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 …
5 Things We’ve Learned Navigating Student Support in a Crisis
Over these last weeks, institutions around the globe have worked tirelessly to transition teaching and learning online and set up digital classrooms for the health and wellbeing of their students, faculty, and staff. The next step is to ensure students …
How Things Have Changed—New Expanded Netiquette Rules for Video Conferencing
A whole new layer of Netiquette Rules for live video conferencing. Meredith Hart just posted a blog last week sharing video conferencing etiquette. Here are her tips:
How to Use Zoom Videoconferencing to Teach Online Effectively
Zoom can be used for lectures, student presentations, discussions, student polls, virtual office hours, or a place to meet with students. What’s more, there’s no need to train students to use Zoom. If you want to know how to get …
How we can navigate the coronavirus pandemic with courage and hope
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Presentation of the Week: Needs, Importance & Effective Use Of Instructional Technology
Pedagogical ICT resources to facilitate the transition from a classroom-based course to a distance learning course
Planning a distance learning course takes time and a lot of preparation, but sometimes the context in which we teach forces us to make these changes in a very short period of time. Here is an overview of educational resources …
Knowt Will Turn Your Notes and Favorite Webpages Into Quizzes for You
Knowt takes the notes that you have in your free Knowt online notebook and turns them into practice quizzes for you. Your notes can be written directly in Knowt or imported from Google Drive, from a document stored on your …
Videoconferencing Alternatives: How Low-Bandwidth Teaching Will Save Us All
When we try to replicate classroom experiences in an online environment, it’s easy to think of video conferencing as our go-to tool for all sorts of learning objectives—and for good reason.We like the idea of being able to see and …
The Coming Era of Decision Machines
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the pursuit of machines that are able to act purposefully to make decisions towards the pursuit of goals. “Machines need to be able to predict to decide, but decision making requires much more. Decision making requires …