Effective online teaching and learning requires a carefully designed classroom that promotes student engagement with faculty, peers and course content. This research included an investigation of the importance of faculty–student communication and collaboration; student–student communication and collaboration; active learning techniques; …
Flattening the online education curve
Overnight there was a spike in demand at institutions for help and support to transition instruction online. In effect, measures taken to flatten the COVID curve created other curves; massive spikes in systems that were not designed to support such …
Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning
“The important thing is that whatever it is we are doing, it is a teachable moment,” says Hyman. Along with the challenge comes the opportunity to design innovative learning experiences and management systems that will last far longer than our …
BBC offers biggest online education push ‘in its history’
The BBC will offer daily programmes to help parents and children with schoolwork at home during the lockdown.
How to Build Your Own Cloud File Sync with Nextcloud
Services like Dropbox make it easy for you to access your files on multiple devices. However, you might want more control over them. In less than 30 minutes, you can have your own cloud-syncing service up and running on a …
As School Moves Online, Many Students Stay Logged Out
Teachers at some schools across the country report that less than half of their students are participating in online learning.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/coronavirus-schools-attendance-absent.html…
The tech we need to end the pandemic and restart the economy
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Presentation of the Week: The power of artificial intelligence vs the power of human intelligence
How to Create Simple Videos on a Chromebook – No Apps or Extensions Needed
The key points of the video are:How to access the camera on your Chromebook. Where to find your video file. How to share your video file with students.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/04/how-to-create-simple-videos-on.html…
National Film Board of Canada offers free online learning resources for parents and teachers
Starting March 27, 2020, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the country’s leader in audiovisual learning resources, is offering FREE online learning resources that will give Canadian families and teachers new tools to keep young minds engaged.
Professor Google’s plan to change the classroom forever
Should Google be such a big presence in education and should we trust it with pupil’s data?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/04/02/professor-googles-plan-change-classroom-forever/…
The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment In History: Week One
“It is amazing to me that it was just 3 days ago that we made the decision to close schools. In less than 72 hours, Team Duval moved the entire district to an at-home, virtual instruction model. We have managed …
The Internet Archive Chooses Readers
Last week the Internet Archive (IA), a non-profit entity dedicated to “Universal Access to All Knowledge” decided that its answer to this clarion call is to open what it termed a “National Emergency Library”.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/04/02/the-internet-archive-chooses-readers/…
Formative Assessment Tools for Teachers and Educators
The purpose of formative assessment is to check students understanding during the learning process. Based on insights collected through formative assessment, teachers get to adjust their instructional strategies to attend to students’ emerging learning needs better plan for future teaching/learning …
How Canadian HigherEd Moved To Distance Learning
So many things can be said about the strange times in which we are living, but I must say that I’m impressed with how resilient we are. It is also impressive how Canadian higher education institutions have taken this new …