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Do Students Learn Better Online or in a Classroom: Statistics

eSchool News

While some research suggests comparable outcomes between online and classroom learning, others indicate differences depending on specific contexts and methodologies. According to statistics of online learning vs. classroom, a meta-analysis conducted by the U.S. Subsequent studies have provided mixed findings.

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Making is in Our DNA

A Principal's Reflections

Jonan Donaldson sums it up nicely: Terms such as collaborative learning, project-based learning, metacognition, inquiry-based learning, and so on, might be new to some audiences, but they have a relatively long and well-documented history for many educators. How Pappy approached making is an excellent example of this.

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What is Blended Learning?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this article, I cover a range of definitions of blended learning and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. Given the extensive nature of the topic, I have decided to dedicate a separate post to showcase various examples of blended learning in action. 314-315).

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Accomplished teachers are most knowledgeable about how students in their school or district learn, and thus they are ideal candidates to lead professional-learning and curriculum development efforts (Vescio et al., 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ).

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10 Ways Interactive Touch Screen Displays Improve Education

ViewSonic Education

In this example, Mazur didn’t employ an interactive touch screen. That was in 2009. Today, teachers can leverage the learning potential of interactive displays to an even greater extent. The displays themselves offer a new level of collaborative and interactive capabilities. But he easily could have.

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How Listening and Sharing Help Shape Collaborative Learning Experiences

MindShift

Learning more together than alone. Listening and sharing are the cornerstones of collaborative learning. We can learn more working together than working alone. From this starting point, one reason to use cooperative learning is to help students develop better skills at cooperating (e.g.,

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. ” Take “collaborative learning,” for example, which this year’s K–12 report posits as a mid-term trend. Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly.

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