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Online learning and the use of technology is becoming more popular and more prominent in classrooms.
With this boost of electronics incorporated with traditional methods for providing an education, teachers are discussing the benefits and disadvantages that this blending brings. Here, we’ve provided some insight into the latest technology trends to look out for in the classroom or to discuss with your teens. Do you think it’s adding value or distracting the students? Marketplace K-12 has the latest information:
Six different kinds of technology and tech practices—some of them familiar to most educators, others not as much—are likely to become increasingly important in K-12 systems over the next few years, a new report predicts.
The Horizon Report’s 2013 K-12 Edition, the fifth in a series focused on pre-college education, discusses those tech tools, which include those meant for use by individual students and those designed to change the digital makeup of entire schools and districts. It also describes barriers that are likely get in the way of effective use of technology.
The report was released by the New Media Consortium, an international organization focused on educational technology, as well as the Consortium for School Networking and the International Society for Technology in Education. Its findings are based on the opinions and analyses of school and college tech officials, business representatives from companies around the world, among others. To read more of the original article, click here.
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