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Teachers: This change is causing dramatic gains in student achievement

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Further, what if this mindset change led to an increase in student achievement on tests? The technique involves testing students twice: once individually and once in groups. In fact, he has seen achievement gains that are three times greater than what he experienced when he used to lecture. Achievement Gains x 3.

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4 ways we can use edtech for engaging, high-quality learning experiences

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But despite their best efforts, online learning failed to live up to in-person education, with students whose schools met mostly in person performing significantly better on math and reading tests compared to their peers who received instruction online. In Oakland, 98 percent of all students now have a computer and internet service.

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25 digital tools and edtech resources from FETC

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As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Kami demonstrated its all-in-one digital learning platform.

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Students Use The Internet of Things, Big Data and Big Ideas to Build Smarter Cities

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Photo Courtesy of Katy Kasmia In one of her introductory lectures, she uses Elon Musk’s Mars colonization efforts to set the tone before the students brainstorm ideas to solve climate change. In her opinion, the current education system’s emphasis on testing should shift to real world problem-solving.

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Georgia Tech Is Trying to Keep a ChatGPT-Powered Teaching Assistant From ‘Hallucinating’

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And they’re testing the approach in three online courses this summer. At stake is whether it is even possible to tame so-called “large language models” like ChatGPT, which are usually trained with information drawn from the internet and are designed to spit out answers that fit predictable patterns rather than hew strictly to reality.

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Platform will beam lessons to rural schools via tablet

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Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas. High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools.

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Face to Face: Using Videoconferencing to Create a Shared Virtual Space for Students

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The project began when Tiina Syrjä, a lecturer in voice and speech at the University of Tampere, in Finland, met an administrator from Coventry University, in Britain, and they decided to organize a collaborative long-distance theater seminar. Coventry University sent Tom Gorman, a senior theater lecturer, to Finland to come up with a plan.

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