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What is pedagogy? Understanding the foundations of effective teaching and learning

Hapara

It includes teaching strategies, learning activities and assessments. They can reflect through observation, assessment data or feedback from learners. These dialogues should be focused on an academic concept and goal, and every learner should have the chance to participate.

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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

Edsurge

Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play. They adopted a similar strategy in Maryland, offering schools quizzes that aligned to the state’s high-stakes assessment. Companies that succeed understand the importance of partnerships. If you want to go far, go together.”

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

Edsurge

It’s hard to think of another example of two more different higher education cultures placed under the same name. It’s clear that the two institutions remain very different places, even as she named a few examples where the two are beginning to work together. Another example is we now have one one alumni association.

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The Real Problem With Multiple-Choice Questions

TeachThought - Learn better.

The process of mastering mathematics, for example, is served as much by a consistent process of practice as it is the practice itself. Even the transparency and apparent relevance of a classroom activity factor into the “value” of a learning experience as much as how cleanly that activity aligns with an academic standard.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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How to boost math skills in the early grades

The Hechinger Report

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

Most charter operators did not come close to hitting their targets, predicting, for example, that they could move students from 50 percent proficiency to 80 or even 100 percent in four or five years. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.