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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Dr. Zheng and colleagues did not collect original data; rather, they used a statistical technique (meta-analysis) to combine the findings of prior studies meeting specific quality criteria in an effort to identify larger trends in the emerging body of empirical evidence on laptop programs’ impact on learning.

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307: Elevating Media Literacy Through Screen Language: Insights from Sherard Duvall

The Thinking Stick

Join him on a journey where the power of human connection meets the magic of screen language. After graduation in 2001, he took a job first as Production Assistant at Columbia’s Mad Monkey, then in 2004 as an editor at Genesis Studios in Cayce, South Carolina.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. One crucial impact of mobile technologies in education is the way they tear down our old boundary walls, the ones around in-session classes, or conferences, or meetings. post-2001) web.

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Education can be the great equalizer, but it isn’t yet

The Hechinger Report

It’s impossible for education to be an equalizer if budgets don’t meet every kid’s needs. An oft-cited education-finance report, published last year by the nonprofit EdBuild, found that predominantly white school districts received $23 billion more in funding in the 2015-16 school year than districts that serve mostly students of color.

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

Meet Informal Mentoring When I think of informal mentoring, I recall a scene in the Blue Bloods “Highway to Hell.” Ask them to sit with you at the faculty meeting. – it was quoted in a 2015 article by InformED ” Refuse to Be a Boring Teacher In this study, Yale University researcher, Sigal G. 33) Bartell, C.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

For instance, a 2015 analysis of Harvard law school graduates found that women who had not become partners in a firm had fewer mentors during their first five years than either women partners, or men who had not achieved partnership status. Schools and businesses can meet halfway to close the mentorship gap.

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Broadband Provides More Equitable Access to Education and Workforce Preparation

edWeb.net

This also requires reliable broadband access that is scalable and available to meet the needs of changing technologies and student populations. This requires technological leadership with a shared vision that includes input from all stakeholders, as well as clear goals, effective communication, and the use of research-based best practices.