Google Meet, Google’s premium video conferencing product, is now free for everyone, with availability rolling out over the coming weeks.
https://canada.googleblog.com/2020/04/google-meet-premium-video-meetingsfree.html…
This Is What Students Want Us to Know About Pandemic Learning
Students in different countries were asked to answer 15 questions on issues they are experiencing on learning online Many of the students cited the same issues regardless of their country of origin.
Teach from Home- An Excellent Google Resource to Enhance Your Remote Teaching
Teach from Home is great educational resource created by Google in partnership with other parties (e.g., UNESCO and ISTE). It is “a temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis”. The site features a …
Want to Learn French? Italian? Russian? There’s No Time Like the Present
We may not be thrilled with our housebound conditions, but what better opportunity for learning a foreign language?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/travel/language-instruction-apps-television-youtube.html…
12 Building Blocks to Use Learning Technologies Effectively: All-in-one
This summary describes pretty precisely many of the instructivist principles being applied these days in ‘remote teaching’. They basically describe a process of presenting information, having students practice concepts, and then testing them on their knowledge acquisition.
Experimenting with Hybrid Teaching in a Dedicated Room – Preliminary Conclusions of a Project From LaSalle College Financed as Part of the Digital Action Plan
In the fall of 2019, 3 teachers from LaSalle College experimented with hybrid teaching in a new classroom set up for that purpose.The college drew preliminary conclusions from the experiment. I will present to you some of the key elements …
College Campuses Must Reopen in the Fall. Here’s How We Do It.
It won’t be easy, but there’s a path to get students back on track. Higher education will crumble without it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/opinion/coronavirus-colleges-universities.html…
The Post-Pandemic University
Covid-19 will reshape how we think about higher education and online learning.
https://www.city-journal.org/post-pandemic-higher-education…
How we’re using AI to discover new antibiotics
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Presentation of the Week: Moodle learning analytics from different perspectives
Everything You Need to Know About Building a Great Screencast Video
One of the most effective ways to move instruction online is to build screencast videos. Building effective screencasts continues to be the barrier that stops educators from making a smooth transition to distance learning, so I have put together the …
Tools to (remotely) Collect Students Feedback
Most of the web tools cited below are presently offering a wide variety of remote learning resources as a way to help schools, teachers, educators, and parents deal with the interruptions caused by the current pandemic. Make sure you check …
‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here’s why that happens.
Video calls seemed an elegant solution to remote work, but they wear on the psyche in complicated ways.
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What’s Inside Your Computer – Three Introductory Lessons from TED-Ed
TED-Ed has a few videos that can help viewers understand the basics the components inside a computer and how they work. These videos are appropriate for upper elementary school and middle school students. High school students who don’t have any …
5 Tips for Teachers Working From Home
As teachers struggle to optimize their digital instruction during the COVID-19 crisis, an expert offers five tips for how to implement effective online instruction.