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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said. Taravella High School in Florida, hasn’t wanted to speak up in her large algebra I class that meets on Microsoft Teams. So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Microsoft Office 365 ? Google Classroom ? Google Classroom ? TOOLS THEY USE GREENE COUNTY SCHOOLS, TN ?

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November 14 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Classroom 2.0 The Library as Makerspace Preventing STEM Dropouts Is NYC’s General Assembly the University of the Future? Microsoft Now Controls an Educational.Gov Domain Steve Jobs’ Plans to Disrupt the Textbook Industry Why Aren’t Students Using Digital Textbooks? show is back! Apple and Ed-Tech Payola'

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Salt Lake Tribune : “Lawmaker: Utah ‘s veteran educators may need to ’die off ’ before technology fills classrooms.” Via Techcrunch : “ Microsoft’s Imagine Cup crowns its 15th winner, the X.GLU smart glucose meter for kids.” Microsoft plans to axe Microsoft Paint.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The highlight: I visited a school on Friday and met with some wonderful, genuine, sincere teachers who pour their heart and soul into their classrooms and their students and our conversation was not long enough to draw out of them what is limiting them from being even more success from what they are currently. ” Wheee.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Microsoft is really scared of Chromebooks in businesses and schools,” according to The Verge. ” “More Than Half of School Expenditures Spent on Classroom Instruction ,” says the Census Bureau. ” Via NPR : “How To Apply The Brain Science Of Resilience To The Classroom.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’s the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , which is already having to repay Ohio some $60 million. Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” Via Ars Technica : “Proposed New Mexico science standards edit out basic facts.”