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Effective Intervention for Students with Dyslexia

EdNews Daily

Self Advocacy and Resources for Students. at Lexia Learning, a Rosetta Stone company. This article was originally published by The Learning Counsel , a research institute and news media hub focused on providing context for the shift in education to digital curriculum. While some do, this is not a defining trait.

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Could a ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment) be right for your classroom?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

They were curious if framing employees’ work by their results (instead of “you have to be at your desk from X to Y”) would improve both company outcomes and employees’ experiences. Founding CultureRx , home of the Results-Only Work Environment, Thompson and Ressler have helped other companies shift to this sort of a model.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

Hack Education

He’s put $100 million of his own money into his company Kernel (which I guess means we’re supposed to believe it’s a real, viable thing) with the promise of developing computer chip implants that will bolster human intelligence. ” An ed-tech trend in the making, investors hope.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

To offset all this double counting, there is the separate issue of the many “whole course” OER that OTL refuses to index because they don’t meet the OTL’s definition of “textbook.” Developers who are known to be doing this work on their own, with no financial contribution happening from any company” represented only 8.2%

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

edWeb.net

Those things are intentional and are things we can definitely correct within the system.”. At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. ” From the article: Zuckerberg revealed that he wants to ensure that education has a chance to flourish in VR. ” Definitely no one I trust more on this topic, no siree. Dead) Lady Macbeth?