Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2020

Finland is often heralded as a model for educational excellence. But for all the many ideas for services that can support learners elsewhere, its entrepreneurs often lacked the capital to bring them to life. Until now. Last week, Sparkmind , an education technology investment firm based in Helsinki, announced the first close of its venture fund, totalling €40 million (approx.

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MARCH 14, 2020

Meaningful Learning with Free Lessons From Google Applied Digital Skills Google provides free lessons on 21st century skills. If you are looking for meaningful things that students can complete on their own time check out Google’s Applied Digital Skills lessons. Lesson Library Have students learn how to use Google Docs to research and develop a […].

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2020

Four in 10 school districts say they lack the ability to provide broad-based e-learning during the ongoing public-health crisis, according to a new Education Week Research Center survey. The post Many Districts Say They Can’t Do Remote Learning During Coronavirus Shutdowns appeared first on Market Brief.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 14, 2020

In today's post we are sharing with you this collection of some excellent guides to help you with the teaching of writing and help your students improve their writing style. The collection comprises.

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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2020

Highline Public Schools chief Susan Enfield's district is weighing how to provide print and online resources to students during the coronavirus outbreak, but she's heard enough from companies marketing their products. The post Superintendent to Education Companies: Cool It With Coronavirus-Related Product Pitches appeared first on Market Brief.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 14, 2020

For those of you teaching music, the visual below is a good resource to keep handy. It features a number of interesting iPad apps to help you with the teaching of music. The list contains apps with.

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MindShift

MARCH 14, 2020

After his award-winning book came out in 2016, Ibram X. Kendi heard from people everywhere, telling him it opened their eyes to a new way of looking at history. “They were coming up to me and saying, ‘It feels too late now. I wish I had read this in middle school,’ ” he says. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, follows five historical figures — like the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and the activist Angela Davis — and offer

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MARCH 14, 2020

Britannica is offering free, emergency support and virtual-learning classroom resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2020

Jada Ponce was surprised to get a letter, when she was a senior in high school, saying that she’d been admitted to the University of Idaho — without having applied. “Getting that letter really encouraged me,” says Ponce, who is now a first-year student. Photo: Saydee Brass for The Hechinger Report. Jada Ponce was surprised by the letter that was waiting for her when she got home from school one day in the fall of her senior year at Vallivue High School in Caldwell, Idaho.

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MARCH 14, 2020

Golf games are eternally popular with gamers so we’re following up last month’s Type Golf: Core Vocabulary Set 1—and hoping to engage even more unique learners—with this week’s addition to L 3 Skills, Golf Single Switch.

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The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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