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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. Not all technology use is good , and overuse can hold students back. Use should be appropriate, tied to classroom content areas, and guided. Thanks to partners, these lessons are FREE for all K-12 schools and students.

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With Innovation and Empathy, Remote Learning Becomes Accessible for All Students

Edsurge

The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted daily life for virtually every educator, parent, and student in the U.S. It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. You can read part one here.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

This story was published in partnership with The Moonshot Catalog. Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. But at a university? “We

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Schools on a screen: One tech-savvy school district has lessons for others going online

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in USA Today. For almost a decade, even young kids here have spent hours a day on screens as Mineola’s educators sought to transform schooling here. Each student already had a device that all but the youngest took home every day, and some spent hours a day working online in school. MINEOLA, N.Y.

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What U.S. Companies Should Know About Asia's Edtech Market

Edsurge

On the one hand, China’s private education market is projected to grow 9 percent per year until 2020, reaching a value of $330 billion—an enticing market for many American entrepreneurs. education space, can pose serious challenges to any organization. But their story is not a blueprint that will make sense for every company.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

This mantra in education particularly in adopting emerging technology is incredibly important. This is best achieved through vicarious experience, guide-on-the-side coaching, and the right frame of thinking. Innovation is an amplifier, it will amplify the good and bad of our teaching practice. They are doing it wrong!”

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Technology in the Classroom: The Complete Guide

ViewSonic Education

Take a brief look at the history of technology’s uneasy relationship with education. However, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages, so we also provide a simplified implementation guide. . From books to tablets or slates to interactive whiteboards, humans have used learning tools for as long as we have had formal education. .