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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. We hired an outside consultant -- Education Elements -- who specializes in, and works with our teachers on, the pedagogical aspects of personalized learning models (i.e.

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Online Preschool Is Not Education for All

Edsurge

In an education reform climate that has redefined education as academic standards and success on tests, online pre-K programs are an easy sell. Many of the online pre-K programs encourage parents to put their kids in front of computers to do academic drills even if they are in a preschool setting.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

The Altus network relies on a self-paced, independent study program and a personalized, blended learning model they’ve built up over a quarter century. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Most do the majority of their work online, though some choose to learn with a standard textbook.

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Why all screen time isn’t created equally

The Hechinger Report

The next question gets asked just as often, said Guernsey, whose book Screen Time , looks at ways electronic media affect young children. “Is The Learning Accelerator on blended learning: `In the future, we’ll just call it learning’. Digital Learning Day cometh. Photo by Jennifer Dev. Is screen time bad?”.