Education Elements

AUGUST 30, 2016

When we published Disrupting Class in 2008, we had no idea what it would help unleash. Innovation in our schools is critical so that we can personalize learning for each student’s distinct needs such that.

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The Innovative Educator

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

The post that got all the attention told people five steps they can take to develop their personal learning network. W ritten : October 12, 2008 Topic : Developing a PLN Who might be interested : Any teacher or student who enjoys learning from experts and others who share their passion. If so, how has it helped you learn?

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Waterford

AUGUST 6, 2021

Through UDL, educators recognize that barriers to learning come not from the student themselves but from environmental circumstances.[2] 2] The best way to address these barriers, according to UDL, is by using personalized learning strategies and promoting inclusion for all students. December 20, 2008. Reading Rockets.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In this way, hybrid learning can be considered a subset of blended learning. Why Use Blended and Hybrid Learning? Blended and hybrid classrooms both lead to personalized assignments, a technique that can lead to more effective learning. Personalized learning is better centered around the student’s needs.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning. For language learning: ChatGPT or similar models could be used to provide conversation practice and feedback to students learning a new language. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. Journal of Commerce and Instructional Technology, 2008, 8, pp.54-59. Non-natives could be considered “digital immigrants.” Keswani, B., and Banerjee, D.

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SETDA Says

JUNE 29, 2020

It is difficult to believe that it has been 13 years since SETDA’s 2008 journey in developing and publishing the Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education. This project included a Student Bill of Rights and a series of white papers (below). At that time, the critical topics that bubbled to the top were broadband access, […].

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Instead, schools ought to be taking these opportunities to do what Heather Staker and I described in Blended —offering a la carte online courses with great digital curriculum mixed with elements of the Flex or Individual Rotation models of blended learning that match the path and pace of each individual’s students’ learning needs.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2008, the Holly Square Shopping Center in northeast Denver was firebombed with molotov cocktails in gang-related arson. Before that I had worked at the Charter School Growth Fund with several of the early visionaries who supported the movement toward personalized learning. Five Most Critical Changes We Made. Teacher Roles.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

“ FY 2008 $267,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). National Educational Technology Trends Study: Local-Level Data Summary (SRI International, 2008). FY 2007 $273,100,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). Rationale: “ The Congress eliminated much of the program in 2006; the request would complete the process.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C. That made fiscal and pedagogical sense. Under the ed reform push to get public money in private hands, some very powerful people want teachers to shut up and do as we are told.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 4, 2020

Robin Lake and Bree Dusseault observed that only 16 of the 106 districts in their database are “still committed to opening the school year with in-person learning.” Colorado passed a law in 2008 that allowed districts to do this. As the Center on Reinventing Public Education noted last week, that’s changed.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Developing your Personal Learning Network (PLN). Next up is a checklist for effective professional learning opportunities where I outline those things that you want to ensure you do or experience at a learning event. Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Tennessee’s rural Putnam County School System was among the first to receive a district-level Blended Learning Universe designation. What is now a district-wide blended learning initiative began as an online credit-recovery program in 2008, said Sam Brooks, the district’s personal learning coordinator.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

We've been using their Week in Rap news feature in our school since they landed on the hip hop education or #HipHopEd scene in 2008! I'm even a proud MC Educator or Flocabulary # HipHopEd Ambassador. Not familiar with them? Check, check, check, it out! Murray Hill even earned a video shout out in 2013 ! We were SO proud!)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

It dates back to 2008, when an educational journey began in Wyoming that revealed the important role technology plays in enhancing teaching and learning—especially in a rural state. I’ve got some experience with this from the past eight years. 2016 Wyoming Google Summit.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

And one district in particular, the Putnam County School System in Cookeville , decided to push student ownership over higher education learning even further—with an extensive, dual-enrollment college credit program for high schoolers. Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator. We do have some distance learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

The program is aimed at helping students feel connected to each other and their community in a place where — as in so many rural areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic and the 2008 recession — connectedness and a shared sense of purpose have been in short supply.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

When McGraw-Hill published “ Disrupting Class ” in 2008, the education world was eager for Clay’s ideas and ready to learn from his teachings. After Tom Vander Ark read an early manuscript of the book and offered some pointed pushback, Clay disappeared for a weekend and returned with two brand new chapters he had drafted by himself.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Domenech has served as Executive Director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association since July 2008. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A. Dr. Daniel A. Domenech has more than 36 years of experience in public education, twenty-seven of those years served as a school superintendent. and assistant superintendent in Westport, Conn.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Personalize Dallas ISD @PersonalizeDISD. The Personalized Learning Team at the Dallas Independent School District has a great mission: to equip educators and their partners to personalize learning for kids! Can’t wait to see all the TASM members at #CAMT19 in about 3 hours for our summer business meeting.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning. A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0 The Network Society. London: Sage. Wheeler, S., Yeomans, P.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2015

A new paper by advocacy and policy org iNacol explores how blended learning is being used in practice and traces its history from 2008 to today. Students might rotate in the same physical classroom space, move to a computer lab, or independently switch activities based on personal learning goals.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Few technologists have championed the role of big data, personalized learning and many other education buzzwords as vociferously and for as long as Jose Ferreira. Ferreira, who founded the company in 2008, will remain on the company’s board of directors. So it comes as a surprise that the founder and CEO of.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 3, 2019

Today, higher-order-thinking skills are necessary not just for college but for nearly all citizenship and career demands (Wagner, 2008). November 8, 2010 What Shapes Your Learning? McLeod and Shareski dig deeper into this and note that these higher-order skills are not only beneficial to our students but necessary. Or, as Lauren B.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2015

Before the board of Vancouver Public Schools adopted the strategic plan for the district’s digital transformation in 2008, they did extensive public outreach to ensure that every community in the district had an opportunity to be heard. What’s happening at our district isn’t my vision,” remarks Webb. It isn’t the board’s vision.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

will use this profile to tailor the browsing experience to each individual (Strickland, 2008, para. will be able to search tags and labels and return the most relevant results back to the user (Strickland, 2008, para. is based on this understanding – a personalized, self-determined education. 2008, March 8). Siemens, G.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

“Schools are often looking at instructional uses,” said Thomas Arnett, a research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and author of a paper chronicling the efforts of these two organizations to co-develop classroom technology to support personalized learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

During visits to two schools in Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I was struck by how innovating where the alternative for students is nothing at all is still relevant, years after we wrote about the idea in “ Disrupting Class ” in 2008.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2016

One of my favorite examples of this kind of OEP began back in 2008 at the University of British Columbia, when a professor of Spanish decided to leverage the potential of OER by working with his students to improve and author Wikipedia articles related to Latin American literature.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

But publishers see that as an opportunity to use proprietary systems to provide a more than just open content—they utilize interactive and personalized learning environments and then package it with OER and try to make it affordable for students that way. We are looking ahead to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

In 2008, I was turned away from a major broadcasting network internship because I was told my hair was “too ethnic”. But although I was involved in many organizations at school, I was still harassed—for being athletic, for being African American, even just for being a girl. The bias didn’t end when I graduated.

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The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 22, 2019

VAMs and One-to-One computer initiatives are only two current “innovations” being done to school systems, and both require an immense amount of resources that have grown scarcer since the Great Recession of 2008. Will the current buzzwords such as “coding” and “personalized learning” be added to this heap of innovations?

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2019

The program is aimed at helping students feel connected to each other and their community in a place where — as in so many rural areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic and the 2008 recession — connectedness and a shared sense of purpose have been in short supply.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They also have the capacity to support personal learning. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 31, 2015

Me with Jay Cross and Graham Attwell, Salzburg 2008 In this series of short posts, I'm writing about my top ten selfies (including elsies and photobombs) with people who have inspired me or have influenced my thinking. Previous selfie posts can also be viewed on this blog.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

In 2008, I was turned away from a major broadcasting network internship because I was told my hair was “too ethnic”. But although I was involved in many organizations at school, I was still harassed—for being athletic, for being African American, even just for being a girl. The bias didn’t end when I graduated.

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