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Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success

EdTech Magazine

In fact, two-thirds of responding parents from diverse communities (rural, suburban and urban) say in the Speak Up survey that classroom technology, when used properly, helps their children develop college and career readiness skills. Collaboration and Blended Learning Fosters Critical Skills.

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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

EdNews Daily

Powerful Pedagogy: With a deep SEAD focus, learner-centered and agentic practices instill foundational knowledge, while offering students opportunities to actively construct their own learning in collaboration with others. The district has also created five positions for Cluster-based Education Technology Specialists (ETS). “We

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Using Data to Support Personalized Learning Pathways

edWeb.net

Leo has supported education in a variety of roles, including a technology support specialist, instructional technology specialist, network administrator, director of technology, CIO/CTO, and adjunct professor in four districts and a higher education institution. Join the Community.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Initially, K-8 teachers were asked if they wanted to opt in to blended learning environments, which mix online and face-to-face instruction. Their job is challenging enough without having to learn a whole new approach, Eastwood and Creeden recall hearing. They showed some trepidation. A Sustainable Path Toward Equity.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

.” Initially, K-8 teachers were asked if they wanted to opt in to blended learning environments, which mix online and face-to-face instruction. Their job is challenging enough without having to learn a whole new approach, Eastwood and Creeden recall hearing. They showed some trepidation. A Sustainable Path Toward Equity.

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It’s About the Learning, Not the Technology … Until It Breaks

Graphite Blog

We lose sight of our primary goal of providing a computing platform to enrich, empower, and facilitate teaching and learning. As technologies evolve and improve, it is critical that technology support models evolve with the technology. October 22, 2015, 3 p.m.