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9 Tips Every Teacher should Know about Google Scholar

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Scholar is definitely a great academic search engine for research students and academics. Besides searching for academic literature such as journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, books, reports.etc, Google Scholar also enables you to create your personal library where you can save and organize your materials.

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Digital Courseware Provider Top Hat Gets $130M and a New CEO

Edsurge

Mike Silagadze, who in 2009 co-founded Top Hat , a provider of digital courseware and textbooks for higher education, will be stepping away from the role on March 15 after serving as CEO for over a decade. Last year, Top Hat devoted its energies—and monies—to shoring up its content library. But Top Hat is not that far behind others.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Deb : Definitely. Do you have any hunches?

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How to Promote Additive Bilingualism over Subtractive Bilingualism in the Classroom

Waterford

First, here’s a quick definition of bilingualism in general. You could, for example, stock your school library with a few books in their first language or connect them with other students who speak their language. Theory and Research in Education, 2009, 7(2), pp. Bilingual refers to a person who can speak two languages fluently.

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Sal Khan on Expanding Into Early Learning and Launching a Peer-to-Peer Tutoring Platform

Edsurge

My oldest son, who’s 12 now, was born in 2009, and he kind of grew up on it. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. This is true online, and it's definitely true in the classroom as well.

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

Word Generation introduces new words by embedding them in brief texts about controversial issues of interest to many adolescents, such as steroid use among athletes, legalization of euthanasia, and censorship of libraries and popular music. Then, teachers highlight the target words and provide context-related definitions. Wilson, P.

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

Word Generation introduces new words by embedding them in brief texts about controversial issues of interest to many adolescents, such as steroid use among athletes, legalization of euthanasia, and censorship of libraries and popular music. Then, teachers highlight the target words and provide context-related definitions. Wilson, P.