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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Educational software, ranging from language learning apps like Duolingo to math problem-solving platforms like Khan Academy, provides personalized learning experiences. link] Berger et al.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The study suggests that where prior knowledge is lacking, increased memory strength through additional learning can compensate, underscoring the complex interplay between prior knowledge, memory strength, and sleep in memory formation. The implications of these findings are far-reaching for educators and researchers. Sandmann, A., Sures, B.

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This Texas college’s focus on mental health helps students work through trauma, stay on track

The Hechinger Report

All students start their academic journey at the college by sitting with counselors who assess their mental health needs. During orientation, incoming Paul Quinn students learn about the clinic, campus services and the mental health assessment they can opt out of if they choose. Now that rate is about 36%, school officials said.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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

Edsurge

As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. But visions of a world where every teacher and every student had an internet-connected device, and every student would get personalized assessments for learning, were still just that—visions.

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Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance’ schools are the future of American high schools

The Hechinger Report

As part of BDEA’s competency-based approach, all new students take a trimester-long course in which they study math, English language arts and science together. They are then placed in courses that match their skill levels — regardless of age or whatever letter grades they earned in the subjects at their previous schools.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 But one district has been steadfast in its commitment, staying the course through three superintendents: RSU 2. A local success story.

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