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Jumpstart Engagement With Interactive Whiteboard Classroom Technology

ViewSonic Education

Interactive whiteboards are a technological leap similar to the leap to the first blackboard, and is set to revolutionize education. Keep reading on to learn more about how interactive whiteboards are reshaping education or check out how ViewSonic is creating engaging spaces using all forms of EdTech.

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OPINION: Strategies to help schools navigate the COVID-19 cash crunch

The Hechinger Report

The challenges of this year, with shrunken class sizes, a mixture of in-person and remote groups, and redefined teachers’ roles, make this the right time to explore these kinds of changes. And the dismal results of remote learning circa 2020 only reinforce how far ed tech is from delivering on these grand promises.

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The Facebook Scandal: What Can We Learn as Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Britt: In my classes, I’m using strictly a Blackboard LMS and I’m using Twitter, which I felt was a less onerous use of social media for classroom conversations. When I set up the Facebook closed group, I was under the assumption that people could use Facebook for communication in our class, and nobody outside the group could see it.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

Edsurge

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.) The most frequently cited form of personalization was teacher-led small groups with students rotating through individual and group instruction.

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Why Getting Help for Kids with Dyslexia is Difficult

MindShift

And yet, there are proven ways to teach people with dyslexia how to read that are not new or controversial. When Billy Gibson, 18, was in elementary school, he couldn’t spell his own name. “I remember her saying, like, ‘See if you can teach this kid how to spell these words.’ Disagreements Over Reality .

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

Edsurge

Having students work in groups at vertical whiteboards. Blackboards worked. They stood in their groups. So what was the optimal way to form a group? Well, it turns out that strategically constructing the groups like we see in a lot of elementary schools turned out to be a disaster. What was optimal?

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Week of February 27, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you''ll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups! link] DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES- ONGOING (Elluminate Live) Mon 28 Feb 03:00PM New York / Mon 28 Feb 08:00PM GMT / Tue 1 Mar 07:00AM Sydney Blackboard Collaborate.