Turning Learning On Its Head

JUNE 25, 2015

Are you going to the ISTE 2015 conference and want to find out more about Flipped Learning? The books are: Flipped Learning for Science Instruction (In print and available at ISTE 2015). Flipped Learning for Math Instruction (In print and available at ISTE 2015). Blend and Flip in the Elementary Classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

30+ ideas to improve learning with awesome classroom design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Barrett, P. Folkins, J. Friberg, J.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation. In the winter of 2015, the TAC visited our own schools. The TAC wanted to be very thoughtful about how to deliver the recommendations.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Tune in to learn more about Global Connections Week and other great ideas from Monica! Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Monica explains how teachers can personalize learning through Lumio lessons. a $7000 grant for Farm2Table: A Service Learning Project in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2019

The space, upgraded in the 2015-2016 school year, is continuously changing. From 2015 to 2018, the school resources crowdfunding site DonorsChoose saw requests for funding for flexible furniture balloon from 110 to 21,163. Related: How high school would be different if students could design it. Louis, Missouri.

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Classroom Elementary Report Laptops 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. “And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. That’s why we’re working with these six districts: to follow along and share what they learn about piloting learning technology tools in classrooms. ” Eian Harm.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

In Wilder Elementary School, students not only pick which subjects they want to learn, but they can also spurn their desks and work on the floor if they want. My kids begged me to come to summer school,” said Chantelle Mullins, a mother of two elementary school students. Photo: Wayne D’Orio. What’s the reaction? “My Dillon said.

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Elementary Personalized Learning iPad Trends 66

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

On November 20th, 2015, I received an email in my inbox that would change my teaching career—it was from a stranger. My principal noticed how much work I was putting into redesigning my curriculum and had nominated me. I had been working alone behind closed doors for so long that I didn’t know how to share the work in a meaningful way.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In 2015, Austin, Indiana was hit with a deadly epidemic: HIV/AIDS. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. This city, then over 4,000 people, saw over 200 HIV cases in about a year during its outbreak, which one health reporter called “the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever to hit rural America.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. Others were jumping ahead to concepts that were grade levels ahead of what they would traditionally be learning.

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Groups Study Meeting Survey 111

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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Classroom Learning Company Assessment 211

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Prompted by district administrators’ desire to find ways to build student agency, engage student passion and personalize learning, we hoped blended learning would shake up the status quo and spark large scale change. Provide professional learning that allows participants to experience blended learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141

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. Tech integrationist Eric Curtis blogs about how to add technology into almost every K-12 subject from math to art. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog. Mark Guzdial. guzdial | Read the blog. Eric Curtis.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

A few years ago, Amy Lopes, a veteran fifth-grade teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, learned that teachers at her school could try a mindfulness and yoga training along with their students. I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School. Chris Berdik.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In December 2015, I found myself toiling away on a fifth grade figurative language lesson in a unique place—a local tech meetup called Code For Vegas. Not only was this project exciting, it also taught students how to get user feedback and revise their designs. My former self might have seen children simply playing video games.

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Classroom Company Blended Learning Assessment 148

eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Over 1,000 Mineola elementary school students are using eSpark in four buildings throughout the district, while a team of Mineola middle schoolers helped us build new product features to better engage and challenge students. At eSpark Learning, we make tools that empower teachers and delight students. Berwyn, Illinois.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Elementary iPad 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

They say I’m personalizing learning. We spent a lot of money on devices that we didn’t know how to use. The most critical issue was always the learning gaps. My 16, 17 and 18-year old students were entering my class reading at an elementary level. I came to the Cobb County School District in 2006.

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iPad Assessment Personalized Learning Libraries 124

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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Elementary Learning Data Report 107

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families. When the boys’ no-fee private school reopened to in-person learning more quickly than Gaddie thought was safe, she enrolled them in the tribally controlled public school she’d gone to as a child. They’re average.”.

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Facebook Groups Data Survey 136

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Along with a curriculum, they also used a technology skills assessment to measure digital literacies and determine how to plan and move forward with skill development. Technology proficiency is even included on their teacher evaluation rubric and elementary students standards reports. Heather came to FUSD from Phoenix.

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Online Assessments Assessment Elementary Common Core 41

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers. Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

McComb School District down in McComb, Mississippi doesn’t just believe in the power of technology when it comes to personalized learning. In theory, the rollout and success of this instructional approach sounds feasible, but oftentimes, it’s the adults who explain how the program works—without the opinions or inputs of students.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

She is a 2015 Milken Unsung Hero Fellow and a 2015 NEA Foundation Global Fellow. She taught eighth grade language arts and reading to military-connected children at Faith Middle School in Fort Benning, Georgia, has been an elementary school assistant principal, and is now a professional development specialist.

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Strategy Policies Advocacy Secondary 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Kaye Rogers’ phone began to ring and her inbox filled with questions about virtual learning before Texas schools shut down because of the coronavirus. School leaders from across the state sought advice on teacher training, how to transition curriculum and what pitfalls to avoid as students began learning from home.

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Training Meeting Study Examples 59

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs. We were just four guys, we really didn’t know anything about it.”

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. Imperative 2: Raise the Bar with Rigorous, Transformative & Innovative Learning and Skills.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. It would be the equivalent of education malpractice to have a gifted program that does not look like the students we serve , ” she wrote in a book last year about how to make gifted education racially fair. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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Elementary Policies Data Report 117

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. Tech Enablers. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Dr. David R.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 83

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This goal-setting feature is part of the Summit Learning Platform, an online tool used in a personalized learning program created by Summit Public Schools. shows that implementing technology is only part of the struggle for public schools seeking to make the switch to personalized learning models. People cried.

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Personalized Learning Differentiated Instruction Elementary Data 107