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This cute picture book features eNinja, a young student working throuhg online learning. He works with his friend, Stressed Ninja, as he struggles with the online setting both emotionally and academically. I think this fun and easy read would engage students and let them know that what they're feeling about online learning is universal. There are other people struggling with the same issues and there are ways to work to overcome these problems.

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Three Tips for Being an Effective Online Learner

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Three Tips for Being an Effective Online Learner

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This youtube video by Karl Kapp features three tips for students to become effective online learners. He states the tips as being 1. Remove Distractions, 2. Take Notes, and 3. Be an Active Participant. This cute little animated video will give students tips and tricks to being sucessful in their new learning state.

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Three Tips for Being an Effective Online Learner

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Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities 

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Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities 

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This site was specifically made with the mindset of COVID and online learning, specifically for students with disabilities and their particular struggles and challenges. There are numerous publication and resources that students, teachers, and even parents can explore to best support improvement in online learning for students with disabilities.

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To research how online learning can be made more accessible, engaging, and effective for K-12 learners with disabilities by investigating approaches that address learner variability within the range of conditions under which online learning occurs.

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Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities - Just another WordPress site

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To research how online learning can be made more accessible, engaging, and effective for K-12 learners with disabilities by investigating approaches that address learner variability within the range of conditions under which online learning occurs.

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The Physical and Mental Effects of Online Learning

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The Physical and Mental Effects of Online Learning

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This article from The Northern Light by Astrid Code and Dra'Noscha Jett features the different negative effects that online learning has had on students both mental and physical. I think it is important to have students know about the possible effects online learnign could have to their health so they can recognize them and work to combat them.

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Online school has forced students, parents, and teachers alike to make a tremendous change in their daily routine. Although logistically, video calls work well to replace each period of classes, they have a large effect on students' mental and physical health.

Nationwide, 29% of parents that were studied in a Gallup poll said their child is "already experiencing harm" to their emotional or mental health because of social distancing and closures. 14% said their child could continue online school a few more weeks until their mental health suffers. Online school doesn't have the social element of in person school, which is crucial to students' social and emotional learning.

In that same Gallup poll, 45% of parents said that separation of their child from classmates and teachers is a "major challenge." Junior Maggie Gross agrees. "Lack of physical interaction has killed my mental stability," she says.

Online video calls are socially draining as it takes more work to pick up social cues and not see people's faces and bodies in real time. A National Geographic article explains that "a typical video call impairs these ingrained abilities, and requires sustained and intense attention to words instead." This is referred to as "Zoom fatigue."

In addition to zoom fatigue and mental health issues, the 5 and a half hours of screen time during online classes in Portage Northern's current schedule cause digital eye strain. The American Optometric Association recommends the 20-20-20 rule, which requires one to take 20 seconds to look at something at least 20 feet away after every 20 minutes of screen time. In that case, students should be taking screen breaks at least once every class period and the "passing time" should also be utilized for the 20-20-20 rule.

After these 5 and a half hours of video calls, students have homework, which is largely online as well, and most teen's social life and entertainment, especially when in lockdown, is based online as well. Comparing last semester's online learning plan to this semester's, junior Marques Hudson says, "It's just school but online, I liked it much better when I could go at my own pace and get stuff done when I wanted to." Junior Maya Vasudeva agrees, saying, "It's a lot harder on my mind to be stuck at home learning instead of the school environment."

Of course, student's mental health experiences are not universal, and some have even benefitted from online learning, like senior Mason Wice. "Online school has definitely made things harder, but it has actually improved my physical health compared to what I was doing during quarantine, and my mental health as well because my safety is assured," he says. For others, online school hasn't made much of a difference in their health. "My mental [health] hasn't really changed, none of this truly affected me," says junior John Brown.

However, scientific articles, polls, and many students at Northern show that mental health, along with fatigue and digital eye strain, are not something to be taken lightly during a pandemic which places the importance on physical health.

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The physical and mental effects of online learning

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Online school has forced students, parents, and teachers alike to make a tremendous change in their daily routine. Although logistically, video calls work well to replace each period of classes, they have a large effect on students' mental and physical health. Nationwide, 29% of parents that were studied in a Gallup poll said their child...

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This TedTalk by Lauera Vanderkam was given prior to online learning and COVID being such and integral part of schooling. I think it becomes even more relevent as students are faced with the struggles of balancing free time with school work. From the TEDTalk website "She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can 'build the lives we want in the time we've got'."

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Laura Vanderkam: How to gain control of your free time

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There are 168 hours in each week. How do we find time for what matters most? Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she's discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves.

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I know when I was in high school and middle school I would watch Khan Academy videos to help me better understand the topics being taught. My brother has been struggling with his online learning situation so I have given him the links to some khan academy vidoes for him to watch. They may not relate exactly to the problems in the classroom but can help the overall understanding of a topic for each student.

