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By Madeleine Muzdakis

Infogram is an easy to use infographic and chart maker. Create and share beautiful infographics, online reports, and interactive maps. Make your own here.

Homework has long been the subject of intense debate, and there’s no easy answer with respect to its value. Teachers assign homework for any number of reasons: It’s traditional to do so, it makes students practice their skills and solidify learning, it offers the opportunity for formative assessment, and it creates good study habits and discipline. Then there’s the issue of pace. Throughout my career, I’ve assigned homework largely because there just isn’t enough time to get everything done in class.

A study published by Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, and The Washington Post’s interpretation of it, shows the dangers of trying to analyze change, in this case, the transition from traditional teaching to online delivery, prompted by the pandemic. According to the study, there was an 83% increase in the number of high school and college students who failed at least two subjects, rising from 6% to 11%.

To try to extrapolate from such results some kind of problem with online versus face-to-face education is misleading at best, but is one of the most common symptoms of resistance to change: to conclude that after an isolated test, a new method does not work as well as the previous one.

Trapped, distant, uncertain, and unfocused. These are just a few of the words that students used to describe their current state as they are living through the pandemic: As Angel, a 15 year old sha…

By Nigel Coutts

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BY JARED NEWMAN

I’m fascinated by hyperdocs so I created this notebook template with tabs as a simple packaging for them. As usual, if you want to use it for something else, you can edit the titles of the tabs by clicking on Edit > Find and Replace. Colors are editable within the master, go to Slide > Edit Master and change the theme colors.Do not delete or add slides, duplicate the existing ones so you don’t have to add the links again.

Common Brain Myths Explored: Article detailing ways that modern Neuroscience Debunks Many Popular Myths About the Brain and how it'll help you to know them.

Create your own opera inspired song with Blob Opera - no music skills
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This free PDF download is designed for teachers entering a hybrid or remote teaching model in the Fall of 2020. Based on my personal experience working as a hybrid teacher and educational technology consultant.

Chanukah begins at sundown this Thursday, December 10, 2020. As you begin to prepare Chanukah activities for your classroom and family, we want to make sure that you know about all the curated high-quality Chanukah resources on The Jewish Educator Portal. With lessons and content for Early Childhood through Teens, as well as resources for addressing different learning styles, Jewish educators will find ample content to bridge the miracle of Chanukah with students' modern lives. The selected resources are drawn from the work of organizations including The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education, Upacked for Educators, PJ Library, The Blue Dove Foundation, and the professional development opportunities offered by our agency.

Worried skeptics can point to studies showing that online learning may stunt reading growth up to 5 months due to poor engagement. Or that lack of access to school resources has been shown to widen opportunity gaps already created by race and income.

On the other hand, proponents of remote learning can point to high levels of engagement among online graduates, faster learning times, and long-term increases in school affordability.

Neil Fassina Ph.D., president of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), posits that rather than a temporary lift, we are in fact at the start of a permanent “long-term uptick, where digitally-enabled learning [will] become a quality, viable and first choice solution.”

2020 has seen an extraordinary rise of EdTech, propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Brick and mortar establishments were unprepared for widespread online learning, assuming that though a blended and more flexible model of online learning married with traditional practices was coming, it was somewhere on the distant horizon. A shock to the status quo has forced them to rely heavily on EdTech providers. Disruption of the education sector has been quickened by over 1.7 billion learners being out of the classroom globally. As social distancing restrictions fluctuate across the globe, the significant surge in usage shows no sign of slowing. Adoption is up across all platforms and demographics, whether language apps, virtual tutoring, video conferencing tools, or online learning software.

The recent pivot to remote instruction as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the criticality of intentional program design. Unfortunately, the world’s health circumstances did not permit the time typically required to train faculty for effective online course design and delivery, develop course materials and set proper expectations for students.

There were a number of national and institutional surveys conducted to gauge students’ reactions to remote learning, and the results were generally consistent. For example, an EY-Parthenon student survey of remote learning conducted in April 2020 found that approximately 25% of students were dissatisfied with their remote learning experience. This was true across institutions of varying sizes, types and selectivity.

When I delivered a TEDx talk in early 2019 about “Self-Directed Learning”, little did I know what was in store for us in coming year and two. In times like these, it is not easy to focus o

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