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Teaching cybersecurity to your students: 3 basic tips

Neo LMS

Nowadays students of all grades complete their homework, communicate with their peers and teachers, check their grades and conduct research for assignments online. Learning is more digital than ever and it will only continue in that direction. Create unique passwords for each online account.

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The Benefits of Video in the Digital Classroom

ViewSonic Education

84% said that school tech adds value to their child’s learning. Blended learning combines traditional classroom learning with self-paced online learning. Districts using blended learning are at the forefront of using digital content. Parents surveyed further supported digital video for learning.

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The Ups and Downs of Social Media

Digital Promise

A new study finds that teenagers report feeling all kinds of positive and negative emotions when describing the same social media experiences — posting selfies, Snapchatting, browsing videos — but the majority rate their overall experiences as positive. . A Study on Adolescent Social Media Use.

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How Online Book Read-Alouds Can Help Students’ Literacy and Connection During Social Distancing 

MindShift

Since many districts didn’t have a digital learning plan in place for an event like a global pandemic, they are scraping together varied approaches of online learning that are evolving as the situation changes. It’s been one area that teachers can do themselves just by accessing a few tools on their laptop or smartphone. .

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Dealing with digital distraction

The Hechinger Report

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. It’s not just young people who are smartphone obsessed.

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The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment In History: Week One

MindShift

And that’s true even when online teachers have experience and training with online teaching. NPR put out a call on Twitter and Facebook, and among the responses were families with students at a dozen private schools around the country that are holding live online classes via video chat for up to five hours per day.

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After A Year Of Uncertainty, College Presidents Reflect On COVID-19’s Impact

Edsurge

Enrollment Takes a Hit While it’s no surprise that study participants—whose responses were anonymised—say their enrollment fell during the pandemic, many add that the COVID-19 crisis exacerbated the problem rather than created it. It could mean more technology in their curriculums or more training for lecturers on online teaching.

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