Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Deeper knowledge of content and how to teach it : Training teachers solely in new techniques and behaviors will not work.

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

And then capturing that data and being able to give feedback to teachers, to parents, to the system as a whole about how reading progress is happening. And that’s the thing we started doing back in 2003, which has grown and evolved. Teachers teach you how to make it better, and over a few years you get to something that’s pretty good.

Company 66

Company EdTech Personalized Learning Laptops 66

The Daring Librarian

JUNE 11, 2011

Time to beg, cajole, tease, torture (audibly), and plead to get our Library Media materials back. Some of my kids might not return a book because they LOVE it and they can''t buy it to keep for their personal libraries. Which I blogged about more last year and about how Bella is a typical MARY SUE trope fan fiction wannabe!

Wiki 43

Wiki Libraries Video Course 43

MindShift

MAY 13, 2015

So many of his students lack what Fernandez calls a “template” — or map for how to get to that future desired place — and this exercise provides examples of real people who have found their way. Isay began StoryCorps in 2003 after years of producing radio documentaries that relied on dialogues for content.

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Libraries Exercises Social Media Mobility 28

MindShift

DECEMBER 31, 2018

release, it found a place on the list of most challenged books compiled by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. The series had a steady presence on this list and even topped it at times, through 2003. A year after the first book’s U.S.

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Classroom STEM Libraries Elementary 42

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unlike other popular math practice sites, such as Khan Academy, IXL or ALEKS, in which a computer controls the content, ASSISTments keeps the control levers with the teachers, who pick the questions they like from a library of 200,000. Teachers are restricted to the math problems that Heffernan’s team has uploaded to the ASSISTments library.

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Khan Academy Study Report Software 125

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

I remember as a teacher checking out stacks of professional development books from the library and reading them poolside in the summer over my break and creating new activities to do with my kids. . I don’t adhere to expectations and norms about how I should be using my time. Leading by example is always my intention.

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Training Social Media Classroom System 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He wanted to learn how to fly an airplane, only not too far off the ground, because heights were scary. Johnson was opening outside the traditional public system not to create some kind of segregated fiefdom but because that’s where she knew how to run a great school. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs.

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Report Libraries Elementary System 102

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. You'll need to pay for each course, but once you do it'll be in your library forever. Note: The template is linked near the bottom of the article.)

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Resources Classroom Social Media Video 80

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!), Please join us!

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

Reinventing spaces—designing flexible classroom spaces and turning a library into a learning commons with flexible seating and mobile bookshelves. MacLean’s district shed some traditional grading schema to address learning during COVID and is exploring how to continue providing alternate ways to assess learners.

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Chromebook Future Ready Google System 98

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. Their answers to that question, and their own stories, make incredibly compelling listening for those trying to figure out how to move forward as traditional school models have been disrupted.

Learning 48

Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Political classrooms “seek to teach young people to see each other as political equals and to inculcate them into the practice of reason-giving and considering how their views and behaviors affect others.” In political classrooms, students learn how to discuss topics that have multiple, competing views, and practice listening and questioning.

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Classroom Study Comparison Groups 69

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via Wired : “The New FCC Chairman’s Plan to Undermine Net Neutrality.” ” Immigration and Education.

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

In her 2003 book “ The Language Police ,” education historian Diane Ravitch contends that “every textbook has a point of view, despite a facade of neutrality.” But you need to teach them how to think.” Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history.

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Analysis Pearson Course Libraries 211

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

6) (Note: Most of these tasks could authentically be taught in our libraries during the natural course of any inquiry project.). Experts know how to seek authoritative voices but also recognize that unlikely voices can be authoritative, depending on need. Frank Baker on libraries and media literacy. Sandy and media literacy.

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Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40