Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

K., & Bruegmann, E. The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 24) Jackson, C. 25) Kraft, M. A., & Papay, J.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Keep in mind that these recommendations are aimed at parents and families -- not teachers -- but the age rating and content grid in each review can serve as a useful guide. Our colleagues over at Common Sense Media have reviews for many, if not most, of the TV shows and movies you might want to show. Price: Both free and paid options.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 13, 2015

It's notoriously difficult to get articles accepted for publication in these elite journals - the editors often pride themselves in their high rejection rates. They are often excluded from research assessment exercises, and can be overlooked for promotion or tenure. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 7, 2012

There has been severe, and if I may be frank, undeserving criticism, against the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and its successor, the forthcoming REF. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Here I wish to offer a rebuttal to those detractors who for whatever reasons consider the system to be flawed or unfair.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students.

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Brainscape

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By rating how well you know the answer to the question on a scale of 1 to 5, you tell Brainscape’s spaced repetition algorithm how often to repeat that flashcard. You rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 5 on how well you knew that particular piece of information, and this determines how frequently you’ll see that card again.

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Brainscape

JUNE 9, 2022

For example: online courses and e-textbook providers that are more of an instructional curriculum, but that have built spaced repetition into things like multiple-choice quizzes at the end of chapters, where incorrect answers are more likely to come up frequently until the user answers correctly.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 26, 2024

Those questions ask students simply to rate their level of agreement (1 = Strongly disagree to 5 = Strongly agree) on the following statements: So far in this course, I've been challenged intellectually by the content and activities in the course.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This is a mobile app that enables teachers to quickly assess their students. Answers are then scanned by the teachers phone, and the app generates useful sets of graphics and assessments per question. The app also offers a number of mindfulness exercises for kids of all ages. Book Creator.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Early in the history of the United States, people who were interested in protecting and exercising their copyrights were required to apply for copyright protection. While causality was not claimed by any researcher, the use of OER was sometimes correlated with higher test scores, lower failure, or withdrawal rates. References.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Exercises where computers or tablets are deliberately used may, in fact, improve student performance. public high schools (42.5 " Maybe, maybe not. Even as the Web has grown, however, it has narrowed.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Exercises where computers or tablets are deliberately used may, in fact, improve student performance. public high schools (42.5 " Maybe, maybe not. Even as the Web has grown, however, it has narrowed.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This includes navigating the often politicized issues related to immunizations, the high student absence rate due to quarantines or parents wanting to keep their children home, and the negative impact the pandemic had on student and staff mental health. Currently, the esports ecosystem is projected to surpass $1.8 billion by 2022.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In addition, he co-captains the “Rainbow Six Siege eSports Team” (e-sports teams compete in organized, multiplayer video game contests), is the vice president of the e-sports club and is a member of the National Honor Society. Most of the exercises are non-verbal, which evens the playing field for kids still learning English.

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