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Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success

EdTech Magazine

Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success. 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.

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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

Like the multiple intelligences theory , learning styles can be a practical tool but not a fully-backed theory. Instead of planning activities based on learning styles, teachers may want to opt for a different, but better researched technique: differentiated instruction. Computers & Education, March 2017, 106, pp.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instruction Tools. 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. What Do Educators Want? Educational Technology Support! Why Do They Want It?

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#07: Getting Started Using Twitter for Educational Excellence

The CoolCatTeacher

Register for my free Differentiating Instruction with Technology webinar sponsored by SMART Learning Suite next Thursday, February 9 at 4pm. Today for Tech Tool Tuesday, Billy Krakower and Vicki Davis take a deep dive into Twitter for educators. ” Want to hear some more about tech tools? Listen on iTunes.

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Seven advantages of using digital textbooks in schools

Hapara

Digital textbooks teach students how to self-direct their own learning by using note-taking and highlighting tools. You can personalize and differentiate instruction more easily. For students who need to hear the content read aloud, there are also text-to-speech tools within the textbooks.

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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)). This digital shift enables students to learn flexibly, from any location, facilitated by the widespread use of video conferencing tools. link] Martinez, M.

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How we turned around our English language learner (ELL) program

eSchool News

Our teachers use the Achieve3000 platform to provide differentiated instruction tailored to each student’s reading abilities. With the right tools and strategies, schools can help even the most struggling readers succeed. After enrolling in the class, students take a test to establish their baseline Lexile score.