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How Data Science Adds Computational Thinking—and Fun—to Gym Class

Edsurge

In the fall of 2002, the Oakland Athletics shattered a 55-year-old record with twenty consecutive games won. When we set out to design an engaging kickball unit for our middle school students, we asked ourselves how we could learn from the 2002 A’s. By applying rich data analysis to the sport, a practice known as sabermetrics.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S. ” How would the program operate?

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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

One study conducted in Taiwan, for example, came to the conclusion that educating students on learning styles can encourage self-reflection—always a positive thing.[9] 9] In another study, a professor at Auburn University found that using learning styles to teach concepts to individual students can improve information recall.[15]

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When His Roster Outgrew His Classroom, This Prof Mastered Modular Online Curriculum

Edsurge

Right before the start of the Fall semester in 2002, Robertson learned that the 400-seat movie theater that held his Principles of Marketing class at San Francisco State University would no longer be available. Different students have different approaches to learning, he says.

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Lessons from a school without walls

The Hechinger Report

That heightened sense of ownership, which some research suggests could strengthen students’ desire to learn, is one of the many facets of an educational approach called “personalized learning.” Each morning, students check in with their teacher to discuss their strategies and goals for the day.

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Voice and Choice Is Important—but Sometimes It’s Not Enough

Edsurge

During my first year of teaching in 2002, I walked into my government class on the first day of school to a group of comedic, socially confident seniors. The strategy that has worked best for me is to develop flexible graphic organizers that I can modify for each student depending on the central skill or standard they’re working on.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

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