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Khan Academy plunged into classrooms, then classrooms went online

The Hechinger Report

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”.

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Online Learning was a Game-Changer for Me

ExcelinEd

To celebrate National Online Learning Day , Innovation Associate Policy Director Erin Lockett , shares her story of how supplemental online learning helped her win a longtime academic battle with statistics. . on Khan Academy?and I was learning the same?concepts Online learning can be?used

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Learning Loss Is Everywhere. But How Do the Reports Compare?

Edsurge

Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. And “non-traditional” students appear more okay with remote online learning than their “traditional” peers. The company’s data comes from tracking daily product use by 2.5 As some schools reopen, edtech product use declines.

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From Static to Interactive and From Open to Free: Consequences Both Intended and Unintended

Iterating Toward Openness

In relation to the first aim, the most important result is that students in face-to-face arithmetic/statistics courses using Khan Academy resources achieved significantly better exam grades than students who did not use any extra resources (p < 0.05) or those who used open textbooks as an extra resource (p < 0.01).

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10 tools for blended schools

eSchool News

With many schools now practicing blended learning, it can be helpful for educators interested in blended-learning programs to know which edtech tools are being used. For over five years, we at the Christensen Institute have been collecting data on blended-learning schools from around the world. Khan Academy.

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Sown To Grow: Easily Blend Goal-setting and Reflection into Classwork

Ask a Tech Teacher

They get summative performance data that includes progress, mastery, goals met, how the student felt at the beginning and completion of the activity, as well as student reflections. Activities can be lessons through whatever program a student is working on (such as Khan Academy or an online keyboarding program) or one created by you.

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Using Data To Deliver Real Personalized Learning with Kiddom

Fractus Learning

This box is essentially a thirty four year data dump collecting dust. And this, is how many of us handle data in our schools. When structured and organized, data is an insanely powerful tool. This is the kind of real personalized learning that free online learning platform Kiddom is on a mission to put into every classroom.