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Taking Schools and Education to Another Level With Digital Publishing

A Principal's Reflections

This is extremely relevant as about 1/3 of Americans and 760 million people globally will own a tablet in 2016. If so many people are going to own a tablet device in the near future, it is imperative that schools and educators make content discoverable and share it. This statistic has major implications for schools.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

ED Surge

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment.

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Purdue University Suspends Income-Share Agreements, Its Loan Alternative

ED Surge

Purdue University, which has championed income-share agreements as an alternative to traditional student loans, is hitting the pause button on enrollments into its Back a Boiler program. A switch from ISA servicer Vemo Education to Launch Servicing, which won’t create new income-share agreements but will manage existing ones.

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With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’

ED Surge

The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. The design interface comes from VictoryXR, a company that sells virtual-reality education technology.

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How States Can Take a Grassroots Approach to Training More Bilingual Teachers

ED Surge

“We do have many bilingual students who just don’t envision themselves being a bilingual teacher, and that’s where bilingual education has an opportunity to expand on the knowledge and assets that students have,” Cervantes-González says, “so that they see it as an opportunity and not a barrier to apply their language in a school setting.”

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I DeVonté Trask, 11.

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Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

The Hechinger Report

Using Basecamp software has pushed my accelerated students more than I expected, because they have so much to grab onto, more than I could ever provide in a traditional classroom.”. Otherwise, all you’ll be doing is taking traditional instruction and putting it online — not particularly helpful to struggling learners.”.