Resources for Distance Learning
Distance Learning
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- Strategies
- Teach From Home, information & tools for teachers, Google
- TED-Ed@Home, with lessons and ability to customize your own lessons (section for students, parents), TEDEd
- Get kids ready for online classes, Common Sense Media
- What to think about when your school is closing due to coronavirus, NEA Today
- Transitioning to online learning: Pro tips, ASCD Inservice
- 10 strategies for online learning during a coronavirus outbreak, ISTE
- Online classroom quick-start guide, La Canada Unified School District
- Checklist for distance learning, with interactive/printable handouts, AFT
- Tips and tools for teaching remotely, FreeTech4Teachers
- Lessons, lesson plans
- Ideas for children to learn at home, WeAreTeachers
- Instructional continuity resources, San Diego Unified School District
- At-Home Learning: Daily K-12 educational programming on PBS member TV stations throughout the state, with accompanying digital resources
- Pre K-12 resources for emergency closings, PBS Learning Media
- Teaching resources organized by grade level and subject
- Free drawing lessons from famous artists, Fast Company
- BrainPop: Coronavirus explainer video for kids
- NPR: Just for Kids - a comic exploring the new coronavirus
- Resources & advice
- Resources for online learning during school closures, NEA Today
- Digital learning advice from NEA's Education Policy & Practice division, NEA (scroll to end for resource links)
- Resources for teaching & learning during this period of social distancing, Mind/Shift
- Updated list of resources for educators, Amazing Educational Resources
- 6 lessons learned about remote learning During the Coronavirus Outbreak, EdWeek
- Collected resources during COVID-19 school closures, Wakelet
- Coronavirus: Latest updates and tips (including Special Ed), Understood
- Distance learning resources at the Smithsonian Institution, including STEM webcasts, American history podcasts and lesson plans.
- Higher education
- How to make online learning work, Wired
- 8 tips for setting up and teaching online classes during coronavirus closures, Dylan McLemore
- How to be a better online teacher, Chronicle of Higher Education
- 7 guidelines for successful teaching online, Inside Higher Ed
- Preparing for emergency online teaching, Chronicle of Higher Education
- How to make your online pivot less brutal, Chronicle of Higher Education
- Articles & information
- How to talk to students about coronavirus, California Educator
- How learning will change across California's K-12 schools amid coronavirus, EdSource
- Remote learning takes stage amidst coronavirus concerns, CUE
- Zoom CEO gives K-12 schools the videoconferencing tool for free, Forbes
- Coronavirus special report, Chronicle of Higher Education