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How We Began Online Learning Successfully

The CoolCatTeacher

The Educator Temporary School Closure Online Support group was just a thousand back then. Now we have over 95,000 educators and growing. As I shared in the book I co-authored, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds , if you are invisible online – YOU DON’T EXIST to others in the space. Children need structure.

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Online learning for special education

eSchool News

Vizzle is an online learning solution that keeps students with special needs on track with teachers and parents able to support and monitor IEPs, so learning can take place in the classroom and at home. Their content is created and reviewed by educational professionals. Vizzle FREE through August 1, 2020.

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What Is an Asset Tag, and How Can It Help Districts Reconnect with Lost Devices?

EdTech Magazine

Come fall, K–12 school buildings will welcome back students, educators and staff members who are ready to reconnect with one another after many months of online learning. To support this digital shift, IT teams supplied laptops, tablets and other peripherals to make learning anywhere a possibility.

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Sustaining online learning during COVID-19

eSchool News

When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. Everyone would have their tablet or laptop.

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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

Ask a Tech Teacher

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). Blended Learning. Student-led Classroom Management.

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The Features And Benefits Of The XP-Pen Drawing Tablet In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

This post is sponsored by XP-Pen , manufacturers of a range of drawing tablets for artists, students, and other creative professionals. The Features And Benefits Of The XP-Pen Drawing Tablet In The Classroom. One such company is XP-Pen and their series of tablets. What Is The Best Drawing Tablet? by TeachThought Staff.

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Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning

The Hechinger Report

“When schools reopen, we’ll have to try to figure out what kinds of learning loss there has been,” Cator said. Some students will have had no education access for up to six months. Some students will have just the normal kind of summer learning loss.”. On the other side of the country, an estimated 1.2