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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

At the same time, innovative education leaders and classroom teachers are engaging, motivating, and nurturing students to develop mindsets for college and career readiness and lifelong learning, and they are supporting social and emotional development. school and library to the internet.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

Edsurge

Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Google Classroom-2014. Many of those technologies support collaboration. These days, millions of students in the U.S.

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Why Solving the Teacher Shortage Is Critical for Edtech

Edsurge

Teachers cite a lack of administrative support, professional learning opportunities, time for planning and collaboration, and input into decision making as key reasons for their dissatisfaction. At the same time, enrollment in teacher education programs dropped from 691,000 to 451,000 between 2009 and 2014, LPI says.

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Not Just for Reading Class Anymore: 5 Tips for Teaching Literacy Across Multiple Subjects

Edsurge

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. She was a good student but lacked the confidence to speak her mind outside of the EL classroom.”. Art / Music. Bethany Lake.

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3 Questions That Still Boggle Educators, Technologists and Researchers

Edsurge

billion in 2014, but the proportion of total dollars allocated to technology reached only $2.9 Games, online instruction and other technologies implemented in the classroom address personalized learning and enhance student success. Among presenters, however, there was little fear that technology would replace teachers.

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Is competency-based learning the next big thing in school reform?

eSchool News

A new proposal out of Georgia is betting it is, and supporters hope schools will implement it soon. In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. He worked smaller classrooms into the schedule with the help of computers.

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How to Use Oral Presentations to Help English Language Learners Succeed

MindShift

We’ve found several benefits to incorporating opportunities for students to present to their peers in a positive and safe classroom environment. These standards call for students to make effective and well-organized presentations and to use technology to enhance understanding of them. GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION.

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