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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

Last summer, we began an exciting pilot project to understand whether instructional technology coaching ultimately leads to closing the digital use divide in the classroom. Therefore, over the past year, we set out to explore the potential of classroom coaching to effectively foster more powerful use of technology.

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

Project Tomorrow is celebrating Speak Up America Week 2014 this week with opportunities for schools and classrooms to win prizes and grants by participating in this year''s Speak Up surveys. 8-12 National Online Surveys Close 12/19: [link] org/speakup/ Irvine, Calif. Today’s findings are about teachers.

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

Edsurge

For more than 15 years, Project Tomorrow has run the popular survey effort called Speak Up , which polls hundreds of thousands of students and adults about learning trends and makes the local data available to individual districts. EdSurge: Tell us a little about the Speak Up Survey. For students today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise.

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Game-Based Learning Gains Steam in Higher Education: Triseum Raises $1.43 Million to Transform Educational Experiences for Students

EdNews Daily

We are very proud to have laid a foundation and company culture built on rigorous curriculum, and innovative, bleeding-edge digital technology,” said André Thomas, CEO of Triseum recently profiled in The Huffington Post (with Robyn Shulman (me). He worked on the 3D feature film Valiant in 2003, after which he worked on Ant Bully.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

a university administrator enthused in a survey, referring to a type of scholarship that examines an activity in progress. Nearly three in 10 students in a Strada Education survey in the fall of 2020 said their ability to learn was much worse online than in person. This is action research on steroids!”

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To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

Edsurge

In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. She noticed another problem: Many of the apps used speech recognition technologies that were trained with adult data samples. How do you say “pecan?”)

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It’s A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One

MindShift

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. Just ask Ashley Mingo, a junior at the Hudson High School of Learning Technologies in New York City. Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit [link].