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Lightspeed launches PD, webinars around collaborative learning

eSchool News

Inaugural PD, collaborative learning event to be held on December 4, 2015. Lightspeed Technologies , a provider of classroom audio solutions, is launching the Lightspeed Learning Academy, which will kick off with a one-day professional development event, and a new leadership webinar series.

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What is Blended Learning?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Staker (2011) defined this approach as “any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace” (p. Fabbian et al, 2017). Z., & Grgurović, M. link] O’BYRNE, W.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

E-textbooks: A Personalized Learning Experience or a Digital Distraction? Teaching in a Digital Age: How Educators Use Technology to Improve Student Learning. Sources Consulted: Picking and choosing digital content. We asked teachers what they want from edtech. Here's what they said. 2016 digital education survey.

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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

In this way, hybrid learning can be considered a subset of blended learning. Why Use Blended and Hybrid Learning? Blended and hybrid classrooms both lead to personalized assignments, a technique that can lead to more effective learning. Personalized learning is better centered around the student’s needs.

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Working in a group might be the best way to help kids meet individual goals, study says

The Hechinger Report

Others were jumping ahead to concepts that were grade levels ahead of what they would traditionally be learning. Along with this rise in high-tech individualized — or personalized learning as it often called — there has also been a backlash. These results echo earlier research on the benefits of group learning.

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Engaging Lessons for the Next-Gen Connected Creators – SULS0160

Shake Up Learning

Lumio is a digital learning tool that will transform your lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences. Monica explains how teachers can personalize learning through Lumio lessons. a $7000 grant for Farm2Table: A Service Learning Project in 2017. This episode is sponsored by Lumio.

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What's Happened in North Carolina With Statewide Support for Digital Learning

Edsurge

Here’s what we learned. North Carolina has been supporting digital learning longer than many other states. It was among the first in the nation to draft a Digital Learning Plan , published in 2015. “We I think all teachers recognize there’s inherent value in digital learning. Sharing Statewide .