A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 30, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in some monumental shifts to practice. Educators have taken a critical lens as to why they teach the way they do and how it can be done more effectively. For virtually every school that is, or will be, implementing some sort of remote or hybrid learning model, you can bet that videoconference tools will play an enormous role.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
After Pembroke Public Schools in Massachusetts shut down amid the coronavirus outbreak in March, teacher Elizabeth Emmons started each weekday checking in with her kindergartners via Google Meet. She and her co-teacher watched sleepy children appear on screen, one by one. Some, propped in bed with their tablets, had clearly just woken up. She emailed and texted links to parents to help them log in to the call.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 30, 2020
Each fall, teachers return to classrooms to students with varying levels of preparation for the new grade in which they find themselves. Sadly, students of color are often the least likely to be prepared for grade-level work. This year, those inequities are poised to balloon as students who entered the pandemic behind may have had little or no formal schooling since March.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
With the shift to remote learning, schools became increasingly reliant on learning management systems, a central hub for teaching and learning resources. An LMS makes it easier for educators to bring their classrooms online. It also gives them the flexibility to switch between in-person and remote learning. On an LMS, educators can take attendance, deliver virtual instruction, assess student work and communicate with students and their guardians.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 30, 2020
MathType, this is an equation editor which allows you to easily type and handwrite mathematical notation in your Google documents. The add-on provides you with almost the same features you would.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
As school districts plan for reopening, many are considering purchasing technologies that can detect elevated temperatures. While it’s not guaranteed to determine whether someone has a COVID-19 infection, temperature screening does have its benefits. Given the ongoing debate about temperature checks and the number of solutions on the market, school leaders will need to be familiar with the technology behind it.
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EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
There is no shortage of challenges in K–12 education, especially given the enormous changes brought about by COVID-19 and other recent world events. Amid the chaos related to physically closing schools, rewriting significant portions of curricula, dealing with frustrated parents and setting up virtual classrooms, the impact of cybersecurity has only increased in significance.
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 30, 2020
As Lauren Brown heads back to school for a year like no other, she considers how to combine academics and SEL support across the content areas. Along with activities for the first days of virtual or physical class, she offers three guidelines to engage kids all year.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
Online and blended learning have long been recognized as innovative ways to teach K–12 students. With the current pandemic, they quickly became the new norm in education. Covid-19 upended the traditional model of teaching in brick-and-mortar schools, pushing educators to explore other avenues of delivering meaningful learning experiences to students.
The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 30, 2020
Hear a panel of educators, administrators, and ed-tech coaches discuss the lessons they learned in the spring of 2020 that they’re using to prepare for returning to school this fall. The Academy of Active Learning Arts & Sciences brought together this panel to share, prepare, and help schools plan for the future of education in the time of a pandemic.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
As educators dive into remote learning this fall, many will lean heavily on IT staffers for help. Some, however, will have additional tech support — from the very same students they’re planning to teach. Student-run IT help desks , where trained students address tech-related questions from teachers and others in their school communities, were popping up in districts across the country before the coronavirus pandemic set in.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
When K–12 leaders implement expanded remote learning — whether at the start of the school year or as needed throughout the semester — teacher training will be crucial. The quick-fix tech training many schools offered in the spring will not provide the quality online teaching students need. The scramble to implement remote learning in March left many educators with no option but to learn, apply and teach with unfamiliar virtual tools.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
Setting up a classroom looks vastly different for many educators this fall with continued remote learning in place. Instead of decorating bulletin boards and planning seating arrangements, most are figuring out how to provide engaging, meaningful learning experiences for their students online. The unexpected shift to remote learning in the spring revealed that many educators are not prepared to teach online.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
In the struggle to implement expanded remote learning, educators are also finding opportunities. Out of necessity, they are integrating more technology into instruction. They’re discussing and chipping away at long-standing digital divides. They are leveraging the flexibility to provide on-demand instruction. But with efforts to provide devices and Wi-Fi access, educators still are missing — or inadvertently reducing — opportunities to better serve all students.
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EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
The first day of classes at Ponca City Public Schools in Oklahoma was set to start last Wednesday. Then they had a change of plans: A ransomware attack hit the school district’s servers the weekend before, pushing them to delay their opening to August 24. The district’s learning management system, PowerSchool, suffered the attack. While no student, personnel or financial information was compromised, all their data was encrypted by the ransomware, says Superintendent Shelley Arrott in a video an
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