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What you get when you subscribe for our Teachers App package. - 120 Ready made lesson plans
- 9 Teacher development books
- 25 Training videos
- 3 Student Apps
- 40 + links to recommended digital tools
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If you are involved in education technology in any way, you must stay up to date on the latest news and trends. Educational technology is growing at immense speed – practically changing every day. The best place to find out quality information from trustworthy sources is in EdTech research journals. These journals publish articles by EdTech entrepreneurs and educators providing the information you need.
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Resources related to the remote learning, distance education, online learning, and the use of educational technologies during the coronavirus pandemic
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The author emphasizes the need for research to pay attention to the lives and work of language teacher educators, and offers forty research questions as an indication of possible future research directions.
In this decade, universities will build on their capacity to evolve and will become engines of societal change. They will provide an open, transformative space for common knowledge production through research, education, innovation and culture. Together with other societal stakeholders, they will shape the future of a knowledge-driven society.
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Young people deserve a chance to learn about climate change and AI and develop an informed opinion about the path forward and where they can make a difference.
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HIGHER education institutions (HEIs) in Malaysia, and indeed around the world, endured an unsettling past 10 months characterised by uncertainty around the reopening of campuses, resumption of face-to-face teaching, restrictions on travel and immigration, and changing regulatory guidance.
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New Pearson and Wonkhe research on students' learning experience finds that, despite their struggles with studying during Covid-19, students are open to flexible learning post-pandemic. Anna Jackson breaks down the findings.
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Edtech’s greatest promise is to widen access to education for everyone, no matter where they are in the world – something which has become an increasing priority during the pandemic.
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The point is, the lower the usage of technology in classrooms, the harder it is to teach 21st century skills. When academics ignore a future that is not just technology intensive, but dependent, our graduates go into life under-prepared (if not unprepared) to work, live, and thrive.
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The Index is composed of three ‘pillars’ – composite indicators developed to capture the different dimensions and challenges of digital learning: 1) Individual’s learning outcomes; 2) Availability of digital learning; and 3) Institutions and policies for digital learning. The report details the Index’s construction as well as results, alongside current trends in digitalisation of learning in Europe, providing timely policy pointers to European- and national-level policy makers.
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Imagine school as a series of community-connected projects and skill sprints that develop leadership, collaboration and problem solving skills. Imagine a web of supports that help you make the kind of contribution you’re capable of making.
Read our latest report in our annual series exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment. The reports are intended for teachers, trainers, policy makers, education consultants, academics, students, researchers, instructional designers, educational software developers – and indeed for anyone who is interested in pedagogical innovation and how education is changing.
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By Florencia Henshaw, Ph.D., Director of Advanced Spanish, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign As someone who gives workshops on technology integration and has a site with over 130 tech tools listed in it, one of the questions I am most frequently
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Omoguru dyslexia reading app helps adjust text appearance, make it clear, understandable and improve reading rhythm, focus and speed.
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The potential of technology to drive transformation and evolution in the education sector has always been apparent. Here are some of the facts and figures most relevant to online education.
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As educators and curators of educational technology we know that technology is a tool that complements instruction. As such, the strength of the tool is predicated on its use by a skillful educator. There are certainly some exciting and revolutionary innovations and technology as a tool can be quite powerful if it encourages creative discovery or reinforces foundational knowledge.
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Here, Bonner shares his thoughts on how VR makes it possible for students to have meaningful language learning opportunities, even during a global pandemic.
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In this complete guide to training evaluation models, we’ll give you an overview of some of the best frameworks in use today. We’ll highlight the similarities and differences between these models and illustrate the benefits and disadvantages of each approach. Hopefully, this will help you choose the right approach for your organization.
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We developed a program called Minecraft Master where students had to complete more than 40 different tasks. Tasks were closely linked to the school curriculum; for example, students have to create a navigable map, making use of language, mathematics and spatial design, something we asked them to do with Minecraft.
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The dilemma remains of how to annotate this handwritten homework while teaching remotely. While some course management systems have adequate notation tools that are built in, some do not, and other teachers do not have access to these tools. In this article I introduce you to one cheap (and one even cheaper) way to annotate homework.
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Believe it or not, this may be the easy part. The answer is to put the power and profit in the hands of the teachers themselves, and in turn, back into their communities. By building teacher cooperatives this can become reality.
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There was a noticeable decrease in motivation when the choice to stay online was announced. To combat this I felt it was my job as an instructor to try something to raise the spirits in the class. The activity was conducted over two lessons; the first was an asynchronous language focus lesson, while the second synchronous lesson consisted of the game play itself.
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A publication by MIT's J-PAL North America analyzes 126 rigorous studies to help decision-makers understand how education technology can help or hinder student learning.
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Teaching online effectively means understanding how to use digital tools and their place in remote education. Here’s what to know.
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When we think of critical thinking, we think of something bigger. When I teach students how to evaluate the argument in a set of newspaper editorials, I am hoping that they will learn to evaluate arguments generally, not just those that they read, and not just those that they would find in other editorials.
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Some very interesting points. Well worth the reading.