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Study explores use of digital tools in out-of-school programs

The Hechinger Report

She said out-of-school programs are freer to design learning experiences that are more engaging to students, because they don’t have the same pressure to teach certain academic standards. Its student participants create adoption campaigns for shelter animals on social media.

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

Edsurge

In the interest of helping other companies and school districts enable extraordinary teaching and learning at scale, we’ve highlighted the three main findings—and some solutions—that have come from these conversations: 1. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

EdNews Daily

In other words, the benefits of target marketing, also known as profiling-and-pushing-messages for helpful learning programs for users could be enormous. Saving Personalized Learning. The digital mechanisms are not dissimilar from buying distributed advertising as the key word tags and software mechanisms are the same.

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The Real Problem With Multiple-Choice Questions

TeachThought - Learn better.

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. This all emphasizes the value of uncertainty in learning. Uncertainty. There is nothing wrong with being uncertain.

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The Definition Of Combination Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

The big idea of combination learning is shifting the focus from content to the process of learning. Combination Learning allows teachers and students to work together to ‘mash’ bits and pieces of learning to design entirely unique and personalized learning scenarios. Need to Know Sources (reasons to learn).

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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? They figure out what they need to learn and then collaborate with others to construct the knowledge they need. by TeachThought Staff. Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post.

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2017’s Ho-Hum, Unremarkable, But Too-Often Ignored Lessons in Education Technology

Edsurge

Anyone interested in improving schooling through digital tools has to distinguish between what the media hypes and what policies are actually adopted. There’s a difference between the promises of “personalized learning” and the policies that school leaders enact.