#LaEducacionNoPara (English Version)
This is the English version of the original post about #laEducacionNoPara (education doesn’t stop) some resources shared change according to the language.
Local governments around the globe have closed borders and banned conglomerations of people, while public and private schools and colleges have closed their doors leaving students locked in their homes with poor access to education. For instance, in Colombia, only 4% of schools have access to virtual education and those who do have access are not prepared to take on this challenge.
This is why we’ve created a list of different curated resources to promote education even when students are at home, education doesn’t stop for us.
Webinars
We want to break down the barriers and shorten the valleys that separate us from taking education everywhere and even more in times of crisis, for this reason, we make available to all these Webinars which prove that education doesn’t stop.
Teaching Special Education Online During COVID-19
In this webinar, veteran online instructors help identify steps to move online and strategies for adapting the lessons already in motion to this new format. They will share a distilled set of simple, impactful tips as well as resources and tools available to you during the transition.
Educating through Covid-19: Addressing The Widespread Impact of Coronavirus on Schools
In order to support schools and educational leaders, Educational Elements is curating different types of resources and delivering a list of webinars divided into 4 categories: Teachers, Operations, Virtual Learning, and Leadership.
How to use Zoom Meetings for Educational purposes?
Zoom experts lead this webinar in which you will discover the power of virtual teaching and learning in the Zoom classroom. They will show you the steps and best practices from two points of view: student and teacher wrapping up with live Q&A.
Recommendations for remote learning and teaching (Spanish)
Webinar lead by Ignacio Puig Moreno from Acámica and Amit Wior from “Educar y Crecer” in which they talk about how to make meetings, events, meet-ups, workshops online, which is not rocket science but not trivial either.
Online Courses
If video calls or webinars are not your things, you can continue learning online with the following courses:
Khan Academy
They offer exercises, quizzes, and tests for students to practice and enhance skills, as well as instructional videos to help them learn or review material. Also, they opened this web site with special resources during Covid-19 situation.
Free Code Camp
It shows us 450 courses from top universities in the world that you can take right now.
Linkedin — How to work remotely
It makes available to all the public a very good learning path for free, composed of 17 online courses to learn how to work and learn at home.
Domestika #StayAtHome
The site to learn about creativity gives us a series of free courses to get through these difficult times.
Plus Acumen — Acumen Academy
Acumen’s online educational platform whereby they give us several paid and unpaid courses to gain the skills and moral imagination necessary to lead in the 21st century.
Digital Tools
If you need resources to prepare your classes, teach in a fun way or learn, we also have some of them here.
Evaluados
A tool for formative evaluation and data collection on the student’s trajectory and behavior. Free of charge for teachers.
Mural
A digital workspace for visual collaboration. It allows you to create online murals, perfect for planning or virtual brainstorming.
Educaplay
It’s an online gamification tool for virtual education, and it’s almost entirely free.
Schoology
Free tool to create an online course or virtual classrooms.
Popplet
Imagine ideas and represent them visually like on a mind map.
Easel.ly
Create infographics to share ideas online.
Myhistro
Create all kinds of timelines according to your needs.
Edpuzzle
Make interactive content for your classes in video format.
Kahoot
It allows you to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.
Google Classroom
A simple and comprehensive tool to virtualize your schoolrooms. You’ll be able to post documents, videos, audios and any kind of educational material to the students.
Genially
The presentation design platform offers its premium templates and resources free of charge for a limited time.
Mentimeter
A tool for creating interactive presentations. An easy way to make polls to get real-time feedback from your audience. It has a free version.
More…
If all this seems not enough yet, we provide you with another set of resources that you can use to keep learning.
Cerebriti Edu (Spanish)
It offers its more than 50.000 primary and secondary school games for free until the end of the school year.
Smile and Learn
One month of free access to their entire catalog of interactive games for children.
Guidelines for Addressing the Coronavirus Outbreak
Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility gives us a guide for teachers to address conversations with their students about the Covid-19 outbreak.
If you want to contribute any other resource you can do it using this link and we will update the list.
If you have any other idea or project as an educational or learning response to Covid-19 outbreak and you want to contribute it to this initiative follow this link.
Stay connected with us through the Hashtag #EducationNoPara to learn about more resources and information on the educational response to Covid-19. This is an initiative of Global Shapers Medellín and Global Shapers Manizales, Colombian hubs part of Global Shapers Community.
