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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. While students were going through the math remediation courseware, they were also meeting with their peer mentor on a weekly basis using video conferencing.”. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards. Fisher College.

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What Separates a Good Blended Learning Program From a Bad One?

Edsurge

Since engagement is something students have to provide, and teachers can not just apply engagement to any lesson, it is important to create a learning experience that is engaging, both in the digital and the physical classroom. There are many so-called blended programs that do not meet the definition, but schools use them anyway.

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Before going one-to-one, this district is helping every kid get home wi-fi

eSchool News

Put simply, asking a fifth-grade student to watch an instructional video before the next day’s flipped classroom science lesson will fall on deaf ears if the child doesn’t have access to the internet at home. The ubiquitous nature of the K-12 classroom has created some significant equity issues.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

We do hybrid classrooms. We do flipped classrooms. Course might meet once a week for three hours, might meet once a week for an hour, maybe it meets every other week. So why not think of a better way to do it where if I’m doing case studies, I meet once a week for two hours?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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