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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

Kitaboo on EdTech

At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a sudden shift towards online learning not leaving teachers and students enough time to adapt to the new platform and technology.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning. What can that look like?

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

But Altus administrators believe that their formula — using online learning without sacrificing one-on-one interactions between students and teachers — works. There’s nothing to say they read fewer books or cover less content. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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Movie magic could be used to translate for the deaf

The Hechinger Report

You can’t just make an animated phrase book.”. You can’t just make an animated phrase book. “You would think it would be easier, with all the amazing animation in movies. But once a movie is made, it’s frozen in time. The avatar must respond to the immediate situation. But once a movie is made, it’s frozen in time.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

The Hechinger Report

She’d noticed that Nevaeh was missing a grade in her online grade book for a major science project that the teen said she had completed. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. She plans to stick with her “beautiful” kids and see them through graduation.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.