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Collaborative Learning in the Age of Social-Distancing

Digital Promise

As schools rapidly shift instruction to a learn-from-home situation, we’re thinking about how to integrate core learning sciences principles in this new context: What do we know improves learning? How can we implement these strategies with students at home? how a peer helped when a student experienced frustration).

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How to Make Learning Stick

A Principal's Reflections

Take a look at this synopsis from Peter Reuell : For decades, there has been evidence that classroom techniques designed to get students to participate in the learning process produce better educational outcomes at virtually all levels. A Harvard study suggests it may be important to let students know it. link] Waddington, P.

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How to Re-Energize Disconnected Classroom Participants

EmergingEdTech

According to a study by Kahoot!, Foster collaboration Engaging students in the classroom means making them active participants in a lesson. When carried out in a highly purposeful manner, with close teacher monitoring, such collaborative learning can yield many benefits. And engagement levels have not recovered.

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Working in a group might be the best way to help kids meet individual goals, study says

The Hechinger Report

More group work was associated with greater individual gains in a new study. I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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E-Books and Online Libraries in Modern College Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

The ability to obtain study materials at any time from any location and on devices is one of the benefits of the modern era. Each student learns at their pace – flexibility encourages independent studying, surpassing previous methods. And online libraries are the answer to how to do it.

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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Table of Contents: Different Types of Educational Software Available Today School Management Systems Learning Management Software Open Access Textbooks eBook Readers Language/Technical/STEM Learning Apps Gamified Learning Analytics and Communication Platforms Why Do Educational Organizations Need Educational Software?

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5 ways to create an inviting, engaging multipurpose learning space

eSchool News

We also knew that by creating a modern, multipurpose space from an existing facility we’d be able to meet those needs while also using the space for staff meetings, academic clubs, Bible study, and other uses. We have two study carousels, which are one-person units where a student can sit and have a quiet space.

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