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Helpful Tips to Integrate Media Literacy in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As for the Ontario Association for Media Literacy (AML) (cited in Duncan, 2005) “Media literacy is concerned with developing an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques. Ask them to apply critical thinking questions to assess its credibility.

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Strategies for Surviving All Types of Assessments

edWeb.net

Whether you are a first-year teacher or a veteran teacher, classroom and system-wide assessments can be a time of high anxiety and stress for everyone involved. in School Counseling Program, Freed-Hardeman University, TN, lays out strategies and ground rules for what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to assessments.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Nearly 2 out of every 5 eighth graders don’t even have the most basic math skills, according to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement.

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

Doug Levin

Employed measures of academic achievement that were standardized assessments or norm-referenced district- or school-wide tests; Reported the duration of the study; and, Otherwise provided sufficient statistical data to calculate effect sizes. What did the meta-analysis reveal?

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Can a Small Fund Called Dunce Capital Make Smart Bets in Education?

Edsurge

A software engineer by trade, he worked at Oracle in the 1980’s before co-founding an internet advertising company that sold for $750 million in 1999—right before the dot-com bust. Rocketship established itself as a testbed for piloting instructional software built by startups and established companies alike.

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Top Hat Raises $55 Million to Take on Big Textbook Publishers

Edsurge

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. Bluedoor was founded in 2005 and is based in Minneapolis. Last year, the company ceased sales of individual assessment tools to instead offer a bundle of its products.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Educational software, ranging from language learning apps like Duolingo to math problem-solving platforms like Khan Academy, provides personalized learning experiences. Leaders of their own learning: Transforming schools through student-engaged assessment. Jossey-Brass. Bringing the 1960s to the 21st-Century Classroom.

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