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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said.

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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

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That done, it develops a differentiated and personalized learning plan. This keeps students challenged with math and reading material that meets them where they are in their journey and progresses at their pace, slower for difficult material and faster for the skills they intuitively grasp. Begin the first quest.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Most Altus classes meet the University of California’s “A-G” course requirements for admission, Altus officials say. They email and telephone parents and call families in to meet with the instructors, a social worker, case manager or other support staff if a student is struggling.

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Understanding ESSA: How the Every Student Succeeds Act will Change U.S. Educational Policy

eSpark

Higher standards are right. The president went on to add, "What hasn’t worked is denying teachers, schools, and states what they need to meet these goals. Furthermore, No Child Left Behind’s one-size-fits-all method of evaluating schools has been criticized as incentivizing low academic standards. Blended Learning.

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K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

Edsurge

Today, there are over 8000 edtech products that the 1EdTech community certified as meeting 1EdTech standards for quality and trust. Join Academic and Technology Leaders Our community thrives by getting together, and we conduct some 500 workgroup meetings a year. You don’t have to be a member to attend.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. The third criterion is to ensure that staff and students either have the skills to complete the work or will be given the time to learn a new skill and then put it into practice.

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