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Professional development should make teachers feel urgent, not small and isolated

eSchool News

The need for more practical and effective professional learning opportunities for teachers is especially important right now, with new academic standards being introduced and adapted in schools across the country. And they deserve access to high-quality professional learning resources. But we’re not there yet.

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Why all screen time isn’t created equally

The Hechinger Report

For example, I am particularly interested in evidence that the use of technology in a pre-school class is helpful with kindergarten readiness , a huge issue for states that don’t have publicly funded pre-kindergarten, places where children come to school not knowing letters or numbers. Digital Learning Day cometh.

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Online Learning Is Not the Enemy

Edsurge

The need to manage a single digitized space for teaching and learning often evolved into a shell game as they tried to bet on which moving part would contribute to an optimal learning experience, with limited support.

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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

EdNews Daily

Texas State academic standards, for example, are different than all other States so those lesson products showing in search should be biased by geo-location (optional, obviously, and could be statewide or region rather than pinpoint geolocation.)

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.