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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. Heather Brantley, an instructional technologist and teacher at a Texas junior high school, recognizes the value of integrating augmented reality tools into her lessons.

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Student ed tech entrepreneurs argue they know what classrooms need

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: “They don’t really understand that I don’t want to use Instagram for the classroom,” Brandon said. Some of those things can be more engaging than your traditional, boring dashboard, but at the end of the day, I want to do my Instagram on Instagram.”. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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Middle school’s moment: What the science tells us about improving the middle grades

The Hechinger Report

Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments,” said Ratliff. “A Scientists have long known that the human brain develops more rapidly between birth and the age of 3 than at any other time in life. The Adolescent Brain.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

She remembers being named valedictorian of her junior high, and as a result winning a scholarship to St. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed). 6 for the virtual ceremony that will replace the traditional in-person pinning ceremony. She became the family translator. Plenty of obstacles await.

Economics 113
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Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them

The Hechinger Report

When asked in a survey about the monitoring and sanctioning of residential schools, the Pennsylvania Department of Education told Hechinger/HuffPost to contact the state Department of Human Services. But she was hoping that her cousins would foster her, and she could attend the high school near them. Another foster student, M.S.,

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