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How to create visual experiences for students

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How to create visual experiences for students

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Create engaging experiences for all types of learners in your classroom!

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Alternatives to Requiring Video in Online Learning

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Alternatives to Requiring Video in Online Learning

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These are great ideas to offer virtual learning students! Requiring students to turn their camera on may reveal more about the student than what they want others to know.

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School districts are being asked to loosen mandatory video requirements for online learning because of privacy and equity concerns.

Compelling students to turn on their webcams during online learning sessions raises issues of increased data collection, implies a lack of trust, and conflates students' school and home lives, according to new recommendations from The Future of Privacy Forum and National Education Association.

"Requiring that students' videos be on may unintentionally force students to reveal more about their private home lives than they may want to, from their living situation to who they live with, creating the potential for privacy harms," said Amelia Vance, The Future of Privacy Forum 's director of youth and education privacy. "It also risks deepening existing inequities, presenting additional challenges for students with disabilities, English language learners, and students with limited access to adequate Wi-Fi or video-supported devices."

The groups note that 77% of students started the semester remotely, and surging rates this fall are increasingly forcing districts that had re-opened classrooms to shift back online.

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"Video mandates during virtual class instruction coerces students to further blur the vanishing line between their home and school lives," said Donna M. Harris-Aikens, the NEA's senior director of education policy and practice. "When educators are required by districts to force video use, it violates the trust they've built with their students over countless hours of relationship-building through this pandemic and needlessly puts learning at risk in the pursuit of administrative oversight,"

Last month, the two groups and 23 other healthcare, disability rights, civil liberties, and data protection organizations released 10 principles to help educators navigate the "new normal" of student privacy and equity.

In new recommendations, the two groups urge educators to explore the following alternatives to requiring video:

Measuring classroom engagement: Use end-of-lesson quizzes or encourage students to respond and interact with material in different ways, such as with "reactions," emojis or chat features.

Using avatars: Avatars protect student privacy while encouraging creativity; they also let educators teach to more than a blank screen.

Considering privacy and equity throughout the process: While video seems like the closest alternative to in-person learning, educators should weigh the benefits with privacy and equity risks such as increased data collection and the permanent documentation of personal aspects of students' home lives.

Teaching students about privacy and how to ingrain it into their online lives: Students should understand the implications of sharing personal information, what data is being collected about them, and how to adjust settings within products and services to be more privacy-protective.

More from DA: 5 promising K-12 data strategies emerged in 2020

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Privacy and equity alternatives to video in online learning

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School districts are being asked to loosen mandatory video requirements for online learning because of privacy and equity concerns. Compelling students to turn on their webcams during online learning sessions raises issues of increased data collection, implies a lack of trust, and conflates students' school and home lives, according to new recommendations from The Future of Privacy Forum and National Education Association.

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Do more than watch lectures, interact! Our dynamic course player presents impressive 3D objects to touch, turn, and explore.

The 3D objects illustrate your lesson, and stunning 2D art is curated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Do more than watch lectures, interact! Our dynamic course player presents impressive 3D objects to touch, turn, and explore. The 3D objects illustrate your lesson, and stunning 2D art is curated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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This is a great resource to use with the growing number of ELL students and parents within the school district.

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