eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

I began at OCPS as a first-grade teacher before joining the district’s teaching and learning team, where I helped plan our five-year 1:1 device rollout for 280k students. In August 2023, I transitioned from teaching and learning to IT. By the time the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we were almost done with the rollout.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

At ISTE 2015, Common Sense Education will provide a sneak preview of the latest version of Graphite, designed to help educators learn fundamental edtech teaching skills. Learn more here about their Marriott Lightning Sessions and raffle and follow @commonsenseedu & @graphite on Twitter. Connect with CDW*G during ISTE 2015.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2015

At CUE 2015, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) unveiled Securing the Connected Classroom: Technology Planning to Keep Students Safe. outline a new process for education leaders to follow to develop a secure environment for learning with technology. In their second book on the subject, authors Abbie H.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Project Tomorrow is celebrating Speak Up America Week 2014 this week with opportunities for schools and classrooms to win prizes and grants by participating in this year''s Speak Up surveys. After winning the $500 prize last year, I purchased an XYZ 3D printer to integrate STEM into my classroom. Today’s findings are about teachers.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Each mission in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom , shares an example of the Mission in Action by a teacher I admire. I caught up with this week and asked him to share insight into the process of students creating digital textbooks.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

The purpose of this workshop is to help administrators and teachers assess when higher-order thinking skills and student agency factors are (or are not) present in classroom uses of technology by students and teachers. Participant device prerequisites. Purpose and objectives. and quickly discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each. |

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Kelly Gallagher , Digital Learning Specialist at St. Beth Holland: The Future of Learning. Tom Daccord: Days, Weeks, Months: Building 1:1 Classrooms. Avra Robinson: Digital Portfolios. werner (@MaineSchoolTech) October 22, 2015. Jonathan Werner , President-Elect of the ISTE Librarians Network. jonathan r.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative, Digital Promise Global is launching two new programs that celebrate teachers and schools who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. Powerful use of technology contributes to closing the Digital Learning Gap.

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techlearning

APRIL 22, 2015

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Today we are excited to announce the release of our first annual 2015 State of the States report on Internet connectivity in America’s K-12 public schools. million teachers now have the broadband they need to deliver a 21st century digital education. Provide every classroom with robust Wi-Fi.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

This post is part of a series of conversations with thought leaders deeply-rooted in dialogue about courseware for digital learning. Why Research Fails in the Classroom. Gates Bryant: Courseware is central to personalized learning, but the discovery and procurement process seems confounding. Other posts include.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

In the C&I department, Katie supervises a team of 15+ instructional design coaches that serve about 20 school districts, oversees a national coach mentorship program, and also created and oversees Edge•U Badges, an anytime anywhere professional learning program for educators. To learn about Lumio and how to sign up for FREE, head to LUM.IO

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

The goal of this long-term partnership, which started in November 2015, is to accelerate learning, improve literacy and put students at the school on track for college and career success. Almost a year into its partnership with Achieve3000 , Margate Elementary School in Margate, Fla.,

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Before we even got started, a team of us designed two Board Authority Authorized (BAA) courses for the school: Foundations of Inquiry and Digital Learning (digital literacy). Applications of Digital Learning 10 – BAA Course (2012). Applications of Digital Learning 10 – BAA Course 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But EducationSuperHighway did it this week, announcing that the classroom internet connectivity gap is effectively closed – one year ahead of schedule, no less. We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I There is still a digital divide in classrooms based on what technology is being used and how.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Ask around and many folks might consider it to be a time suck or a place where very little learning happens and therefore has no place in the classroom. So what if we embraced it as a medium that is here to stay and leverage it for learning? But they can be very useful in the classroom as well. Pinterest not your thing?

