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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

Districts are thinking quite differently about parent engagement—moving beyond the parent-teacher meetings to creating channels for parents to understand the pacing of instruction and student progress in real time. Jean Tower, Director of Media and Digital Learning at Needham Public Schools, Massachusetts.

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

Edsurge

Here is the full report.) Designed to give school leaders a pulse check on their communities, the survey highlights opportunities, challenges and differences in perception when it comes to communications, connectivity, tech support and other components of the remote learning experience. There’s tech support for teachers.

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How an LMS can help teachers keep older students engaged

Neo LMS

So let’s explore how teachers can harness edtech resources, with a focus on school learning management systems, to maximize their limited time and supplies, while also delivering a more engaging, personalized experience for middle school students. Game-based learning. Analytics and reporting. Adaptive learning.

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

“At the heart of formative assessment is the underlying goal of meeting students where they are in their learning,” notes an anonymous study from Digital Promise. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about adaptive learning tools teachers are using in their classrooms! Teachers Use Online Forms to Gauge Student Learning.

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Choosing The Right Adaptive Learning Tool

techlearning

Find out how adaptive learning solutions are helping teachers target instruction and use data more effectively—and how they’re helping students learn. EDGENUITY’S UPSMART ( edgenuity.com ) Valerie Wirth’s math students in the Amphitheater School District in Tucson, Arizona, learn using UpSmart.

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3 Ways in which edtech enables hybrid learning

Neo LMS

A version of this post was originally published on December 3rd, 2020, in Education IT Reporter. This is because asynchronous learning gives a significantly higher degree of agency to students; it allows them to dictate the pace of their learning process, which leads to better engagement rates with the learning materials.

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Is edtech a win-win solution for students and educators?

Neo LMS

It is a well-known fact that students learn differently and have varying needs and requirements during the learning process, no matter which grade they are in or the subject they’re learning. Also, adaptive learning systems — systems that learn about the student as the student learns — are a true game changer too.

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