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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

Edsurge

The quiz seems deceptively easy: The past decade has seen literally hundreds of technologies and ideas emerge, many aimed at engaging or involving K-12 students and supporting student learning. So have students learned more? But is asking how much students have learned the right question? Clever-2012.

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Helping Teachers Provide a Deeper Reading Experience

EdNews Daily

Jay Goyal, the CEO and Co-Founder of Actively Learn, began his journey to EdTech after graduating from Duke University with a B.S. He then arrived at Microsoft where he met up with his childhood friend Deep Sran, and together they founded Actively Learn. Goyal understands the human fascination with developing new technologies.

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IUT Conference 2018 – Holistic approaches to online collaborative learning design

Learning Confluence

Here are some essential artefacts to learn from in the meantime. When designing online learning consideration should be given to how a community can be built around subject content and objectives and how students will interact with the academic and with each other. New digital learning environments using the affordances of Web 2.0

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How DC Public Schools Uses Student Data to Support Mental Health

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Douglas Gotel: DCPS has 49,000 students, and more than 4,100 of those students are receiving ongoing, prescribed behavioral support services through our comprehensive service delivery model. We've been offering EBT interventions as part of that model since the 2011-2012 school year. The data we collect from Accelify supports this.

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Announcing October 21st Mini-Conference: "Libraries as Community Anchors"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Her current research involves the deployment and study of emerging information technologies supportive of digital inclusion and resiliency. The project is an initiative of the Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN), founded by Means in 2012 as an open global collaboration of tech-savvy, innovation libraries.

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First Student Summit Grant in the Books!

EdTechTeam

Kern Kelley Director of Student Agency EdTechTeam In 2012 I was invited to present at the Google Teacher Academy in Google’s New York City office. At the event, educators receive learning from teachers and Googler's. Ultimately, these students will go on to teach others, learning throughout the process.

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"Libraries as Community Anchors" Mini-Conference - Registrations and Call for Proposals Open

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Her current research involves the deployment and study of emerging information technologies supportive of digital inclusion and resiliency. The project is an initiative of the Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN), founded by Means in 2012 as an open global collaboration of tech-savvy, innovation libraries.