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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

ED Surge

AR can be used in the classroom to create interactive learning experiences that enhance traditional instruction. As you select a witness, you learn more about history and have language arts stitched in with reading comprehension. It gives humanities a relevant context.”

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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

ED Surge

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

ED Surge

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. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

The Hechinger Report

Jaisalmer, India — Once a year, history lecturer Vijay Kumar Ballani and his colleagues go door-to-door in this rural village, imploring parents to send their children to a cinderblock complex that lacks classroom space, bathrooms and desks. “A small project can have a global impact,’’ Daube said. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

The Hechinger Report

Traditional bilingual education essentially lets students use their first language while they learn English. Student work hung up in a classroom at Washington Elementary School celebrates Mexican food and traditions. Viviana Valerio, a kindergarten teacher, said that history made bilingual education an intimidating proposition.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Fueling the reforms and the funding behind them are a projected shortage of workers with the necessary degrees to fill the jobs of the future, a public backlash in response to budget cuts made during the recession and a concern that the state had been abandoning its long tradition of high-quality, low-cost education.

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