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Advanced Enabled Broadband Learning (ABEL) Assists Educators with 21st Century Learning


By Sarah Hayward


Imagine a classroom from the late 1980s. You can most likely conjure desks, pencils and chalkboards. What you won’t picture are interactive whiteboards, cell phones or tablets. It’s hard to believe today, but less than two decades ago computers were only slowly being introduced as teaching tools in the classroom and educators didn’t know exactly how or why to incorporate them into the teaching curriculum. In 2011, educators can still sometimes struggle with 21st century learning and how to adapt their teaching styles and curriculums to students who are becoming more technologically savvy at an increasingly younger age.


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