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Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

In 2015, 47 percent of K-12 teachers and almost two-thirds of K-5 teachers reported using game-based learning environments in their classes, up from 23 percent of K-12 teachers in 2010. T he 2015 Speak Up survey findings are the latest in a series of reports released each year by the Irvine, Calif. .

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Close the Digital Learning Gap: How One District Tackled Tech Disparity in the Classroom

Edsurge

In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. So, in 2015, the “ Palmdale Promise ” was born. The flexibility to mount it on a mobile stand that moves freely throughout the campus was a huge benefit to our educators. District leaders knew that something had to change, and it needed to happen fast.

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New Mobile-Enhanced Classroom Projectors Support Digital Learning

techlearning

Event status: Not started ( Register ) Date and time: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Duration: 1 hour Description: You will hear how ne. Techlearning Events Webinars'

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Social, mobile, and personal learning futures

Learning with 'e's

Many of my public presentations have the prefix: Digital Learning Futures, because for me, the future of education and learning will be greatly influenced by digital technologies. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License. Unported License.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work. Yet we also see academic deans and provosts showing more interest in digital learning than their faculty.

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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

Students are particularly excited about all of the new possibilities digital learning can offer. Why do kids love e-learning? Data from Speak Up 2015 National Findings show that 54% of students use YouTube all the time, and almost 40% of them are finding online videos to help with their homework. E-learning is mobile.

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8 Education Books For The Digital Age: The Connected Educator Series #CorwinCE

The Web20Classroom

Ask any of the thousands of teachers who regularly use Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook about connected education, and you may get an earful about using digital tools as a means to connect with educators and students worldwide. Several more are currently in production and scheduled for publication in early 2015.

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