A Simple Kindness Generator to Keep Digital Interactions Humane
If you enter the physical world and open a door—say, to walk into a store—you will intuitively hold the door open if someone is walking behind you and you see them or hear them....
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Put ‘Screen Time’ Debates to Rest by Making Kids Leaders
In the last six weeks, I’ve spoken with educators and parents all over the country, conducting virtual workshops to help parents, teachers and administrators manage this new reality. Even those who are excited about...
5 Traps That Will Kill Online Learning (and Strategies to Avoid Them)
For perhaps the first time in recent memory, parents and teachers may be actively encouraging their children to spend more time on their electronic devices. Online learning has moved to the front stage as...
Is This Video App Safe? Mozilla Privacy Report Offers a Look
Like tens of thousands of other schools, Berkeley Unified School District in Northern California picked Zoom as its video-conferencing tool to support its remote instruction plan. But that came to a screeching halt after...
Setting ‘Reasonable’ Goals, Expectations and Routines for Remote Learning
It has been over a month since most U.S. schools closed their doors. But what many hoped would be a temporary transition to remote learning has morphed into something more permanent, as many districts...
Implementing Mobile Device Management: What Matters Most [Download]
Whether you’re managing one BYOD classroom or a district-wide implementation of tablets, mobile device management was created to make administrators’ lives easier. Security, safety and savings in time and money can be realized with...
A Quick-Start Instruction Manual for Teaching From Home
How can you migrate a live, in-person class to an online setting quickly, without needing to redesign the class? If you have time to redesign the class into five-minute videos and autograded homework, that’s...
How to Integrate Online Professional Development Into Your School’s PD Culture
As increasing demands on teachers’ time are coupled with the need for remote learning resources, online PD has emerged as an important tool to address new challenges. Whether educators need to learn how to...
6 Tips for Keeping the ‘Social’ in Social-Emotional Learning
The PATHS® program was first introduced over 30 years ago to teach social and emotional learning to students. At that time, schools were not yet wired, and paper and pencil curriculum were de rigueur...
Do It Right the First Time: How to Maximize Your Edtech Investment
From cutting-edge computing and cloud services to data-driven instruction and adaptive learning, K-12 edtech solutions are abundant. Unfortunately, so are school budget restrictions, unmanageable workloads and aging (not to mention underperforming) classroom technology, to...
Holding Class on Zoom? Beware of These Hacks, Hijinks and Hazards
On Tuesday, Kristina Ishmael was watching a webinar about how coronavirus will impact K-12 education policy, when the screen was suddenly flooded by pictures of pornographic images and racial slurs. The moderator turned off...
‘Smiles Are Infectious’: What a School Principal in China Learned From Going Remote
As students left our boarding school in Shenzhen on January 17 for the long-awaited Chinese New Year vacation, none of them expected that an epidemic brewing in Wuhan would spread rapidly across the nation,...
Want to Help Schools Closed by COVID-19? Don’t Pitch Them Right Now.
News that schools and districts across the country are closing campuses and preparing to transition their staff and students to online learning have led to a flurry of questions and, subsequently, people lending support....
Prioritizing Human Connection When Social Distancing Is the New Norm
School leaders and administrative teams across the country are weighing alternatives and contingency plans for combating the spread of COVID-19. With outright closure appearing to be the best option for “flattening the curve,” many...
3 Ways to Promote Equity in the Classroom [Infographic]
Flexibility is the key to providing an equitable learning environment—one in which every student feels comfortable, valued and fully included in all aspects of learning. Discover how you can make this happen at your...
How to Work Remotely When Your Office Closes for Coronavirus — Or Any Time
In the shadows of a potential COVID-19 pandemic, many schools, businesses and other organizations are preparing to keep the lights on by allowing, encouraging or requiring their employees to work remotely. In some cases,...
Preparing to Take School Online? Here Are 10 Tips to Make It Work.
This article was originally published on Global Online Academy’s (GOA) Insights blog on March 4, 2020. In response to the evolving COVID-19 situation, we offer this reference in support of schools and other organizations...
5 Best Practices for App Distribution in Schools [Infographic]
Working alongside IT administrators in schools around the world, Mosyle has learned a number of best practices over the years. Here, they share some helpful tips for installing and managing applications on student and...
3 Key Questions to Ask About Your Edtech Investments [Infographic]
In order to be truly effective, all education technology adopted in your school or district needs to meet a few simple but important criteria. It must: prioritize student safety and data privacy match your...
Securing Post-Implementation Success [Download]
You’ve identified specific learning challenges and found the right solution for your school or district—one that addresses those challenges while empowering teachers and students. How do you ensure that the tool delivers on its...
