Articles about education
Responding to COVID-19: How Are the Children? - Digital Promise
Last updated: 03/29/2020
The African Maasai are famed for their strength and mental acuity. Yet, their greeting to one another carries a message about what truly makes them heroic: “Kasserian Ingera.”...
As online learning rolls out, education may change forever
Last updated: 03/29/2020
Online learning is poised to transform public education across the country as provinces and school boards scramble to complete the academic year – a paradigm shift that could...
How to Help Kids Understand Coronavirus During Distance Learning - MindShift
Last updated: 03/29/2020
How to Help Kids Understand Coronavirus During Distance Learning Copy Link (sakkmesterke/iStock) Before schools actually shut their doors in response to coronavirus, Naomi...
3 Ways to Use Video Conferencing with Students Learning Remotely
Last updated: 03/26/2020
Thank goodness for Zoom and Google Hangouts! During this time of social isolation and remote learning, these video conferencing tools are lifesavers. They make it possible for...
Combating Social Isolation When Learning Remotely
Last updated: 03/25/2020
As teachers move classes online and utilize online tools and resources to engage students in remote learning, it’s essential to add social elements to our online courses. This...
Just shifting online or shifting the learning?
Last updated: 03/22/2020
Across the globe schools are closing due to Covid-19 and the learning is being moved online. I recently shared in my Daily-Ink post, ‘Novel ideas can spread from a novel...
'Are We Going to Get Ourselves in Trouble?': Districts Struggle With Special Education
Last updated: 03/22/2020
With a pandemic pressing tens of thousands of the nation's school districts into extended closures, special education administrators across the nation are wrestling with a...
10 Ways to Keep Your Family Safe from the Coronavirus Outbreak
Last updated: 03/18/2020
Since late December 2019, the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has infected well over a hundred thousand people in various parts of the world and killed more than 4,000 of...
5 Reasons Virtual Learning Is Harder Than You Think
Last updated: 03/16/2020
Continue reading the main story 5 Reasons Virtual Learning Is Harder Than You Think Some parents and health officials concerned about the coronavirus have urged more schools to...
“Shout Out” to Our Educators
Last updated: 03/16/2020
Attend any dinner party, read local listservs, follow parents on Facebook, or just sit at the dinner table and education is often a topic of discussion. I imagine it is simply...