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Pivot Interactives Named Best of STEM by Science Educators

eSchool News

The co-founders began working in 2012 with their own students to develop direct measurement videos that allow teachers and students to break out of the classroom constraints. This award acknowledges providers who provide exemplary learning tools for data analysis and making sense of data.

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Tablets vs. Textbooks for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Textbooks” – A comprehensive resource offering extended arguments, sources, and discussion questions about whether tablets should replace textbooks in K-12 schools In “Long Live Paper,” published on NYTimes.com on October 9, 2012, Justin B.

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The Key to Fixing the Gender Gap in Math and Science: Boost Women’s Confidence

Digital Promise

students who were 10th graders in 2002 and were followed through 2012 show that girls do better in school than boys do and are more likely to graduate from college. Contemporary data on U.S.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). In his paper “Teaching with a Global Perspective”, Dr. Percy Richardson (2012) emphasizes the importance of preparing students for a globally interconnected world. Adaptive teaching in literacy instruction: Case studies of two teachers. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Education Research Is Still Too Dense. We Need More Teacher-Researcher Partnerships.

Edsurge

In his 2012 book “ When Can You Trust the Experts ,” Dan Willingham’s main objective is to help everyday teachers (and administrators and family members) determine which new educational approaches are well-supported by research, and thus worthy of your time and money. But what do such partnerships actually look like?

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Blended Learning Models Reduce Class Sizes

eSpark

A Digital Promise case study examines the blended learning implementation at Utica Community Schools, a district in the League of Innovative Schools and one of eSpark's first and largest district partnerships. In 2012-2013, UCS adopted personalized blended learning in its 80 full-day kindergarten classrooms.