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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

This means that students can work at a rate that is most comfortable for them, which is useful for all learners.[11]. 8] For example, if a student would prefer to complete a student-directed assignment in the morning, consider adjusting their schedule accordingly. Blended Learning, Classroom and E-Learning. and Staker, H.

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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

Children of low-income families, for example, are more likely to lose more knowledge over the summer than children from wealthy families.[1] The literacy rate in America is marked by a gap between privileged and disadvantaged communities. 6] You could, for example, give low-income students a few books to take home. Green, A.M.,

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Five Learning Strategies that Work

Digital Promise

For each technique, the researchers provided a rating of its overall effectiveness as “high” “moderate” or “low.” In one example, students who were quizzed after studying a short text could recall significantly more information than students who were asked to reread it (Karpicke, 2007b).

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

Our team uses an 85% positive rating as a baseline. Each eSpark Quest includes at least two engaging instructional videos which provide direct instruction through songs, cartoons, worked examples, and more. Pape, Karen E. They’re encouraged to complete Quests simply for the fun of the activities. Bergan, J. Sladeczek, I.

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. Edgenuity boasts that the first case study in its long list of “success stories” shows how 10th grade students using its program “demonstrated more than an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests.”.

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Community Colleges Have Long Powered the Economy. To Sustain That Role, They Must Innovate.

Edsurge

Compare that to companies today, like the e-commerce giant Amazon, which in 2019 reportedly employed 798,000 persons and is currently projected to employ more than 1 million by the end of 2020. One institution with a historic academic and career and technical portfolio that serves as a shining example of this movement is St.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

The class sizes at Enterprise Attendance Center are an example of these struggles. If E-rate didn’t fund our technology, we didn’t get it,” he said, referring to a federal program that makes telecommunications and Internet access more affordable for schools and libraries.