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10 Tips to Successfully Complete Online Courses
To help you get prepared, we’ve asked a few instructors to share their best advice. Here are our top ten tips for online success! “Go” to class. Treat your online class like a regular class. Schedule time for it on your calendar. Login on a regular basis. Take notes...
Back-to-School Tips
Summer is almost over, and it’s time for students around the nation to get back to school. Whether you or a loved one are going back to grade school, high school, or starting college, we know this is a pivotal, exciting, and maybe even overwhelming time of the year,...
Top tips for effective online learning
How Can Parents Help Their Children Be Successful In An Online School Environment? Stick to the schedule - include free time, extra activities, work, etc. Write the schedule out so it is easier to follow. Dedicate a space for working on school and limit distractions....
Innovating to promote learner agency — ACE publishes Education Blockchain Initiative final report
ACE Education Blockchain Initiative — What Is Blockchain? — YouTube Blockchain is best known as the foundational technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but how could it be used in education? The Blockchain Innovation Challenge, part of the Education...
Digital Literacy 101: Understanding Processes that can Strengthen Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy 101 (Part II): Understanding Processes that can Strengthen Digital Literacy In our last blog post, we discussed both the cognitive and technological processes that affect the ways that people engage with information and one another online. However, it...
A Renewed Pledge for #GoOpen
Open educational resources have garnered more attention during the pandemic as educators and district leaders sought to find instructional materials to accommodate the pivot to remote learning. For some, it was the first time hearing about these materials. For others,...
AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Defining Artificial Intelligence
Key Points: Educational technology is evolving to include artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence will bring “human-like” features and agency into future technologies. Policy will have an important role in guiding the uses of artificial intelligence in...
Using Genius Hour To Help Students Cultivate Their Passions And Transform Their World
The most powerful thing we can do as educators is to invite our students to explore. Service-learning and project-based learning are two ways to allow students to explore and get involved in their communities. These two experiences continue to be woven into Katie...
Using Autocrat To Showcase Student Work
As a teacher, it's great to showcase student work, but it can be time-consuming to compile and share these accolades with parents. In this article, we walk through how teachers can use the Google add-on Autocrat to showcase student work in an efficient way.Share on...
You Can Do This! Transitioning To Remote Teaching & Learning
Are you feeling overwhelmed about transitioning your classroom into a remote learning environment? In this webinar, we share simple strategies for getting started, communicating with students and parents, finding and delivering content, building relationships, and...
