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3 Ways to Overcome High Student-Teacher Ratios and Improve Personalized Learning

EdTech Magazine

VIDEO: See how K–12 educators are emphasizing personalized learning for the class of 2030. While innovation in learning technology can provide significant relief for oversaturated classrooms, it does not automatically fix the problem. Use Classroom Technology to Fill the Gaps.

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Number crunch: Edtech data you can use right now

eSchool News

Learning inequities between students widen when instruction is exclusively remote and online content is not always context appropriate. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid shift to online learning left out at least half a billion students worldwide, mostly affecting the poorest and those in rural areas.

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Pearson’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education

Edsurge

You might be interested to find that teaching, health and hospitality services, and food preparation top the list of critical professions in 2030—along with the more obvious ones like software engineering, data science, and cyber security. This is why over the next several years we will see a massive increase in online learning.

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The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join us to learn about SUNY’s #EmTechMOOC with Roberta (Robin) Sullivan, Teaching & Learning Specialist, University Libraries, University at Buffalo | Cherie van Putten || Unizor - Math 4 Teens - Creative Mind through Art of Mathematics with Zor Shekhtman, Founder of an educational site UNIZOR.COM, Umbrella Systems || Google Classroom Fundamentals (..)

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Having to shift to online learning because of the pandemic “has definitely affected our motivation,” said Emmanuella Agyemang, a 16-year-old junior at University Heights High School in the Bronx who plans to go to college and wants to be a journalist. Related: Students who counted on work-study jobs now struggle to pay their bills.

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Doctors prescribe more Big Bird, less brainless “screen time” for young kids

The Hechinger Report

They have been studying how and at what age children come to learn words, follow stories, and grasp educational concepts that appear in ebooks, videos, and apps. Today’s preschoolers — the class of 2030 —will still need to be able to read in the traditional sense. New experiments on The Adventures of SuperWhy !,

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Why is it so hard for workers to find new jobs?

The Hechinger Report

In a way, that’s not surprising, given concerns about the safety of in-person instruction, the quality of online learning and the lack of clarity around whether jobs will recover from the economic crisis, and if so, which ones. Even with free tuition, though, it can still be difficult for workers to pivot back into higher education.

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