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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

After helping teachers transition to online learning during the pandemic, she began writing about her experiences, including a chapter on online learning in Like No Other School Year. She also wrote a full guide to online and digital learning, A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning. .

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning. Zyonne Reid, a 15-year-old at J.P.

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June 1 - Panel Discussion on "Unschooling"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Aldrich is also the author of Unschooling Rules (Greenleaf, 2011) and four earlier books: Simulations and the Future of Learning (Wiley, 2004), Learning By Doing (Wiley, 2005), The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games (Wiley, 2009), and Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds (Wiley, 2009).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. There was slightly more buzz when Negroponte pitched the idea again at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005. You can learn anything on YouTube, we’ve been told. Common Core State Standards.

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