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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

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In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. They were the outliers, those willing to open up their classrooms to try new things. The philosophical core of Khan Academy is mastery learning. Fast forward to 2019.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom. The concept of a 21st-century classroom has evolved significantly.

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Top edtech tools for digital differentiation

Neo LMS

In my recent article regarding using Universal Design for Learning in remote classrooms , I mentioned Todd Rose’s term, “design to the edges,” which is what educators attempt to do each day as they accommodate the variety of learners in their classrooms. Read more: Implementing differentiated instruction: the good and the bad.

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Kiddom’s Content Library Makes Differentiation Faster Than Ever

Ask a Tech Teacher

Designed to offer lessons, videos, lectures, quizzes, and more that differentiate for individual students, its real power is making the resources of the most respected names in edtech available with one click. Khan Academy. “Kiddom supports my work in the classroom by making differentiation intuitive and simple.

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10 tools for blended schools

eSchool News

Khan Academy. Khan Academy is one of the most well-known content providers on the web today. With hundreds of instructional videos and thousands of practice exercises integrated into a personalized-learning dashboard, Khan Academy helps teachers of almost any subject bring online learning into their classroom.

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Helpful Tools to Ease Learners Back into Math, Reading, and Writing

Graphite Blog

Then follow up with differentiated instructional activities. Khan Academy Kids. Read our review of Khan Academy Kids. Khan Academy. Grades K-12: You probably already know about Khan Academy, but you might not know about their " get ready courses " for math. SplashLearn.

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How to Use Technology to Support ELLs in Your Classroom

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English-language learners (ELLs) come into our classrooms with a wide variety of specific and unique needs for language acquisition. Because there are so many apps and edtech tools available today, you might expect to find lots of them made specifically for ELL, bilingual, or dual-immersion classrooms.