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20 Years of Student Feedback Drives Digital Learning

edWeb.net

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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Preventing Student Debt Problems Begins With Financial Literacy Education

Edsurge

These were the messages that influenced their decisions to pay exorbitant tuition prices when choosing their academic and career pathways, ultimately leading many underprepared and fiscally ignorant souls to secure student loans in an effort to reach economic mobility. However, insufficient financial literacy is also partly to blame.

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The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. At the relational level, effective teachers share mutual respect with their students and treat them with dignity, kindness and appreciation providing them with equitable access to learning resources.

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3 Key Actions for 2021-22 You Can Take Now

edWeb.net

Reinventing spaces—designing flexible classroom spaces and turning a library into a learning commons with flexible seating and mobile bookshelves. They showed up in tech access and connectivity, food availability and even transportation, especially in historically underserved communities. Access to food, for example, among them.

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Top 12 apps for law students and the bar exam

Brainscape

Get Black’s Law Dictionary: App Store Law school app # 2: Brainscape’s web & mobile flashcards A virtually indispensable study app for law school is Brainscape, the world’s smartest study and flashcards app. per month for unlimited access to vast flashcard collections made by top law students and professors.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). This is understandable considering the fact that many online courses tend to be reading and writing intensive.

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When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

The Hechinger Report

trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, compared with less than $250 billion in 2003. The Georgetown center estimates that college graduates earn, on average, $1 million more over the course of a lifetime than high school graduates. Outstanding student loan debt now tops $1.5 and an unmet demand for these workers.

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