Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2019

In 2002 Joan Hughes (now at the University of Texas-Austin) and I received a large federal grant to create the first graduate program in the country designed to prepare technology-savvy school leaders. Announcing the Jeffco 11 educational leadership blog. I’ve done this twice before. Four cohorts of students went through the U.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Pamela Cantor knows first-hand how a child’s environment and early experiences can affect their educational outcomes. There, she learned “not just the stuff about how our lungs and hearts work, but how we love, how we attach, how we nurture and, most of all, how we heal,” she told an audience of about 500 education leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

2003), and technology (Kafai & Resnick, 2002; Todd, 1999) suggest that design thinking skills are not merely extras, but can in fact aid students in core subject areas as well as building cognitive and social skills (Carroll et al., Work in mathematics (Goldman et al., 1998), science (Kolodner et al.,

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 18, 2021

During the pandemic, many educators used pen tablets and blank presentation slides or online whiteboards to replace their in-classroom whiteboard when they were presenting from home. I am not an artist, but I do mark-up presentations, sometimes even when I am presenting live! The thing about Wacom pen tablets is they continue to work forever!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Council for Aid to Education, Inc. CAE), a leading provider of performance-based, authentic assessments measuring essential college and career readiness skills, announced it joined the Education Research and Development Institute (ERDI).

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

Music and art have always played an integral role in education, fostering creativity, enhancing cognitive skills, and bringing joy to the learning environment. For more educational visuals, check out our Classroom Posters section! Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education. References Eisner, E.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. Now, the number of college students graduating with a humanities major has fallen for the eighth straight year to under 200,000 degrees in 2020, according to federal data from t he Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. See graph above.).

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2022

Many parents and education leaders alike hoped this would be the catalyst for ending high-stakes testing entirely, or at least shift the focus toward assessments that drive better supports for students. Nonetheless, schools around the country are once again preparing to head into another round of spring standardized testing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Although it costs state, local and federal governments an estimated $90 billion a year, we know very little about whether special education services are actually helping students with disabilities learn more. Asians who received special education reaped the largest academic gains from the services.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

On the opposite side is Erthal (2002) who found that third graders do not possess the manual dexterity required for keyboarding, and Hopkins (1998) who considered fourth grade an appropriate age for the commencement of formal keyboarding. This conclusion was reinforced by Feutz (2001).

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is a podcast for all education trailblazers seeking the cutting edge of professional growth. As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

We applaud the Biden administration for taking this important and profound first step toward investing in children’s early experiences and education, a key mechanism for strengthening the economy and improving the lives of American families. Support for early education and care can’t stop at critical, short-term financial relief.

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 15, 2024

It felt like a typical night for a Black student activist at Syracuse University back in 2002. While getting my credentials in computer science, I was getting an education on myself and people who were in the same racial caste as me. To move about the world as if love will win, we have to start by loving ourselves.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Casserly, Executive Director of the Council, to select an educator pursuing a graduate-level education degree to receive a $10,000 scholarship. Curriculum Associates partnered with the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) to sponsor the first-ever Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice.

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EmergingEdTech

JUNE 2, 2021

The term ‘Gamification' was coined by computer programmers in 2002 and became trendy in 2009 thanks to Foursquare. By 2011, gamification was considered a buzzword when Gartner added it to its. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

We must also support educators with the knowledge and skills to use technology in powerful ways to improve student engagement, critical thinking, problems solving, collaboration, and more. Review of Educational Research, 88(4), 547-588. To learn more about our findings, read the full report. 2 Kraft, M. Blazar, D., & Hogan, D.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

There are already educational institutions using virtual reality to place learners in a real-life scenario to apply their knowledge and skills. In fact, virtual reality simulation training is being used to recreate a hospital ward for student nurse education (Elliman, Loizou, and Loizides, 2016). References. Elliman, J., 2016.7590377.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2017

I finished my undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts in 2002. Katharine McAllister has been a TEFL teacher since 2002. Katharine, can you please tell us a little bit about your background? I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. About Katharine.

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More Verbs

MARCH 18, 2016

The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI ) have been in place since 2002 and has certainly helped close the Digital Access Divide in Maine. The true value of laptops and tablets in schools is not learning to use the technology, but rather using the technology to learn. We need to help close the Digital Learning Divide.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Now is also a time to reflect on what educational technology tools U.S. trillion in American Internet infrastructure have helped to improve broadband speed by 660 times since 2002. The three Ts: Thanksgiving, turkey and tech. school districts are thankful for this year. Chromebooks. However, investments of over $1.5

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

This is especially true when migrating from an education terrain into a work or HR terrain – where employers and their HR teams have not made the nuanced distinction between digital skills and digital literacy, that are made in the education sector. Load and interact with smart phone apps. Digital Citizen.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

In the study of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Mrs. Westbrook’s class discussions have centered on the playwright’s purpose – a purpose the famous author described in a 2002 interview we use as our informational text for the lesson.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 26, 2021

“This group was assembled by Anderson and Krathwohl and included people with expertise in the areas of cognitive psychology, curriculum and instruction, and educational testing, measurement, and assessment. The group redefining Bloom’s original concepts, worked from 1995-2000. The Definition Of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Michael Fullan, 2002, p. First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement.

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The Thinking Stick

APRIL 20, 2016

A quick 30 minute conversation about the Palm Pilot program I rolled out in Saudi Arabia in 2002, Gamification of Education and Global Education. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to chat with The Edupreneur Podcast. Always a great time talking with students.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

For the past twenty years, I’ve heard this question asked many times about online education. Research about online education. An abundance of studies have examined online education. An objective review published by the American Educational Research Association ( How Does Distance Education Compare with Classroom Instruction?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 19, 2017

million of them have gone to workers with at least some college education. Between 1970 and 2002, the probability that a working-age American would unexpectedly lose at least half her family income more than doubled. Since 2010, the economy has added 11.6 million jobs—and 11.5

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 26, 2021

Research investigating how such fear develops suggests that a lack of motivational or cognitive support paired with a high demand for correctness from the teacher can lead to students avoiding math probably because they want to avoid showing incompetence in class (Ashcraft, 2002; Turner et al., Department of Education guidelines (Boyce et al.,

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

In the fall of 2002, the Oakland Athletics shattered a 55-year-old record with twenty consecutive games won. When we set out to design an engaging kickball unit for our middle school students, we asked ourselves how we could learn from the 2002 A’s. By applying rich data analysis to the sport, a practice known as sabermetrics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2021

Fang is aware of what she’s up against in Naviance, which was founded in 2002 and says it is used by over 13 million students across 13,000 schools. Naviance was recently acquired by PowerSchool , which is the most widely used provider of student information systems and other education data services in K-12 schools and districts.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ). Our country has long called for raising standards for teachers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Council for Aid to Education, Inc. CAE), a leading provider of performance-based educational assessments measuring 21 st century skills, as well as custom assessments, today announced the appointment of Stacey Sparks to senior director of content design and development. To learn more, please visit www.cae.org.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Concepts”, “understanding”, and their combination for “conceptual understanding” have more than one definition in an educational context. As educators, we work toward a clear distinction of the concepts within our subject, but we often turn a blind eye to students’ prior knowledge. Approaches to teaching and learning.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

From a young age, she was bright and had a strong appreciation for education. After winning the lawsuit, all schools in California were desegregated, and Mendez has continued to advocate for every child’s right to education. She continued this work until her death in 2002 from liver cancer. “We Sylvia Mendez. Roberto Clemente.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. Some schools have begun to experiment, and a few are well down the road to adopting and using online education as a viable supplement, or even replacement for face to face teaching.

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