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Modern Classrooms and Personalized Learning Are the Perfect Pair

EdTech Magazine

This is an example of a modern ­learning environment , and in an ideal world, students here receive ­personalized instruction that results in better classroom performance. . We have more group-based learning going on, but we also accommodate individual instruction. School District’s technology director. “We

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How Tech Enhances Class Performance

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jane Sandwood, has interesting ideas on blending tech with tradition: Balancing Technology With Traditional Teaching To Enhance Performance In Class. However, blended learning takes the positive aspects of technology and combines them with tried and tested teaching methods.

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4 Examples of the best digital access initiatives

Neo LMS

A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access. Some studies have shown that enabling such households with mobile, rather than broadband, internet creates a more flexible solution, as these types of households tend to relocate more frequently.

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Educational Technology Serves Equity When Used with Purpose

Edsurge

Schools understand the importance of broadband internet and are exploring ways to ensure that the new digital programs that are introduced into their schools function in a secure and seamless fashion. students still lack the broadband capability necessary for digital learning. Want to learn more? Join us at Fusion!

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. million federal grant to study online credit recovery | LA Times → L.A. Unified gets a $3.26-million

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Digital and Educational Equity

eSpark

In the blended learning community, educational equity is a growing concern in districts that use classroom technology. Many classroom models today require not only that students have high-speed internet and a learning device to use at school, but also that they have these amenities when they leave school for the day.

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Getting schooled in social media

The Hechinger Report

Parents can follow the Twitter feed, and say, ‘Don’t you have that paper due soon in social studies class?’ ” Terrill said. Read more about Blended Learning. Since 2015, the district’s teachers have used #mashpee on Twitter to show off student achievement and to post classroom announcements, including homework reminders.