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work. Yet we also see academic deans and provosts showing more interest in digital learning than their faculty.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 16, 2016

In 2015, Marymount School of New York’s Student Technology Team pose the question: what if students and teachers from around the world could share ideas about using technology in the classroom? A conference run by students [Guest Post] From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Today, we released our annual State of the States report: The classroom connectivity gap is closed and we are proud to announce that the classroom connectivity gap is now closed. million teachers in 83,000 schools have the Internet access they need for digital learning. Tomorrow’s Digital Classrooms.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. With school budgets being planned on a year over year basis, the concern over long-term sustainability for digital learning arises.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

To help overcome this, we have adopted the Future Ready Schools Framework , a systematic approach to scaling innovative digital learning practices while promoting long-term sustainability. The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2016

principles in the classroom if teachers reinforced the skills for themselves. BCPS’ Department of Digital Learning partnered with Digital Promise to roll out a micro-credential pilot during the 2015-2016 school year focused on “S.T.A.T. digital learning environment. environment.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Use these TED-Ed Lessons and videos for brain breaks , to introduce new lessons, or to give students some fun and age-appropriate spooky experiences into your classroom: 1. In fact, in October of 2015 alone, about 28 million people visited a haunted house in the US. Where do superstitions come from? Are you afraid of black cats?

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

Annual survey reveals digital resources such as game-based environments and online videos have experienced increased use in classrooms. In 2010, 47 percent of teachers said they used online videos, and that jumped to 68 percent of teachers in 2015. How are students self-directing learning beyond the classroom?

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2015

More than half a dozen Google Certified Teachers recently descended on Palm Springs to share their favorite tips, tricks, add-ons, and extensions during a packed session at the Annual CUE 2015 conference. Next page: Amazing add-ons and extensions for everyone.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

Teachers are the unwavering center of schooling and we should continue to learn from them every day. They were the outliers, those willing to open up their classrooms to try new things. In 2015, a major report from the research nonprofit RAND found that personalized learning works, confirming many of our hopes.

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Hapara

AUGUST 17, 2022

Because OER textbooks are digital, teachers and learners can access them online or download them to their devices. Teachers also won’t have to stack up textbooks in their classrooms and physically distribute them to learners. Every classroom has students with unique learning needs, interests and abilities.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 19, 2014

Ask any of the thousands of teachers who regularly use Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook about connected education, and you may get an earful about using digital tools as a means to connect with educators and students worldwide. Several more are currently in production and scheduled for publication in early 2015.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. Keeler has more than 50 tips for Google Classroom under her belt, with an e-book on that series in progress. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog. Keller ISD Digital Learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Technology use is increasing, with 4 out of 5 teachers saying they will use classroom technology more frequently during the 2015-2016 school year, according to a survey from Front Row Education, a company that provides adaptive, gamified and data driven education programs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

percent from 2015 to 2016 to reach 6.4 percent from 2015 to 2016—it will take another decade to reach 50 percent. I’m totally impressed by thirty percent,” he says, noting that digital learning and teaching options have invaded nearly every university classroom—on campus, online and blended. They rose 5.6

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 29, 2015

Practitioners begin to think about ways to redesign their learning spaces and schools in the upcoming 2015-16 school year to encourage innovative teaching and learning, making this the perfect opportunity to introduce an emergent technology called iBeacons. Pioneer #3 – Gavin Smart ( @gavinsmart ).

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edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2020

When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Today, we released our fourth annual State of the States report: Expanding Digital Learning to Every Classroom, Every Day and we are proud to announce that 40.7 million students still don’t have access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning, down from 6.5 Today’s Digital Classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

More than twice as many principals in 2017 said students in their schools were assigned some type of mobile device, like a laptop or tablet, than in 2015. So what does that mean for classrooms? But technology can help facilitate these classroom experiences, Evans said. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 23, 2016

The post Using Google Apps to Support Reading and Writing in the Classroom (Recorded Webinar) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Using Google Apps to Support Reading and Writing in the Classroom. Using Google Apps to Support Reading and Writing in the Classroom #GAFE Click To Tweet. The Golden Treasures of Google!

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