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Read about edtech and Hāpara best practices for teachers and educators.
A teacher’s tips for early elementary Hāpara Workspaces at home
A teacher’s tips for early elementary Hāpara Workspaces at home. Watch the webinar to learn more.
How to thrive and not just survive your school year with Hāpara Workspace
One thing educators are quickly figuring out is that teaching and learning remotely during a public health crisis does not look the same as it did in the classroom. That means many have adapted or been forced to in order to meet even more diverse needs as children learn from home. If students aren’t turning in their work, it probably means you need to adjust your strategy.
Why aren’t your students turning in their work?
One thing educators are quickly figuring out is that teaching and learning remotely during a public health crisis does not look the same as it did in the classroom. That means many have adapted or been forced to in order to meet even more diverse needs as children learn from home. If students aren’t turning in their work, it probably means you need to adjust your strategy.
A teacher’s tips for Hāpara Workspaces at home
Join us and Ashley Newman, a 6th grade teacher from Virginia, as she shares how she’s used Hāpara Workspace to teach her students in the classroom and from home during the quarantine. She’ll share her playbook for how to plan your Workspace for success, tips and tricks to make building your Workspace easy, and how to follow up with students in Workspace.
Strategies for teaching and learning from home
When schools are forced to close their doors, moving work into the cloud can be challenging if schools don’t have a strategy in place. However, with a little bit of planning and the right tools, remote learning can present a lot of great opportunities for learning that are unavailable in the traditional classroom.
Ideas and support to continue teaching and learning from home with Hāpara and G Suite
Learn workflows for teaching from home, best practices for successful remote learning and how to use Hāpara to make Google Classroom more accessible.
Teach and learn from home: best practices for continued learning during school closure
Teach and learn from home with Hāpara: Best practices for continued learning during school closure. View the webinar.
Punctuated Feedback to Maximize Student Feedback
Providing effective student feedback during the learning process increases student success. Watch the webinar.
Moving toward visible learning
In project based learning, students learn by working for an extended period of time to research and answer an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem or challenge (PBL Works). There are a lot of misconceptions about PBL and what it is.
Project Based Learning + Hāpara = deeper learning
In project based learning, students learn by working for an extended period of time to research and answer an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem or challenge (PBL Works). There are a lot of misconceptions about PBL and what it is.
Chatting in Google Docs: An opportunity to teach digital citizenship
How can you tell if students are chatting in Google Docs? Using Hāpara Dashboard and Highlights makes it easy to see what learners are up to and whether or not they are chatting in Google Docs. Some learners like to start a Google Doc and share it with friends, and type their messages to each other in the Doc.
Mastery-based grading: from minimum mindset to a growth mindset
How do you support students with unique learning needs? Explore how to use mastery-based grading to promote a growth mindset and deeper learning.
The Evolution of Digital Citizenship Infographic
Students are digital citizens of the future. Schools need to prepare students for a more connected, more technological future. Learn how tools like Google and Hapara can support learners in gaining these critical life skills.
How student agency will transform your classroom
Student agency may seem like just another edu-term to add to the already crowded edtech encyclopedia housed in your brain, but this one is here to stay!
What does it mean to prepare students to be successful?
Modern learning prepares students for the realities of the modern world by matching school learning with the realities of the modern workplace and life.
Using Hapara Workspace for personalized project based learning
How to bring inquiry based learning and project based learning to your classroom with the help of Hāpara Workspace and G Suite.
Personalized Project Based Learning with Hapara and Google Tools
Project based learning is an engaging way to help students develop key 21st century skills like collaboration and critical thinking. Learn how to get started with PBL, making it simple for you and your learners with this free infographic.
A beginner’s guide to ISTE
ISTE is a conference like no other. It will inspire you, motivate you, energize you, and refresh your practice, but it can also be quite daunting. As someone who has attended five of these in the last 10 years, I have learned a few tricks to make the experience a bit easier.
Deep learning: co-constructing success criteria
Our friend and Hapara Champion Trainer Julian Daher continues to share his expertise on Deep Learning in the latest video in our Teaching with Technology series. This week, Julian discusses one of his favorite practices - co-creating success criteria with learners.
Deep Learning – Pedagogical Practice with Julian Daher
In this first deep dive video, Julian shares how Deep Learning pedagogies have shifted the way he teaches French reading comprehension. He also explains how digital tools like Hapara Workspace and Google Read and Write make these shifts possible.