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Twig Science Nevada Approved for Statewide Use

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Tools designed to support student agency and voice and promote inclusion, diversity, and equity. Twig comprises a team of teachers, filmmakers, writers, researchers, designers, academics, and students, all working together to create exciting and effective student learning experiences.

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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.

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Is it the school, or the students?

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This facilitates comparisons that reveal causal effects of school attendance on learning gains, as in a randomized clinical trial of the sort used in medical research. This leads to a research design that can isolate cause and effect.”

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

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But it also means that they are similar in other important characteristics, such as grade, class size, gender, English language ability and special education services. 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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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

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Nevertheless, in the year following its founding, Lexia won a major grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to fund product research, design, and development. It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005.

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Where Classroom Design Meets Design Thinking

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The first step for the school was an early foray into open design called the iLab, where flexible furniture mingled with makerspace elements and power tools. Then a group of 12 teachers worked with a research designer to remodel their classrooms based on the concept of putting student needs at the center.

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

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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. Consider encouraging students to research, curate, and design their own lessons with OERs.

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