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5 Hacks to Balance Teaching and Self-Care
08/31/2020
Topics: Online learning
As the school year begins, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has left teachers, parents and students exhausted and weary. Yet, most kids (and parents!) are eager for school to start, and every teacher I’ve…
3 ways teachers can integrate SEL into online learning
07/08/2020
Topics: Online learning, SEL
The coronavirus crisis has compelled educators everywhere to make new pedagogical shifts to meet the demands of online teaching. Teachers will continue to be challenged to use education technology to…
Edtech students help K-12 educators with online teaching during pandemic
07/07/2020
Topics: ISTE Certification, ISTE Standards for Educators, Online learning
When the coronavirus pandemic hit and schools closed, students in Sarah Schroeder’s educational technology classes at the University of Cincinnati suddenly…
4 tips for teaching with tech: Online learning edition
06/24/2020
Topics: Coding & robotics, Online learning
Two weeks before school started, the iPads arrived. Sixth-grade English teacher Laurie Guyon, who had never touched the device before, suddenly found herself in the midst of an exploratory 1:1 pilot. Her…
People-power fuels launch of district’s remote learning
06/15/2020
Topics: Online learning
For the Greece Central School District in New York, getting remote learning up and running was as much a people-focused undertaking as a technical one.
Sure, there were Chromebooks to be…
NASA keeps the STEM lessons going during quarantine
05/07/2020
Topics: coronavirus, COVID-19, NASA, Online learning, STEM
From launching simple paper rockets to learning how to read satellite images, NASA has assembled a rich collection of STEM activities for students from kindergarten through high school to do on their own at…
How to lead a school district in a crisis
04/29/2020
Topics: coronavirus, Education leadership, Online learning, Technology planning & infrastructure
Remember when 1:1 devices were a luxury and video lectures felt subversive? For many school districts, it wasn’t that long ago.
Over the past few decades, education has been dipping its feet in the…
Five tips for designing materials for remote learning
04/27/2020
Topics: Learning sciences
Before we go any further, a big thank you to the many teachers who’ve put together content, often at a few days’ notice, to try keep learning going during these uncertain times. Over the past weeks, I’ve seen so much guilt expressed on Twitter and occasionally an attempt to do too much. This…
3 ways to make remote learning more engaging
04/23/2020
Topics: Online learning
Like many teachers, since COVID-19 I've been teaching all of my classes remotely. Although I am not new to online teaching or coaching, I wasn’t sure how…
Teach students how to read — and understand — digital text
04/17/2020
Topics: Online learning
Creating online educational content isn’t as simple as transferring printed materials to a virtual space. One of the barriers, researchers have found, is…