Online Learning
How Google Classroom Prevails in a Post-Covid Landscape
How many of us have a notebook or at least one Post-It(s) somewhere in our office with a password written down for online access to something? According to a new study (2021), BetaNews.com rep ...
Biking the Pacific Coast: People, Place, and Change in a COVID World
Join us in this three-part series as we bike 800 miles down Oregon and California, exploring the impacts of COVID and climate change in coastal communities. This series focuses on stories of people, p ...
Meeting Social and Emotional Learning Needs – A Critical Part of College and Career Readiness for High School Students
311 days. Never would I have guessed on March 16th, 2020 that our then ninth grader would go 311 days without being in the same physical space as her peers and her beloved teachers. While she values ...
Keeping Students Connected, Focused, and Engaged During Remote Learning
A friend of mine is an educational administrator for STEM in my district. While an avid tech user himself, he has often questioned technology use in education. He emphasizes teacher development and us ...
Jimmy Chin and the Tyranny of Passion: A Letter To Your Students
Some of you may have seen the person pictured on this page, National Geographic photographer Jimmy Chin, win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in February 2019. Jimmy is a man of many tal ...
Emerging Issues in Digital Citizenship
If you google “Digital Citizenship Activities,” you’ll find thousands of videos, examples and suggestions. Use Google Scholar for the same search, and you’ll be practicing just a small piece of the Wo ...
15 Effective Online Learning Activities for Workforce and College Readiness
Online learning is new to most of us and may make us feel excited, challenge, worried, stressed, unsure and, really, the full range of emoji faces on our phones. Most educators are trained to teach in ...
Students Become Real Scientists with Citizen Science Projects
Here are two things that are still taking place normally in this extraordinary time of pandemics and social distancing:Kids still need new activities and learning opportunities to stay happy and engag ...