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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

The district serves an economically-disadvantaged community with about 80 percent of the students eligible to participate in the free and reduced-price meal program. HCISD teachers quickly saw positive changes in how students were building math skills. Nominee: Cory Hocker , Golden Eagle Charter School Nominated by: Kajeet.

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Teacher-Student Digital Communication Makes for Good Learning

edWeb.net

So explained Dr. Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Project Tomorrow, in an edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard , examining findings from the program’s 2020 annual research project, Speak Up , for which 10,000 K-12 students nationwide shared their preferences and expectations for two-way communications with their teachers.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. And “free” doesn’t last.

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