By: Michael Smith & Georgia Bozeday Ed.D. This past May, millions of students across America graduated from high school and many of these students will be heading off to 4‑year college or university in the coming weeks. This transition often fills students (and their parents!) with a mix of excitement and anxiety. In college, students have more control over their
I want to start this blog post with a simple word problem…(some of you may know this one. 😉) At a local sporting goods store, a Bat and a Baseball cost a total of $1.10 The Bat costs one dollar more than the Ball How much does the Ball cost? The answer is 10 cents, right? Let’s do the math… If the Ball costs 10
Qualities of a Successful Student By: Michael Smith, Senior Education Specialist at RNBC What are the qualities of a successful student? Take a minute to answer that question in your head or grab some scratch paper and make a list. Here is a list of responses that I have received from middle and high school students when asked this exact question during
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In their article, It’s Not About the Tools, Mehta et. al. (2019) suggest that effective ed-tech training for teachers must go beyond merely providing instruction on how to use the latest piece of educational software a school has acquired. Technology is changing and evolving so rapidly today, focusing our attention on learning the features of a specific app or web-based