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AI could help your students collaborate, research says

eSchool News

“There is so much evidence that students learn best when they learn actively and collaborate with each other in real time,” says Whitehill, who specializes in AI and machine learning. But that’s not always easy for teachers to achieve, whether the collaboration is happening in a physical classroom or during remote learning.”.

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3 Strategies to Engage Students Remotely with StudySync Using Google Classroom

Catlin Tucker

English teachers using StudySync have a wealth of online resources they can use to keep students learning remotely. Teachers using StudySync can use the Access Prior Knowledge Activities in the First Read Lessons to engage students in asynchronous online discussions using Google Classroom or a learning management system, like Schoology.

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Enhance Student Engagement with Virtual Social Learning Spaces

Catlin Tucker

When I ask teachers, “How would you describe a successful online or blended learning course? ” Most teachers include some form of the word “engagement” in their answers. So, it makes sense that teachers are frustrated when they feel like students are not engaging. What would that look like?”

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School librarians facilitate meaningful learning despite massive school closures

eSchool News

Administrators, teachers, and staff transitioned quickly to take learning online, a move that provided new opportunities even as it brought consistent challenges. As teachers work to share curriculum in new ways, school librarians face a similar challenge: how best to reach students? From great change comes great opportunity.

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10 Tips for Teachers who Struggle with Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

With technology moving out of the lab and into the classroom, it’s becoming a challenge for some teachers to infuse their teaching with tech tools such as websites, educational games, simulations, iPads, Chromebooks, GAFE, and other geeky devices that used to be the purview of a select group of nerdy teachers. Attend webinars.

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How to start a project-based-learning movement in your district

eSchool News

Throughout my entire career as a computer teacher, I have used project-based learning (PBL). Additional experiences testing this notion proved it to be true: Students feel much better about themselves when teachers ask them to solve thought-provoking problems. What is PBL? Tally shared the skills that students need to do PBL.

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Enhancing Teacher Productivity With Acer Devices

EdTech Magazine

Todays teachers are expected to wear many hats: instructor, curriculum developer, assessor, collaborator, researcher and mediator. While this list doesnt cover every role they fulfill, it offers insight into the variability and variety of all that teachers do.