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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

edWeb.net

Two months after the COVID-19 crisis forced educators across the United States to leave their classrooms and start teaching online, the scope of the changes and challenges have now become clear, and educational leaders have started to identify what’s working and what still needs improvement.

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Fixing a Broken Education System: Online Learning and a Better Tomorrow

Fractus Learning

I loved the look on kids’ faces when they had that “ah-ha” moment and understood and assimilated a new piece of knowledge for the first time in their lives. Since we live in a world where manufacturing jobs are all but dead and it is a knowledge-based world where young people all over the globe are more and more empowered by new technological developments, I look upon the current batch of administrators’ position as untenable, but not only that – illogical and frankly dangerous.

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Lessons from a school without walls

The Hechinger Report

The school’s aim is to foster an environment in which student and teacher together are jointly responsible for learning. That heightened sense of ownership, which some research suggests could strengthen students’ desire to learn, is one of the many facets of an educational approach called “personalized learning.” Although definitions vary broadly, personalized learning endeavors to design educational experiences that suit an individual student’s abilities and interests.

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Using EdTech to Support Healthy Habits in Kids and Teens

EmergingEdTech

In today’s age, however, young students are becoming more engrossed with technology — toeing the line between obsession and general interest in technology. Online Learning. which marries mental learning with physical education. Gamification in Health and Learning.

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SCORM – Why does it matter and why do you need it?

Kitaboo on EdTech

You want to do this cost-effectively without too much fuss over content development, and deliver the course from your existing Learning Management System in an efficient, easy manner. It is therefore a tool that enables smooth communication between online learning content and LMSs.

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Is a virtual education the future for K-12 students?

eSchool News

Modern technology connects us and allows communities to share resources in unprecedented ways. Virtual education leverages these connections to provide everyone, regardless of geographic location, access to experts and high quality learning experiences. As technology has improved, virtual education has evolved to become a tool that helps close gaps in high schools and colleges. Digital Learning and Tools eClassroom News Featured on eSchool News Opinion

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How IT Staff Provide Tech Support During Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

When Calgary Catholic School District was pushed to close its doors in March due to the novel coronavirus, students, faculty and other school staff had to quickly adjust to the new reality thrust upon them: navigating remote learning. “We

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SCORM: What is it? A Complete Study

Kitaboo on EdTech

As a creator of an online course, your objective is not only to provide information to your audience and learners. You also want to ensure that the content is consumed efficiently and adds significant value to the consumer’s knowledge base.

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How IT Staff Provide Tech Support During Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

When Calgary Catholic School District was pushed to close its doors in March due to the novel coronavirus, students, faculty and other school staff had to quickly adjust to the new reality thrust upon them: navigating remote learning. “We While the district had been a strong proponent of using technology in the classroom, it still had numerous hurdles to overcome to continue teaching and learning online.

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How IT Staff Provide Tech Support During Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

When Calgary Catholic School District was pushed to close its doors in March due to the novel coronavirus, students, faculty and other school staff had to quickly adjust to the new reality thrust upon them: navigating remote learning. “We While the district had been a strong proponent of using technology in the classroom, it still had numerous hurdles to overcome to continue teaching and learning online.

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The Future of MOOCs Must Be Decolonized

Edsurge

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. The heyday for massive open online courses was studded with hype. But what on earth could be neo-colonial about free online education? Knowledge Production The content on MOOCs is typically produced in universities from the U.S.

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How to Keep Student Minds Open to New Worldviews Even When Campus Is Closed

Edsurge

But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek. Among the hallmarks of in-person higher education that students might lose in a semester or entire year without ordinary campus encounters are chances to learn from and build relationships with people who are different from them. Moving Interfaith Online So … what do we do now?

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Hemet Unified School District Adopts LETRS for New Two-Year Professional Learning Program

eSchool News

BOSTON (April 21, 2022) – Hemet Unified School District in Riverside County, California, has adopted LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs for its teachers and administrators. About Lexia Learning. About Cambium Learning Group.

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Five Steps to Empowering Educators with Evidence

edWeb.net

Congress passed ESSA in 2015, but one area still challenging schools is the tiers for evidence-based interventions and materials. In a recent edWebinar, “ Professional Learning in Action: Evidence-Based Practices for Student Success,” leaders from the Ohio Department of Education explained how a statewide initiative is helping administrators and teachers not only understand the tiers but also provide assistance in selecting the best materials for their students.

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Week of January 24, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Thanks for your attention, and see you online! More than half of all faculty at the University of Findlay utilize Blackboard Collaborate for everything from live online classes and office hours, to meetings and virtual conferences. What does the future of learning look like?

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

The Traditional Model The traditional model used by organizational learning theorists begins with the depth of knowledge. This can further be linked to depth of knowledge being greater as it is internalized (Yaklief, 2010), as exhibit 2 illustrates. The greater the level of internalization of knowledge, the greater perceived depth of knowledge (Allee, 1999; Herling, 2000; Yaklief, 2010). Individual content knowledge: Resume and portfolio of work.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. It’s not that paying for a piece of technology will treat you any better, mind you.). Online Grade Portals.

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