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Using Google Tools to Personalize Learning #GoogleEduOnAir

Learning With Lucie

Yesterday I had the absolute privilege to join thousands of amazing educators learning and sharing their learning as part of the Google for Education on Air Event - If Takes A Teacher. I learned so much from watching fellow educators share their insights into teaching and learning throughout the day.

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The Lessons Learned Online That Will Shape Education After the Pandemic

Edsurge

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

The Hechinger Report

In fact, it seems as if all eyes are on Higuera and his classmates as they pioneer what the superintendent of Dysart, Gail Pletnick, calls “the future of education” — a personalized learning environment that puts students in control of what, when and how they learn, with teachers as their guides.

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

Edsurge

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups.

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In One of Connecticut’s Most Innovative Districts, Belief in Every Student Comes First

Edsurge

In mission statements across the country, references to personalized learning abound, hanging proudly from schoolhouse walls. NPS is also home to well over 100 certified Google Educators , trainers, and innovators. Getting results—for every child The impact of personalizing learning is clear.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

While some license holders leased their spectrum in the 1980s and ’90s, the market for it remained somewhat sluggish until 2004, when the FCC changed the permitted use for that part of the spectrum from television to internet and renamed it EBS. Related: Most students go to a school that meets federal standards for internet speed.

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Reading Students Through a Tech Lens

edWeb.net

Looking at variables such as student connectivity (and when that happened), virtual engagement, time spent on learning events and access to collaboration and productivity tools like Google Suite, Zoom and Khan Academy informed approaches to instruction and support systems. Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004.