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Adapting the 5E teaching model to remote classrooms

Neo LMS

A comprehensive teaching model helps educators identify strategies that motivate learners to discover new things, to explore a new field of knowledge (or continue exploring previous ones, but with more effective approaches), and at the same time, it provides a useful assessment system. It’s an ambitious endeavor, with the long-term objective of achieving better learning outcomes and identifying more efficient teaching methods.

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How Schools Are Bringing CTE Programs Online

EdTech Magazine

When schools closed last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, many career and technical education teachers had to quickly adapt their courses for remote learning. Now, with continuing health and safety concerns over reopening schools, many CTE educators will need to plan and prepare for teaching in a fully online or blended learning environment. That task isn’t so easy.

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How Online PD Eased A New York District’s Transition to Remote Learning

Edsurge

Dr. Don Murphy How did a mid-sized New York school district solve some of its most pressing professional development (PD) issues with one tool? It took teamwork, perspective sharing and a widely-adopted PD platform. Dr. Don Murphy, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Technology at Hauppauge Public Schools, which serves almost 4,000 students, says his district faced the same struggles as many others.

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Top 10 Reasons You Need Flocabulary

Teacher Tech

Flocabulary is a student-centered, teacher-friendly tool that you must have for this next school year! Your students will LOVE it and you will too! The post Top 10 Reasons You Need Flocabulary appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Distance learning for students with dyslexia

eSchool News

As the dyslexia coordinator for my district, I’m a big believer in individualized, in-person interventions. So much of the support we offer our students with dyslexia is centered around small group work during our intervention block. It certainly made the sudden switch to distance learning quite the challenge! The keys to overcoming that challenge were the same for us as they were for educators across the country: keeping in touch with students, using the right tools, and being as flexible as po

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An Excellent Apple Map's Feature to Teach Students Geography in 3D

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Have you ever tried Apple Map's Flyover feature with your students? Well, if you have not you should. This is an excellent way to take your students on virtual 3D tours to places and landmarks from.read more.

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Parent Tips and Tricks for Distance Learning

Graphite Blog

At this point, the distance learning scenario isn't entirely new. We have more information about what works for kids and what doesn't. And the hope is that we -- parents, caregivers, teachers, and school leaders -- are now better prepared to support kids in their social, emotional, and academic growth during the pandemic. What's true is that families are taking on much more responsibility for their kids' learning than ever before.

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Presuming Competence in Children With Unique Needs

N2Y

How might Stephen Hawking, one of the true geniuses of our time, have been judged if he were assessed without the benefit of his speech-generating device (SGD) and by someone who did not know who he was? Appearances and actions can be deceiving, which is why the idea of presuming competence, especially in individuals with unique needs, is so important.

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Quick Digital Citizenship Activities for Middle and High School Distance Learning

Graphite Blog

Digital citizenship will be especially important this fall as middle and high school students across the country return to school virtually, in one form or another. Students will be on their devices, communicating, collaborating, and creating with digital tools more than ever before. But amid the pressures of distance learning, we know that educators may not have as much instructional time for things like digital citizenship.

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How to Integrate Student Data Privacy Protection into District Data Governance Plans

techlearning

Student data privacy policies implementation needs to be hard-wired for governance, discipline, purchasing, and communications processes —CoSN

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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.

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Building and Maintaining Strong Student Relationships Remotely

Turnitin

As educators prepare to teach in diverse learning environments, here are some ways to build and maintain strong student relationships remotely.?

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Media Literacy: Teaching Kids about Political Ads

MiddleWeb

Experts predict record ad spending this election season, as much as $6 billion. As we brace for this tidal wave, says media literacy consultant Frank Baker, we need to prepare students to analyze the techniques of persuasion being used to sway votes and gain power.

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How the New ST Math Enables More Learning

MIND Research Institute

Can You Learn Math From a Game? The statement above made 20 years ago would have been met with a lot of skepticism. Now, with over 20 years of history, millions of students across the country are learning problem-driven mathematics in the ST Math program. With the release of the 6th version, the new ST Math has doubled down on its learning science roots to create deeper levels of learning.

