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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom. The concept of a 21st-century classroom has evolved significantly.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al.,

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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

eSchool News

It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005. Over the years, it has added both classroom and professional development resources to help educators successfully deliver literacy education based on the science of reading research.

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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

We’re trying to take what we do well in cognitive science and adaptive learning, and bring that to the content that New Mountain has.” Like Carnegie Learning, New Mountain Learning has a storied legacy of its own. Expect Carnegie Learning to add more edtech tools to its portfolio.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

Computerized Dynamic Adaptive Tests with Immediately Individualized Feedback for Primary School Mathematics Learning. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations in the Classroom: Age Differences and Academic Correlates. 4: Direct Instruction Ensures Success. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 20(1), 61–72.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Average final exam scores among students assigned to classrooms that allowed computers were 18 percent of a standard deviation lower than exam scores of students in classrooms that prohibited computers.” ” “ One-to-One Laptop Initiatives Boost Student Scores, Researchers Find” says Education Week. It's religion.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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