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Going Back to School to Learn About Blended Learning

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

As an online learning tool, Listen Current fits well into blended learning, but I wanted to learn more about how schools are adopting it and how we as a company can be more attractive to schools using blended learning. This is where new ed-tech companies can come into the picture. Recently I was invited by the Natick, Mass.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements, argues that he can’t make promises about academic results. “Of Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia. Probably not,” says Kim, in an interview with EdSurge.

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Meditations on Thankfulness

Education Elements

It is only somewhat by choice – we are doing a company-wide meditation challenge and I am usually up for competitions, especially when they get me out of my comfort zone. Within the course of a few days of the challenge I discovered that just sitting and breathing doesn’t work for me – I have one of those brains that doesn’t turn off.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

Noah Dougherty, a senior design principal at the education consulting firm Education Elements, wrote in a blog post last week that “the biggest shift virtual learning requires is flexibility and a recognition that the controlled structure of a school is not replicable online.” BrainPop, Kahoot!,

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Implementing education technology by pursuing technology education: Professional Development ideas for educators

Neo LMS

As such, they might need to rely on technology to further their education. Online courses, including certificates and degree programs, make it easy to learn on any schedule. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Take a degree course.

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School Improvement: Strategies That Can Make It Happen

edWeb.net

They recommended using continuous feedback loops, openly discussing challenges, offering training, working with implementation facilitators, regularly reviewing data to support progress, and celebrating small wins, all crucial to “staying the course” to see a plan through. Positive Messages of Change School improvement work is complex.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

That’s not the story that DeVos wants to tell, of course.). ” “What DeVos Got Wrong in Her Speech on the ’ Dear Colleague’ Letter ,” Scott Schneider writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education. SoFi : a student loan company and one of the most well-funded ed-tech companies out there sure seems swell.