Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

Here’s a quick overview of the legalities associated with their use for schools: Legal Risks and Obligations for Schools Using AI Tutors AI tutors are quickly changing how students learn, offering personalized support across different subjects and formats. AI tools used for remote learning pose additional risks in terms of data privacy.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

It also empowers students to learn efficiently on mobile devices and during flexible hours, which is particularly valuable in hybrid and online learning contexts. Learning Analytics Learning analytics represents another foundational component of the Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

It also empowers students to learn efficiently on mobile devices and during flexible hours, which is particularly valuable in hybrid and online learning contexts. Learning Analytics Learning analytics represents another foundational component of the Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

In 2012, she moved to Coursera, then an experimental startup struggling to bring Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to students around the world. She also worked at NovoEd, another online learning platform. By 2015, Trumbore was at the University of Pennsylvania running Wharton Online.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

is a question that has reverberated from the minds of learners for decades. The sentiment is especially cacophonous in online education. The grades in the course honor the on-the-job learning with at least a third of the points dedicated to the tasks Tara and Tim can accomplish at their place of employment.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Trick now that sometimes takes the form of a fully online school, but that’s actually fairly rare. What we’re seeing much more commonly is students who are mixing on site and online learning. So there’s these two examples of how CTE taps into online learning. In their schedule. Kevin Hogan We.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

As teaching and learning increasingly shifted online throughout the early 2000s and 2010s, Turnitin became more embedded in classes. Turnitin’s default settings, once integrated, are to scan every assignment, not just those that professors suspect are plagiarized. I trust you. I trust that your work is your own.”

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JUNE 11, 2025

Online learning has come a long way, but outdated myths still pop up—especially if you’re just starting to explore virtual school options. Through the Reel Me video competition, K12-powered students are busting the most common myths about online school and sharing what it’s really like to learn online.

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JULY 18, 2025

Essential Computer Skills for Online Learning There’s no perfect age to start teaching kids computer skills. For example, if your kid asks you a question, you can encourage them to look up the answer online. As early as preschool, little learners can become familiar with a keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen devices.

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JULY 24, 2025

This blog highlights the difference between homeschool and online school to help you determine which might be best for your young learner. Online Schooling vs. Homeschooling Both online learning and homeschooling unbind education from the physical classroom, taking learning home or on the go.

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JULY 22, 2025

This year, the talented group of students is creating social media content across platforms to help build brand awareness and engage our audiences around the online learning experience. We asked them what makes online school so great, and here’s what Sierra had to say. My K12 Why What do you like about online school?

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2025

Many of the challenges of using AI in education center on the type of learning approach used, accuracy, and building trust with the technology, said Nhon Ma, CEO of Numerade an online learning assistant that uses AI and educators to help students learn STEM concepts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

Today, online students represent 31.6 Whatever growth is happening in higher ed is driven by online,” Seaman says. As a longtime official in online-education programs, the puzzling question to me is why, after more than two decades, does online represent merely a third of college enrollment? percent of all U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

The fires further frustrated student learning when schools are still struggling to recover from the pandemic. Students in LA were forced back to online learning. A subtly pernicious one? Some schools are also still reeling from the decision to rip away deadline extensions on federal pandemic relief funding.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Public school districts can move to online learning in incremental steps — just one day a week. These days it seems most school-wide blended learning programs are taking place not in traditional public education, but in charter schools—for one big reason: Charter schools are able to essentially start from scratch.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Given that many teachers are working with students online, at least part-time, I created the Google Slide decks below for teachers to copy and use in an online learning scenario. That way, students can learn with and from each other. Thinking Routine #2–Claim, Evidence, Question.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Online learning platforms and other edtech tools gained traction. More assessments moved online. Teachers taught using materials they copied or posted online, sometimes under paid or free licenses, sometimes under fair use, and sometimes by committing infringements that rightsholders were willing to ignore.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 19, 2020

Module 4: Teaching Presence: Facilitating Learning Online. Lesson 1: Designing Dynamic Discussion Questions Lesson 2: Teaching Students to Say Something Substantial Lesson 3: Deciding on a Realistic Facilitation Role Lesson 4: Facilitating Synchronous Online Discussions.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 25, 2020

Teachers may not have felt particularly prepared to engage students in learning online. Below is an example of an end of the year exit ticket designed to collect data from students about their experiences online. This exit ticket asks the following questions: How easy was it to find your assignments online?

