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Smartphones in Education: Redirecting Distraction with Mobile Learning

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Khan Academy is another highly popular learning app that features video tutorials to drive home classroom studies. Khan Academy videos feature teachers describing their lessons in drawings on virtual blackboards, helping students and visual learning centers bring home maximum results.

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60+ Great Educational Websites

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Google Classroom, Khan Academy, Edmodo, Nearpod, Socrative, and the list goes on. Numberphile Khan Academy MooMooMath Socratica Math TV Educational Science websites Science is all about discovery, exploration, and learning. I only included a sample click on the list to access the entire collection.

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Videos: Why, How, Options

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EdPuzzle allows teachers to select a video from Khan Academy, Crash Course, YouTube or many other video curators and then enhance it with questions, comments, or even the teacher’s own voice. Pick what works best for you: EdPuzzle. Touchcast Studio.

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How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Education Industry?

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Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. American entrepreneur Salman Khan (not to be confused with the Bollywood actor of the same name) founded a similar project ten years later, namely the Khan Academy.

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Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin

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Once teachers are comfortable managing class activities in the cloud, move to the next step: Make lesson plans available in one central, easy-to-reach location such as the free Wikispaces or fee-based Blackboard. Khan Academy. When lesson plan resources (i.e., They become rewindable, dynamic, and responsive to student needs.

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Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?

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The success of Khan Academy videos (almost all of which are under 10 minutes) served as a template for creating cutting-edge online-learning experiences, including massive open online courses. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

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This facet of modern education transcends the traditional use of textbooks and blackboards, weaving digital tools seamlessly into the learning process (NETP, 2017)). Educational software, ranging from language learning apps like Duolingo to math problem-solving platforms like Khan Academy, provides personalized learning experiences.

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