The Journal
JUNE 16, 2020
The COVID-19 disruption caught K-12 unprepared and issuing packets of paper, the March solution, won’t work in the Fall. Learning must be continuous, seamless, regardless of location. Time for schools to join the 21st century and use digital curricula. In this week’s blog, we describe classrooms in Michigan that seamlessly weathered the COVID-19 disruption.
Digital Promise
JUNE 16, 2020
Lauren Williams, a fifth grade teacher in California, works in a predominantly Latinx and Black K-5 elementary school, where almost half of the students are designated as English Learners (ELs). When shelter-in-place orders went into effect in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, her school district gave her two weeks’ worth of “one-size-fits-all” curriculum that needed to be adapted to fit a wide range of communities, classrooms, families, and students.
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Neo LMS
JUNE 16, 2020
Technology plays a prominent role in the modern classroom. Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments. Teachers take advantage of smartboards to offer multimedia lessons and expand on concepts. In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 16, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has changed education as we know it. Educators had to quickly adopt creative, and sometimes unfamiliar, ways of teaching and working from a distance, while existing issues like income inequality and the digital divide were pushed further into the spotlight. Yet there’s another crucial piece the pandemic has upended: public education spending.
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Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
If there’s one thing Americans are doing right now, it’s talking. Talking even more than usual when schools are out and many are still working from home. Every day, new stories of discrimination and violence emerge that prompt new conversations. The moment our country faces weighs heavily on the mind of an adult. But one must wonder: What does it do to the mind of a child?
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 16, 2020
There is no greater power than that of a creative mind bolstered by a strong foundation of learning. That is what we believe at St. Vrain Valley Schools, and it is the basis of our efforts to ensure our students are well equipped to enter the workforce and higher education with the skills they need to become the next generation of innovators and creators.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 16, 2020
There is no greater power than that of a creative mind bolstered by a strong foundation of learning. That is what we believe at St. Vrain Valley Schools, and it is the basis of our efforts to ensure our students are well equipped to enter the workforce and higher education with the skills they need to become the next generation of innovators and creators.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
It’s a problem that many educators have been grappling with for years, but one that has been exacerbated—and made more public—by COVID-19: Many students lack sufficient internet connections at home to be able to complete their schoolwork. Educators and digital equity advocates have tried a number of solutions to close the so-called “homework gap,” from deploying mobile hotspots to getting help from local businesses , but the problem has persisted.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 16, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed many school districts to quickly embrace new ways of teaching and learning. It also led them to move teacher hiring online amid uncertainty about the profession. While some districts — especially those in high-poverty areas — have dealt with teacher shortages in STEM, special education and bilingual education, the pandemic’s impact on school systems may have exacerbated those.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
The past couple of weeks have been a serious wakeup call on a nationwide scale as well as in my own heart. While I’ve always considered myself an ally for my black students and others who have been marginalized, I’ve taken this moment to more closely examine what that means, and I know I’ve come up short. I’m saddened by that, and I’m learning to sit with the tough emotions.
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
JUNE 16, 2020
Classroom management is a key part of teaching, even when instruction happens exclusively online. As teachers engage in remote learning , features of videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet can help minimize distractions and redirect student misbehavior. Here are more details about those features — and key classroom management strategies teachers can employ on any platform. 1.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
This past semester, I took an introductory Python course with roughly fifty undergraduate and a handful of graduate peers. The course—“COMP 10: Computer Science For All”—was designed specifically for non-computer science majors. As a researcher exploring coding and robotic technologies for young children, I hoped the experience could provide me with perspective on foundational principles of computer science (CS) and how students from different disciplines approach this topic.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 16, 2020
In today's post we are revisiting this collection of Educational YouTube channels that are particularly ideal for use in social studies classes. Drawing on their video content you will be able.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
There is no other way to put it: The reopening of schools after COVID-19 is going to be expensive. First and foremost, new health and safety measures must be in place. That means implementing new procedures for disinfecting facilities, purchasing personal protective equipment, and implementing new protective protocols. Add to that the costs of designing and implementing new remote learning programs, on top of childcare, transportation, and everything else that will inevitably increase the cost o
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 16, 2020
Critical thinking is a disruptive cognitive process that explores alternative ways of thinking about something with the purpose of uncovering silent and untold meanings. Critical thinkers do.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost OER textbooks and courseware, plans to start offering professional development services for faculty that can be bundled with its titles. In other words, some of its textbooks are now sold with coaching on how to teach with OER more effectively. Announced this week, the new offering was made possible because Lumen Learning purchased the higher education assets of a coaching company for instructors called Faculty Guild.
eSchool News
JUNE 16, 2020
Research shows us that children need rich and frequent oral language experiences in their younger years to set the foundation for long-term learning. Storytelling, pretending, asking questions, and reading books are all important for language development. When children participate in these activities and lots of daily conversations, they have the opportunity to practice their listening skills, play with words, recognize rhymes, notice letters, and read books.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
Back in the 1960s, an experimental form of teaching made a big splash at colleges. It was called PSI, or the Personalized System of Instruction. These days the practice is largely forgotten, but it might bring a sense of déjà vu to proponents of personalized online learning systems. PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section.
