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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. ” The Nation’s Report Card. She has published articles in the Wisconsin English Journal and has spoken at state and national conferences on aspects of secondary literacy. Yes, you've seen Khan Academy, but have you.

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Men behaving badly

Dangerously Irrelevant

Lindy West reports : . When I write critically about Khan Academy or Apple, I know I’ll hear an earful — and it isn’t simply an earful of disagreement. the anti-free-speech charge, applied broadly to cultural criticism and especially to feminist discourse, has proliferated.

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Is your classroom ready for BYOD?

Neo LMS

There are apps such as NEO , TED and Khan Academy downloadable from app stores. Class distraction There’s still this idea that classroom devices are a distraction to the students because instead of being used for learning, students might just play games. But that is a 20th century thinking, when most handheld devices were Gameboys.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: Ars Technica has a good write-up of the research.

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Different Definitions of Personalized Learning Conflict, Cause Confusion

MindShift

Two examples are McGraw Hill’s ALEKS and Khan Academy. Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, defines personalization by pace. With Khan Academy, you can show “mastery” by getting a certain number of questions right in a row. Proficiency vs. mastery (Drew Lytle for NPR ).

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Unleash Student Creativity Through the Power of Video

Edsurge

Students at West End Secondary School in New York City. The Art of Storytelling ,” a popular course offered by Khan Academy, describes the principles behind filmmaking as Film Grammar. Take Two Film Academy founder, Megan Kiefer, with students at West End Secondary School in New York City.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

It’s librarians that are supposed to curate and guide further studies and deeper dives or sideways jumps to secondary topics. Writing lengthy individual student reports. They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge.