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Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success

EdTech Magazine

According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job. Technology impacts instruction in a positive way, the report states.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

In fact, whereas teachers’ use of textbooks remained approximately the same from 2015 to 2017, their use of digital resources for standards-aligned teaching greatly increased. In order to reach all students, educators must have access to the right kind of content—varied resources that are trusted and aligned to standards.

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Seven advantages of using digital textbooks in schools

Hapara

You can personalize and differentiate instruction more easily. Digital textbooks are also easily updated across the school district since teachers and learners access them online. Another study found that from 2017-2019, an annual estimated average of 7,500 kids had backpack-related injuries and had to visit an emergency room.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This facet of modern education transcends the traditional use of textbooks and blackboards, weaving digital tools seamlessly into the learning process (NETP, 2017)). These advancements have given rise to the cloud-based classroom, a dynamic and accessible learning environment that epitomizes educational innovation.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of learner Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching &Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your learners as individuals through differentiated instruction.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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Using Technology to Support English Learners in the Classroom

EdTechTeacher

Yet, technology integration can provide valuable multimodal resources for instruction, learning, and engagement. As educators, our goal is to provide meaningful access to the core curriculum ensuring that ELs acquire the skills to succeed in the general education classroom along with their peers. Join us this summer!