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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

Waterford

Research around differentiated instruction confirms this is true. If you can adapt your instruction to reflect your students’ needs and learning preferences, you can make class time more effective and help students become more engaged. What is Differentiated Instruction? Sounds familiar?

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Which Device Can Support Different Learning Styles?

The Web20Classroom

One of the strongest arguments for classroom technology is the ability it gives teachers to easily adapt curricula for different abilities and learning styles. Neil Fleming’s VARK model groups student learning into four styles: 1. So, which device makes differentiated instruction easiest on teachers and schools?

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. They inform my day-to-day work as well as the important learnings I’ll take forward for years to come. Teachers are the unwavering center of schooling and we should continue to learn from them every day.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps of 2014

Technology Tidbits

As w/ the previous year''s list, more and more mobile apps are making the list as mobile learning continues to be the rising trend in education. However, that''s not to say that there isn''t a good amount of websites and Learning Management Systems showing up as well. iPads/Chromebooks). . iPads/Chromebooks).

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

Project Tomorrow is celebrating Speak Up America Week 2014 this week with opportunities for schools and classrooms to win prizes and grants by participating in this year''s Speak Up surveys. As part of this special week, Project Tomorrow will be releasing preliminary findings from the 2014 surveys completed so far.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The changes are not just incremental; they are foundational, reshaping the very nature of how we teach and learn. This facet of modern education transcends the traditional use of textbooks and blackboards, weaving digital tools seamlessly into the learning process (NETP, 2017)). And guess what?

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Lexia Learning’s Founder, Robert Arthur Lemire, Dies at Eighty-Nine

eSchool News

BOSTON (June 23, 2022) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, is saddened to announce that the company’s founder, Robert A. Lemire created Lexia Learning in 1984 after watching his son struggle to learn to read. About Lexia Learning. About Cambium Learning Group.