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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

Edsurge

With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around. Having the technology necessary to access online learning opportunities isn’t enough. “My

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10 Steps to Create Interactive K12 Learning Modules

Kitaboo on EdTech

Embrace Adaptive Learning Think back to your K12 experience. With interactive learning modules, this discrepancy can be drastically reduced. Adaptive learning is the process of adjusting the content and difficulty level of the module on the basis of an individual student’s needs.

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The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environment

TeachThought - Learn better.

Today’s students are studying and learning differently – a change confirmed by the widespread adoption of digital studying. Our recent study found that 81% of college students use mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) to study, the second most popular device category behind laptops and up 40 percent in usage since 2013.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Another aspect is the gradual disintegration of computing , as we move from desktops to laptops to tablets, phones, cameras, trackers, and gewgaws attached to various locations in our spaces and on our bodies. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It Microsoft Windows devices – again, that’s laptops and tablets – remained at about 22%.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. ” “ One-to-One Laptop Initiatives Boost Student Scores, Researchers Find” says Education Week. “ Popularity of Ed Tech Not Necessarily Linked to Products’ Impact ” reads another Education Week headline. .” It's religion.