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ST Math: The Gaming Software Changing Online Learning

MIND Research Institute

Their research also found that a comparison group, whose ST Math usage remained constant, had lower math gains within the same time period compared to the group that increased ST Math usage. Kathryn Kahler-Rickman Elementary School Math Teacher, LAUSD. Gameplay Makes Math Accessible.

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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

By learning to view it as a means of enhancing your lessons and resources, you can provide your students with tools and opportunities they may not otherwise access. With the help of technology, you can introduce your classroom to opportunities and resources they may not otherwise be able to access.[5]

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Blended Learning – How to Make it Work in the Classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

To enhance the learning environment with technology and use the classroom time more wisely teachers start implementing additional types of activities such as working in groups, collaborative learning, independent preparation at home, and, in doing so, unwittingly start using the blended learning approach.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 My Chapter: Moving From Education 1.0

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STUDENT VOICE: There’s something missing from my Advanced Placement classes, and that needs to change

The Hechinger Report

Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? Not only will these changes limit students’ access to a more complete understanding of human history, they will render them much less culturally competent. Yet, with these new changes, some believe that the course became conspicuously Eurocentric.

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As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools

The Hechinger Report

Implementing distance learning for schools like Hopi High would have been difficult even under the best of circumstances — the school is located on a vast reservation where families often lack access to internet and computers. If I were a teacher, would I know how to shift to teaching online?”. Stalled Aid.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.