Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Around the world, people are starting to turn hopeful eyes toward the new year as the fervent desire to banish 2020 grows. Many have tried to find meaning from the loss we’ve experienced over the past year. But the lessons to be learned here are not new or unique to the pandemic. If we have learned anything, it is only that COVID-19 discovered our nation’s failures like Columbus “discovered” America.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2020

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Truly 2020 was a difficult year for so many reasons. As the executive director of the Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents , I am acutely aware of the pandemic’s impact on our most marginalized and students of color—and of the mammoth efforts of school leaders to support them and continue providing them with an education in what seemed to be an impossible situation.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We are continually updating our lists of educational resources so that teachers and educators can have access to the latest available resources out there. In today's post we are sharing with you this.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

At the end of every year, EdSurge rounds up a collection of its top stories based on clicks, shares and website traffic—and no year in our short history has been quite as dramatic as this one. The pandemic that 10 months ago transformed daily life left educators with a slate of questions that would have seemed unfathomable just a year ago: How do I teach online?

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2020

After the pandemic hit, Lorrie Ayers, a family leadership coordinator in Brooklyn, New York realized she needed to brush up on her technology skills so she could continue to help families in her district feel welcomed. She attended weekly learning sessions offered by the district on various ways to use technology to connect with families. In the sessions hundreds of staff members who support families come together not only to learn, but to network, connect, and share how they are putting what th

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TeachThought - Learn better.

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Drew Perkins talks with sociology professor, author, and consultant, Ilana Redstone about the importance of and how to develop viewpoint diversity. The post The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 229 Growing Viewpoint Diversity appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This story on team-building exercises to strengthen relationships during distance learning, originally published on April 28, was eSN’s No. 1 most popular story of 2020. Check back for our 2021 trends and predictions. As a teacher, team building is something that comes naturally. We do it to break the ice at the beginning of the year, to build a community in our classroom, and as a brain break when our kids (or the teachers) need a break.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

When I was in college, I started writing a holiday newsletter to include with my Christmas cards. My mother had always written a newsletter, so it seemed a natural way to reflect on the year. It also provided friends and family with an update on my life in a pre-social media world. It is a tradition I have continued through the years. Trying to wrap my mind around 2020 to craft my newsletter was no small feat.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

If you’re ready to charge into 2021 without a glance backward, we don’t blame you. But if you’re in the mood to reflect on 2020—oh what a year!—you’ve come to the right place. Here, we give an encore to the most popular EdSurge higher education stories of the past 365 days. Some explore themes that were barely imaginable in January, like closed campuses and widespread Zoom classes.

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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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Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here’s a look back at my top #EdTech picks of 2020: Engaging eLearning Activity Templates, Building Relationships During Remote Learning, Virtual Waiting Room Slide Templates, How to Make a GIF in Google Slides, Virtual Manipulatives That Work on Any Device. 10 Engaging eLearning Activity Templates to Promote Deeper Learning Building Relationships During Remote Learning It.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In mid-September, I was knee-deep in a few readings, one for each class I had taken this fall. The readings ranged from dead white men (think Durkheim, Marx, et. al.) to the history of education, all so compelling that, for a time, I could isolate the words on the page from the specter of death, fascism, and impending doom. A global pandemic laid waste to bodies and souls by the thousands around the world.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Positive student-teacher relationships increase both academic engagement and prosocial behavior at all levels of schooling. Teachers who offer individual students and entire classes the “ educational friendship ” of respect , appreciation and good old benefit of the doubt fundamentally alter experiences of schooling for the better. But what about teacher-to-teacher friendships?

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