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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Learning Management Software LMS is a centralized platform that manages educational content and helps learners complete courses, often with multimedia content.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

Edsurge

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. To infuse both real-world scenarios and academic standards into the new exams, as well as topics like leadership that college admissions reps would care about. Their goal?

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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

Edsurge

In the course of the summer school program, students travel back in time to the 1600’s, where they face down their math fears in an immersive math experience called “Fate and Fortune.” The “Fate and Fortune” game used by Santa Fe embeds ten key standards that correlate most closely with Algebra I success.

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The heart of the loop: Reattempts without penalty

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Grades are not primarily based on "one-and-done" assessments, and early missteps can be corrected and improved without cost to the student's grade. Won't this just allow students to not take assessments seriously? One-and-done assessment is clearly a terrible way to measure student learning.

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What Happens When A Public University Buys a For-Profit Online One?

Edsurge

With the skills in STEM on the Purdue campus at West Lafayette we really have an opportunity to bring that learning and that forward thinking to all of our students at Purdue Global as well. Another example is we now have one one alumni association. Some have signed petitions laying out their concerns. It's very early.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

Teachers can create multimedia assessments and activities for their students, who record and embed their responses. In the article, researchers monitored the ways that 11th-grade students in a remedial education program navigated a major research project for an American Literature course. Evolve your programming.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Instead, her high school placed her in remedial courses for math and English, where she just fell further behind. Schools are supposed to revise the IEP document annually in partnership with the student’s parents and conduct a barrage of assessments to reevaluate the child’s disability classification every three years.

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