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4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading

Neo LMS

Americans spend an average of 17 minutes per day reading for personal interest; in 2003, the average reading time was 22 minutes. Less than 53% of American adults read at least one book for pleasure in 2019. Contrary to conventional wisdom, technology is a friend, not a foe of books and reading.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching. One active learning technique she cites in the book, for instance, was devised by Samuel Delany, who was also a renowned science fiction author. Active learning wins. How does that work? It's a great one.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. If you’ve ever seen a third grader struggle to type a web address into the computer or type a book report when they don’t know where the keys are, you know they should have started keyboarding earlier. Zeitz, 2008. 2 What is the best age to introduce keyboarding?

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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

To learn more about this technique, we recommend the book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, 2003, 47, pp. Algozzine, B., Faculty Focus.

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ISTE Certification 01

Dangerously Irrelevant

When we created the nation’s first graduate program designed to prepare a technology-savvy school administrator at the University of Minnesota (way back in 2003!) , ISTE was one of our most important partners in that work. Our new book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning, was released today!

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What Are the Best Books about the History of Education Technology?

Hack Education

As many of you know, I’m working on a book proposal for Teaching Machines , a project I’ve had on the back burner for far too long now that is finally starting to come to a boil. Bob Johnstone, Never Mind the Laptops: Kids, Computers, and the Transformation of Learning (2003). David Noble, Digital Diploma Mills (2001).

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

Edsurge

EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. So I get here in 2003, and there were about 18 people [teaching] and a few hundred students [online]. We were very much influenced by the book “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.”

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