Educating All Learners Alliance Launches Flagship Site, Shares Personas Educators Can Use to Understand Students’ Lived Experience During COVID-19
[…] common conditions: autism, a hearing and speech impairment, a learning disability, an emotional disturbance, and a health impairment (asthma). They also detail each student’s individual challenges with technology access, family support, and school support during quarantine. LAB’s mobile-friendly interface features an engaging text- and graphics-based narrative that we hope will appeal to students as […]
Help Students Thrive in Remote Learning Environments with Formative Assessment
[…] foster a positive, engaging learning environment. Leverage digital tools. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought more awareness to the importance of accessible resources for teachers, students, and families. Technology is a powerful tool, but it’s important that we understand how to properly leverage it. There are several paid and free resources available to help educators […]
Invention Opportunity: Creating a Shared Reality
[…] to 10 shared values and 10 beliefs. They continue to guide the work in one of America’s most innovative systems. Launched as Denver School of Science and Technology and now a 15 school network, DSST is “a values-first organization said Founder and CEO, Bill Kurtz. Shared values are visible environment, culture, and learning. These education examples suggest […]
Bringing STEM into Every Classroom Space
[…] reality, are STEM/STEAM-related topics. As a language teacher, I never thought that I could bring these topics into my classroom until I began teaching my eighth-grade emerging technology course and connected it with the language arts. Once I did that, I realized that I needed to create more opportunities that will help students to […]
It’s Time to Learn AI, And It Just Got Easier Than Ever
[…] head start on many of them. The company started out focusing primarily on gaming, specifically in designing and manufacturing graphics processing units (GPUs). Since 2014, however, NVIDIA technology has expanded into sectors such as data centers, professional visualization, healthcare, and autonomous machines. As AI proliferates, a new generation of students and developers will play […]
How Lessons of the Past Can Help Design a More Equitable Future for all Students
[…] new era of education. Whether we like it or not we must adjust to the new normal of virtual instruction. Today, disparities among schools and unequal access to technology have become more glaring than ever before. Technology and the Internet will likely continue to play a major role in the development and learning for students, […]
4 Strategies to Support Students with Learning Differences in the COVID-19 Educational Landscape
[…] themselves providing answers (Loom, Flipgrip, etc…) Pictures of handwritten work Typed responses (use of Text to Speech programs as needed) Provide students with online calculators or assistive technology tools specific to math Provide students manipulatives Tangible manipulatives sent home by the teacher Printable manipulatives Virtual manipulatives Provide students increased wait time, cues, and alternatives […]
5 Recommendations to Improve Remote Learning for Families
[…] An important piece of understanding the parent experience with at-home learning is the impact of the digital divide, the gap between those with access to connectivity and technology and those without. A LEANLAB report from June 2020 illuminated the stark inequities in education among students throughout the Kansas City metro area as a result of […]
Smart Review: Ozobot Brings 1:1 Coding to the Classroom
[…] can help by offering screen free ways for students to engage in coding activities. He also emphasized the importance of helping teachers to feel comfortable with using technology and how Ozobot has helped teachers by providing a seamless integration of coding into their classrooms. Everyone can code: Reaching more classrooms Ozobot classroom launched in […]
Opportunities in Wellness: A Key to Learning
[…] the tools offer access to critical wellness support in ways we haven’t before, at lower cost (dollars, time, and complexity). 4. Sustaining ongoing collaboration between educators, healthcare, technology workers, and, yes, students. In the best cases, COVID-19 has spurred leaders to build uncommon collaborations to solve new challenges. School districts are collaborating more closely […]
