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Education Leaders Propose Ways to Add Teacher Voice to Research Decisions

Edsurge

Most educators access information about their profession through online searches, social media, colleagues, supervisors, their professional association or a journal subscription. In particular, educators want to see more research about technology, trauma and mental health, equity and educator talent.

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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

Edsurge

But for all the conversations in the news and on social media, one place we’re not seeing it as much is in schools themselves. As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology. Embedding a social-emotional learning lens into instruction.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. It’s no wonder that only 58% of teachers are comfortable using technology in class. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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Study explores use of digital tools in out-of-school programs

The Hechinger Report

The Chicago Learning Exchange supports out-of-school programs that are trying to change that, particularly those using technology to offer innovative opportunities for kids in Chicago who historically haven’t had them. While digital technology has become ubiquitous in most communities, there is a hierarchy in how it is used for learning.

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The Definition Of Combination Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

It is purposefully flexible, and adaptable to a variety of content areas, grade levels, and available local technology. It can be standards-based or open-ended; technology-based or based on in-person human interaction; project-based, game-based, rigorous, supportive, etc. The Big Idea. There are dozens for every category.

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Big Tech Needs to Treat Our Children Better

Edsurge

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.