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Why Use SplashLearn in Class?

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It includes access to thousands of educational resources without hidden costs or permissions. Rewards: To further motivate learners, SplashLearn incorporates rewards like coins and access to non-curricular games. Subsequent plans start at $7.50/month. You can get started here ! Teachers: For teachers, SplashLearn is completely free.

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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

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In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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But in the field of education, we don’t even have a complete set of static competency frameworks for digital data that are openly accessible and interoperable—to say nothing of dynamic data that support real-time pathway optimization. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. K-12 learners.

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Education Leaders Propose Ways to Add Teacher Voice to Research Decisions

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Most educators access information about their profession through online searches, social media, colleagues, supervisors, their professional association or a journal subscription. Respondents are relatively unfamiliar with the IES—the federal government’s primary education research body.

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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

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Access the assignment provided by the teacher. Once that is completed, access other challenges via online apps (usually third party, outside of the eSpark app), new videos, or something else. Here’s what students do: Log into the eSpark app with the username and password picture provided by the teacher. Begin the first quest.

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IBM Foundation launches free online software to help K-5 teachers prepare math lessons and help students learn.

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software that uses Watson artificial intelligence technology and has been trained by some of the nation’s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states. With more training and teacher use, Watson’s expertise and ability to provide targeted recommendations will continually increase.

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New AI tool helps teachers tackle math

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As the new school year begins, elementary school teachers are now able to access a new, free online artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to strengthen their math instruction and help students learn at higher levels.

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