The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. Related: Getting schooled in social media.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In recent weeks, news outlets and social media have been filled with depressing stories about “declines” in student achievement, in both reading and math. But teachers were heroic during the pandemic, and data shows that students continued to strive toward meaningful learning, even with many forms of chaos erupting all around them.

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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 the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. Commit to Systemic Planning – Before You Purchase.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2022

A student may forget which teacher encourages the use of social media as an inventive form of learning and expression, and which only allows access to the learning management system. Department of Education, 2016). Most schools have an acceptable use policy (AUP), a document that outlines those expectations.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

Each day, Geneva CUSD 304’s teachers, administrators, and staff seek to educate the nearly 5,500 students they serve within an environment that encourages the desire to learn and meets the unique academic, personal, physical, and social needs of each child. However, the data only tells part of the story.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

She has taught English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film, Journalism, and enjoys writing, illustrating, and cooking in her free time. And hopefully, we can build a space, an education system, and develop it so that our students are fit for the 21st century and can go on to be successful in this new world.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

More than 400 re-enrolled students have graduated from institutions including Old Dominion University in Virginia and schools within the Texas A&M University System. ReUp communicates with students through phone, email, text messaging and social media. TDM Partners and Hereditas Capital Management led the round.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

By Deloitte’s most recent count , 37 percent of organizations have deployed AI solutions (up 270 percent from 2016) and a majority predict it will “substantially transform” their companies by 2023. As a result, the system is lagging.” The shift may also mean transforming their workforce. “As

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The phrase “school-to-prison pipeline” has long been used to describe how schools respond to disciplinary problems with excessively stringent policies that create prison-like environments and funnel children who don’t fall in line into the criminal justice system. As a result, many students experience school as a place of continuous scrutiny.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Bill Fitzgerald While Blaine is a fictional student, the technology that’s tracking him is real, and actually in use in some school systems, part of a growing set of tools that leave data trails about students throughout the day. In 2013, HeroK12 began offering educators an opportunity to collect and analyze student behavior data.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Bachelors of arts degrees in the humanities decreased from 36 percent in 1970 to 23 percent in 2016, according to data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Over the same time period, career-oriented majors in science, technology, engineering and mathematics crept from 64 to 77 percent.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. It is not about malicious intruders hacking or stealing credentials to get into a system to steal corporate intellectual property or records to sell on the dark web. without parental consent.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

Multiverse— founded in London in 2016 under the name WhiteHat by the son of a former U.K. Prime Minister—reported in January raising $44 million to bring apprenticeships in data, software engineering, digital marketing and project management to the U.S. Multiverse is doing outreach through Instagram and other social media networks.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

As an architect, comedian and playwright, with a loyal following across the arts and social media, Jonny Sun knows what it takes to nurture a creative mindset. Adaptability, he noted, will be a key skill in a future awash with data and information that upends how we interact across physical and digital realms. mr president?

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

It's also an deeply uncomfortable time to be an American with any sort of subject matter expertise — it has been since well before the 2016 election, but particularly since then. Me personally, I don't want the future of education to be more monitored, data-mined, analyzed, predicted, molded, controlled.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Technology can collect and harness more data than ever before. Hyper-stimulating media pervades their worlds, social media culture makes them feel inadequate, and existential pressures of economic, community and environmental decline hover over their futures. If so, what new challenges have emerged?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

Digital tools include recorded video interview systems that analyze applicants’ micro-expressions and databases of workers built with information scraped from social media. To gather data about the latter to present to users, Handshake asks students and alumni to review companies where they’ve worked or interned.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. To address absenteeism, school administrators have turned to outside groups to help implement data-informed intervention and outreach strategies.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

She explains that the quizzes that can gather someone’s data usually show up on personal feeds, not on group pages. I was trying to be more aware of what I was allowing into my brain,” says Barclay, who graduated in 2016. Opting out of social media, he says, isn’t ever really an option for people.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

Christopher Emdin who dropped a serious message for SXSWedu attendees : “When a student is brilliant on the street corner but falling asleep in class, something is wrong with the schooling system.” However, his LinkedIn profile shows that he left Amazon in October of 2016. Georgia State launched the chatbot in April 2016.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2016

San Mateo, CA-based marketing software company Marketo announced today a growth of 44 education customers who have signed on, renewed or expanded their agreements from January to July 2016. And increasingly, colleges are shifting to digital marketing strategies, social media outreach and mobile platforms.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2017

He officially joined forces with the group as CEO of ClearScholar in the spring of 2016, and with the help of $500,000 in pre-seed funding from co-developer Butler University, the first version of ClearScholar was launched into reality (and onto the radar of other high-profile investors). “To

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Disk Defragmenter rearranges fragmented data so your disks and drives can work more efficiently. Download.com says this about Spybot: The program checks your system against a comprehensive database of adware and other system invaders. If you have an automated system, skip this. Never mind all that geek speak.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

Founded in 2016, Lambda School offers 9-month and 18-month courses in web development and data science. The company invented neither of those things but were their loudest proponents, with Allred frequently taking to social media. Currently, about 3,000 students are enrolled, according to Allred. Others jeered.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Technology topics included social media, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy. Educational technology : I noted stories about MOOCs growing, social media, 3d printing stretching across the curriculum, brainstorming about VR and automation. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces (2016) by Heather Dowd and Patrick Green Cross-posted from Learning Light Bulbs by Nate Gildart Get your own copy of Classroom Management in the Digital Age! However, sometimes it is the case that there needs to be a file-naming system.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Our data suggests that CIOs are less part of academic decision-making than we would hope,” he adds. How might a sociology class analyze human interactions and behaviors on social media?). University IT departments are still feeling the effects of budget cuts from the recession, according to the 2016 Campus Computing Survey.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

These products have grown in popularity since the AAP last published recommendations in 2016. There are some loopholes in the system,” said Dr. Michael Goodstein, the division chief of newborn medicine at WellSpan Health and adjunct professor of pediatrics at Pennsylvania State University.

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Guidelines Study Report Facebook 96

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

When we dug into the data, we noticed that a sizable percentage of kids were just missing the benchmark—they were one, two, three points below,” says Hope Langston, Northfield’s Director of Assessment Services. Part of it is many of our kids don't have broad exposure to grade level text as they move through our system,” she says.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Use of data analytics. We shall see.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2017

But it’s become not so much a philosophy of introspection or reflection but a compulsion for data collection and data analysis. All this is aided today, no doubt, by new computing technologies that create and collect massive amounts of personal data. ” Are these examples of “learner data”?

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis. Why did we start communities on edWeb virtually in 2016?

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis. Why did we start communities on edWeb virtually in 2016?

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Professional Learning Learning Education Study 52

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. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy. For five years, we’ve highlighted some of the best and brightest blogs within K—12 education. Over 1000 words.

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ASIDE

JULY 28, 2016

Source: National Geographic On August 25, 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) turns 100. To start, the " Find Your Park " website gathers videos and social media interactions of everyday first-person testimonials about the grandeur of America's vistas. He includes similar map mash-ups for other coast-to-coast sites.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

Through this new collaboration, Wilson County educators will, beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, integrate Discovery Education’s Science Techbook (Grades K-12), Social Studies Techbook (Grades 6-8) and Math Techbook (Grades 6-12) into classroom instruction.

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