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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

She began her popular blog Cool Cat Teacher in 2005, and in 2017 she launched a podcast, 10-Minute Teacher Show. While earning her degree, she focused her research on digital citizenship in secondary schools. . Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Facebook: [link].

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Teachers College Record, October 2005, 107(10), pp. Family engagement can also decrease levels of chronic absenteeism in schools. Cooper, C.W., and Bryan, J.

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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

eSchool News

In Steve Jobs’ memorable 2005 commencement address at Stanford, he shared a story about “connecting the dots.” Recent survey data shows that 90 percent of secondary students are part of a 1:1 device program. These four lessons learned from this past year really get into the subconscious to discover how we feel about AI in our schools.

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Want to Rethink Education After COVID-19? Creative Solutions Mean Taking More Risks

Edsurge

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina literally washed away the New Orleans public school system. Elementary and secondary schools should safely bring back their special needs, English learners and youngest students with rapid testing and mask-wearing bubbles. Organizational change in education is often preceded by an action forcing event.

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Becoming A No Bullying Champion

Battelle for Kids

In 2005, Yale professor Walter Gilliam, shocked anyone listening that 3 year-olds were being expelled at 3 times the rate of children in kindergarten through grade twelve. Over 3 million elementary and secondary school students are suspended a year, and 28% of middle and high school students report being bullied at school.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

Robert obtained their Master of Science degree in Engineering from Boise State University between 2002 and 2005. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education – Science at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1993.

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On the Impossibility of the Community-based Production of Learning Content

Iterating Toward Openness

Back in 2005 I was blessed with the opportunity to commission a short paper from Yochai Benkler (who did much of the first serious work on the economics of open source software development, e.g., Coase’s Penguin and Sharing Nicely ) in conjunction with a keynote talk he gave at OpenEd that year. ” It got me thinking.

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