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Evaluating the flipped classroom

The theory of the flipped classroom makes sense. If you only have a fixed amount of time in a face to face classroom, this time would seem to be more effectively spent answering questions and helping individuals with specific issues … Continue reading

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Educators speak

The pandemic has caused all of us to evaluate our daily routines and balance safety with work issues. There seems great pressure to open schools as many with other forms of work depend on teachers to care for and educate … Continue reading

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CDC guidelines for school opening

The CDC has created a pdf offering administrators and decision makers guidelines for opening a school. Click to access Schools-Decision-Tree.pdf P.S. – To be fair to the CDC, the guidelines that have been released are less detailed a prescriptive than … Continue reading

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Rabbit Hole

If you are looking for interesting, technology-related podcasts content, take a look at Rabbit Hole. This is a new effort from Kevin Roose and colleagues at the New York Times. The first few episodes address the recommendation system from YouTube … Continue reading

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Exploring online spread

Indiana University data and media scientists are interested in the spread of misinformation and are making some of their tools available. The portal for these tools is called OsoMe (awesome). An additional source for some of this work is available … Continue reading

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Love them first

This powerful documentary from a Minneapolis television station follows the educators and students of a North Minneapolis elementary school as the educators struggle to care for and educate children growing up under difficult circumstances.

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