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

The Hechinger Report

More group work was associated with greater individual gains in a new study. I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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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. In her study, Carol J.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. The study aimed to better understand what educators want, need and expect in their search for and use of digital content.

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Case Study 4.6: Leadership for Global Learning – Judy O’Connell

Learning Confluence

The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching. This book provides essential pedagogical approaches and frameworks for global collaborative learning. It is also a collection of anecdotes, inspiring examples, case studies and resources. Case Study 4.6:

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Case Study 4.7: ?Global Learning and Teacher Education – Leigh Zeitz

Learning Confluence

The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching. This book provides essential pedagogical approaches and frameworks for global collaborative learning. It is also a collection of anecdotes, inspiring examples, case studies and resources. Case Study 4.7: ?Global

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Immersive Learning in Virtual Reality: A Few Lessons

Veative

Cuban defines useful instructional technology as any teaching tool available to teachers for use in instructing students in a more efficient and thought provoking manner, instead of depending solely on the use of the teacher’s voice. Students are eager to see the new technology because it’s part of their culture’ (2018). Cuban, Larry.

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Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

Learning with 'e's

I was studying at college and a man in a white coat wheeled a television and video player into the room. Video plays an important role in all of these alternative modes of learning experience (Brame, 2015) and will continue to do so with future developments. The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973.

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