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What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha

Edsurge

The guest, Allison Russell, was talking about the emotional intelligence of young people and mentioned that she’d just learned that her daughter was part of Generation Alpha , which refers to people born after 2010. I had questions and I wanted to know more. From their earliest years, he says, “they have been screenagers.”

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What I Bought in 2015

Learning in Hand

You can view my previous posts for 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. I did skip posting in 2014 because I bought very few tech gadgets that year, but, don't worry, I've made up for it in 2015. You'll notice that many of my 2015 purchases have to do with video production.

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Being Mobile: The Holy Grail of Educational Technology Is Within Sight

The Journal

In this week’s blog, we reflect on our 2010 prediction: By 2015 "every student in every grade in every school in the U.S. will be a using a mobile computing device, 24/7." We revise that prediction slightly and add in predictions about the Trinity of Educational Technology: hardware, software, and network.

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HE Challenges: Combating declining completion rates

Neo LMS

from the 2010 cohort. Both the 2010 and 2011 cohorts are still below the pre-recession completion rate of 55,8% (which in itself is still nothing to write home about). Public (two-year) community colleges: 38%. Just short of half of all community college students drop out entirely. While the 2011 completion rate shows an uptick of 2.1%

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Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

In 2015, 47 percent of K-12 teachers and almost two-thirds of K-5 teachers reported using game-based learning environments in their classes, up from 23 percent of K-12 teachers in 2010. T he 2015 Speak Up survey findings are the latest in a series of reports released each year by the Irvine, Calif.

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How to Set Healthy Screen Time Habits: A Guide for Parents

Waterford

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2015, 36, pp. Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, 2010, 164(3), pp. Pediatrics, July 2010, 126(1), pp. Sleep Medicine Reviews, June 2015, 21, pp. International Trends in Adolescent Screen-Time Behaviors From 2002 to 2010. Lauricella, A.R., Wartella, E., and Rideout, V.J.

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

I made three assumptions back in 2010 that still hold sway today. Back in 2010, my experience tutoring told me that students’ struggles had nothing to do with “innate ability” or subject matter difficulty. In 2015, a major report from the research nonprofit RAND found that personalized learning works, confirming many of our hopes.