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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. An enthusiastic teacher who has mastered pedagogy, content, and reinforcement schedules and is passionate about student learning and success is the only true silver bullet.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

He is the author, co-author, and editor of 13 books. His most recent books are The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences and Solutions with Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali (New York University Press, 2018) and Race, Equity and Education: Sixty Years From Brown with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram (Springer, 2015).

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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

EdNews Daily

This would mean that even public schools using any school system hosted on the internet could not use messages that profile users (“hello sixth-grade students, click this link for your reading book”), or invite any minor child users to any service or product of theirs or ones they use from publishers. Saving Personalized Learning.

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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? During a break from her stop-motion work, Bechtel rattled off the “maker elements” she had used while creating her video.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Although Rumberger views the extra support services for at-risk students as a positive, and said that Altus appears to meet certain academic standards, he questioned the rigor of any program in which courses are condensed from 180 days, or a typical school year, to a matter of a few weeks.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

The model of paying students for work they do in school is unusual, said Suzie Boss, an advocate for project-based learning and the author of 10 books on the subject. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”.

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16 Books About Learning Every Teacher Should Read

TeachThought - Learn better.

16 Books About Modern Learning Every Teacher Should Read. In the age of blogging and social media, is there still room for books? If you can add to this list in the comments section with other books teachers might consider and why, your colleagues would certainly benefit. by TeachThought Staff. Of course there is!