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Recovering From 2020 Requires Supporting Students, Starting With Their Basic Needs

Edsurge

Despite having been here before, the 2008 recession resulted in little structural change to address these problems. Current public benefit policies promote “work first” even if it is low-wage, low-mobility work, unduly and unjustly discouraging education as a pathway to economic mobility and security.

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Education Recovery Requires Long-Term Investment Strategy, Not Another One-off Stimulus

Edsurge

Unlike the other shapes, the K-shaped model illustrates two diverging trends. Those benefiting from the pandemic and with economic means are experiencing a quicker bounceback and accelerated upward mobility. But as pernicious as these trends are, they are also avoidable. We don’t need to go far in the past to witness the harm.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. That’s good. We shall see.

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Digital Divide 2.0: a few facts and figures

Neo LMS

Unless you’ve been living on the moon for the last decade you will also know that mobile is booming: the statistics bare this out with a 20% year-on-year increase in the uptake of mobile broadband (data) subscriptions. As of 2008, 100% of U.S. Income vs. Access: The Digital Divide in the US. Source: LEE RAINIE ).

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Education Has a Three-Headed Crisis. Mental Health Is Only Part of It.

Edsurge

Yet this trend persists throughout the education sector. Empathy, as a theme, is trending. Source: Google Trends: “Empathy” search as of May 26, 2021. Some experts estimate that 85 percent of children became less creative between 1990 and 2008. And we know that “there is no child health without adult caregiver health.”

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Direct Measurement of Curiosity using the Mindwave Mobile

Cycles of Learning

2008) , I have been semi-obsessed with what is ACTUALLY happening, from a cognitive perspective, when a student feels "curious". al''s (2008) call to find a more cost affordable way to directly measure student curiosity can be addressed, and perhaps, the "achievement engine" that Sir Ken Robinson discusses, can be amplified.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

“ FY 2008 $267,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: National Educational Technology Trends Study (NETTS). National Educational Technology Trends Study: Local-Level Data Summary (SRI International, 2008). ” How would the program operate?

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