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

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Americans spend an average of 17 minutes per day reading for personal interest; in 2003, the average reading time was 22 minutes. 4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading. The post 4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

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And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. Empower Learning , a Utah-based developer of a learning management system (LMS), understands this pressure well. It also exports data to SISs that will be useful for generating final grades or transcripts.

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

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Edtech, I believe, is going through a similar rebuilding moment powered by three trends: widely available infrastructure, the catalytic impact of spending by both the government and philanthropy in education, and—finally—the embrace of edtech by educational institutions and educators themselves. Not yet convinced?

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The Nordic Effect: An education paradigm for the world?

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PISA 2000 showed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world, in 2003 the country’s youth led in math, by 2006 Finland was first out of 57 countries in science, and by 2009 Finland came second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide. Uhmmm… what about edtech?

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

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For undergraduates in World Regions, the road to an A is paved with: 1) Weekly book reading quizzes —Each week a quiz is posted on Moodle —a free LMS—with questions arising from the two assigned chapters from The Plaid Avenger’s World. 4) International film assignments —Watch the foreign movie of the week and then take a quiz on the film.

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