Reading By Example

JULY 16, 2020

If you want to read more about choice, I recommend the 2004 book The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz). But with students learning at-home, all students may not have access to the same text, if they are lucky to have any kind of book at home. And if the student is fortunate enough to gain access to the chosen text?

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Study Company Accessibility Student Engagement 89

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

To get her son even modified access to the regular kindergarten curriculum, Barlow would need to show that his potential to learn exceeded his test scores. To this day, some schools, like Lester’s, withhold access to sufficient academic instruction for many children with low IQs, said Kentucky parent and lawyer Barlow. “It

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Assessment Policies Accessibility Report 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2004, as a new Ph.D., With the right kind of instruction, most children with dyslexia can learn how to read. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I

Learning 144

Learning Study Report Elementary 144

Waterford

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

9,16] If educators are unaware how to teach and support multicultural students, they will fail to reach a significant portion of their school. How to Improve Your Cultural Competency as a Teacher. Urban Education, 2004, 39(3), pp. Today, over 26 million students in the United States come from a marginalized background.[17]

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Strategy Education Elementary Libraries 200

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

I introduced some historical context, describing how mobile phones swept most of the world in the 1990s as countries leapfrogged telephone networks, while the United States came late to the game, as we had relative fine telephony and ample computing access. They have to learn how to learn autonomously.

Laptops 95

Laptops Mobility Learning Smartphone 95

Digital Promise

JUNE 25, 2018

For many, these services are provided under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 ( IDEA ). High school is a great time for a student to learn how to monitor what’s useful and what’s not. A team of professionals work with the student’s family or guardians to develop an Individualized Education Program (IEP).

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Secondary Accessibility Strategy Meeting 124

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Established in 2004 by Congress, Cybersecurity Awareness Month seeks to raise awareness about cybersecurity and online safety. million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Discovery Education is the worldwide?EdTech?leader

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Resources STEM Education Digital Citizenship 52

MIND Research Institute

JUNE 13, 2017

And that’s what makes the perception-action cycle so valuable: it is the natural, auto matic way we make sense of the world around us, and decide how to live in that world. When they viewed the dance video, their brain accessed that information even though they weren’t moving. Sources and Further Reading: Fuster, Joaquin (2004).

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Learning Training Examples iPad 93

Educator Innovator

MAY 4, 2020

This article details the ways in which one educator, Rachel (a pseudonym), redesigned her AP English curriculum to support students in reading a variety of texts using a “Youth Lens” (Petrone, Sarigianides, & Lewis, 2004).

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Analysis Study Course Report 73

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

If the first wave of MOOCs was about granting unprecedented numbers of students access to high-quality teaching and learning materials, Wave 2 needs to focus on creating a sense of intimacy within that massiveness. In creating online learning platforms, we scaled the equivalent of open schools without first learning how to build classrooms.

Online Learning 122

Online Learning MOOC Learning Case Study 122

MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

Fuster, 2004; Schneider & Chein, 2003), schemas and heuristics (e.g., Dietrich, 2004), to name a few. It is grounded in neuroscientific and cognitive research, drawing from a wide range of domains including topics such as automatic and controlled processes (e.g., Summative Research. References: Dietrich, A. Fuster, J.

EdTech 40

EdTech eBook Study Assessment 40

Waterford

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

14] Because of the way childhood trauma affects the brain, it can seriously inhibit a child’s well-being—especially if the child has no access to support. 4] That way, they have a better picture of what their students are dealing with and how to help. Journal of Community Psychology, September 2004, 32(5), pp. Flannery, D.J.,

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Examples Survey System Study 189

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. 51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform.

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Meeting Elementary Training Common Core 0

techlearning

JULY 19, 2018

This journey started in 2004. Emerging ideas can be accessed and explored more quickly. And like blogging, I realize only a handful will continue but I want to expose them to the power of sharing their own research/learning via blogging and how to find others who do as well via Feedly. I don’t use RSS the way I did in 2004.

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Facebook Social Media Twitter Software 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

Six Florida high school students are spending this year at the prestigious Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience , learning data science techniques and how to use them to analyze images of the brain. The Max Planck Academy, then, will be an expansion of a model FAU High School started in 2004, when it opened with just seven students.

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Data Trends Report Course 63

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Like much of rural America, Garfield County is on the wrong side of the “homework gap” — a stubborn disparity in at-home broadband that hinders millions of students’ access to the array of online learning, collaboration and research tools that are enjoyed by their better-connected peers. Going without isn’t an option.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Mobility 83

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We EdSurge spoke with Dirkin about how an LMS can make professional learning more affordable and personalized and keep master teachers engaged—as well as what professional learning might look like in the future.

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LMS Professional Learning Learning Handbook 84

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. Another problem less well discussed is the challenge of accessibility. How to grow its functionality?

