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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. And they said, ‘the principals weren't trying to stop this teacher use of Google Docs.’ They were describing these new practices of revision and collaborative writing. And I was like, ‘What?’

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It is Not a Project to Get Students Talking: Two Tools

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

In structured Socratic Seminars , students in the outer circle communicate via TodaysMeet, while those in the inner circle speak aloud. Here is a transcript of a Socratic Seminar on Steinbeck''s Of Mice and Men. Google Hangouts One of my go-to Google guys, Troy Cockrum , told me to not be afraid to Hangout by myself, and he was right.

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As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options

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The second option is to go through a course with a cohort and attend weekly live video seminars and get assignments graded (for about $200 per course). Throughout her work day, she would take breaks from her duties to go through the course’s short interactive exercises, and she’d finish about one lesson per day that way.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. Attending sessions and seminars at these events can also provide valuable professional development. Meeting your peers on a periodic basis can be an invaluable exercise.

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Flipgrid for every classroom

iLearn Technology

Students can create and share a book talk or chapter reflection, discuss current events, delve into a topic, engage in an online Socratic seminar around a given topic, collaborate, verbalize their learning process, etc. Flipgrid works in any classroom, with any age student, and within any subject.

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What Student Activists Want Teachers To Know About Virtual Learning and Reopening Schools

MindShift

There was just kind of busywork to fill out the rest of the year,” he said during a youth voices panel at the Education Writers Association National Seminar in July. To improve virtual learning, Ahmadi suggested that teachers offer 15 to 30 minutes of live instruction, followed by small group exercises or time to ask questions. .

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

Edsurge

Equally important, the approach offers a readymade solution to a universal problem: In the information age, how do you teach students to think for themselves when so many answers are just a Google search away? “We