Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 20, 2019

I am pleased to announce that my book chapter in Multimedia Learning Theory: Preparing for the New Generation of Students is now available! My chapter is titled Multimedia Learning and the Educational Leader. Multimedia learning and the educational leader. Jenlink & B. Knight (Eds.), Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

IXL Learning , a San Mateo, Calif.-based based provider of digital K-12 instructional and assessment tools has agreed to acquire Australian education technology company 3P Learning in an all-cash deal worth approximately AU $189 million, or approximately US $135 million. The transaction is subject to a shareholder vote.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 10, 2021

It is also a great way to learn more about the students we will be working with this year. Then guide them through the following process to support them in creating a vision board that is meaningful and motivating.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 20, 2013

I routinely speak about the need for students to produce learning artifacts that demonstrate conceptual mastery. These are facts, concepts, processes, procedures, and principles (Clark & Chopeta, 2004). Thus, artifacts are used in the learning process for creating knowledge, while in turn, knowledge creates new artifacts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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User Generated Education

MAY 23, 2016

Watch children, youth, and even adults when they are immersed in learning something of interest of them, and you will see often complete engagement and personal joy. It can be as simple as replicating real life learning in more formal schools. I have discussed this in my post Natural Versus Unnatural Learning. Wonderment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

See related article: Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee At this point, we have all heard about the learning gaps in math and reading scores these past few years. He is the author of Images of America: Sutton (2004) and Images of America: Millbury (2013). Key points: Alarming declines in civic scores demands new strategies.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 24, 2021

More than ever, schools realize that to facilitate learning in equitable ways, they must provide all learners with personalized supports. 2004) Getting Students to School: Using Family and Community Involvement to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism. Equity, primarily digital, might be at the top of the list. Epstein, J.L., & Dearing, E.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2004, as a new Ph.D., She shared that when he was in third grade, school officials had used a so-called discrepancy model that compared intelligence quotient (IQ) with reading performance to rule that he didn’t have a learning disability. “I One reason so many diagnoses are missed is that thousands of schools in the U.S.

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Learning Study Report Elementary 144

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 14, 2023

Experiential learning is one of the key pedagogical concepts that informs the modern philosophy of teaching. Defined by the process of learning through doing, reflection, and active engagement, experiential learning takes learners beyond traditional classroom boundaries, immersing them in real-world scenarios.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 13, 2020

Now in the age of COVID-19 the TGR Foundation and Discovery Education introduce the first module in a new series of no-cost digital professional learning resources, empowering educators with new strategies to support student success far beyond school campuses. Their award-winning curricula has already reached more than one million students.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2022

It’s summer time, and the learning is not easy. Summer learning programs from coast to coast have struggled to hire the number of staff needed to operate at full capacity, leading to limited slots and even closures among programs in Maine , Connecticut , Ohio , Georgia and other states. But teachers are exhausted. I’m still tired.” “We

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2023

This effort will support educators as they learn to incorporate renewable energy activities in their classrooms.” The workshops will include background on renewable energy and experience with curriculum and activities educators can use in the classroom to engage students in dynamic, hands-on learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 13, 2011

A slightly altered version of this post entitled "Learning Like Never Before" is cross-posted at the Huffington Post. When I came to New Milford High School in 2004 there were many amazing programs in place. This authentic learning experience cannot be reproduced in the classroom. One was the Holocaust Study Tour.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A child’s brain is capable of learning and growth that, if nurtured, can affect the trajectory of their entire academic career, and beyond. Brain-based learning can be one of the best ways to help kids reach their potential. But what is brain-based learning, and how can it impact your school? What is Brain-Based Learning?

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

It has no established center, and students were used to learning and working in that nonhierarchical, flexible space. When I ended the exercise and allowed them to reconfigure the space they were delighted–and had a new sense of the difference between fixed and mobile learning. They have to learn how to learn autonomously.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

In a 2004 paper, economist Jonah Rockoff, now at Columbia Business School, tracked how teachers improved over their careers and noticed that teachers were getting better at their jobs by leaps and bounds at first, as measured by their ability to raise their students’ achievement test scores. Old dogs do appear to learn new tricks.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Decades of solid research have laid the foundation for current studies that bring to light how we can improve teaching, learning, and leadership. As Tom Murray and I highlighted in Learning Transformed , this research has been taken to heart by schools across the world as they have transformed learning while improving results in the process.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2017

From 2004 through 2008, I basically rubber-stamped the status quo while adding a splash here and there of technology. The informal learning in digital spaces taught me about the real role technology could play in our transformational process. Does technology support high-level learning?

