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I consider myself a good student. I have yet a lot to learn but I think that giving the time and conditions of my learning process during this module (that happened during a pandemic) I would give myself an 8.

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The coronavirus pandemic has, so far, forced half of all schools across the country to close and switch to online learning for the next month or so, if not the indefinite future. As this means that millions of children are stuck at home, quarantined, parents are working frantically to figure out ways to occupy their time outside of class hours and facilitate their learning through free online classes. Luckily, there are many great online education classes for kids available offered by both accredited institutions and long-run and beloved learning companies such as Khan Academy, Scholastic, Epic, Fun Brain, National Geographic Kids, and PBS. Some offer full curriculums, others provide simple activities and educational entertainment, like Adventure Academy. All are useful for helping kids of all ages engage in free online learning. But the free online learning classes can also help kids stay active, and play at a time when movement and learning are so very necessary.
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The Best Online Education Classes For Kids

General Curriculum (Science, Math, Reading, Social Studies)

Scholastic
Ages: 3 to 14
Scholastic's "Learn At Home" is a free resource that helps keep kids learning even through school closures. The available classes are simple enough that some kids can be able to do it on their own, but "Learn At Home" can also be utilized by teachers who are keeping curriculum going during school closures. There are plenty of activities for kids in pre-kindergarten and kindergarteners, as well as kids up to the 9th grade. But for young kids, there are read-alongs where kids can watch an animated story and read the book alongside it. For young kids, the lessons are divided into days: so on day one, kids can learn about rabbits, on day two, kids learn about pants by watching a story, reading a book, learning about plants, and brushing up on plant vocabulary. Day three, for example, is about life cycles of animals. Right now, there are five days of lessons on the site - and Scholastic promises to upload at least 15 more days of lessons.

In light of the recent school closures, Epic, a virtual library and resource for teachers and students, decided to make remote student access completely free across the world until June 30th, 2020 through teacher invitation. Email your child's teacher about it and they can sign up. Once this happens, kids can access the full Epic library on all devices. Kids can explore the library on their own, which features 40,000 books, but teachers can also take advantage of the platform by providing lessons, assigning books, and tracking reading activity and progress, too.

Reading and Story Time Classes

Ages: All Ages Why It's Great: My StoryBook skews a bit older - a five or six year old will get a lot more out of the platform than a three-year-old, and still most likely with mom or dad's help - but the resource is a fun creative tool for kids who like to write stories. Through the platform, kids get to take a writing lesson and build a virtual story book (with drawings!) which they can then share online for free (or pay money to get it made into an actual book.)

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Story Time From Space
Ages: 6 to 13
Why It's Great: Got a kid who is obsessed with space? Got a kid who loves to read? Enter: Story Time in Space, a read-along series where astronauts read popular kids books on video. Story Time in Space features astronauts in wacky configurations in anti-gravity reading classics like "A Moon of My Own," among dozens of other books.

Online Educational Games For Kids

Adventure Academy
Ages: 8 to 13
Why It's Great: From the company that brought ABCmouse to younger kids, Adventure Academy is a series of games where 8- to 13-year-olds can learn Language Arts (reading comprehension, writing, and spelling), math, science, and social studies. It's an immersive, virtual universe for kids and includes hundreds of hours of educational activities that frankly look a lot more like games than they do learning. The games also cover all subjects. Kids will learn about geometry, multiplication and division, reading comprehension, environments and ecosystems, molecules, maps, globes, geography, and more. Kids can also play with friends in a safe environment, create their own player home, and create their own avatar to go through the game universe as well as create player homes. It's available on all platforms.

National Geographic Kids
Ages: 7 to 13
Why It's Great: National Geographic Kids is free and chock-full of fun videos, games, and information about animals and nature. While it doesn't fulfill any lessons or curriculum requirements or come with worksheets, it is the type of entertainment that is legitimately informative. Kids can view science explainers and experiments, watch people make "elephant toothpaste," investigate rocks, and more. There's a wide-variety of experiments to replicate at home - bottling eggs, coating candy, dropping dye in white paint and other school science fair stuff. But if being interactive or watching over your kid isn't an option, there are still plenty of videos about the animal kingdom that kids can sit and watch.

Fun Brain
Ages: 3 to 8
Why It's Great: Fun Brain features hundreds of free educational games, online books, and videos that help kids evolve their math, reading and problem-solving muscles.

Online Art Classes For Kids

Online Exercise Classes For Kids

Ages: 3 and Up
Why It's Great: Kids need exercise, and being potentially cooped up in an apartment for weeks at a time is not easy for parents or their kids. Cosmic Kids Yoga isn't an educational course, but it does provide a much-needed activity break - think of it as a replacement for recess, if necessary - with characters, playfulness, music, and, of course, yoga. It's free on YouTube. Moana, Harry Potter, and Frozen-themed yoga included.

Online Culture Classes For Kids

Virtual Museum, National Park, & Zoo Tours
Ages: All Ages
Why It's Great: Many zoos, museums, and other public spaces are shutting down, limiting parents ability to take their kids to public spaces that they might if they didn't have school. Luckily, many places like the San Diego Zoo, Yellowstone, the Louvre, and the Great Wall of China, for example, among others, have uploaded virtual tours of their spaces - meaning that kids can have fun, see new things, and feel like they're in the real place. It also doesn't require math lessons or worksheets. Kids can just check out cool spaces or watch animal cameras and be delighted.

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15 Excellent (And Free) Online Courses and Classes For Kids

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The coronavirus pandemic has, so far, forced half of all schools across the country to close and switch to online learning for the next month or so, if not the indefinite future. As this means that millions of children are stuck at home, quarantined, parents are working frantically to figure out ways to occupy their time outside of class hours and facilitate their learning through free online classes.

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How will I continue my learning process in teaching english language and technology?

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How will I continue my learning process in teaching english language and technology?

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I plan to carry on learning and improving my teaching skills through exchanging information with teachers and colleagues from the course, from reading articles, staying tune to teacher development discussion groups both online and offline.

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Benefits and positive points:

Practicity (being at your home)

Different methods and tools may have more positive impact on some types of learners.

Reaching learners from distant places.

Challenges and common difficulties:

Students disperse more easily.

Failures in connection.

Kids sometimes need help that cannot be provided by an online teacher (physical contact and a helping hand sometimes is needed).

Adolescents close their cameras and mics.

HOW TO OVERCOME? GAMIFICATION, ACTIVE METHODOLOGY, ENCOURAGE INTERACTION...

In conclusion, we can say that teaching online has been a challenge for most teachers during the pandemic, but the knowledge gained has been enormous and many teachers will keep using some online tools even after the pandemic passes.

Hybrid teaching: is it the future? I believe so! And I recall Professor Bruno believes this as well...

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My learning process has been an amazing ride! I've come across a lot of insights and productive discussions troughout the course and this discipline. I consider myself a better teacher now. I gained knowledge on tools, methods, approaches and techniques, all of them with a touch of technology!

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Curso de Pós Graduação em Ensino da Língua Inglesa
Professor Bruno Andrade

Patrícia Jardim Protti