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Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Kelly Pollack works with a student in CICS West Belden, a Chicago charter school that uses multiage classrooms as part of its personalized learning model. In the morning’s reading lesson, most of them worked on their own iPads, moving through Lexia Reading modules or researching famous figures on sites like YouTube.

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Digital Ways to Celebrate December Holidays

Teacher Reboot Camp

Students can create personalized learning games for peers or family members. Try game creation tools like Zondle , Stencyl , Scratch , Adventure Games or create a game on the iPad with TinyTap and Game Press. Buncee has a large library of stickers, backgrounds, audio, images, animation, and videos. Create a Game.

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Digital Ways to Celebrate December Holidays

Teacher Reboot Camp

Students can create personalized learning games for peers or family members. Try game creation tools like Zondle , Stencyl , Scratch , Adventure Games or create a game on the iPad with TinyTap and Game Press. Buncee has a large library of stickers, backgrounds, audio, images, animation, and videos. Create a Game.

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Schools on a screen: One tech-savvy school district has lessons for others going online

The Hechinger Report

Coding gives us another way to solve our problems,” Diane Nodell, the library media specialist, reminded them. Are you ready to learn the basics?”. They opened their iPads and within minutes were following arrows around the grid on their tablets, producing different colors with each set of directions. The children were.

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Create a digital classroom with Google Classroom and BookWidgets

EdTech4Beginners

Furthermore, students love to have access to iPads and fun apps. an all time online connection between you and your students; a personalized learning environment; a good resource distribution platform; the ability of connecting many other edtech apps via a chrome plugin, such as BookWidgets. And there are so many!

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Turning the Page: How the Librarian’s Role Continues to Evolve

EdNews Daily

Do you remember walking into the school library during your elementary school years? I roamed in the library with one hand in the back pocket of my Jordache jeans; consistently checking to make sure my library card remained. And if we were lucky, the bookmobile from the local library made its way around our school every month.

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How to Select a Complete Digital Education Solution Provider

ViewSonic Education

For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. From personalized learning to student interventions, many educators have already taken steps to enhance the learning environment by integrating technology resources into the classroom.

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