In addition to computers, students of today often have access to such tech as smart boards and tablets as learning aids. In fact, technology has become so integrated into education that many are looking to once-futuristic, now realistic tech such as augmented and virtual realities (AR and VR) to lead the way in the next-generation
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Wherever we are, we’d all like to think our classrooms are “intellectually active” places. Progressive learning (like our 21st Century Model, for example) environments. Highly-effective and conducive to student-centered learning. But what does that mean? The reality is, there is no single answer because teaching and learning are awkward to consider as single events or individual “things.” This
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ELearning Trends: Which You Should Definitely Follow Teaching methods have changed drastically over the years; from traditional classrooms and online webinars to high-tech methods using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR). Naturally, most eLearning entrepreneurs fancy jumping onto the bandwagon. Technology like this seems to be the silver bullet right now, but it’ll be
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation board board just released the results of the 2019 UTME. To check, the board has advised candidates to use the phone numbers they used to register to text ‘RESULT’ to 55019. The 2019 UTME was held from April 11 to April 18 with over 1.8 million registered candidates. The board’s
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If you ask a student what makes him or her successful in school, you probably won’t hear about some fantastic new book or video lecture series. Most likely you will hear something like, “It was all Mr. Jones. He just never gave up on me.” What students take away from a successful education usually centers
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Education is way more than sitting in a classroom. Unfortunately, it is often the same old story. Go to school. Read, write, learn math, history, science, and the searing pain of social rejection. Go home. Forget everything you learned. While having a specific course for each of these ‘subjects’ might be a long way off
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Being able to save money in school as a student is an entire skill in itself. Have you ever wondered how once you spend out of the N1000 on you, at the end of the day you are left with N100? We have all been there and this article is here to help you make
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Earlier this month California became the seventh state to adopt a new brand set of K-12 science outlines, dubbed Next Generation Science Standards, or NGSS. The “real world” approach to science mastery focuses on engineering, problem solving, modeling, and cause and effect experiments. Other states that are on-board with the science outlines are Maryland, Nevada, Kentucky,
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“You’re in engineering!?! Wow, you must be super-smart…” It has been over 10 years since I was a first-year engineering undergraduate student; but when I remember the time a fellow female student made this comment, I can still feel a visceral, bodily reaction: my muscles tense, my heart rate increases, my breath quickens. Comments like
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If you have not already started using Facebook in the classroom, now is the time. As teachers strive to keep their students engaged, Facebook is a unique tool that allows teachers and students to interact in a new way. As Kevin Hull explains, “As the most popular social networking website, especially among high school aged students, Facebook
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