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With the start of school just days away in Quebec, teachers and other education workers around the province say the school system is still not prepared to resume in-class teaching amid the threat of COVID-19. Nearly 2,000 teachers, principals and …

Practical, evidence-based guidance to support schools in the busy and unpredictable year ahead.

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/guide-to-supporting-schools-planning/…

Podcastle is a text to speech Chrome extension that allows you to convert text into podcasts. This is an ideal tool for multitaskers who would rather engage in various tasks in realtime. Whether it’s your favourite blog posts, news articles, …

Here are four Ways to Share YouTube Videos Without Distractions.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/08/tools-for-displaying-youtube-videos.html…

In the Winter 2020 semester, as teachers started moving classes online for emergency remote teaching, Zoom became a household name. In response, over the past few months Microsoft has expanded the possibilities of its Teams platform, part of the Microsoft …

Lyall Lukey, Convenor of Education Leaders Forums (ELF) since 2007, responds to a pre-Covid article on EdTech and previews virtual live ELF20: Leading Change and Managing Transitions.

https://educationcentral.co.nz/the-upside-of-the-tech-revolution-in-education-in-an-upside-down-world/…

Remind is a service for sending text messages to your students without having to reveal your real phone number. I’ve been recommending and using it for years. One of my favorite aspects of Remind is that I can schedule and …

Virtual labs can be an important element in institutional efforts to expand access to lab-based courses to more and different groups of students, as well as efforts to establish contingency plans for natural disasters or other interruptions of campus activities.…

A Los Angeles Times survey of 45 Southern California school districts found profound differences in distance learning among children attending school districts in high-poverty communities, like Maria’s in Coachella Valley, and those in more affluent ones, like Cooper’s in Las …

Google’s new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college.

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-plan-disrupt-college-degree-university-higher-education-certificate-project-management-data-analyst.html…

Learn how online education differs from traditional classrooms while you develop your own personal plan and strategies for online learning success. In this five-week course, you explore the fundamentals of the learning process and various models of online courses to …

If there was a publically-funded (important imo) national MOOC provider in Canada, say in the form of an inter-provincial institutional consortium, could that have been in a position to help the wider post-secondary system respond more nimbly to the fall …

These were written as quick, readable introductions to the many theorists who have shaped the world of learning.

https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html…

The Top Tools for Learning 2020 (14th Annual) survey will close on Friday 21 August. Have you voted for your favourites yet? If not, you can do so by completing an online form here or else send a tweet to …

Your inbox holds plenty of sensitive information. Here are some alternatives that put your correspondence under lock and key.

https://www.wired.com/story/tired-of-gmail-try-a-privacy-first-email-provider…