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Class Size Matters: Understanding the Link Between Class Size and Student Achievement

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For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along. Teachers who can spend more time with each student is able to tailor their teaching to specific students’ needs and, in turn, learning outcomes improve. Classrooms Become More Collaborative.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Pay particular attention to his chapter on “powerful ideas” where he describes how essential it is to find the enduring, transformative concepts that you want to teach and put those at the forefront of your design approach. Once you’ve read Papert, use the Understanding By Design Framework to structure your curriculum.

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Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

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The decline was eventually recovered but the project ultimately concluded that distributing materials had almost no positive effect on learning outcomes. Working with 15 schools, ChalkTalk built a fully adaptive, highly personalized curriculum-design technology to reduce teachers’ lesson-planning time from 2.5