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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

(CNY) In the spirit of celebrating cultural diversity and love of world cultures, I went ahead and prepared this list of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals that you can share with you students and help them learn more about Chinese New Year and its traditions. Chinese Zodiac Animals 1. If you were born in the Goat year (e.g.,1931,

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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

The Hechinger Report

New literacy efforts are evolving via NGO’s like Pratham , whose mission is “every child in school and learning well,” while Round Table India claims to have built one classroom a day for the last 10 years, including a new a community school serving an isolated tribal village. Singh never learned to take an exam and fell way behind.

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

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. From my vantage point, technology is transforming education from an art into a data-driven learning science.

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. share of all research and development funding worldwide dropped from more than a third to barely a quarter from 2003 to 2013, the most recent period for which the figures are available, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.