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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

Edsurge

Dear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Anonymous In my experience, it’s true that small classes provide greater opportunities for student engagement and for professor/mentor relationships to occur.

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Do It Right the First Time: How to Maximize Your Edtech Investment

Edsurge

From cutting-edge computing and cloud services to data-driven instruction and adaptive learning, K-12 edtech solutions are abundant. Prioritize early evaluation With so many options being showcased at trade shows and conferences or on social media, it’s tempting to make your mind up before the search has even started.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. KITABOO is an end-to-end cloud-based digital publishing platform that allows learning content to be published & distributed with ease. Students use Seesaw to showcase their learnings, while teachers and parents use it to monitor students’ performances.

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96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019

eSchool News

In addition to the usual suspects—more augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps—a lot of people believe this will be the year that social emotional learning (SEL) and interoperability become part of the mainstream. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

Mary Howard’s students build and learn in Open Sim , a virtual world like Second Life. We hear a lot of talk now in Ed Tech circles about how we can get these students engaged and speak a language that they’re speaking. We bring these students into a virtual world. Vicki: And, it’s a learning process.

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Novel Ideas for Writing Instruction

techlearning

OVER TWO MILLION WORDS IN FOUR WEEKS First-grade students at Milton Public Schools use SeeSaw to narrate a story and record. At Milton (MA) Public Schools last February, 758 fourth- and fifth-grade students engaged in a four-week collaborative story writing experience. Coeur d’Alene students engage in learning.

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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

Edsurge

That means, among many things, taking stock of the damage caused by long-term school closures, and creating plans for reopening amid steep budget cuts, increased costs for safety measures, and widening achievement gaps and learning loss that have hit low-income students and students of color the hardest.

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