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Nearly 60% of Teens Use Their Own Mobile Devices in School for Learning

The Innovative Educator

This year’s report, Digital Learning 24/7: Understanding Technology – Enhanced Learning in the Lives of Today’s Students , provides landmark findings on the efficacy and value associated with popular digital learning initiatives: blended learning, online learning, school-assigned mobile devices and STEM learning.

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Can Foreign Language Immersion Be Taught Effectively Online?

MindShift

Learning to speak a second language often starts with memorizing words and phrases like colors, numbers and salutations. Soon teachers introduce present-tense verbs and students work to build simple sentences like, “I go to the store.” The elementary school curriculum consists of animated fairy tales from target language countries.

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OPINION: Some warning flags for those embracing personalized learning powered by education technology

The Hechinger Report

The bestselling children’s apps are developmentally inappropriate , and many popular digital books contain distracting features that limit children’s story comprehension and vocabulary learning. If the material is low quality, children’s heightened motivation for content that is presented as crafted uniquely for them is wasted.