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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

Since 2001, he has been a lecturer at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) , where his academic pursuits have focused on studying social media trends, viral media production, and distribution. The post Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr.

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Data-Driven Instruction for the Real World

Edsurge

Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, data in schools has become so many things—a carrot for more funding, a weapon used to dismiss teachers and a four-letter word. Still, as our recent analysis of LMS trends indicates, increased technology usage doesn’t always improve efficiency. Data-Driven Leadership in Schools.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

Looking deeper into long-term market trends, we pay close attention to which segments are demonstrating consistent revenue growth, high gross margins, and competitive advantages — especially around return on investment (ROI) for customers and efficacy for students and schools. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering

The Hechinger Report

That’s a worrying trend for a profession in which Black people are already underrepresented. College-going trends that have occurred during the pandemic threaten to lower these proportions even further. We need to move from talking about the issue of Blacks in STEM and systemic racism to making concrete changes,” Laurencin said.

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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. I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. post-2001) web. From non-edutech trends.

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The Value of Listening in the Classroom: How to Teach Your Students Active Listening

Waterford

Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 2001, 17(2), pp. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, November 2008, 12(11), pp. Ditching Our Distractions: The Importance of Active Listening. retrieved from forbes.com: [link]. Iwankovitsch, R. The Importance of Listening. Harvard Graduate School of Education. The Value of Listening. Listening Effectively.

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

Doug Levin

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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