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The Nordic Effect: An education paradigm for the world?

Neo LMS

PISA 2000 showed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world, in 2003 the country’s youth led in math, by 2006 Finland was first out of 57 countries in science, and by 2009 Finland came second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide. appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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9 Key Classroom Management Skills Backed up with Research

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Classroom management skills is the topic of our blog post today! American Secondary Education, 41(3), 21–33. Models of Classroom Management as Applied to the Secondary Classroom. Strategies for Effective Classroom Management in the Secondary Setting. The Journal of Special Education , 41(4), 209–222. link] Curran, M.

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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

Ask a Tech Teacher

If students wait to receive formal instruction in secondary grades they may already have too many bad habits engrained ( Bartholome ,1998). Utah State University, 2003) is an elementary educator. The issue is that levels students obtain don’t always translate to keyboard mastery. Come join the conversation at keyboardingarts.org.

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

See a short video of the findings and the Speak Up 2014 Snapshots for Educators blog post. One of last year’s winners reported back, “I have been participating in the Speak Up survey ever since it started [in 2003]. Since 2003, more than 3.7 The online Speak Up 2014 survey s close on December 19 th.

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

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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Something NEW is coming to Truth for Teachers…

The Cornerstone for Teachers

My vision is to expand beyond just a podcast with corresponding blog post transcripts into a collection of written articles as well that is composed by lots of different practicing classroom teachers. Secondary teachers, you are going to especially love this, as I’ve got a bunch of high school teachers sharing ideas.

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The future of intelligence

Learning with 'e's

This is the third in a series of blog posts on the future of learning and technology. In my previous blog post I examined the debate about whether we are becoming more intelligent or less intelligent as a result of our prolonged and habituated uses of technology. There are examples of how such cyborg existence might come about.