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3 Strategies for Personalizing Feedback Online

Catlin Tucker

Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015). Interestingly, teachers also reported higher levels of engagement when giving video and audio feedback. What can they specifically do to improve their work?

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6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide

Neo LMS

Last week we discussed the digital divide , and today I thought we could explore some practical strategies that teachers, as individuals, can adopt in an effort to bridge the digital divide in their classrooms. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fund a series of research reports called Teachers Know Best.

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Adobe Flash 2020 Retirement: The 5 R’s Strategy for Teachers

ViewSonic Education

5 R’s Strategy to transition. ” McAfee recently reported that “Flash continues to offer attackers an exploitable collection of flaws for the immediate future.” Here are our 5 questions and corresponding 5 R’s to start your strategy: 1. Dangers to teachers & other users of Flash.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. ” The Nation’s Report Card. 2015, September 2015). Prior to the pandemic, nearly two-thirds of students in the US were below grade reading level for grade 4,8, and 12 (NAEP). 2019, October 14, 2021).

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Teaching Strategies Buys ReadyRosie to Reach Parents and Children With Video Lessons

Edsurge

Today, it celebrates a new milestone with its purchase by Teaching Strategies , a Bethesda, Md.-based Any serious engagement of this demographic with educational technology tools must have a mobile-first strategy in place,” Roden says. The report also found that preschool enrollment nationwide grew slowly.

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OPINION: It is time to pay attention to the science of learning

The Hechinger Report

I took “methods” classes that gave me strategies for discussions and activities. In answering one question, only 31 percent endorsed a scientifically backed strategy over less effective ones. The seven recommendations in the report represent, according to the U.S. It is time to know and do better.

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