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Austin Independent School District Selects IXL to Support Classroom Instruction and Distance Learning

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The district turned to IXL because of its ability to align perfectly to Austin ISD’s textbooks and curriculum, plus IXL’s broad range of skills that individualize instruction and empower every student. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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Low Tech? No Problem. Here are 3 Alternative Ways to Help Distance Learning Happen.

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Because students would be watching the shows at home without guidance from teachers, the stations created learning prompts and questions—similar to those found in textbooks—to run before and after shows. LA schools did indeed close.

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Easy way for teachers to hold “Office Hours”

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Numerade—a fully free online education platform founded with a mission to close the educational opportunity gap by democratizing access to extraordinary educators and content—is making it easy for teachers to support students in a distance learning environment through its “ Office Hours ” feature.

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Schell Games’ Virtual Reality Educational Tool HistoryMaker VR Now Available For Free

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With a majority of schools participating in distance learning this year, Schell Games announced its virtual reality education tool HistoryMaker VR is now available for free on Steam for all to use. HistoryMaker VR is an immersive content creation tool that helps students learn history in an entertaining and engaging way.

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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

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Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. Now it’s my job.” But small kinks have cropped up.

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Lessons in network resilience

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Importantly, while distance learning is skyrocketing, it is just one component of the evolving and expanding digital classroom, which relies more than ever on a flawless network connection. Related: Remote learning for the long haul. California alone, for example, plans to serve over 1 million K-12 distant learners this fall.

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Math Expert Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell Endorses Hand2Mind’S Hands-On Standards

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“Teaching math with manipulatives is proven to help students gain a greater understanding of the concepts they are learning. We recognize that math is an area of growing concern for both parents and teachers due to distance learning, so we feel this partnership couldn’t have come at a better time to address pandemic-related learning gaps.”.

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