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Empatico: A Breakthrough Way to Promote Empathy (And It’s Free)

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve been collaborating globally since 2006 and have created more than 30 global collaborative projects in that time, co-winning the ISTE Online learning award with that first project in 2006. A comparison of majority-race children with and without a minority-race friend. See Lease, A. M., & Blake, J.

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6 Practical Blended Learning Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Welcome to the latest installment in our series on blended learning. In our previous posts, we’ve explored what blended learning is and delved into its strengths and weaknesses. We’ve also examined various models of blended learning. Auster ‘s Study In an innovative approach to blended learning, Carol J.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

Yet, if students in other nations took the NAEP, only about one-third of them would also score Proficient—even in the nations scoring highest on international reading comparisons (Rothstein, Jacobsen, & Wilder, 2006). The pundits already are chiming in on the 2022 NAEP results.

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Sir Ken Robinson: A Brief In Memoriam [guest post]

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like most of you that knew Sir Ken Robinson’s impact on education, I first learned about him through his wildly popular TED Talk in 2006. As Sir Ken says in the video above, perhaps the better comparison is not the factory as much as it is the monoculture-based industrial farm. . The future of learning [VIDEO].

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How the NSA’s post-9/11 hiring might address the teacher shortage

eSchool News

Although I did my best to study in advance, I learned via an email that I had passed the reading part of their tests, but had not passed the listening component. I would later learn that the man put in charge of recruiting new Arabic linguists created this program precisely because of people like me. I was devastated.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

years of learning. By comparison, students who tended to read books more often on digital devices scored only 15 points higher than students who rarely read – a difference of less than a year’s worth of learning. That’s equal to almost 2.5

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As students return to college, a basic question persists: What are they learning?

The Hechinger Report

But will they actually learn anything? We’ve never really had to demonstrate our learning,” said McCormick. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, called in 2006 for learning to be measured and reported publicly. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. But that project, which was to have included U.S.

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