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Tech Tips to End the School Year

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If you have a personal device assigned by the school but yours to take home, the steps may be more numerous but really, not more complicated. Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Here’s a list.

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12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you have a personal device assigned by the school but yours to take home, the steps may be more numerous but really, not more complicated. Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Here’s a list.

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Inside an Adaptive-Courseware Experiment, Glitches and All

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He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. To explore how adaptive software can help change teaching styles, impact completion rates, and create a new model for synchronizing the curriculum between two and four-year colleges. The mission?

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With Flip of a Giant Ceremonial Switch, CMU Starts Effort to Energize ‘Learning Engineering’

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The software list includes more than a dozen packages, including the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. In that scenario, professors simply assign the book and courseware and require students to buy them.

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Is This Hiring Process a Better Way to Find That Perfect Candidate?

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I’m looking for a non-grade-level specific facilitator who is creative, engaging, can manage an open learning space and is interested in working at a startup school. Round 3: Finding Common Ground Successful phone calls are immediately followed by a homework assignment. I’m looking for a unicorn.

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12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you have a personal device assigned by the school but yours to take home, the steps may be more numerous but really, not more complicated. Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Here’s a list.

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Curate Classroom Curiosity with Inquiry-Based Learning

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Inquiry-based learning, also known as question-based learning, encourages students to use their natural curiosity in the learning process. They approach education as the answer to a question theyre wondering about, rather than a question theyve been assigned. And inquiry-based learning works at any grade level!