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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
EdTechTeacher
JUNE 16, 2020
The following post is an excerpt from EdTechTeacher CEO Tom Daccord’s blog, Leading Innovations in Schools: From Someday to Monday. As the 2019-20 school year comes to a close, administrators and educators have begun to reflect on the rapid transition to distance learning. At the same time, administrators are looking forward and planning ahead for the 2020-21 school year, with long-term remote and/or hybrid learning a real possibility in many schools.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
The National Endowment for the Humanities has a new plan for attracting more readers to books about literature, history and musicology: Make the books digital, and make them free. The federal agency’s new Fellowships Open Book Program awards grants of $5,500 to university presses to publish open access, online versions of recent humanities books so that they’re available for anyone to download.
MIND Research Institute
JUNE 16, 2020
Developing Our MathMINDs is a series of conversations and resources about math that is intended to be a journey of growth with families over several weeks. Each week, MIND's Lead Mathematician and Product Director Brandon Smith and Content Development Manager Nina Wu will be talking about the adjustments families are making to learning at home, and the opportunities this situation provides for changing our relationship with math.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
Instructure’s stated mission is to help people grow from the first day of school to the last day of work. To continue that effort, the company announced its new CEO, Steve Daly, will start his first day of work on July 1. Daly will succeed former CEO Dan Goldsmith, who steered what was a publicly-traded company through a protracted and contested sales process to Thoma Bravo—a drama that began in December 2019.
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.
SpeechTechie
JUNE 16, 2020
Myvocabulary.com is a great source of contextual vocabulary lists. I found it recently when looking for lists like those contained in the terrific WWP-Vocabulary app. Working with vocabulary is a great way to aim for contextual therapy. From MyVocabulary, I have been using an A-Z list related to travel , an area of interest for my student. Go to the general interest area on this page to find similar thematic lists.
MiddleWeb
JUNE 16, 2020
“I used to think clever lessons would show students how much I cared,” writes sixth grade teacher Kelly Owens. But she’s come to understand that “If you want to fully engage and motivate students to delve into your innovative instruction, get going first with a greeting!”.
eSchool News
JUNE 16, 2020
When speaking with Andrew Wallace, Director of Technology, South Portland Maine Schools , two classic marketing slogans come to mind: “Think Different” and “Just Do It.”. Whether it is getting Chromebooks and hotspots to students in need, supporting faculty in the move to remote learning, or just giving students a sense of comfort, he and his district, which includes a pre-k center, five elementary schools, two middle schools, and South Portland High School , are making up new rules as they go a
Shake Up Learning
JUNE 16, 2020
The post Dynamic Learning Down Under – SULS067 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Kelly Bell joins me to chat about Dynamic Learning Down Under and how COVID-19 has affected the school systems in Australia. Kelly is an instructional leader and health and PE educator from Australia. She has been working for years to implement the Dynamic Learning Framework, but the push became much stronger after COVID. .
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.
Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 16, 2020
You are a school, college or university looking to publish online courses and assign virtual work to your students. You are an enterprise looking to provide training to your staff. You are an online tutor providing one-on-one lessons for your pupils. You are a corporation onboarding new employees to your operations. . Whatever reason you may have for turning towards the virtual realm of education, you can’t deny that online learning has become the norm.
techlearning
JUNE 16, 2020
Impero Web:check helps schools comply with CIPA, which requires schools to block harmful or inappropriate content.
MindShift
JUNE 16, 2020
Lainy Morse is an essential worker who has been out of work since the middle of March. She teaches preschool and ordinarily provides a vital service for working parents. “Without us, moms [mostly] can’t go back to work,” Morse says. The Portland, Ore., school where she works is temporarily closed but may reopen as an emergency child care center.
SecurEdge
JUNE 16, 2020
All businesses today that are planning to deploy or refresh their wireless networks need to start by scheduling a site survey—and for a good reason.
AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.
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