Grab your popcorn and watch students blossom through self-produced videos
Who doesn’t love a good movie? Action/adventure, romcom, sci-fi, student-produced science class reports….Okay, maybe the last category won’t break any box office records, but, as a teaching tool, it can break through to disinterested students. Today’s youngsters enjoy sharing their world through videos posted to Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Likewise, when they can use video […]
The key to maintaining school devices, whether remote or not
Maintaining educational continuity in any school, particularly during any form of distance learning, starts with students having access to a desktop computer or laptop. The trouble is, you can’t protect what you can’t see. If your school is providing these devices, your IT team won’t be able to ensure they get the updates, patches, and […]
How to solve the challenge of assessing student understanding
When K-12 students aren’t engaged in the lesson, they aren’t learning. But beyond visual cues—such as staring off into space or the glaze-eyed look of the lost—assessing whether students are engaged can be difficult for educators. In one study, 16% of teachers cited assessing and reporting student understanding as a key digital learning challenge before […]
Educators Eye The Golden Age of Adaptive Learning
The last 18 months have caused shifts in culture and technology that could bring about the golden age of adaptive learning. “Disaster is a laboratory for innovation,” says Edward Lempinen, a media specialist at UC Berkeley. In some senses, students have struggled with the distractions and distance caused by remote learning. But educators and tech developers […]
How one educator used student creativity to enhance retention
Shady Hanna with the Ottawa Catholic School Board is always looking for ways to keep his seventh and eighth grade students engaged in their lessons. It’s not always easy. He knows that lessons built around collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking hold students’ attention, but repetition could weaken the effects of this four Cs approach. […]
Social and Emotional Learning
Engaging students in the time of COVID-19 and beyond During a recent Lenovo webinar, 92% of attendees said that keeping students engaged during remote learning is their number-one challenge. One study reports that about 70% of teachers said their students are less engaged during remote instruction than they were before the pandemic—and that’s if they […]
Deeper Learning
Captured on video: deeper student learning Les MacFarlane, a teacher with Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB), saw the benefits of integrating creativity-driving software into the four Cs teaching model when his classes started using WeVideo. This online, cloud-based video editing platform works in web browsers and on mobile devices—including best-in-class Lenovo Chromebooks. Mr. MacFarlane created […]
Keep Your Curriculum Intact in a Hybrid Setting
Keep your Curriculum Intact and Aligned to Standards Regardless of Where Learning is Taking Place
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, United Independent School District in Laredo, Texas, was more prepared to shift to a remote learning model than many other districts. That’s because the district had already been using the digital-curriculum platform Exploros in some classes to drive student engagement and drive instructional improvement. Exploros is built around the 5E […]
Remote and Hybrid Learning Reset
“In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation,” said congresswoman Ayanna Pressley back in 2018. Ms. Pressley certainly wasn’t thinking of COVID-19 when she said those words, but they were an accurate portent of the situation schools throughout the US have found themselves in since the pandemic. Disruption has caused a […]