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A Guide to Choosing an Interactive Learning Platform

ViewSonic Education

Keep in mind that learning can be fun, so also consider whether the digital learning platform can develop these competencies through gamified features or integration with virtual environments, such as metaverse learning. Can it withstand advanced cyber threats?

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

Digital Promise

When used appropriately, these tools can help educators create learning environments that incorporate key research-backed principles shown to underlie effective learning in the following ways: Supporting personalized, differentiated and self-paced learning. Supporting data gathering, analysis, and timely feedback.

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Five Steps to Empowering Educators with Evidence

edWeb.net

For example, when teachers say they want to keep a current approach because they think it works, they need to provide data to show why they know it works or develop a plan to prove the program’s value. Using a Level 4 (lowest level) program, for instance, is a chance for districts to innovate and contribute to the knowledge base.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

Edsurge

A study was published by IDEA, a non-profit organization that focuses on academic success in a higher education context, which explored whether class size is a factor in perceived learning. Pallett—analyzed data from 490,333 classes that were tracked by the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction systems. The authors—Stephen L.

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Education Needs to Push the Hard-Reset Button

EdNews Daily

This will ensure highest and best practices for an ever-evolving knowledge base. Establish “Rivers of Learning”. Each river is divided into subsets or streams that provide a more specialized learning mode. This system should be created with an OPEN SOURCE mentality so that it is perpetually being redesigned and refined.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

edWeb.net

But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digital learning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. Lazzaro, is critical to determine how the pandemic affected science learning.

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The case for ChatGPT as the ultimate educator’s toolkit

eSchool News

ChatGPT does have major limitations: its limited knowledge base only pulls from data prior to September 2021; it has no personal experiences or emotions to draw from; it may generate inaccurate information; and it does not have the ability to critically think and/or analyze information.

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