April 02, 2013 — Richard Culatta, of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology and keynote speaker at the EETC conference, says the idea of personalizing and individualizing education using technology is powerful, allowing for more autonomy and individual choice as students work toward proficiency. Technology’s efficacy should be measured on new models that reinvent learning.
Supporting Multilingual Learners in Early Elementary Education
In the United States, ten percent of all students–roughly five million students total–come from multilingual households. Multilingual students speak more than one language and need