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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

While in some cases, technology is used in powerful ways to support students in developing critical thinking and collaboration skills, and to develop a sense of agency, in other situations it is used in things like drill and practice exercises, test prep, and reading online content.

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Addressing the Digital Learning Gap with Effective Educator Coaching

EdTechTeam

However, in other scenarios, students are engaged with lower-level uses of technology such as test preparation, reading static online content, and seemingly endless drill and practice exercises. With generous support from Google , we are launching the Dynamic Learning Project, a pilot with 50 U.S.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. Phone interviews are also a good way to develop case studies and success stories, preferably with photos of students and teachers using your product. Meeting your peers on a periodic basis can be an invaluable exercise. We did semi-annual ones.)

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How to pass the WSET Diploma D2 exam on the Business of Wine

Brainscape

These exercises are the way most students study for tests and exams and yet they are incredibly inefficient. Google is your friend. We read and re-read the textbook, made notes, colored those notes in, and then read our notes. And through all of that, we kinda just hoped that the knowledge would stick.

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

Marketplace K-12

Chatterji, who is an associate professor at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, summarized the trials in a presentation of “Learning What Works in Educational Technology with a Case Study of EDUSTAR,” a report released by The Hamilton Project.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

both positive and negative) – Organizational self-assessment – Getting set up with our new Google+ community. – Going deeper with the components of high-quality PBL – A PBL case study – Making sense of PBL in our own context – Getting set up with Feedly and some awesome school leadership blogs.

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