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How edtech strengthens parental engagement in online learning

Neo LMS

While the student goes through the formal steps within the system — from kindergarten to primary school to secondary school and so on — parents are an important part of the big picture. Current distance learning settings have made this crystal clear. Read more: Best practices for supporting parents with remote learning.

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‘Students Are Lonely:’ What Happens When Coronavirus Forces Schools Online

Edsurge

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. So Boyle, who is a secondary school principal at Dalian American International School, located on China’s northeastern coast, let teachers email assignments during the first few weeks out and skip most instruction.

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Different Definitions of Personalized Learning Conflict, Cause Confusion

MindShift

Two examples are McGraw Hill’s ALEKS and Khan Academy. Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, defines personalization by pace. With Khan Academy, you can show “mastery” by getting a certain number of questions right in a row. Proficiency vs. mastery (Drew Lytle for NPR ).

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Want to Teach Kids to Code? honorCode CEO Explains Why You Should Focus on Teachers First

Edsurge

Over the past few years, there has been an explosion of onlinelearn how to code” tools, from Code.org to Khan Academy. We actually use some of the platform from Khan Academy, and we also use a website called. There are tons of learn-to-code platforms out there, but how do folks navigate that?

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What is Blended Learning? Tips from 3 Bett Speakers

ViewSonic Education

Neelam Parmar; Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. What is a blended learning approach? There is a great future for blended learning as part of an EdTech strategy. This will help them to deepen their learning and create collaborative hands-on experiences.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” EdX has launched some new “professional certificate programs.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. “And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”. “I

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