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

The Hechinger Report

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. Across OECD countries that participated in both assessments, reading performance fell back to what it had been in 2006. years of learning.

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6 Practical Blended Learning Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

’s Study In the study “ Using Blended Learning in Training the Public Health Workforce in Emergency Preparedness ,” Moore and colleagues (2006) investigate the utility of a blended learning approach in public health emergency training. Moore et al.’s M., & Winters, S. Why Did You Blend My Learning?”

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. More than $1 billion in headline-grabbing transactions are likely to be announced at the event.

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

Research has shown that spatial skills are important for science, technology, and engineering success as well. The study found that participating students showed improvement in spatial language, visual-spatial reasoning, 2D mental rotation, and symbolic number comparison. The Science of Spatial-Temporal Mathematics. References.

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Swarming the Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

A flipped classroom is a teaching pedagogy which reverses old classroom teaching and homework through a form of blended learning using modern technology and practical application. [2] Biomimicry (also known as biomimetics) was coined by Otto Schmidt in the 1950s and describes the transfer of ideas and analogues from biology to technology. [3]

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

The Hechinger Report

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, called in 2006 for learning to be measured and reported publicly. Also in 2006, ministers of education from Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member nations agreed in Athens to develop a worldwide measure of learning called the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

How it can be applied in education Social ties are crucially important in the digital age, for as Henry Jenkins argues, it''s the dynamic and participatory elements of reaffirming a group''s social ties that helps us to acquire our collective knowledge (Jenkins, 2006, p. 2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.