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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Technology, and especially the internet and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, has become ubiquitous in our daily lives and affordable even to our public schools.

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How DC Public Schools Uses Student Data to Support Mental Health

Edsurge

We collected data around the frequency of certain behaviors, who was receiving treatments, how much treatment and then the outcome of the treatment. How does special education management technology support your district's mental health services? This type of mental health outcomes data is unprecedented for a school district.

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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

edWeb.net

The use of virtual learning technologies can actually make this easier in some respects, as many systems can compile and report data automatically, but qualitative judgments by the educators who interact with students remain crucial, and must also be documented and shared.

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10Q: David White

Learning with 'e's

Ahead of his keynote speech at this year’s EDEN conference , to be held in Porto, I asked him some questions about his life, his passions and what he believes about technology supported education. We just about manage to use e-mail for document transfer. Clearly new technology has had enormous influence.

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Part 5…Beyond the Shine : Supporting Technology with the SAMR Model plus Ten Great Resource Sites

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Instead in this post it will be important to see how the technology is being integrated in a classroom. Not only should the technology support the standards, but proper integration of technology will ensure productive and effective technology use and integration in the 21 st Century Classroom.

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Here’s Why Teachers Adopt New Tech — and Why They Don’t

Edsurge

If the technology supports this, it meets the primary requirement. Can the tech support or provide a learning activity that can be classified within Bloom’s taxonomy? would welcome the opportunity to explore new technology if it could enhance her teaching. Does it meet subject- and grade-level Common Core standards?

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Technology and Capstone Courses

Dr. Shannon Doak

Technology can enhance the structure and requirements of the program by enabling students to do more. In “How Does Technology Facilitate Learning? Furthermore, technology can assist the structure and requirements of the program by supporting students in their own ability to keep track of and organize data gathered through the project.

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