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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

Given the enormous potential of edtech to assist teachers in highly diverse classrooms to truly personalize learning and obtain significant student academic growth, why are we seeing such consistent and large-scale edtech failure when it comes to gains in student academic achievement? blended learning).

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How This Educator Bridges Creativity And Teaching Through Project-Based Learning

EdNews Daily

As you will see below, her love of teaching, personalized education and connecting to students to the real-world shines through. After selling a very successful business, I decided in 2009 to pursue my passion by earning another degree in Elementary Education, with an emphasis in English. I started my career as a business major.

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An Illinois district proved gifted programs can be racially diverse

The Hechinger Report

In 2009, Hispanic students made up 46 percent of the student body but just 26 percent of gifted students, according to federal data , whereas white students were about 20 points in the opposite direction, comprising 38 percent of the district but 57 percent of gifted students. What happened between 2009 and 2018?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. ” But what did Facebook do?

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In February 2009 the words of the world were collected and given to the Council of Conscience, a gathering of religious leaders and thinkers, who are now crafting the final document. The Charter was launched in November 2009. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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