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PROOF POINTS: The value of one-size-fits-all math homework

The Hechinger Report

After Neil built the platform in 2003, several early studies showed promising results , and then a large randomized control trial (RCT) in Maine, published in 2016, confirmed them. It had distributed laptops to every middle school student years before the ASSISTments experiment.

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Nearly 60% of Teens Use Their Own Mobile Devices in School for Learning

The Innovative Educator

This year’s report, Digital Learning 24/7: Understanding Technology – Enhanced Learning in the Lives of Today’s Students , provides landmark findings on the efficacy and value associated with popular digital learning initiatives: blended learning, online learning, school-assigned mobile devices and STEM learning.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

But it wasn’t until the ASCA adopted a national model in 2003 that mental health gained an official role in school counseling duties. In some districts, laptops and devices sent home with students have software that tracks keywords and alerts staff before students harm themselves or someone else. Don’t be like me.”.

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Wednesday Early - Reforming Ed Reform Panel with Downes, Gardner, Kohn, and Stager

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Affiliated with the Learning and Collaborative Technologies Group, Institute for Information Technology, Downes specializes in the fields of online learning, new media, pedagogy and philosophy. Mr. Stager''s doctoral research involved the creation a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. airing on Discovery in 2020.) movement nationally and internationally. He has published a number of books and articles.