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This site helps motivate students in their writing by having them set a word goal to reach and once they reach that goal they get a picture of either a kitten, bunny, or puppy. This can help motivate students to keep writing even when they are feeling unmotivated during online learning (or even just everyday essay writing.)

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The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!

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This app sets and alarm for students that doesn't shut off until they take a picture of something specific. Students could set it so that they have to take a picture of something school related to help get them out of bed and ready to start a productive learning day.

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FREE FEATURES
■ Highest-rated alarm clock app in the world, with 4.6 stars from over 1,000,000 reviews!
■ Crazy loud ringtone sounds for heavy sleepers and night owls, as well as gentle alarm clock sounds for morning people who want to wake up without any worries
■ Photo Mission - Wake up and take a photo of the registered place to dismiss your alarm
■ Math Mission - Solve simple or advanced math problems and kickstart your brain
■ Barcode Mission - Scan the barcode or QR code you registered to turn the alarm off
■ Shake Mission - Shake your phone up to 999 times to wake up your body

TRIAL FOR PREMIUM FEATURES
■ Wake Up Check - If you worry you might fall back asleep, worry no more. Wake Up Check will check on you until you prove you're fully awake
■ Backup Sound - Sometimes your alarm just doesn't get you up. But if you wait for too long, you get a second, very loud alarm
■ Time Pressure - Get AI voice dictation of the exact time and a custom message every single minute until you turn your alarm off
■ Typing Mission - Type a few motivational quotations into your keyboard to energize yourself as you get up
■ Step Mission - Get out of bed and take 10 or 20 or 50 steps to get moving right away
■ Ad-Free Experience - Remove all ads, and customize what you do or don't see, such as the weather & news, or the farewell dialog
■ Start sticking to your morning routine with a free trial today!

ADDITIONAL FEATURES
■ Check current temperature and pick your outfit for the day
■ Customize by playing your own music, songs, and selecting background colors
■ Use Snooze / Gradual volume increase / Vibrate features to wake up smoothly
■ Quick alarm for quick tasks that you can use when you don't have the least amount of time to set up
■ Prevent turn off: This feature helps you wake up by blocking your phone from turning off while the alarm clock rings
■ Prevent uninstall: This feature prevents you from uninstalling this app while the alarm clock is ringing

THE MOTIVATIONAL ALARM CLOCK
It turns your Android phone into a motivational alarm clock that helps you get out of bed first and makes you get all your 'to do's done successfully in the morning. With the various fun missions & loud random ringtone sounds, you can wake up easily, and be refreshed setting up your own success habits on a daily basis

No.1 IN 97 COUNTRIES!
Dubbed as "the world's most annoying alarm clock," Alarmy has quickly become the world's highest rated alarm app becoming the favorite lifestyle app among users. It has been featured in Gizmodo, Cnet, and at Huffington Post, and is currently #1 in its category in 97 countries, including the United States, France, Germany, and South Korea

HOW DOES IT WORK? (Photo mission)
- Take a photo or select a picture of a certain place or an object in your house
- When the photo mission alarm starts ringing in the morning, you have to take the new photo with the exact same angle as you set before. Otherwise it will never stop
e.g.) If you have set up a washbasin picture, you should take the washbasin at the same angle

PERMISSION INFO
CAMERA
- This app needs this permission for the photo mission, which requires users to take a photo
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
- This app needs this permission to load external ringtones
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
- This app needs this permission to save pictures taken by users who are using the photo mission
ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
- This app needs this permission if you want to get weather information after dismissing
BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN
- This app needs this permission if you want to use prevent yourself from uninstalling it
- It uses DEVICE MANAGER permission
SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW
- This app needs this permission to display dismiss screen on Android 10 or higher versions

Privacy policy in English: http://alar.my/privacy_policy_en.txt
e-mail : cs@delightroom.com

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Alarm Clock with Loud Alarms - Alarmy - Apps on Google Play

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FREE FEATURES ■ Highest-rated alarm clock app in the world, with 4.6 stars from over 1,000,000 reviews!

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Using Hand Signals for More Equitable Discussions

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Using Hand Signals for More Equitable Discussions

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I really like this Edutopia video about different hand signals to use during online ZOOM/GoogleMeet/etc. discussions to help keeps things flowing and uniform. I would definitely introduce these hand signals in my own online classroom and having this video for students to refer back to throuhgout the year. It would also provide students the opportunity to create their own as a class that we could use to make online discussions more stress free and as engaging as possible for both the students and myself.

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Because hand signals allow students to engage both verbally and nonverbally, conversations that use them can be more inclusive. Teachers can post the hand signals in the classroom or share them online so that students can easily refer to the visual reminder.

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Using Hand Signals for More Equitable Discussions

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Whether your class discussions are online or off, hand signals enable students to engage in multiple ways.

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I chose this activity as a way to have middle schoolers step back from online learning and think about what they are greatful for during these times. ONline learning is definitely more challenging for some students and this would give them the opportunity to think about what and who they are thankful for even during these tough times.

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