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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

Kitaboo on EdTech

The effects of mental health are not restricted to the teachers but in turn impact the students they teach, leading to poor academic outcomes, poor student discipline, and higher dropout rates. The teacher is therefore freed from such tasks and can focus more on interacting with the students.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. It wasn’t popular.

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Thriving SAT Scores: Meet Shaan Patel, Founder of Prep Expert and Shark Tank Winner

EdNews Daily

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. After hours of studying in the library, preparing and identifying patterns for the test, I was able to improve my score from 1760 to a perfect 2400. After the video, they invited me to participate in the show.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

Edsurge

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. My learners needed choices that my physical book collection could not provide, and I need a way to bolster my library and give students more choices.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

And: Charges that MOOC providers were out to decimate the ranks of traditional faculty members or that students would be shunted to impersonal, ineffective videos versus high-quality classrooms were common. Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). (Kindle location 1093).

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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” Now she gets more done at home, although she admits she also video chats with her friends while working on essays.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

Asked what he’d like to do for a career, Johnathan told them he likes computers and might one day want “to make a video game or something.” Ensconced in the campus library, Jordan credits the home visits — and the bond that developed between him, his teacher and his family as a result of them — for where he is today.

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