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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In her literature review, Blazer (2009) summarized some of these drawbacks in the following points: - Homework can cause emotional and physical fatigue - Homework takes away from kids' leisure time and interferes with their natural development. The Elementary School Journal, 60, 212–224. Literature review: Homework. Robinson, J.

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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

If you are wondering how it works in practice, here’s a good example: Duolingo is a free mobile app that helps students to learn foreign languages. The same gamification principle counts for many other subjects and the corresponding mobile apps, making this learning strategy universal. Robot teachers. They are patient and unbiased.

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Engaging Students Right From the Start

User Generated Education

In normal times when students come to my classroom (I provide pull-out services for gifted elementary level kids), I get them doing hands-on activities within minutes of entering into my classroom. Akinator is a computer game and mobile app. I, like many of you, have been doing remote teaching since March, 2020.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Communicating with Generation X, Y, and Z Parents

Waterford

8] Your Gen Xers are most likely the parents of older elementary or middle and high school students. 6] Millennials are no longer elementary or secondary students themselves, though they may still be students in college or graduate school. If you teach elementary school, many of your students’ parents will belong to Generation Y.

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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 2009 $269,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $0).

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The People and Moments That Define Us

A Principal's Reflections

My father was an elementary principal for 30 years and I always admired how he was able to inspire his staff to focus on student learning. If I was graded I would have probably received an A for running my school where strict rules had to be followed by students, mobile devices banned, and all social media blocked.

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Hindsight: How I *WISH* I had Supported Our Technology Rollout

Tech Helpful

Simon Sinek originally published his book Start with the Why in 2009. Mobile devices in education have been a messy journey. Our elementary school started with a rolling cart of iPads and we have slowly added more and more into the mix for use and a chromebook cart as well. Oh to have read that book then!