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6 EdTech Resources and Strategies to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Students

EdTechTeacher

Source: (Chappuis, Stiggins, Chappuis, & Arter, 2012) Learn more in BWRSD’s Lens on Teaching and Learning. Check out this video by the Data Quality Campaign to learn more about how various forms of student data can be leveraged to personalized instruction and help families play a more active role in their child’s education.

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Why Technology in Classrooms Doesn’t Always Boost Education Results

The CoolCatTeacher

Report results are based on an assessment in 2012 that tracked students in more than 40 countries and surveyed them on computer habits and conducted both written and digital tests. I’ll never forget my discovery about edtech. Edtech Professional Development Must Amp Up. You’d want to interact to improve. We need PD!

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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Achieve3000 Acquires Literacy Startup Actively Learn

Edsurge

We have lots of teachers who want to pair fiction with nonfiction texts, and users who want to use the platform at home offer differentiated instruction.” Actively Learn was founded in 2012, at a time when other startups also launched competitive offerings in the online literacy offerings.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

Assessment data-informed guidance to individualize kindergarten reading instruction: Findings from a Cluster-Randomized Control Field Trial. The Effects of Differentiated Instruction and Enrichment Pedagogy on Reading Achievement in Five Elementary Schools. 7: Student Explanation of Learning Aids Retention. McCoach, D.,

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#SmartSeries Refresh | Data Backpacks: Portable Records & Learner Profiles

ExcelinEd

A lot has happened in the world of digital learning since ExcelinEd’s Digital Learning Now initiative and Getting Smart released the first Smart Series paper in August 2012. Originally published October 2012, updated and re-released Summer 2015. SmartSeries Refresh | Smart Series Guide to EdTech Procurement.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Now, some educators—and consultants—are calling for edtech consulting firms to be held accountable for whether or not their million-dollar advice translates into improved, measurable learning outcomes. But for others, the teacher is still central to the picture, using technology as a means to support differentiated instruction.