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Teaching Tools and Techniques

eSchool News

One prevalent technique is differentiated instruction, tailoring lesson plans to accommodate various learning styles and abilities within a classroom. Another effective strategy is differentiated instruction, which involves adapting teaching methods to accommodate diverse learning styles and abilities within the classroom.

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Renaissance and Nearpod, Coming Together to Empower Teachers and Accelerate Student Growth

eSchool News

Nearpod offers an interactive instructional platform that merges real-time formative assessment and dynamic media for live and self-paced learning experiences inside and outside of the classroom. Nearpod works with any classroom technology, from tablets and smartphones to laptops and Chromebooks. About Nearpod.

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TEACHER VOICE: Already affected by crisis in their own countries, refugee students are left behind in online learning

The Hechinger Report

Someone will always be left behind as one teacher figures out a pedagogical shift that matters and another does not, or as one school maximizes its use of technology while another school struggles to get laptops into its students’ hands. Let’s think in terms of complexities and unities rather than in distance and fragments.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips. This can involve differentiated instruction strategies where tasks are tailored to each student’s learning pace and style.

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Giving Voice to the End Users in Districts’ Technology Decisions

Digital Promise

We were more interested in testing tablets than laptops and decided to focus more on the devices’ features than brand names. They need one-to-one technology and a personalized, interactive curriculum that extends educator capacity to differentiate instruction and provide timely feedback. The purpose of Blueprint 2.0

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Gamechanger: Type to Learn is Now in the Cloud!

Ask a Tech Teacher

No more “runs only on desktops and laptops” Let me back up and describe Type to Learn Cloud. Also from here, teachers can set class/student speed and accuracy goals, group students based on ability, and differentiate instruction through custom content. No more software downloads. Insider Knowledge.

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Who Says I Don't Like to Read? Sparking a Love of Digital Books Across Detroit

Edsurge

The district provided one or two laptop carts, containing 30 laptops per cart, to many of the schools in need. These additional laptops, coupled with the original devices, made it possible for most students to have access to myON whenever needed.

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