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Hemet Unified School District Adopts LETRS for New Two-Year Professional Learning Program

eSchool News

“At Lexia, we’ve seen the need for a common language and understanding of effective evidence-based literacy instruction practices across a school, district, and even a state. We’re pleased to be providing a knowledge base that Hemet educators will be able to reference for years to come.”. About Lexia Learning.

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The Missing Literacies – Networking to Learn #iste2015

There is no box

This is not how we learn in the real world. But I went to school BT (Before Twitter) and BGHO (Before Google Hangouts). The extent of networking to learn, if we were lucky, was putting four desks together and working in groups. Both those group learning experiences were constrained by proximity and time.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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