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Realizing Success in the Adult Basic Education Market

Digital Promise

When combined with other sources, one estimate places this figure as high as $10 billion annually, with $200 million of that spent on digital instructional materials. Highly fragmented, these organizations often serve small numbers of learners and have very limited budgets for instructional materials.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

hours of auditory instruction in small group or tutoring sessions, but continued to make progress if visual displays of the letters were combined with the sounds. A 2021 article, “ They Say You Can Do Phonemic Awareness Instruction ‘In the Dark’, But Should You? ”

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

eSchool News

This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. Examples of microaggression can be scheduling major deadlines on important cultural event dates or making inappropriate and insensitive jokes about a particular group of students.

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Four Classroom-Ready Tips to Boost Reading Engagement and Drive Learning

Edsurge

From popular culture and national conversations to emerging technology and social justice, we have articles that interest every student from any background. This diverse, engaging approach to content selection is apparent whether teachers are using material to support core curriculum, inform independent reading—or something in between.

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How Video Games Can Teach Reading Just as Well as Books

Edsurge

Many digital games include textual elements, such as letters, journals and newspaper articles, which are embedded in the narrative and provide practice and scaffolding to encourage reluctant readers.” For the read-alouds, students were assigned to groups of four based on reading ability—but not as you might expect.

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From digital citizenship to digital leadership in a South Carolina elementary school

Hapara

To differentiate levels of learning, we put students in groups through Highlights to create small learning groups. They can be directed to group resources that are based on their needs. Article: 7 Tips and 1 Activity to Help Digital Citizens Engage with Empathy. We also have live browser monitoring through H?para

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A Shopping List for Mathematics in the Digital Age

edWeb.net

She has been a member of various consortiums such as Web Access Initiative (WAI), National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and Open eBook Forum. She has authored numerous articles in professional journals and is a co-author of the Mathematize It! series of books.