Shake Up Learning

MARCH 6, 2020

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Or maybe you’re actually kind of intrigued by this whole online learning thing. Either way, if you think it’s time to improve your online teaching game, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to your summer crash course in online education. Can community guidelines help?

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

With more than 17 years of experience as an academic integrity manager at a virtual school, I’ve learned the ins and outs of how to preserve academic integrity in an online learning environment. Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 21, 2021

That’s why Principles of Instruction by Barak Rosenshine highlights what research has to say about effective teaching from three different sources: Cognitive science studies how our brains acquire new information. They’re also more prepared to use instructional explanations as a basis for self-explanation when studying independently.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

To do online research about a given topic. To discuss a real life scenario or case study. This can be done in a jigsaw strategy whereby different groups are given different case studies. I give some broad guidelines including finding and adding both content and images. The following video explains this process.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

For both students and teachers, online learning has come with a lot of challenges, from the digital divide and technology access to mental health impacts , or a lack of essential school and community supports. Use this lesson to start a discussion with your students about teaching and learning in the digital age.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 17, 2023

You’ll find details on ‘Notebooks & Paper Supplies’ for those never-ending class notes, ‘Organization Supplies’ to keep everything in check, and ‘Learning & Study Aids’ for efficient studying. Highlighters : A study essential for emphasizing important text in notes and textbooks.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Website traffic to the homepage for IXL, a popular tool that lets students practice skills across five subjects through online quizzes, spiked in March.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

This is online learning and as such, without the social engagement (good or bad) that comes hand-in-hand with traditional universities and colleges. Make Study.com courses available to highly-motivated homeschoolers who want more depth in studies or college credit while in high school.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Many professors try new teaching approaches or new digital tools in their classes, but few actually study whether the changes work any better than the old way. Leaders of the effort admit that templates alone are unlikely to lead to a revolution in self-study by faculty. The university is still analyzing the results.)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2021

They lacked human interactions and social cues necessary for learning,” said Narine Hall, the CEO of InSpace and a professor of data science and machine learning at Champlain College. InSpace is a solution that complements teaching – it adds flexibility, without disrupting learning. AA, WCAG 2.1 About Instructure.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

The teachers believe that the hands-on, independent nature of virtual reality will bring reluctant students to the study of history. Interactive digital and virtual experiences allow students to make choices about materials and people, something the teachers said rarely happens in a traditional unit of study.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. Recent studies , however, suggest that children may transmit the virus that causes it, complicating decisions about reopening schools. For drivers anxious about getting sick, the patchwork of state guidelines has raised more questions than answers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project. It can put students on a slower learning track because of the way that they express themselves.”

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Digital Promise

JULY 2, 2018

But a more recent study by Stanford’s Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew suggests that many of the techniques that students and teachers employ — which include checklists and other practices most recommended for digital literacy — are often misleading. Read Laterally, Not Vertically.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In addition, the faculty task force which presented the study warns that duplicating in-person programs online can have a “cannibalizing” effect on traditional courses. Overall, the task force found a lack of university-wide guidelines for establishing and running online, hybrid or off-campus degree programs. “A

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

Among the districts in our study of published policies, 60 percent offered some type of summer school. But blended learning options are few and far between. Among the districts that EdSurge examined, only 10 districts, or 5 percent, reported that they are considering some in-person component along with online learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. Studies show , for example, that Facing History’s Holocaust and Human Behavior program promotes students’ respect and tolerance for the rights of others and fosters awareness of the power and danger of prejudice and discrimination.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Young children can learn just as much from a story delivered entirely via a digital device as they can from an adult reading a dead-trees version of the same story, according to a new study from researchers at New York University. It can be a good learning tool, if used properly.”. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

Finally, there are states that had some version of a law prior to 2020 and proceeded to add provisions to better address the needs of distance learning. of California’s Public Contract Code only addressed online learning in the context of surplus technology and nonprofit computer labs.

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MindShift

APRIL 8, 2020

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. Find the complete list of publishers’ permissions and online reading rules here.).

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PlagiarismCheck

MAY 8, 2023

Research methods have been somewhat influenced by the significant jump in online learning due to covid-19 and the substantial increase in the use of mobile phones for learning and research.(1) After all, they learn to develop their own ideas and think critically, studying other people’s or AI sources.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

All participating students and their caregivers receive training at the beginning of the program and support throughout the program from a personal care representative who monitors the child’s progress and contacts the child’s family if the child’s usage falls below guidelines. Related: Is universal preschool the answer?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers.

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

As the dust settles from emergency distance learning, schools now have the summer to reckon with what worked and what must change as they grapple with the uncertainty of the next academic year. Some educators who want to make online learning more engaging and accessible are exploring the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Engagement is the students’ active involvement in learning that they perceive as relevant, valuable, and interesting. Within the principle of engagement there are three guidelines: 1) providing options for self-regulation, 2) providing options for sustaining effort and persistence, and 3) providing options for recruiting interest.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The guidelines, which are backed up by research in cognitive science, the work of master teachers, and learning strategies, work best in a teacher-led setting. Read more: 5 Principles of effective instruction adapted for online teaching. Read more: The most important LMS analytics that teachers should know about.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2021

Research suggests that elementary grade students were less likely to receive instruction and feedback than older students while studying remotely. They’re also working to ease some COVID precautions in accordance with state and federal guidelines, in an effort to reduce stress and try to help their students acclimate.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Toward the end of her first semester at the University of Pittsburgh, Sophie Fogel spent every night studying alone in her dorm room, eating lukewarm takeout meals from the cafeteria and wondering why she bothered going away to college in the first place. Credit: Jennipher Acheampong.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The program he’s referring to is an online learning platform, Edgenuity. During the 2016-17 school year, 71 schools in the state used online learning platforms, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. Online learning platforms like that where you don’t have a teacher just scream, ‘Nobody cares about you.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2021

He prefers studying online; there are fewer distractions and he can focus better. Despite studies showing there isn’t substantial transmission risk at most schools, the risk at home was even less. Middle schoolers don’t follow guidelines. My daughter hasn’t spoken to [friends] in over a year,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

The rise of online learning has accelerated it, and school technology providers have been fierce advocates. Mastery-based learning, of course, has its critics. The students at M.S. 442 have made inspirational posters that encourage their peers to accept and celebrate the fact that some things take many tries to master.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Virtual schools promise flexibility and a universe of learning just keystrokes away. But a slew of recent studies have found lackluster performance at online schools, seriously tarnishing their promise. Amid all the bad news, VLACS stands out as an online success story. That’s the norm right now.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

If you need to hear a positive outlook and some inspiration about distance/hybrid learning right now, I think you’ll really enjoy this conversation. On teacher clarity in online learning: We have to make sure we’re communicating with students and their families about when they need to be on and what they need to be doing.

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