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The Best Flipped Classroom Software Tools For Flipped Learning In 2021

Fractus Learning

These tools help create instructional content, interactive lessons, polling surveys, activities, and students’ opportunities to ask questions and communicate effectively. You can upload videos directly from your smartphone or tablet to YouTube without needing a computer. Access Google Drive from a computer, smartphone, or tablet.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. About 17 percent of adults access the internet from home through a smartphone only. The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has a webinar scheduled for 3 p.m. But Holland is not optimistic.

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How to Grow Global Digital Citizens

Ask a Tech Teacher

With the rise of online games, web-based education, and smartphones that access everything from house lights to security systems, it’s not surprising to read these statistics: In 2013, 71 percent of the U.S. A survey collected by Smart Social itemizes their top fears related to children using the Internet: Predators/bullying.

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Great Activities for the First Week of School

Ask a Tech Teacher

She includes a video and a template you can use of her survey. Students get to talk about their memories from summer and teachers get to catch up on what the rest of the world did while they were in summer training, webinars, and virtual meetings. Catlin_Tucker. Back to school story. And why not? Who doesn’t like selfies?

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, for instance, sent home about 80,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

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The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment In History: Week One

MindShift

“Three days to conduct a survey of technology needs from 130,000 students and to prepare thousands of computers for student use. And the school is also training at least 10,000 Florida teachers to transition their own classes online — via live online trainings and pre-recorded webinars. Imagine that! so parents can check in.

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Video, Apps, Newsletters and Portals—Four Ways Technology Can Boost Parent Engagement

Edsurge

Use short videos to reach busy parents, then track success through your LMS Natomas Unified School District in Sacramento, CA is using short, single-topic videos—easily viewable on smartphones—to reach busy parents, some of whom don’t speak English. The videos, 18 to date, include specific, hands-on suggestions as well as feedback surveys.

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