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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Learning in one-to-one laptop environments: A meta-analysis and research synthesis. While you can read the full 30+ page study yourself (and I’d certainly encourage you to do so if this is a topic of interest), here is my summary, with accompanying analysis of what we should reasonably take away from the findings.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., A meta-analysis. ” (p.

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Digital Promise Research Map: A Starting Place for Exploring Research on Learning

Digital Promise

We’re excited to share an updated version of the Research Map , which features the latest research and new ways to access relevant learning science findings. Our analysis of these publications revealed 11 broad topics, such as Student Motivation and Cognition & Memory, which are broken down into more than 120 subtopics.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Consider this post (light on analysis, heavy on the archiving of primary source material) one for the wonks, students, and historians. FY 2005 $496,000,000 (President Bush’s request: $691,800,000). the language that describes the purpose, structure, and requirements of the program); official guidance (i.e., FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He has published numerous articles both online and in print, including The Future of Online Learning (1998), Learning Objects (2000), Resource Profiles (2003), and E-Learning 2.0 Till August 2012 I worked as a researcher at the National Research council of Canada on their Personal Learning environment Project.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S. Jolly wrote in 2005. South Dakota and Alaska, for instance, have a combined 46,000 Native children, fewer than 300 of whom, 0.6 percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

Hack Education

Since 2005, US universities have been the victim of almost 550 data breaches involving nearly 13 million known records. IBM Watson, which has partnered with Pearson and with Sesame Street, to “personalize learning” through data collection and data analytics. Now a quick aside, since I’ve mentioned Nazis.

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