Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! My students love doing any learning when they get to brainstorm on their desks with a dry erase marker. Access a library of shapes, containers, stylized fonts and more. Mind42 is a free online mind mapping software that runs in a browser. Digital Advent Calendar.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. In addition to this partnership, assessors were recruited from national library leaders participating in the Lilead Fellows program.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! To save time students can edit one of the several templates or create their own from scratch by choosing from a free library of stickers, animations, stock images, videos, backgrounds, fonts, frames and more. This year we could all use some cheer! Digital Advent Calendar.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

In early 2020, Nashville boasted unprecedented job growth and low unemployment—good news for residents of Tennessee’s largest city. Nashville Public Library. Nashville Public Library. Service industries like restaurants, hospitality, and skilled construction offered rewarding job opportunities for residents. Begin Anew.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2019

EdSurge also regularly hosts meetups and workshops on online learning and higher education technology. Download the 2019-2020 Higher Education Calendar In case you’re wondering… Gold, red, orange, blue: What do these colors mean? We’ve included dates, location and a brief description to help you decide what’s right for you.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2020

Vizzle is an online learning solution that keeps students with special needs on track with teachers and parents able to support and monitor IEPs, so learning can take place in the classroom and at home. Vizzle FREE through August 1, 2020. Set play preferences to fit and meet students’ individual learning needs.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Teachers can use templates created by educators and available from the library or add interactive questions and formative assessments, such as multiple choice, draw response, drag and drop, open discussion questions, and more. This is very different than in class instruction.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! The first step in student ownership of their own learning is goal setting. One way I help my students set learning goals is by having them complete the vision board template below, which is free for you to copy and assign to students. Digital Advent Calendar.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

education technology company in 2020. Coursera, which provides online courses to higher-ed institutions, businesses and government agencies, has raised $130 million in a Series F round led by NEA. It offers access to Coursera’s online library to workforce development agencies that want to reskill recently unemployed workers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

But despite growth in the numbers and sophistication of online options, high school seniors continue to apply for the opportunity to learn with one another on a college campus. Will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic change that? I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

million in revenue in 2020, marking a 59 percent increase from the previous year. Also driving that growth is Coursera for Campus, which the company launched in late 2019 to let colleges offer its library of online courses to their students. Despite recording a revenue jump in 2020, Coursera posted a net loss of $66.8

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Their regimented schedules disappeared as well, leading many to wonder: How much time should students spend each day on remote learning? We break down the guidance state by state, and share what online learning experts believe is actually a better approach to managing remote learning days. Their advice: Be present.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Picture of library shelves with “caution do not enter” tape. Elsewhere, a school used caution tape to prevent students from roaming through bookshelves in the library. Teacher Skylar Primm noticed the change while visiting the school in August for a much-delayed outdoor graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JANUARY 30, 2020

Colleges and universities have huge libraries stacked with books. Brick and mortar libraries are still standing strong and are maintained by educational institutions. But let’s be practical here, how often are students excited at the prospect of going to the library to search for a book? Benefits for Institutions 1.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! The platform features a library of ready to use templates. Find templates for student choice menus and more at the Shake Up Learning blog. Even if you don’t use Google Classroom. You can easily force a copy to students with a simple link. Digital Advent Calendar.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Choosito is a student search engine and digital library. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning or The 30 Goals Challenge or take a fully accredited online course for graduate credit ( Online Learning Best Practices , Connected Educators or TESOL Methodologies )!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! My students love doing any learning when they get to brainstorm on their desks with a dry erase marker. Access a library of shapes, containers, stylized fonts and more. Mind42 is a free online mind mapping software that runs in a browser. Digital Advent Calendar.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2020

Lerner Digital is granting access to use their books to help enable librarians, teachers, and educators to help students with remote access and online learning. A selection of their digital products are now available for free through June 30, 2020. Click this link , to access these digital resources.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

One motivation is a need to give workers new skills so they can grow their businesses at a time when there is a faster rate of skills obsolescence , driving the need for lifelong learning. The shift to remote work in the pandemic also fueled the purchase of low-cost subscriptions to online training libraries.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

Fair use is a provision of copyright law that allows many reading aloud activities to be translated from the classroom to online learning. In general, as Carrie Russell of the American Library Association has pointed out : “One is not displacing a sale or serving as a substitute to the work. What Is Fair Use? to 2:30 p.m.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

It seems certain that more professional learning will happen outside of traditional institutions and campuses – especially if colleges fail to adapt. Learning is increasingly happening in the workplace, or “ in the flow of work.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today! Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect? Here are the sessions that have been scheduled so far : Teaching Visual Literacy Through Fake News with Dr. Lesley S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s “Opening” series , we profiled five school communities that successfully reopened during the 2020-2021 school year. Both of these rural districts faced challenges with online learning, as many families did not have Wi-Fi at home.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Do students learn better online or in a classroom: statistics help shed light. What is the success rate of online learning? While some research suggests comparable outcomes between online and classroom learning, others indicate differences depending on specific contexts and methodologies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The Class of 2020 is graduating from a distance. That means we must prepare now for the potential that colleges and universities that swiftly shifted to online instruction as the pandemic swept through the country and forced campuses to shutter will have to continue, and even ramp up, those efforts in September.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sophia Joffe, a high school senior who launched a database for enriched remote learning, at her family’s home in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Guiding high school peers through online learning maze. As the coronavirus pandemic intensified in March, Sophia Joffe’s school in Toronto nimbly transitioned to remote learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. We have such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2020

Here is a closer look at Follett’s company-wide eLearning resources that are being made available at libraries, schools and universities in communities across North America affected by the COVID-19 virus: Follett School Solutions (PreK-12). Visit the site to learn more and take advantage of this offer. Students must have an “.edu”

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2020

This sale and ongoing partnership will allow us to continue delivering aligned professional learning content through our analytics platform, benefit from improvements that will be made by Infobase, and have greater flexibility to focus more efforts and innovation on data management and analytics.” learn more, visit www.Infobase.com.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. Published with permission.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Library of Congress ) The photos, shot in black and white, are from the early 20th century, and the disease in question was tuberculosis. They created a sort of how-to manual for outdoor learning, detailing everything from campus site assessments and classroom infrastructure to case studies and curriculum. between 1900 and 1920.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead. During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2019

We're excited to announce our third Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Emerging Technology," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Tomorrow’s technologies are shaping our world today, revolutionizing the way we live and learn.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. It was all hands on deck.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 21, 2024

OVERVIEW: Our first Library 2.0 School Library Summit is " School Libraries and AI ," and will be held online (and for free) tomorrow, Thursday, August 22nd, 2024, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. We look forward to gathering online with you! Please also join the Library 2.0

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

This article was originally published on Global Online Academy's (GOA) Insights blog on March 4, 2020. If that’s the case, consider looking to your community for support, whether that leads you to a library, a community center, a constituent with certain expertise, a local business, and so on.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Using data from three California Community College districts and student demographic information, researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues.

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