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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

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Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. If you are giving a school a technology that they cannot use—or it is not really going to make a difference in reading scores or school performance—then it is not the right input, not the right system.

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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

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Communications Planning for Innovation in Education (Education Elements/TLA). “(Do For example, DC Public Schools hosts Twitter town halls that allow families to get answers to their at-home learning questions and hear important announcements from district leaders. Multi-channel communication.

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Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

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Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials.

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Framework: Ed Elements Provides Model, Plan, Hand-holding

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Separate from its Playbook that helps define a vision, Education Elements , a consulting firm, helps schools and districts design next-generation teaching and learning models. The Ed Elements consultants help craft plans that work with their users’ needs and budgets. Tool: Education Elements Puts It All in One Place.

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What Are the Most Common Ethical Issues in Education

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Meanwhile, this matter has other aspects, like a generational gap and the difficulties people may experience with technologies required for education compared to more tech-savvy individuals. Cheating Academic cheating is one of the most apparent examples of unethical behavior at school.

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Communications Tips for School Leaders

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That's why we've designed a communications guide for school leaders and districts, with tips, examples and resources. There are likely examples from within your district you can use even at the beginning, and you can grow that list of resources as blended learning spreads. Here's where to start: Plan first, then worry about tactics.

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SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

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Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. We’ve also come up with set routines that can carry over from week to week, for example daily computer-based math-centered activities. A few examples to wet your whistle Smath rethinks traditional class structures. Co-teaching.

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