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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

The literacy rate in America is marked by a gap between privileged and disadvantaged communities. Scholastic Instructor, May 2005, 114(8), pp. Research has found that in severe cases, the summer slide can place students as much as three months behind their peers when they return to school in the fall.[3] Krueger, A.B. Green, A.M.,

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Transcription and Accessibility—New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon

Edsurge

The e-commerce giant announced that Amazon Transcribe , a service that converts audio from speech to text is partnering with Echo360, a video-platform for higher education institutions, to provide automated captioning of lectures that will be displayed side-by-side along the video. I think if the error rates were even lower.,

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. FY 2005 $496,000,000 (President Bush’s request: $691,800,000). Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

Edsurge

As one writing instructor posted to an e-mail list in 2005: “Am I being a stick-in-the-mud for for being horrified by students’ use of this source?”. At any rate, those folks on Wikipedia, they're volunteers. How things have changed. Today, a growing number of professors have embraced Wikipedia as a teaching tool.

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The cost of not investing rural high speed Internet: Why one school upgraded to fiber

Education Superhighway

Jim Beasley’s mission to upgrade Llano Independent School District’s network began when he first started working there in 2005. The school district couldn’t cover the cost of non-recurring construction to build fiber to their most rural school with just E-rate. What are the costs of not upgrading?

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The science of never forgetting: Spaced repetition for fast learning that lasts

Brainscape

Sadler, P., & Good, E. The study algorithm automatically spaces out your flashcard reviews based on how well you know the information. The automatic component of habit in health behavior: Habit as cue-contingent automaticity. Health Psychology , 29(4), 374. The impact of self- and peer-grading on student learning. link] Son, L.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005). Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Reference Cousin, G.

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