Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 13, 2025

Support Services Student Support : Virtual high schools often provide various support services, including academic advising, technical support, and mental health resources. Parental Involvement : Increased parental involvement is often necessary to help students stay motivated and on track.

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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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Neo LMS

MAY 7, 2020

You’re getting comfortable with a new schedule, technology, and online grading. But, you still need a little help navigating the seas of e-learning. So, here’s actionable advice that you can use as a compass as you create a productive system for online learning. Use gamification to keep students engaged.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 4, 2020

When it comes to remote learning, keeping students engaged outside of the classroom can be tough. Teachers may find it challenging to provide hands-on activities to go with their lesson plans, maintain consistent interaction with their students and foster creativity and collaboration from a distance.

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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. Why does creativity matter? But more important than infrastructure is a mindset.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Ultimately, the goal of blended learning is this fundamental shift in control from teacher to learner. The why driving my shift to blended learning has always been a desire to increase student engagement. I want students to want to be in our classrooms–physical or virtual.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

How might balancing these aspects of your lesson yield a more engaging experience for you and your students? After a challenging year, I worry about teacher engagement. My doctoral research indicated that a teacher’s work designing learning experiences is cognitively engaging.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

As teachers embrace their new roles as designers, instructors, and facilitators of online learning, many are grappling the details associated with teaching remotely. It can be daunting to think about how to present information online, when and where to post assignments, how much to assign, and when to expect that work to be completed.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The challenges of online learning are real, but there are some basic steps teachers and families can take to encourage educational success. Here are a few ways schools can support families of special needs students. Use Online Teacher Tools to Communicate With Families.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Using digital tools and blended learning techniques, she has created a student-centered environment in which her students engage and thrive in active learning online and offline. Courses on Sale for Back-to-School!

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2020

What strategies and technology tools can teachers leverage to take their traditional classes online? I have fielded multiple questions about the best ways to engage students and leverage online learning tools if schools close for a period of time. PrepOnlineLesson.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 16, 2018

They have grown up with technology and have somewhat adapted to using it and can learn a lot more easily with it. 7 Reasons online educational tools should be used in your classroom: Technology driven education increases the learning and retention rates of the tech-savvy generation. Technology allows global learning.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 18, 2022

Online learning has been on the rise for a while, but it became the norm for almost everyone at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. While most students have returned to in-person learning, many have remained in the online classroom. Some kids who homeschool also solely attend classes online.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2020

When it comes to remote learning, keeping students engaged outside of the classroom can be tough. Teachers may find it challenging to provide hands-on activities to go with their lesson plans, maintain consistent interaction with their students and foster creativity and collaboration from a distance.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2020

When it comes to remote learning, keeping students engaged outside of the classroom can be tough. Teachers may find it challenging to provide hands-on activities to go with their lesson plans, maintain consistent interaction with their students and foster creativity and collaboration from a distance.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 8, 2020

When it comes to remote learning, keeping students engaged outside of the classroom can be tough. Teachers may find it challenging to provide hands-on activities to go with their lesson plans, maintain consistent interaction with their students and foster creativity and collaboration from a distance.

Student Engagement 150

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2020

When it comes to remote learning, keeping students engaged outside of the classroom can be tough. Teachers may find it challenging to provide hands-on activities to go with their lesson plans, maintain consistent interaction with their students and foster creativity and collaboration from a distance.

Student Engagement 150

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2020

When it comes to remote learning, keeping students engaged outside of the classroom can be tough. Teachers may find it challenging to provide hands-on activities to go with their lesson plans, maintain consistent interaction with their students and foster creativity and collaboration from a distance.

Student Engagement 150

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We talk a lot about student engagement in education. Most educators got into this profession for the students, and, as a result, we want their experience to be as engaging and positive as possible. There is far less written about teacher engagement, even though teacher engagement and student engagement are reciprocal.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 19, 2020

Teachers may also want to engage students in online discussions to encourage them to think critically about that information before attending class. If students engage in meaningful pre-work prior to class, the teacher can maximize their limited synchronous time with students in a blended learning or online learning course.

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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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2015

Online learning is growing. How do online classrooms differ from the face to face classroom? What about the student/teacher relationship? Jade Ballek is a principal of an online K12 school in Canada. She tells all: the challenges of online learning and the strengths. Online learning is growing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“I remember thinking that the school systems must have a great list of recommended online learning,” she said. Everyone’s a different learner,” said Joffe, “and that’s often overlooked in online learning.”. Other student entrepreneurs have applied their hard-earned wisdom to improving virtual school, too.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. Liberating campus-bound faculty.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting stay-at-home orders meant that students and teachers alike were forced to shift to online or hybrid learning overnight. Now, more than a year later, educators, students, and parents have been able to reflect on their experiences with online learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This blend of online and offline learning can happen exclusively in the classroom with the station rotation and whole group rotation models. It can combine both in-class and online learning at home with the flipped classroom and playlist models. Blended Learning Benefit #1: Student Agency.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

4 – UDL – Universal Design for Learning Inaccessibility is still a major downfall of some online learning implementations. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) ensures that lessons are accessible for every student. The course I recommend for this topic is ePortfolio Tools for the Classroom.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A 2019 Gallup study that included 128 schools and more than 110,000 students found that student engagement and hope were significantly positively related to student academic achievement progress in math, reading, and all subjects combined. Blended Learning Increases Student Engagement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2023

The discussion extends far beyond these well-known online learning tools. There are some emerging peer-learning and social-learning edtech tools that can further transform every facet of the classroom experience, particularly heightening engagement. What is student engagement? Let’s see how.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2020

When working with kids remotely, it’s essential to infuse fun into online learning. Scavenger hunts can increase student engagement during virtual conferencing sessions and create an incentive for students to want to attend. 8 Online Learning Stations.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

7 Student agency is the best way to increase engagement and motivation. When I ask teachers to share the biggest challenges they face right now, they often identify a lack of student engagement as the number one hurdle. Student engagement and teacher engagement are reciprocal.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

K–12 schools are looking for new ways to connect qualified teachers with their students. Videoconferencing tools and online learning environments may be the answer. . New Cloud-Enabled Tools Offer Deeper Remote Learning. This means if a student is sick or if there is a snow day, the full class can still assemble. .

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Neo LMS

MAY 6, 2021

As we look to boost student engagement with the content and keep up the momentum through the end of what has not been an easy or typical school year, trying some different ideas or adding some games into our classroom might just be the boost that we are looking for. 5 Awesome online tools for game-based learning.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The change already delivers extraordinary results and 96% of teachers claim that EdTech increases student engagement in learning. Online learning. Online learning is an all-encompassing strategy that doesn’t consist of only one tool. 5 New EdTech tools to watch.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 17, 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team dug into this: Building Community in Virtual High Schools As educators, we often hear concerns about the lack of socialization in online learning environments. The Importance of Community in Education A sense of belonging enhances student engagement, improves academic performance, and supports mental health.

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