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike. users moved from just accessing information and content to being able to directly interact with the content through commenting, remixing, and sharing it via social networks.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Champions, mentors, and peer coaches must develop their understanding of building helping relationships, effective teaching practices, effective coaching practices, and how to work with adults.12 Yet, the wealth of knowledge and experience that can be accessed through well structured professional development and collaboration opportunities.

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Examples Strategy Technology Study 61

Learning With Lucie

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Gmail was introduced in 2004 and Google Docs in 2008) I feel very fortunate to have been in some of those early conversations with Vermont educators like Lauren Parren and David Gibson who were leading the way creating tools for personalized learning. Feel free to subscribe to this blog if you want to be notified of the next in the series.

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Personalized Learning Google Tools Learning 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

The Edublog Awards is a community-based initiative started in 2004 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes. How Does It Work?

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Wiki Social Media Twitter Mobility 52

EdTechTeam

JULY 10, 2018

The only thing teachers should have to think or wonder about concerning technology is how to use it to amplify their lessons, make learning experiences meaningful, and make student thinking visible. Not everyone understands how to use technology in ways that move education forward.

Chromebook 43

Chromebook Policies Technology Study 43

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I urged universities to develop new strategies that were based upon digital technologies to widen access, increase quality and generally subscribe to the idea that students need no longer attend traditional lectures to achieve quality learning outcomes (Wheeler, 2004). Wheeler, S. Journal of Educational Media 26(1), 7-18. Wheeler, S.

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Education Conference Technology Online Learning 61

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

We can show our students and classroom teacher partners how to set up feeds, alerts and curation tools based on their information needs–to have information pushed to them. More and more articles are now published in the indexed open access journals. My LJ TOC update. Current awareness is now an end-user activity.

Tools 40

Tools Microsoft Libraries Secondary 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat,” said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes.

Broadband 88

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 88

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable.

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Report Dropout Examples Analysis 86

Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Unfortunately, I still haven't figured out how to include my word graphics into blogger and since I don't have a lot of time to figure it out, it will just have to be left out of this post. Once created, individual, groups, departments, or the organization can control the dissemination and access to a larger number of people.

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Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Early Adopters: “Describe the value in it and how to do it and I am all in!” Accessed 17 Apr. Accessed 17 Apr. Innovators must be able to cope with a high degree of uncertainty about an innovation at the time of adoption. Innovators are risk takers, they learn from failure like a gamer. Retrieved from: [link] 8# Greenhalgh, T.,

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Maker Movement System Examples Game-Based Learning 55

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Here''s the announcement from the official Edublog Awards site : The Edublog Awards is a community based incentive started in 2004 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes.

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Social Media Wiki Blackboard Libraries 34

Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

I urged universities to develop new strategies that were based upon digital technologies to widen access, increase quality of provision and generally subscribe to the idea that students need no longer attend traditional lectures to achieve quality learning outcomes (Wheeler, 2004).

Conference 51

Conference Technology Online Learning Strategy 51

Connecting 2 the World

MAY 26, 2011

However, with the rise in the use of distributed groups in the workplace, there is the recognition that knowledge that is distributed in the form of distributed cognition, may not be accessed in the same way that traditional organizational structures allowed. Know-How Many of the definitions were similar for know-how.

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Study Groups Training Report 63

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

Every time I meet up with her I'm impressed by her energy and drive, and her ability to come up with new and exciting ideas on how to engage learners. Another ‘innovative’ project would have been ESMOS – a European project that I directed/coordinated from 2004-2007. I changed the focus from VLEs to open blogs, wikis etc.

Social Media 58

Social Media Mobility Assessment Wiki 58

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2022

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ” taught me how Germans and Jews lived in Nazi Germany. The film “ The Impossible ” showed me the devastating consequences of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Southeast Asia. Doing so will create more welcoming and accessible classrooms to students most impacted by inequality.

How To 81

How To Study Report Student Engagement 81

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Whitmore Lake’s school board and administration would be dissolved in the deal, but its students would gain access to opportunities such as additional Advanced Placement classes and foreign languages. We had to figure out how to survive.”. million grant to help with transition costs (substantially less than the $4.1 million annually.

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Report Elementary System Data 84

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

According to UNESCO, if all the world’s children could be taught how to read, 171 million people would be lifted out of poverty without any further intervention. Studies have indicated that access to books reverses the impact on reading scores associated with poverty. (5, Independence and access matters, too. Krashen 2004.

Outcomes 227

Outcomes Libraries Accessibility Trends 227

MIND Research Institute

MAY 26, 2022

So how can we make math learning more intuitive and accessible for students? To illustrate just how our brain learns new things, draw on your existing schema of a laboratory. That’s what makes the perception-action cycle so valuable: it is the default way we make sense of the world around us and decide how to live in this world.

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STEM Outcomes Data Analysis 52