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The learning experience is different in schools that assign laptops, a survey finds

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The student can be responsible for their own learning and feel good about being responsible for their own learning,” Evans said.

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

The Hechinger Report

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. There’s also little evidence that personalized learning improves student learning, in part because so many different approaches are used.

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Interactive eBooks: The Future of Digital Textbooks Unveiled

Kitaboo on EdTech

Benefits of Interactive Digital Textbooks Enriched Learning Experience Personalized Learning Opportunity Accessibility and Portability Collaborative Learning Sustainable Mode of Learning III. Future Trends in Interactive Digital Textbooks Virtual and Augmented Reality Artificial Intelligence Mobile Learning IV.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. Eduverse.com is a revolutionary online learning environment providing a safe and secure ‘metaverse’ for K-12 schools.

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Teaching Tools and Techniques

eSchool News

By encouraging curiosity and self-directed inquiry, this approach fosters a deeper engagement with the subject matter and cultivates lifelong learning skills. Furthermore, flipped classroom models have gained popularity for their effectiveness in promoting active engagement and personalized learning experiences.

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Dealing with digital distraction

The Hechinger Report

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. It’s not just young people who are smartphone obsessed.

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

The Hechinger Report

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos, used to texting quickly, was able to do simple assignments online, so at first her schoolwork was very easy.