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EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us

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While this approach found some success in reducing the dropout rate of students who participated, there were no measurable improvements in achievement. At the time, teachers wondered if students were really learning or just remembering long enough to get the reward.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. If the past few years have taught us anything,” Taylor said of the pandemic and its aftermath, “it is that regular in-person learning is critical to a student’s academic success.”.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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As the disruptions and changes continue to unfold during 2021, he recommends using an adaptive system design to change the structures and collective mindsets within school districts. McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

The Hechinger Report

While the number of districts currently operating pods or hubs is unknown, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a nonprofit, created a database to track more than 300 pods in early 2021, finding that about 7 percent of the programs in this sample were run by districts. Navarro began working with Jason in May 2021.

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Google's NotebookLM

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

It's also not a perfect simulation -- over the course of 8 to 10 minutes, there are several strange pronunciations, moments of flat affect, glitchy audio, and/or sound dropouts.) Last but not least, when the Audio Overview uses the second person, the audience is clearly "you" -- that is, the Google account who made the Notebook.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Her tenure at Collins has overlapped with two developments that have contributed to a drop in paddling incidents: the state legislature’s 2019 partial ban on corporal punishment — of students with disabilities — and a global pandemic that interfered with in-person learning. keeps a paddle used in the county’s schools.