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Supporting Multilingual Learners in Early Elementary Education

Waterford

In addition, multilingual families need access to resources that help them feel welcome in school and engaged with their student’s teacher. For example, teachers could stock their classroom library with books in their first language or connect multilingual learners with other students who speak the same language. Bialystok, E.,

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5 Good Websites Like YouTube

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

YouTube first founded in around February 14, 2005 and since then it has grown so exponentially that as of 2021 YouTube boasts 2.24 While some boycott YouTube for their own reasons, a number of people can not access YouTube because of institutional or workplace restrictions. However, not everybody is a fan of YouTube.

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30 Hilarious Kid Jokes about School

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Who hasn’t seen the spark in a student’s eyes when a lesson is peppered with humor, or watched a tough concept become more accessible through a playful analogy? Why was the math book sad? Why was the geography book so happy? What did one math book say to the other? Because it had too many problems. The ruler!

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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

1] Specific causes vary from family to family, but they often have to do with limited resources and opportunities when there’s not as much free time or money to provide students with books or educational activities. 6] You could, for example, give low-income students a few books to take home.

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IXL Learning Agrees to Acquire Wyzant Tutoring Marketplace

eSchool News

Founded in 2005, Wyzant offers an expansive digital network of more than 65,000 tutors from a broad spectrum of academic and professional fields. Wyzant and IXL have a shared mission of making personalized learning accessible for everyone,” said Andrew Geant, CEO of Wyzant. Tutoring any time, any place .

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Is Education Entering the ‘Age of Alternatives’?

Edsurge

For instance, as mainframe computers, with their centralization of computing power accessed through “dumb” terminals, entered enterprises (and movies) in the 1950s, “The New” returned to an emphasis on decentralized learning (sometimes supported by now-forgotten “ teaching machines ”). into a common identity. the Board of Education.

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The Power of Podcasts for Learning: Listening, Creating, Sharing, and Growth – SULS0127

Shake Up Learning

Apple introduced podcasting in 2005 with the popularity of its iPods. While in 2005 this project took more time than it would now, Kasey still hears about the positive impact it had on her students from that year. . Book reviews/trailers. As long as you have access to a computer with recording capabilities then it can be done.