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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

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If you want to effortlessly become an expert in a new language, you’re probably too late. And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. But technology-enabled tools that aim to deliver language instruction at scale are also building incentives into their systems to help learners make more progress.

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3 things you didn’t know your classroom management software could do

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Language learning We’ve all had the experience of hearing a recording of our own voice and feeling a little surprised, even disconcerted perhaps. Help students who are learning a language overcome this and make the perspective shift. Why not also send that video to your student’s family to share their success?

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How to Make Education Research Relevant to Teachers

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Regional education laboratories: $55,423,000. We’re cleaning up the jargon in our language and issuing shorter, more readable reports. Statistics: $109,500,000. Research in special education: $56,000,000. Special education studies and evaluation: $10,818,000. Want to share your perspective on research with IES?

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10 Great Virtual Reality Apps

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Topics might include languages, literature, social science, STEM, coding, makerspaces, and arts. Google has partnered with leading museums, universities, laboratories, and publishers to develop more than 1,000 VR (and AR) tours. Simply drag-and-drop 360-degree images, sounds, objects, and characters onto the background.

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What a Reinvented College Looks Like: 4 Alternative Higher-Ed Models

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This seems to be an employment service and on-the job training, at the employee’s expense,” said Gardner Campbell, an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, in an interview with EdSurge earlier this year. Instead, there will be large open spaces for laboratories, and areas designed for students to work in groups.

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Computer science courses still a rarity in California

eSchool News

Students are almost 20 times as likely to take Advanced Placement English language or literature as they are to take AP computer science. Educators point to other barriers as well: During the last decade, the federal No Child Left Behind standards focused attention on core academic subjects such as math and English.

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To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

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In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. They include the MIT Media Lab, which is using the system for an educational robotics project, and Lingumi, a developer of an English learning app for young children.