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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

And, accessibility technologies support learner variability and people with disabilities by ensuring navigation and information display is available in multiple ways. However, even as technology has evolved to more effectively support learning, our education system faces another great divide: the Digital Learning Gap.

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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. Teachers in the U.S. But, are the students ready for what awaits them?

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What is digital learning?

Learning with 'e's

Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. It''s the huge potential and great possibilities to move learning beyond the traditional walls of the classroom. How would you define digital learning?

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

Digital Promise

Teachers often report getting to know students better using digital tools because interaction is more frequent and students feel safe sharing their hopes, difficulties, and fears. Numerous studies have shown students in collaborative learning environments outperform those in competitive or individualistic learning settings.

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How Technology Can Help Deepen Students’ Learning

EdNews Daily

Teachers’ limited time and heavy workload can make the extra effort required to move students through the transfer of learning and into deep learning seem unfeasible. Fortunately, technology tools can provide support for each stage. Technology-Supported Surface-Level Learning.

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Integrating Digital Tools for Adult Learners: Four Critical Factors

Digital Promise

If we believe in the potential of technology to bring quality digital learning opportunities to this underserved population, what can we do to accelerate adoption? Support the evolving role of the instructor.

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Summer SuperHighway: Monique Marcantonio on Digital Learning and Special Education

Education Superhighway

Our Summer SuperHighway blog series celebrates the educators that inspire us and showcases the ways that digital learning impacts their students. The post Summer SuperHighway: Monique Marcantonio on Digital Learning and Special Education appeared first on EducationSuperHighway.