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20 Years of Student Feedback Drives Digital Learning

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Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Can you guess what students said was their most-used mobile device in 2003? In 2014, only one in four students had direct access to technology in class. Today, 95% of high school students access schoolwork on their smartphones whenever and wherever they need it. Hint: It burned.

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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

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UD aims for inclusive access to architectural spaces for all users. 2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., 2013) define UDL as “a set of principles and techniques for use in the classroom along with the design of accessible instructional materials.” To start with, Courey et al.

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4 focus areas to embrace innovation and avoid school system failure

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” UVA-PLE has partnered with more than 400 schools across 100 districts in 25 states since 2003. “There are no easy answers to complex challenges, but we can shift the paradigm and move beyond the status quo. This press release originally appeared online.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

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When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips. Department of Education.

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Certell’s Poptential™ Addresses 21st-Century Wars With Free Memorial Day Teaching Resources

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INDIANAPOLIS (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages from Certell, provides rich content to teach the importance of Memorial Day, including material on the U.S. Poptential is available via a digital platform that allows students to access lessons even in poor bandwidth environments.

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Preventing Student Debt Problems Begins With Financial Literacy Education

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A nationwide study that Next Gen Personal Finance conducted in 2018-2019 of more that 11,000 high school course catalogs found that in 23 states and Washington D.C., fewer than 5 percent of students were required to take a standalone semester of a personal finance course.

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Are History Textbooks Worth Using Anymore? Maybe Not, Some Teachers Say

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In her 2003 book “ The Language Police ,” education historian Diane Ravitch contends that “every textbook has a point of view, despite a facade of neutrality.” Textbooks are written by academics and historians, of course. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history.

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