online learning teams should be online
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Posts Tagged ‘administrators. EDAD’
Increased productivity without email
categories: announcement
My note:
In 2006, the same year when SCSU finally announced email as the formal form of communication (replacing paper), the Chronicle posted a seminal article:
E-Mail is for Old People
https://www.chronicle.com/article/e-mail-is-for-old-people/
[Microsoft] ‘Slack built the right tool for the wrong way to work.’
The company found that switching all of its client information and tasks to the list-making platform Trello helped workers stay on the same page without feeling overwhelmed by perpetual email chains, he says.
college consolidation
categories: academic library
A look at trends in college consolidation since 2016
https://www.highereddive.com/news/how-many-colleges-and-universities-have-closed-since-2016/539379/
Our goal was not to create a death watch but rather to give our readers a tool to show the scope of that activity and any patterns within it. To make those trends easier to detect, we updated our tracker with a map showing closings and significant consolidations by state.
academia in the times of riots
categories: media literacy
Jeremi Suri, a professor of public affairs and history at the University of Texas at Austin, outlined that argument in an article published this week in the nonpartisan publication The Constitutionalist.
Our universities just in my own lifetime, since I was an undergrad in the 1990s, have become more professionalized, more corporate and more driven by money than ever before… what’s happened is that has crowded out the discussions about civic responsibility, about serving the public… Most people running universities today spend very little time thinking about civic responsibility. They spend much more time thinking about budgets, thinking about the politics of their university and quite frankly, thinking about athletics…. our institutions infused a certain culture and they incentivize certain kinds of behavior.
10 job skills for 2025
categories: brain, student-centered learning
he two highest-ranked spots went to skills that didn’t appear at all on WEF’s previous list: 1) analytical thinking and innovation, and 2) active learning and learning strategies. Another skill cluster that didn’t make the previous list debuted at No. 5 — resilience, stress tolerance, and flexibility.
“The pace of technology adoption is expected to remain unabated and may accelerate in some areas,” including the use of robots and artificial intelligence, the report said. Most businesses — 84 percent — plan to accelerate the digitalization of work processes and the use of digital tools, such as video conferencing,
- Analytical thinking and innovation
- Active learning and learning strategies
- Complex problem-solving
- Critical thinking and analysis
- Resilience, stress tolerance, and flexibility
- Creativity, originality, and initiative
- Leadership and social influence
- Reasoning, problem-solving, and ideation
- Emotional intelligence
- Technology design and programming
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compare to 2015
https://www.slideshare.net/aidemoreto/gamification-and-byox-in-academic-libraries-low-end-practical-approach
convert snow days to remote learning days
categories: EDAD
Thirty-nine percent of principals and district leaders say their district has converted snow days to remote learning days, according to a recent EdWeek Research Center survey.
How is your school handling snow days during virtual instruction? 📸: iStock/Getty pic.twitter.com/66EomberWf
— Education Week (@educationweek) December 5, 2020
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who is an essential worker
categories: teaching
school board diversity
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/11/18/why-school-board-diversity-matters.html
Both superintendents and board members have a role to play in elevating different voices, say school board members. District leaders can’t pick candidates, but they can create “leadership academies” to teach interested community members about the workings of their school systems. They can also create committees and other advisory boards that allow parents an entry point into getting more involved in their school district, if they choose.
A 2017 study that examined middle and high schools in Florida found that districts with diverse school boards have lower rates of school suspensions for all students, and that disparities in suspension rates between minority and white students are reduced overall.
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toxic positivity
categories: academic library
Is Your School Using Toxic Positivity To Exploit You? The 5 Biggest Red Flags
distance learning more work less rigor
Survey: Distance learning creates more work with less rigor
- The sudden transition from in-person learning to remote instruction resulted in more work but with less academic rigor, according to a Cognia survey of more than 74,000 students, teachers and parents conducted between late April and late June. Among students, the report found 80% saying they had more work in the distance learning setting.
The report includes suggestions on tackling problems arising from distance learning, including increasing academic rigor by expanding professional development opportunities, redesigning instruction, and introducing digital learning and content tools.
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