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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

And, accessibility technologies support learner variability and people with disabilities by ensuring navigation and information display is available in multiple ways. However, even as technology has evolved to more effectively support learning, our education system faces another great divide: the Digital Learning Gap.

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Summer SuperHighway: Monique Marcantonio on Digital Learning and Special Education

Education Superhighway

Our Summer SuperHighway blog series celebrates the educators that inspire us and showcases the ways that digital learning impacts their students. I tried putting grades in a grade book and was never consistent with it because of how time-consuming and daunting it was, and I wasn’t able to keep organized.

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

Digital Promise

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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Helping Teachers Provide a Deeper Reading Experience

EdNews Daily

Taking on educational technology seemed a natural fit. Right now, countless people and companies are creating technology-supported products and series, but the question remains if all of them are solutions. Kenna McHugh is a staff writer at the Learning Counsel.

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Two Models for Leveling Up How You Integrate Technology and Teaching

EdNews Daily

At this level, teachers create tasks that would be impossible without technology, and they also put technology in the hands of the students. Stafford Public Schools’ students typically read the book The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse in first or second grade.

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Screen Time in School: Finding the Right Balance for Your Classroom

Graphite Blog

However, recent research on the topic suggests that digital books with features that enhance the text could potentially strengthen students' reading comprehension. If you're like me, you might notice a huge difference between how fast and well you read on a phone or laptop versus a paper magazine or book.

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Innovative Educators named Bammy Awards finalists!

The Innovative Educator

For his students, he made a difference by taking over a library that had become moribund, out of date, anachronistic, completely disorganized and with no technology. In two years he turned it into a much more modern, way more up-to-date, fully automated functioning library that circulates 200 books a week.