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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

Lastly, Kinesthetic learners need a more tactile, “hands-on” approach to their studies; they learn best via the use of simulations, personal experience, and/or repeated practice. One drawback to LMS platforms is that they are not uniform in the level of technological support that they provide to users. and whiteboard.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. The study aimed to better understand what educators want, need and expect in their search for and use of digital content.

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New Online Platform from Vernier Boosts High School Students’ STEM Learning with Fun, Interactive Investigations and Projects

eSchool News

To that end, Vernier Connections gives students the ability to study the real world in their own context, collect and analyze data as they investigate natural phenomena, and take part in experiential and three-dimensional STEM learning.“.

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Why Single Sign-On Has Teachers Cheering

Edsurge

Sheryl Abshire: A lot of people think I’m all about technology. But my job and my prime objective are to support learning, and this technology supports learning. Education opens up a myriad of doors for students—and technology supports that. Can you tell us more about how the technology supports learning?

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OPINION: How online and traditional teachers can work together to bring more students into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Through this program, our brick-and-mortar teachers work alongside ALDCA teachers to combine a rigorous academic course load — which includes English, math and social studies — with online experiential learning opportunities like internships, job shadowing and project-based learning. The main ingredient is teacher-to-teacher support.

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What are Good Tech Goals for Students?

Ask a Tech Teacher

But that’s not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. The metric for measuring technology skills isn’t a rubric with a list of skills (i.e., Everyone who uses technology knows it breaks down. One study predicted a 114% chance of having tech problems when using a computer.

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How DC Public Schools Uses Student Data to Support Mental Health

Edsurge

We needed to get the data much faster to tell each student's story and show the impact of their treatment at multi-disciplinary team meetings. How does special education management technology support your district's mental health services? Then an analyst had to aggregate the raw data and put it into some usable form for us.

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