Online Learning Professional Learning Student Engagement 
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. The gregarious students no longer take over the class and the quiet ones are not ignored in their silence. ” Ignore Innocent Mistakes. Simplify Tech Skills.
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Others paid attention to the data and rising number of coronavirus cases and used their summers more wisely to design for better remote/hybrid learning and teaching than the mostly-low-level direct instruction, digital worksheets, and paper homework packets that we saw last spring. All of this work was virtual.
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Edsurge
MARCH 9, 2023
Creativity helps develop a deeper sense of learning, yet we keep our “creative” units until after state testing is over. Recently, I met with two education leaders to discuss how to improve teacher and student engagement through creativity. Just as the learning has to be meaningful to students, it must also be for adults.
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 4, 2020
Teachers are scrambling to move their offline courses online to ensure that students continue learning for the remainder of the school year. Understandably, the focus is on online learning as that is a new and unfamiliar learning landscape for a lot of educators.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 13, 2021
Even in schools outside of the Verizon Innovative Learning network, coaches reported that they were valued more by teachers and administrators than prior to the pandemic. Sutter Middle School in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coach uses the district-adopted LMS for professional learning.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JULY 20, 2020
As we try to figure out what schooling will look like in the months to come, we need to pay attention to the motivators and demotivators that help foster student engagement. If all we’re offering students is the uninspiring learning, we’re in a heap of trouble. And they’ll be right.
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 11, 2021
Some schools struggled to embrace the flexibility and affordances of online learning and instead attempted to replicate the traditional school day online. Others did not have the infrastructure, devices, or professional learning necessary to navigate this sudden shift online.
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