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5 ways the homework gap is worse for students of color

eSchool News

School districts dealt with the sudden move to remote learning due to COVID-19 in different ways–some were more prepared and shipped devices out to students in record time, while others struggled to ensure students had basic internet access and were checking in each day. But no matter how successful a district’s foray into remote learning was, the homework gap remained in the background, keeping many students–too many students–from reaching their learning potential.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Tips to Minimize Memory Card Problems

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

To a photographer, a memory card is an essential item just like a pencil and a brush are to an artist. Imagine damaging your memory card after a wedding photoshoot, or corrupting the photos taken for.read more.

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binumi

Technology Tidbits

binumi is a wonderful site for creating beautiful looking presentations/digital videos. This is done through a easy-to-use drag-n-drop interface and educators can use for digital storytelling or project based learning. Best of all, binumi can be used for collaborative and remote-learning and a finished project can be embedded into a site or blog. I highly recommend checking out binumi by clicking here !!!

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How to Choose Your LMS: Canvas vs. Google Classroom

EdTechTeam

So here we are, in the midst of a pandemic, adapting as teachers do. In the last six months, everything around us has changed, and we must now redefine what it means to be a teacher. We’re overwhelmed. We’re stressed. A million questions are running through our heads. Where do you even start? Well, my gut says we should start by picking an LMS. You’re going to have to choose some kind of learning management system before you move forward, and most of your decisions from there are going to depend

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Knoword for Remote Learning

Technology Tidbits

Knoword is a super fun Vocabulary game that is perfect for integrated technology into the classroom/home. The way this works is definitions are given w/ the starting letter of the word while a timer counts down. The player tries to answer as many correct words by typing/spelling them correctly before the timer runs out. Best of all, there is a teacher portal where educators can create their own "word" packs to integrate w/ their curriculum as well as track student data.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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The new National Education Policy

Linways Technologies

Key highlights and what to expect. The Indian Union Cabinet has approved the new National Education Policy (NEP) with an aim to introduce several changes in the Indian education system – from the school to the college level. Speaking to reporters, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the changes are important as the policy, which was framed in 1986 and revised in 1992, had not been revised since then.

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Circly

Technology Tidbits

*Circly's collaboration features make it an ideal tool for "remote learning" while schools are closed down due to the virus. Students can even use it to do group projects from home. Circly is a wonderful new graphic organizers that educators can use to brainstorm, manage tasks, create collaborative group projects, Venn diagrams and more. Circly, is uses a drag-n-drop interface making it easy to use as well as lets the user change colors of circles to maximize data points.

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Aver launches advanced AI auto tracking distance learning camera

eSchool News

AVer Information Inc., the award-winning provider of video collaboration solutions and education technology solutions, announced today the launch of the ground-breaking TR310 AI Auto Tracking Distance Learning Camera. Designed specifically for the evolving K-12 distance learning classroom, the TR310 boasts advanced Artificial Intelligence to automatically detect the teacher’s movement in the classroom, allowing them to focus on delivering their curriculum instead of worrying about staying within

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The Cell Game

Technology Tidbits

The Cell Game is a new online game that educators can use to customize for their classroom. This is Go. Once a game starts the object is for students to answer questions of different levels and take over as many "cells" as possible before their cell core is destroyed. The Cell Game can be used for any subject and is easy enough that it can be used by most grade levels. a super fun multi-player game that reminds me of the classic game I highly recommend The Cell Game by clicking here !!!

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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But What Happens When the Bottom Falls Out?

Adjusting Course

Worrying about when things might go south (or dramatically wrong) is probably not the best way to live your life.until it happens and you realize a plan would be helpful. So, what should a leader do when the bottom falls out?! As in needing to shift to distance learning again.or hybrid learning.or a more traditional model that's somehow orchestrated within the context of a global pandemic?

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How to Filter Feedback to Improve Your Practice

Reading By Example

Enter your email address. Follow the Blog. As a principal, I receive emails that are sometimes critical of my decision-making. It’s part of the job, more so now with preparing for re-entry in the middle of a pandemic. Yet this experience is only one of many emotionally-charged issues we manage. As leaders, how can we “separate the wheat from the chaff” when a person or a challenging experience offers information that might be helpful, but we struggle to understand it or use it toward

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL - Episode 13 Today, "Friendship" #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Today, Thursday, July 30 at 4:00 pm US-EDT, we present the thirteenth LIVE episode of the new LearningRevolution.com weekly interview series, REINVENTING SCHOOL. This week, REINVENTING SCHOOL looks at the connection between friendship, learning, school, and education. In the U.S., and in many other countries, questions about opening schools during the pandemic include concerns about social interaction between students.