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EdTech Social Media Learning Outcomes 150

EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Our innate capacity to learn, to think, to create, and adapt endowed us with the evolutionary advantages necessary to become one of the most successful organisms on the planet. If you’re a trainer, you fight this process every time you engage a new hire, every time you learn a skill yourself, and every time you teach your child something new.

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Waterford

JULY 30, 2023

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. 2004, November). The Effects of Comprehensive Parent Engagement on Student Learning Outcomes. Redding, S.,

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How To Strategy Survey Training 259

Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 22, 2018

“The adolescent mind is essentially a mind or moratorium, a psychosocial stage between childhood and adulthood, and between the morality learned by the child, and the ethics to be developed by the adult” ( Erikson, 1963, p. I began teaching teenagers in 2004 in Texas. Motivating Teens to Learn English from Shelly Sanchez Terrell.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 16, 2021

There are many ideas for how teachers can learn and grow their practice, but it is more effective doing what has been research-proven. Whether in PLCs (professional learning communities) or grade team meetings, educators learn from each other when collaborating. Teachers are motivated to learn from their own videos.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We came away wondering why people don’t talk more about this bit of recent edtech history, and what lessons could still be learned from it. So remind us what Google did back around 2004. Schonfeld is a longtime leader in the library community and is a program director at Ithaka S+ R a nonprofit education consultancy.

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Libraries Google EdTech Accessibility 218

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

They know that when it comes to learning and productivity, space matters. An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Case Study 143

American Consortium for Equity in Education

OCTOBER 10, 2022

(Friday, October 7, 2022) — Discovery Education and select social impact partners are offering engaging, high-quality digital learning resources to students and teachers to support observances of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Established in 2004 by Congress, Cybersecurity Awareness Month seeks to raise.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

SCORM put forward specific ways and methods for creating effective and efficient learning management systems. Hence, if an eLearning course is published in the SCORM format, an internationally accepted format, it will be recognized by all learning management systems (LMS). This is where SCORM comes into play.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As it turns out, mistakes are integral to the learning process. Students, however, don’t always understand the full learning potential of their mistakes.[5] But if we can help students redefine what a mistake is, we can teach them a valuable lesson about improvement and learning. What’s the key to learning from mistakes?

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Differentiated Instruction Learning Strategy Study 176

eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2022

2004 seems so far away now, but it was the year when the US National Commission of Writing published a report revealing the importance of writing skills for getting a job and building a career.

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Social Media Report Technology How To 109

Waterford

MARCH 31, 2020

Because approximately 1 in 59 students are diagnosed with autism, learning how to help students with this disorder in the classroom is so important.[1] 1] Teaching young students with autism communication skills and learning strategies makes it all the more likely that they’ll reach their academic potential later on. Name Game [3].

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Strategy Resources Elementary Examples 345

Ditch That Textbook

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

But we’re here, and teaching and learning look very different. When I started teaching in 2004, there was one computer in [.]. And I know there’s a chance that the term “21st Century” might rub you the wrong way. At least they have the potential to.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

I learned that not only did I need to understand their uniqueness, but I also needed to work with them to build their capacity to advocate for themselves. Student agency has two components: (1) knowing yourself as a learner, and (2) explaining, creating, or asking for what you need to meet your learning needs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2015

We need learning to happen. Teachers who experience close relationships with students reported that their students were less likely to avoid school, appeared more self-directed, more cooperative and more engaged in learning (Birch & Ladd, 1997; Decker, Dona, & Christenson, 2007; Klem & Connell, 2004).”

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techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Today, IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform, announced it has acquired ABCya , the creator of more than 400 educational computer games and apps for kids. Since 2004, ABCya has provided students from pre-K to 5th grade with access to hundreds of educational games and apps.

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IXL Learning Game-Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Learning 43

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2017

John Hattie’s meta-study, Visible Learning (2009), changed the way we think about what works in the classroom. However, all of these great practices were so numerous and time-consuming that successfully implementing visible learning was often overwhelming for teachers—but can today’s technology mitigate those time concerns?

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