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New Hampshire Department of Education Selects Innovative K-12 Platform to Bring High Quality Instructional Materials to All Students, Families and Teachers

eSchool News

CONCORD, NH (July 14, 2021) —The New Hampshire Department of Education (Department) today announced the selection of Discovery Education’s award-winning K-12 learning platform to support all New Hampshire learning environments with high quality instructional material. Discovery Education Community.

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The challenges of mobile learning in the classroom

Neo LMS

This is especially evident over the decade, as schools have increasingly adopted mobile learning as a signature initiative using BYOD and 1:1 programs and investing in tablets to provide their students with access to a wealth of relevant educational content and learning opportunities. Designing learning materials for mobile devices.

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The Fans, Fanboys, and Fanatics of OER

Doug Levin

I also tend to think that educators make rational responses in selecting instructional materials and tools (including using social media) – and certainly in the U.S. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway.

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Teaching the “Netflix Generation” #LT8keys

Tom Murray

The explosion of social media, combined with the ability to stream content to virtually all types of devices, both at home and while on the go, has radically altered the way in which people interact with media. Learning Transformed comes with a free study guide for school leaders. ” – John Dewey, 1915.

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Realizing Success in the Adult Basic Education Market

Digital Promise

At Learning Games Studios , we’ve taken our product, Xenos Isle , from the world of academic R&D to the marketplace, reaching adult ESL learners at scale. Our journey has been an interesting one and in this blog post, I’m sharing three key things I’ve learned from our experiences thus far. Buying Cooperatives.

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In 2024, education will build systems that champion the science of reading

eSchool News

It is a body of research from multiple disciplines that helps us understand how people learn to read. I predict that in the coming year, partnerships like the one between The Reading League and NCEL will begin to help heal divisiveness and welcome new, diverse voices into the conversation on evidence-aligned literacy instruction.

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OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

The Hechinger Report

Over the last several months, public discourse about learning to read and reading instruction has significantly increased. If we are truly to reconsider efforts to improve reading instruction, I offer two ideas. The answer, I believe, is with the “science of reading.”. Early career teachers struggle with the demands of teaching.