Sun.Jun 21, 2020

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Station Rotation in an Era of Social Distancing

Catlin Tucker

Teachers are preparing for an uncertain future. Many are unsure if they will be returning to school on a traditional schedule, a blended learning schedule, or completely online. Teachers are questioning how the instructional strategies they have used in the past will work if students are coming to school on a modified schedule or if they are learning online.

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Moving to a Hybrid Learning Model

A Principal's Reflections

We don’t know for sure what education will look like in the future, but one thing is for sure, and that is the need to adapt and evolve. The pandemic shuttered schools across the globe, and lessons, some of which were very hard, were learned. As re-entry planning either begins or continues in earnest, the priority must be to transform learning in ways that provide kids with the best experience possible while ensuring the safety of all.

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Khan Academy plunged into classrooms, then classrooms went online

The Hechinger Report

LAS VEGAS — Sal Khan made a radical decision last summer. It was time, thought the ed tech pioneer, to bring his nonprofit online education empire to brick-and-mortar schools — lots of them. This story also appeared in The Nevada Independent. To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year.

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Best Virtual Field Trips

techlearning

Help students experience the best virtual filed trips without getting on a bus, or even leaving their homes.

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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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Some Helpful Resources for Academics and Research Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is a collection of some good resources curated specifically for academics and research students. It contains academic search engines, iPad apps, guides on academic writing, and research.read more.

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Picture Books Set the Stage for MS Learning

MiddleWeb

In Part 2 of a series on using picture books in middle school, Jennifer Sniadecki and Jason DeHart focus on "the simple power" of stories with minimal text to set the stage for a lesson and make the learning more accessible. One example: Eva Bunting's Terrible Things.

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The Ed-Tech Imaginary

Hack Education

I gave this keynote this morning at the ICLS Conference, not in Nashville as originally planned (which is a huge bummer as I really want some hot chicken). As I sat down to prepare this talk, I had to go back into my email archives to see what exactly I'd said I'd say. It was October 29, 2019 when I sent the conference organizers my title and abstract.

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OPINION: ‘For our many Black and Brown children, the threats to their physical safety now and into the future are eating away at their insides’

The Hechinger Report

Our students are traumatized. They are living with fear and confusion. They are experiencing or witnessing police violence, rioting and looting. And schools, a place where children typically process events and emotions, are shuttered. What are children to do? Who will acknowledge, understand and respond to their trauma and its accompanying symptomology?

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