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8 Top Tips and Tons of Resources for Supporting English Learners with Technology

Teacher Reboot Camp

I’ve seen first hand how technology can be used in incredible ways to motivate and engage language learners of any age. Even with little access to technology teachers can add background music to a story or show students a short clip to spark conversation or inspire ideas for writing. 9 Advocacy Groups & Events Enhancing ELT.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Tue, 04/24/2018 - 08:13. Thomas School near Seattle has concentrated on beefing up the school’s science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education for the past several years and plans to strengthen it even more in the future. There is no one-size-fits-all with technology. 5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces.

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Progress Made on K–12 Connectivity, But Work Remains

EdTech Magazine

Teachers and students are well on their way to fulfilling the mission of seeing 99 percent of all schools connected to next-generation broadband, according to the “2018 State of States Report” from EducationSuperHighway. According to the agency’s 2018 Broadband Deployment Report , 88 percent of U.S.

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What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

Edsurge

Some of the conclusions may not come as a surprise in the Omidyar Network’s report on what works in scaling education technology in different regions worldwide. Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. By many measures, the country’s education technology ecosystem is small.

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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

Edsurge

Now that the firestorm has passed, some say the initial judgments were too harsh: The percentage of students enrolled in math classes in San Francisco beyond Algebra II increased from 2018 to 2021, according to data recently highlighted by detracking advocate Kentaro Iwasaki, founder of Concentric Math.

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Talented Students Are Kept From Early Algebra. Should States Force Schools to Enroll Them?

Edsurge

Relying on teacher recommendations or parent advocacy to decide which students are ready, many schools have not been able to get enough talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds into seats in algebra classrooms. In 2018, Ohio adopted one such policy. The guidance is connected to MAP Growth , one of the nonprofit’s assessments.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: January 22, 2018. And you know, I’m kind of technology agnostic in some ways. I like technology. But what I saw recently were three kids that were using VR technology, and the stories are a little different. They were doing kind of an Open House to share how different kids were using technology. Vicki: Wow.

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