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 25, 2016

English teachers frequently ask me which technology tools I use to design my online learning stations. Below are my 5 favorite technology tools and online resources for designing the online learning stations in my English classroom. #1 1 StudySync.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2021

Online learning has untapped potential for students across the nation, and while the COVID-19 pandemic forced classrooms online in early 2020, that doesn’t mean learning became more innovative and personalized. And here is where online learning’s vast potential enters the scene.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 8, 2021

In the summer, I published a course titled Getting Started with Blended and Online Learning to support teachers as they prepared for an unpredictable year. I have released a second course titled Advancing with Blended and Online Learning to help educators develop in their practice.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2021

The pandemic has changed the way parents look at their children’s education, and most want more choices–including an online learning option–going forward. There’s no question that the pandemic turned the public education system completely on its head. According to a survey conducted by Stride, Inc.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2020

Related content: 8 STEM learning challenges students can do from home . Once you find the video you want to use, you can use the TED-Ed Lessons editor to add questions, discussion prompts, and additional resources. Here are a handful of TED-Ed Lessons covering plant life, crazy sea creatures, bodily functions, and more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

These 10 questions can help prospective students make an informed decision and choose a college where they will thrive academically, socially, and financially. The key is to ask the right questions to ask during a college visit, consider all the factors in choosing a college, and trust your instincts. The key is knowing what to ask.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Creating authentic learning experiences such as having your child help prepare meals, shop, and participate in outings to parks or museums can improve literacy. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success. Related content: How we reinvented our district’s reading program.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 23, 2024

I encourage the educators I work with to reach out if they hit bumps, have questions, or need support as they implement new instructional models. Every year, I field hundreds of questions from the educators I work with and people who read my blog or listen to my podcast. Stay curious, and keep those questions coming!

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. There's not a lot of research on very young children and online learning,” Rice says. “So,

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Another strategy for maximizing the asynchronous time is to design a student-centered inquiry on a high-interest topic or essential question for students to self-pace through. The topic or question driving a 5Es inquiry cycle can be related to the work students are doing in class. ” which has a collection of excellent examples.

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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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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

For K–12 education, it’s no longer a question of whether online learning is here to stay but, rather, how can we make it better for our teachers and students? Even before the pandemic, the situation in many areas demonstrated the potential for the meteoric growth of online learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

Online learning has moved to the front stage as 90 percent of high-income countries are using it as the primary means of educational continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As Richard posits, if we aren’t careful to avoid the pitfalls, “it will guarantee that nobody will ever want to do online learning again after coronavirus is over.”

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2020

Provide students with an agenda and a list of discussion questions ahead of time. If teachers provide the discussion questions ahead of time, students who need more time to process the questions have time to do so. Communicate your expectations for participation and behavior online. Use the chat window strategically. .

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 20, 2020

Second, teachers who invest the time and effort needed to develop a sense of community online will have more success engaging students who are learning remotely. A simple strategy is to use online discussions to post icebreaker-style discussion questions. Below are some ideas for fun icebreaker-style discussion questions.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Breakout rooms are a relatively new addition to our students’ learning landscape, so we cannot assume they will be immediately comfortable speaking up in a breakout room. There may be anxiety associated with engaging in a breakout room, especially in the early stages of navigating online learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Much has changed since then, as the world of online learning built for working adults has grown. As an advisor at an online college, I know that adults are attracted to the flexibility of an asynchronous online learning environment and the pace of accelerated semesters.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

You may need to ask yourself some additional questions: . Amy is a Google certified educator adept at designing engaging, student-centered digital curriculum and learning opportunities. Which of the new tools that you explored this year would you like to not only use again but explore more thoroughly? Which of them didn’t work for you?

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