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Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures
With more than half of states closing their schools due to the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of thousands of parents, grandparents, and other caregivers have become de facto “home schoolers” practically overnight. Students in this situation will likely be spending a fair amount of time on screens—as a lifeline, respite, or both. We have compiled some excellent suggestions—updated several times since initial publication—for making at least some of that time educational.
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Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures
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Smiling through: Thirty-two resources for entertaining energetic preschoolers during daycare and preschool closures
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Great YouTube channels for middle schoolers and high schoolers for learning from home during COVID-19 school closures
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Ways your whole family can volunteer during the COVID-19 crisis
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A test for the test: Moving the AP exams online
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6 ways districts can deliver quality virtual instruction
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Robot teachers
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Apprenticeships are the new learning campus
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#896: The fiscal cliff and teacher layoffs, with Chad Aldeman
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Grade inflation is locking in learning loss, part 1
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Why AI doesn’t worry me in the classroom, and why it does
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Using artificial intelligence to measure the effectiveness of professional learning
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Accountability will be the bedrock of AI in education
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Transformative for the motivated and mere meh for the unmotivated: How AI will and won’t affect learners
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School choice isn’t killing traditional public schools. It’s making them better.
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Schools aren’t up to the task of teaching students about the Israel-Hamas War
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State education departments are cheerleading mediocrity
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Grading standards and student effort: Short-run versus long-run effects
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