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Importance of Technology in the Classroom

eSchool News

Personalized learning is another critical advantage of integrating technology. Adaptive learning platforms allow educators to customize lessons to meet individual student needs, enabling them to progress at their own pace. Another significant benefit is personalized learning.

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Turning your face-to-face class into an online course [Part 3]

Neo LMS

A good LMS will accept videos, pictures, Office and Google docs. Learn more about SCORM here. Personalized learning paths. As you know, students all learn in different ways and at different rates; learning paths mean that you can design different routes for students, yet still get them all to the same point of mastery.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

While Google, Microsoft and Apple have been pursuing their ambitions in K-12 and higher education for more than a decade, Amazon has mostly remained at the sidelines. At the same time, Bezos’ Montessori experiment will teach him how to operate in-person pre-schools. But will it be a Trojan horse, or does public education stand to gain?

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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

In general, OER was rated ‘considerably better on multiple specific aspects of teaching and learning, such as extending the core knowledge to novel tasks and situations and collaborating with others.’” . Or a history teacher on the opposite side of the country could use your video to personalize learning for a group of students.

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Bids to bring fiber internet to schools are denied funding seven times more often than other projects

The Hechinger Report

When students at Woodman School, on the western edge of Montana, are working on research projects in class, they don’t have the option to start their search with Google. Since 2014, a primary goal of the E-rate program has been to ensure affordable access to high-speed broadband in the nation’s schools. Future of Learning.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

What Students Say And because of the experience students had during COVID-19 lockdowns, when most teaching was online, many students feel they learned how to teach themselves by just Googling. We know that this is what was happening … with learning during the pandemic, but now we're all back together again. “A

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

While the federal government awards billions of dollars annually to get schools and libraries online, through its E-rate program, Albemarle’s project is technically ineligible for that because it’s “off campus,” even though it will be an extension of the school network with all its security, filters and firewalls. Photo: Andrew Franco.