People who welcome and adapt well to change poise themselves for success. Progress marches forward in every life arena including education, and technology is the catalyst for most of that change. Therefore, educators and administrators need to prepare themselves for … Read More
Education
The Incredible Way Virtual Classrooms Can Help You Share Resources Across Your District
If you’ve ever spent a day in a classroom, you know how hard it is for teachers to deliver quality instruction without the proper supplies. That’s why year after year, parents purchase long lists of school supplies, and yet they … Read More
Why Small Group Learning is the Key to Seeing Better Results In Schools
All educators will tell you that being proficient in their core subject areas is a very small part of the job. There’s so much more that goes into teaching than just knowing all of the materials they’ll present throughout the … Read More
How Virtual Classrooms Can Help Students Who Need Remedial Work
The sudden shift to online learning in 2020 raised myriad issues that educators, parents, and students had to work together to solve. One of those issues was how to give students who had learning disabilities or who had simply fallen … Read More
Student Learning Behaviors Directly Impact Learning Outcomes
Educational research has shown us time and again that there is so much more to learning than just hearing the spoken words of a teacher and repeating them back verbatim. To truly grasp new concepts, obtain new skills, and make … Read More
Social Learning: The Key to Understanding New Information
Educational research has shown time and again that if we want students to learn, we must implement social learning strategies into our classrooms. Social learning theory states that people learn by observing others and then imitating them. And these same … Read More
Student Personalization is Critical in Order to Increase Learning and Retention
Two things teachers are constantly striving to increase are learning and retention. True learning takes place when learners are actively engaged with the material and retention occurs when learners are able to make connections between the material and their personal … Read More
On-Demand Learning vs Virtual Classrooms
As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, more and more people are stepping outside of the traditional classroom in favor of learning online. Whether it’s K-12 students taking classes from home, college students obtaining online degrees, or employees … Read More
Schools Need Engagement and Learning Behavior Analytics to Thrive
The most powerful tool a teacher could ever have at his or her disposal is data. Far more important than just determining grades, data helps teachers understand what students know before instruction, what they are learning during instruction, and what … Read More
Why All School Systems Need to Create a Virtual Learning Backup Plan Moving Forward
If there’s one lesson to be gleaned in education from recent events, it’s that all school systems need to create a virtual learning backup plan moving forward. The fact remains that no one can predict when or why schools will … Read More