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Twig Education Announces Launch of Twig Create Multimedia Makerspace

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English language learners in particular benefit from developing context through film: their comprehension is aided by imagery and visual sentence frames, and their pronunciation by aural guides. Educators can access their invitation to trial Twig Create here.

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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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Random assignment is intended to ensure the treatment and comparison groups are the same along both measurable characteristics such as test scores as well as unmeasured characteristics such as motivation to learn. This could mean that the groups of students have similar scores on a state test or a pretest relevant to the study.

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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

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Coding has helped students get hooked on computer science in the elementary and middle levels and has helped self-motivated students build apps for their high schools. Sarah Roman’s students are doing it with Raspberry Pi in her English classes and Dan Ryder’s students are building with Little Bits in his Literature classes.

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