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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? Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow and the founder of the heralded Speak Up Research Project, along with a panel of students, had a conversation about decades of trends and the latest shifts in digital learning today.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S. FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

We ask questions that have to do with digital learning, but we also ask questions about school climate. Yet they find too often that their classes aren’t interesting, and the students themselves say they're not learning the right skills. One of the questions that we did a whole depth of study on was YouTube.

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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million

Edsurge

The firm plans to invest up to $5 million into Series A, Series B and recapitalization rounds for education companies serving pre-kindergarten to professional learners, with a focus on digital learning, learning sciences, analytics and workforce development services. million sale last year to Educational Testing Service.

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A VR-based Approach to ADHD

Veative

Three years later, the same team of researchers performed another study with the same virtual classroom, successfully replicating the results obtained in 2004. During the course of the study, Rizzo et al. pointed out that strategies of brain regulation learned in a lab setting may not translate well into the real world.

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Four tips for teaching in uncertain times

Hapara

Put everything related to your class in your digital hub, including: Instructions for digital learning activities. Instructions for non-digital activities. Digital learning hubs also benefit teachers because you can schedule assignments and plan for substitute teachers. Karen Swan, “Learning Effectiveness.”.

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

The Hechinger Report

About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans. Sanborn Regional High School student Jailee Thibeault does research during her social studies class. While some educators laud personalized learning’s benefits, there aren’t mountains of comprehensive studies to validate claims.