.