Category: Teaching: Learning at Home | COVID-19 School Closures
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Top 10 Learning Outcomes to Help Children Develop During COVID-19
I’ve recently been thinking about a young boy I taught in a Grade three class back in the late 1990s. Damir and his family had fled war-torn Bosnia, and he started school in Australia for the first time in his life as an eight-year-old with not a word of English. Damir was a bright, brave...
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5 Real-Life COVID-19 Problems & How To Help Students Develop An Innovation Mindset
There is a lot of talk about the negative impact the COVID-19 crisis might have on our children’s’ education. So I have been focussing on how we can minimise the damage and turn the situation into an opportunity to engage students in real-world problem-solving through resources like our free Learning at Home course and the...
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2 EdTech Experts Share Remote Learning Experiences, Advice & Tips | COVID-19
The coronavirus continues to cause worldwide, unprecedented disruption. Within education, teachers and school leaders continue to adjust their remote learning and school-based learning protocols to follow the latest advice from health experts, policies from state and federal governments and direction from their district and school leaders. It's a stressful, confusing and worrying time for teachers,...
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10 Design Challenges for Children To Help Create Positive Feelings During COVID-19
We are all navigating unchartered territory as we learn to cope with the rapidly unfolding consequences of COVID-19. Every day, we are seeing more and more schools close their doors and moving to remote models of learning. Social media is full of ideas, resources, advice, and cries for help as everyone scrambles to find new...
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How 2 Families Are Managing Their Kids’ Learning at Home | Remote Learning Tips
Every family knows that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to parenting that works as so much depends on the ages of the children, individual personalities, the parents' work responsibilities, resources, the health of individual family members, finances, support from family and friends and countless other factors. In a similar way, there is no one single...
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2 STEM Teachers Share Remote Learning Experiences, Advice & Tips | COVID-19
The coronavirus has caused worldwide, unprecedented disruption. Within education, teachers and school leaders have spent the last few weeks and months frantically putting together remote learning programs and urgently setting up systems so that their students can continue learning at home during school closures. Educators and students alike are in completely unchartered waters and all...
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10 Ways to Tell that Children are Learning Effectively At Home | COVID-19 | Coronavirus
There is a lot of talk about the impact that COVID-19 is having and will continue to have on our children’s education. Parents are worrying that their children will fall behind, waste a year of schooling, or not learn anything while their schools are closed. Schooling is certainly going to look different over the coming...
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Free Learning at Home Course for Teachers & Parents | Remote Learning During COVID-19
To support teachers, students and families currently experiencing school closures due to COVID-19, our team have been working (remotely) around the clock on the new iteration of our new, FREE Learning at Home course. Makers Empire customers can access this course under their existing subscriptions. We have also extended our usual 14-day free trial period...
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10 Social Distancing & Self Isolation 3D Design Challenges | Teacher Resources | COVID-19
As the devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic is felt throughout the world we at Makers Empire are extremely concerned and worried. In Australia, we've watched as things have become exponentially more serious over the last few weeks. Many of our Makers Empire schools in countries around the world are closed or planning for closure....
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Set Your Own Design Missions in Makers Empire | Mission Control – Ready to launch!
A short while ago we updated Teacher Missions to make it super easy for teachers to create 'Design Missions' for their students to complete in Makers Empire 3D. If you've never tried Design Missions before, you'll love the ability to set design missions or projects, assignments and work for students to complete in the Makers...
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Learning at Home | Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Resources for Teachers and Parents
To the worldwide Makers Empire community, At Makers Empire, we've been shocked and concerned as we've witnessed the distressing effects of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Makers Empire is used by 1+ million users in 40+ countries who create 90,000 new 3D designs every day. Many of these countries are already experiencing or planning for school closures....
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10 Coronavirus 3D Design Challenges For Students | Help People Affected By COVID-19
We’ve seen a recent surge of activity around the world as health authorities try to contain the spread of the coronavirus and help those whose lives have already been impacted by the virus. As we are being bombarded by reports in the media and experience the impact on our everyday lives, it’s hard not to...
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