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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. Turning to Consultants to Parse-Out Personalized Learning The concept of using technology to personalize the learning experience has been gaining appeal among educators seeking solutions in struggling schools. Probably not.

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Questions to Ask if You're Worried About Student Data

Education Elements

Also last week, Ed Week highlighted this dichotomy in the survey results of school leaders on the use of technology with their students. Yet an even higher percentage of school leaders still have valid concerns with how technology companies collect data and influence what and how we teach students.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. EST March 11 about the medical, legal, educational, logistical and equity issues that schools should be thinking about as they consider taking classes online. But Holland is not optimistic. BrainPop, Kahoot!,

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient. But in recent years, we've seen a spike in the number of smaller, tightly focused, niche edtech product companies.

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

Neo LMS

In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily. Uncover solutions for educators and students with a Google for Education event. What better way to learn about education technology than to reach out to the disrupters themselves? Sample popular edtech tools.

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School Improvement: Strategies That Can Make It Happen

edWeb.net

Start- and end-of-year and intermittent surveys year gauge student and staff feelings about belonging and instructional and learning experiences—all the data shape plan adjustments. Surveys and focus groups with teachers, students, and parents helped to pinpoint essential issues and enabled stakeholder engagement.