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Responding to COVID-19: How Are the Children?

Digital Promise

For instance, Learning Heroes, a nonprofit organization that equips parents to support learning at home, worked with partner organizations to update The Learning Hero Roadmap , a free K-8 interactive guide with videos and tools to help parents support grade-level math and reading as well as social-emotional development.

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6 Benefits of Immersive Learning with the Metaverse

ViewSonic Education

With that being said, metaverse learning is a relatively new concept and one that many educators are still getting to grips with. At the same time, because the metaverse is also being used in areas like social media and the creation of video games, its use as an educational tool has not necessarily been fully understood by all.

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Equity Isn’t Just About Technology. It’s About Supporting Students and Families.

Edsurge

Listen to the audio below or check out the full video on YouTube. Brown : When I think about digital equity, I think about ensuring that everyone has equal access and opportunity. This is our opportunity to support families and students in moving forward in their digital learning. I was so happy today.

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Should Remote Learning Be an Option, Even After the Pandemic?

Graphite Blog

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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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

Edsurge

Shifting practices regarding grades may inspire students to take risks and study for the sake of learning. Recognition that the digital divide prevents academic progress has prompted colleges to do more to connect students with tech tools. Terik Tidwell, executive director of the Smith Tech-Innovation Center at Johnson C.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? I anticipate that 2021 will see a continuation of both virtual and hybrid learning at all levels of education.

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