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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. October 2001. Today’s students are digital natives, and increasingly, so are their parents (and many of their teachers). Adobe Blog. September 2018. Prensky, Marc.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

A total of ten (10) studies met the criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis, meaning all ten studies: Were published in the English language after having gone through a formal peer review process; Were conducted between 2001 and 2015 (more specifically, the included studies were published between 2005 and 2012); Were conducted in K-12 school settings (..)

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2001: $450,000,000. Legislative Authorization: Title II, Part D (Sections 2401-2422) of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Appropriations: FY 1997: $200,000,000 (President Clinton’s request: $250,000,000). FY 1998: $425,000,000. FY 1999: $425,000,000 (President Clinton’s request: $475,000,000).

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

Given the enormous potential of edtech to assist teachers in highly diverse classrooms to truly personalize learning and obtain significant student academic growth, why are we seeing such consistent and large-scale edtech failure when it comes to gains in student academic achievement? blended learning). So, what can be done?

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”.

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