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S'Cool Tools of the Week: Plotly, DoodleMaths

Edsurge

Did you miss our top S’Cool Tools of 2016 ? If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. A product out of the UK, DoodleMaths provides students with tutorials, games and exercises for learning math concepts, rewarding them with stars along the way.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning.

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Text Choice Helped Boost This District’s Literacy Success—and Empower Students

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Lindsay Unified School District Case Study. After testing it at the high school level, we implemented Reading Plus district-wide in 2016. Our coordinator of research and evaluation crunched all the data and he found that a learner in Lindsay who did 80 or more daily reading exercises moved more than a grade level in a year.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

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The ten teams met once each in San Francisco, Austin, and New York City and also worked with Collaborative staff and consultants locally over the course of the 2016-17 school year. Today, NewSchools and Transcend released a case study that looks at the first Collaborative. At the end of the program, each had a plan of action.

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Addressing the Digital Learning Gap with Effective Educator Coaching

Digital Promise

However, in other scenarios, students are engaged with lower-level uses of technology such as test preparation, reading static online content, and seemingly endless drill and practice exercises. This dichotomy is especially pronounced in underserved schools. You can learn more about the Dynamic Learning Project here.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Or lack thereof – see “ The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool.”). Funding has shrunk. ” You are a fool. “ Tweaking the business model.”

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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

User Generated Education

The types of desired learning activities should drive how the learning space should be set up as discussed in the case studies reported by the Hechinger Report article, Personalized Learning: Why Your Classroom Should Sound Like A Coffee Shop : As a first step, they began with ideas and used them to define the space.

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