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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

While it can be hard to keep up with every trend in educational technology, the mindset you have when it comes to classroom tech matters just as much as which ones you use. By learning to view it as a means of enhancing your lessons and resources, you can provide your students with tools and opportunities they may not otherwise access.

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When Olympic athletes coach students on perseverance and self control

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The two piloted the program during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, where Mesler won gold in the four-man bobsled.

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How Education Elements Guides Districts in Creating Environments that Personalize Learning

Edsurge

In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. Stay tuned!

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How one tiny town is battling ‘rural brain drain’

The Hechinger Report

Guenther and her husband, Jacob, are emblematic of a trend underway in the small town of Onalaska. According to the University of Pennsylvania’s Public Policy Initiative, 1,350 of the country’s 1,976 non-metro counties have lost population since 2010. Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. KIPP Morial, a school in New Orleans East, exemplifies how the personalized learning trend rolled out in charters across the Crescent City. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

Instead, the thinking goes, students must be encouraged to learn at their own pace, with lessons tailored to their specific aptitudes and needs, often with the aid of technology. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education. A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

That had largely been relegated to online math lessons, part of separate periods of personalized-learning time when students are free to work through computer-based lessons in any subject they chose, at their own pace. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?