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

Doug Levin

The primary author of the study ( Binbin Zheng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education at Michigan State University) was kind enough to provide me a review copy and permission to blog about the findings. How was the study conducted? Warschauer, M.,

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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

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"Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. Teachers who aren’t thinking about the variety of ways there are to teach aren’t thinking about their full capacity.”

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Top 10 Study Group Forums and Websites for High School Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

I don’t post enough about high school so I’m thrilled with her article: Some students study more productively in groups, working with their peers. Online groups and forums allow them to ask questions and learn from each other outside the traditional classroom in a space where they typically turn to for studying anyway.

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Better Feedback for Deeper Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Goodwin & Miller (2012) provided this summary: In Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta-analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28-percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012).

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re looking for a curriculum for your K-8 classes, here are two popular ones we offer: The Essential Guide – -a thorough K-8 curricula intended for schools that allot about 45 minutes a week to tech classes. What about keyboarding homework? This conclusion was reinforced by Feutz (2001). Questions you may have.

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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this article, I cover some of the key issues related to homework and provide research resources to help teachers and parents learn more about homework. In this study, Cooper et al analyzed a large pool of research studies on homework conducted in the United States between between 1987 and 2003. What does homework mean?

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How a Professor of Hip-Hop Is Breaking Boundaries With First Peer-Reviewed Rap Album

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Back in 2001, Cornel West recorded a hip-hop album as a side project. At the time, West was a professor of African-American Studies at Harvard University, and soon after the album was released, the president of Harvard at that time, Lawrence Summers, criticized the album as an “embarrassment” to the university.

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