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Khan Academy plunged into classrooms, then classrooms went online

The Hechinger Report

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. Published with permission.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Have a great classroom library. UNESCO (2017, September 2017). Yes, you've seen Khan Academy, but have you. Advertise great reads. Give people “book talks” and book tastings. Get them out there trying things. 2019, October 14, 2021). “How Did U.S. Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?”

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?Learning Equality Scores $5M From Google To Bring Edtech Offline

Edsurge

Among the nine groups selected for Google.org’s big give—which also includes War Child Holland ($2 million), Khan Academy ($5 million), StoryWeaver ($3.6 In practice, that would look like continued offline access to more than 9,000 Khan Academy videos, plus authoring tools that will enable users to create locally-relevant content.

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Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Why lug around half a dozen heavy books in a backpack that too often is left behind on a sports field or at the library? 2017 research shows that while students may read digital books faster, they don’t read them as closely , meaning they don’t get as much out of them. Print books are often easier to share.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. Teachers can start from scratch or build from anything in the FlexBooks library. International Children’s Library – At the ICL educators can search for books by genre, age level, length, keyword, by collection, and more. Quick Notes.

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3D Printing For Learning

techlearning

The Horizon Report: 2017 K–12 Edition, the goal of which is to identify technology that’s likely to impact teaching, learning, and creativity, identifies makerspaces as having “potential relevance to teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in K–12 education” within the next year. At first, students were at a loss for what to do with it.

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5 Ways to Flip Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Friday, September 22, 2017. However, if you want to sign up for Edpuzzle, use this link as it will give your school access to the 50,000 curated video library on Edpuzzle. As the producer of HipHughes History, he was recognized in 2012 by YouTube and Khan Academy with a YouTube Edu Guru Award. Enhanced Transcript.