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3 ways students with autism benefit from art, music and recreation

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Since her older students like to share songs with each other through platforms like YouTube, she makes lessons out of song-sharing that involve writing and presentation skills, and how to appropriately comment on songs. She also uses instrument playing to teach elements of music like tempo, dynamics, pitch, tonality and mood.

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Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching

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In fact, many college instructors have been downright grumpy about having been thrown into a new teaching format. Some instructors are so taken by active learning working so effectively that they expect to continue offering courses online, even when the pandemic restrictions completely lift and things are fully back in person.

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Automated Proctors Watch Students. Now Senators Are Watching These Companies.

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“As we have seen far too often, students have run head on into the shortcomings of these technologies—shortcomings that fall heavily on vulnerable communities and perpetuate discriminatory biases,” the senators write. Ultimately, edtech vendors and school leaders should ask not just ‘Can we do this?’ but also ‘Should we do this?’

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Teaching in the Era of Bots: Students Need Humans Now More Than Ever

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When we start masquerading machines as humans, we undermine trust, which is the foundation of student-instructor relationships. But students need to know, from the beginning, that this personal assistant is a robot and that their instructor is a human.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).

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How to Keep School Rhythm and Routines for Young Children at Home

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Her counsel leads what follows, and makes thinking processes and plans accessible to others who may be wrestling with similar questions. Give yourself time and space to improve in your role as your child’s instructor, and give your child time and space to develop as an at-home learner. Emergent Writing.

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Supporting Student Well-being in Virtual Learning 

Faculty Focus

Online student struggles When you think of “student support,” you probably think about an academic-based intervention; perhaps on-campus or Zoom-based tutoring, a writing center that can provide feedback and services related to class writing assignments, or services for students with accommodations. Mental i llness.

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