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Multimedia content personalizes learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

.” Here’s his take on the use of videos in education: Multimedia content as a way to learning process personalization. People can learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone. It can be called the multimedia learning hypothesis (Mayer, 2005). Introduction to Multimedia Learning.

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What Educational Leadership Looks Like Today with Dr. Joe Sanfelippo

The CoolCatTeacher

He was also a school counselor and high school coach prior to taking on an elementary principal position in 2005. He was selected as 1 of 117 Future Ready Superintendents in 2014 and 1 of 50 Superintendents as a Personalized Learning Leader in 2016 by the US Department of Education.

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Crafting technology-driven IEPs

eSchool News

According to this study , research shows that special education students benefit from educational technology, especially in concept teaching and in practice-feedback type instructional activities (Carter & Center, 2005; Hall, Hughes & Filbert, 2000; Hasselbring & Glaser, 2000).

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I Am Connected, Therefore I Learn

Catlin Tucker

Traditional learning theories–behavorism, cognitivism, and constructivism–were all grounded in the concept that learning occurs inside of a person, but they fail to address learning that occurs outside of the human brain. Today, people frequently draw on and use information that they have not personally learned.

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What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

The Hechinger Report

The project typifies the mix of personalized and social learning that’s been a mainstay for 25 years at King, a founding member of a school network called EL Education. But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. Crew is like family.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

A total of ten (10) studies met the criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis, meaning all ten studies: Were published in the English language after having gone through a formal peer review process; Were conducted between 2001 and 2015 (more specifically, the included studies were published between 2005 and 2012); Were conducted in K-12 school settings (..)

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Quizlet Just Raised $30M at a $1 Billion Valuation. But Don’t Call It a Unicorn.

Edsurge

We view Quizlet as an emerging leader in the field and are excited by the company’s approach to personalized learning,” said Peter Munzig, managing director of General Atlantic, in an email. That work is where the data scientists and machine-learning specialists come in. He is joining Quizlet’s board of directors.

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