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The restrictions put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a boom in online fitness opportunities. Here’s what to look for in online classes.
Students prefer videos that are simply produced, convenient to watch and with a narrative that’s delivered in an informal conversational way.
YouTube may have more potential to encourage children to learn than you’d think.
As provinces consider extended holidays, or school closures loom as a possibility under COVID-19, schools should commit to providing in-person schooling for students with disabilities.
A learner’s digital education experience can be very different from the seamless user-friendly world of the social internet. Replicating the old classes online isn’t good enough. A rethink is needed.
This isn’t the first time America’s schoolchildren have studied remotely – and Chicago’s 1937 ‘radio school’ experiment shows how technology can fill the gap during a crisis.
Teachers still hold the key to children’s learning and no keyboard or screen can replace their role.
Online learning is not automatically inferior to face-to-face teaching.
A study documents how universities’ centres for teaching and learning are responding to helping faculty create quality online courses for all students.
Digital educational resources are likely to remain indispensable for modern K-12 classrooms, even after the coronavirus pandemic ends.
Guidance on strong passwords has changed and children need to learn about it in a way that suits their stage of development.
Motivating students, encouraging their self-regulation and maintaining home-school communication are ways parents have the potential to positively influence learning outcomes.
Online learning can create problems for students, particularly those with disabilities, unless platforms and content are designed with accessibility and inclusion in mind.
A team of experts argues that after taking care of essential workers, COVID-19 vaccinations should be given to the greatest transmitters of the virus, who are mostly the young.
While providing access to digital technology is important, it won’t even the digital playing field. If teachers can embrace all students’ digital interests as opportunities for learning, it would help.
Children need to learn how to manage their own accounts and passwords as an extension of their identity.
The assumption has always been that students would enjoy online learning but our research, during COVID-19 lock down, found otherwise.
Checking for symptoms is just the beginning. Here are 10 ways schools can help keep children, families and faculty safe.
One big complication with K-12 distance learning is how hard it is to get children and teens to log in and do their schoolwork. But there are things teachers and families can do to help.
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Senior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster University
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