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Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success

EdTech Magazine

According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

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We asked teachers what they want from edtech. In fact, whereas teachers’ use of textbooks remained approximately the same from 2015 to 2017, their use of digital resources for standards-aligned teaching greatly increased. Sources Consulted: Picking and choosing digital content. Here's what they said. 2016 digital education survey.

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Achieve3000 updates blended learning, differentiated instruction tools

eSchool News

Achieve3000 offers innovative new ways to empower blended learning and accelerate student literacy gains through differentiated instruction in the 2016-2017 school year. Interested parties can apply to join the LevelSet Writing pilot during the 2016-2017 school year. Smarty Ants® Foundational Literacy Program.

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Adaptive literacy? 3 must-knows for teachers and admin about adaptive learning

eSchool News

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning?

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Using Technology to Support English Learners in the Classroom

EdTechTeacher

There are many apps and edtech tools available today, but very few are made specifically for EL students. Yet, technology integration can provide valuable multimodal resources for instruction, learning, and engagement. Many digital tools have built-in features to support differentiated instruction for English Learners.

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Seven advantages of using digital textbooks in schools

Hapara

You can personalize and differentiate instruction more easily. Another study found that from 2017-2019, an annual estimated average of 7,500 kids had backpack-related injuries and had to visit an emergency room. . Digital textbooks teach students how to self-direct their own learning by using note-taking and highlighting tools.

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Inside DC Schools: The Struggle to Develop Personalized Learning’s Independent Learners

Edsurge

One of the lines in the sand that I have drawn from the very beginning is that this is not an edtech tool. Summit officials say more than $20 million was invested into the tool in 2017 alone. One of the lines in the sand that I have drawn from the very beginning is that this is not an edtech tool. Diane Tavenner, Summit CEO .