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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. Something broke in American education these past years. A study from the U.S.

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Google’s Adaptive Learning Technologies Help Amplify Educators’ Instruction

EdTech Magazine

high school class has 30 students, according to research from the National Council on Teacher Quality, and while each student learns in their own way, practice and specific feedback are repeatedly shown to be effective in modern classrooms. The average U.S.

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Textbooks optional: What unbundling and BYOD mean for learning technology

eSchool News

As digital natives, today’s students have grown up with technology integrated into every aspect of their lives, and education is no exception. In response, students are also choosing the devices they want to use for learning, and why shouldn’t they? Other tools going the way of the overhead projector?

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Google’s Adaptive Learning Technologies Help Amplify Educators’ Instruction

EdTech Magazine

high school class has 30 students, according to research from the National Council on Teacher Quality, and while each student learns in their own way, practice and specific feedback are repeatedly shown to be effective in modern classrooms. The average U.S. Adaptive…

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Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology

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Even a decade ago, technology was an extra class in student schedules where now, it is a life skill. Almost every kindergarten curriculum can be augmented, enriched, and energized with technology programs, apps, software, and more. Kindergartners learn technology fast. And back then, t hat was true.

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Trust, Technology, and Transformation: Embracing the Student-Centered Classroom

Catlin Tucker

There is a recurring issue that needs to be addressed–the reluctance to relinquish control to students. In my experience leading the shift to blended learning, the only way to truly engage students in learning is to allow them to actively lead the process, make decisions, and pursue learning through a lens of interest.