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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Education researchers and neuroscientists are learning more about how people learn. Entrepreneurs are building on this knowledge to build breakthrough innovations that improve learning. They must be prepared to continually learn new skills throughout their lives for a future we cannot predict. Use Professional Tools.

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A Pedagogical Shift Needed for Digital Success

A Principal's Reflections

In a previous post I discussed in detail strategies to help ensure the effective use of technology to improve learning outcomes. These are all outcomes that any educator would (or should) openly embrace. As teachers and administrators we must be more intentional when it comes to digital learning.

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5 Tips for Improving Your Organization’s Microlearning

Edsurge

Much of this buzz also disregards three strategic aspects of Microlearning: content design, learning design and learning delivery. Imagine tearing off pages from a book and giving them to the learners to read one page each day. Microlearning does not mean butchering existing learning content into small pieces.

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How technology can amplify the effects of good teaching

Education Superhighway

As the Director of Digital Learning at the Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education office, Ken Klau is focused on the strategy for rethinking the structure and delivery of learning, building a more student-centered system of public education, and creating the next generation of K–12 learning environments.

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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

In general, OER was rated ‘considerably better on multiple specific aspects of teaching and learning, such as extending the core knowledge to novel tasks and situations and collaborating with others.’” . There are three main steps for backward design: What do you want the outcome to be? What will you use as evidence of learning?

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What Separates a Good Blended Learning Program From a Bad One?

Edsurge

Whether creating digital resources and activities or planning a large purchase of student devices, the technology should support the learning, not the other way around. Mindful pairing of digital resources to learning outcomes is an excellent way to ensure that any blended learning program will produce the desired learning outcomes.

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How to effectively train your teachers and faculty on utilizing a digital learning platform to its fullest

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning platform is designed to make teaching easier by allowing educators to manage and individualize lessons and evaluate students. To get the maximum out of any digital learning platform your school uses, your operators need to be well-trained and skilled.

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