EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Understanding the Online Learning Environment Embracing the online learning landscape is the first step toward your academic success. Prospective students should prepare to adapt to a virtual classroom setting, where interactions happen through screens and learning materials are predominantly digital.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Today, math scores are at pre-pandemic lows (thanks in part to years of remote learning) and elementary-aged children are falling behind grade-level standards, posing significant risks to children’s educational development. As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, the need to address this gap is becoming vital.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Courtesy of Santa Fe Public Schools Everywhere you look, it seems, people are talking about “learning loss,” or how much students haven’t learned during the tumult of the past two years. It’s not about memorizing everything you should have learned, it’s about moving you forward so you pick things up along the way.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2021

7 Principles Of Sustainable Learning: An Agrarian Learning Model. What would the opposite of the industrial learning model–the existing vision of most public education systems worldwide in the 21st century–look like? How To De-Industrialize School: An Agrarian Learning Model. This is a kind of standardization.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

It makes learning organic, part of life rather than something that must happen from a certain book or room. The problem is trying to blend them effortlessly into a class LMS or learning platform without lots of extra clicks and logins. Kiddom’s partnership with highly-rated Open Up Resources changes that. Who is Kiddom?

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2023

Arkansas DESE’s review of instructional materials provides teachers with access to the highest-quality resources available and underscores the state’s commitment to the overarching success of its teachers and students alike,” said Elizabeth Bassford, associate vice president of content and implementation at Curriculum Associates.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. . Following a careful review of available options, VWSD selected Discovery Education’s flexible K-12 learning platform for classroom use.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

With limited budgets, librarians have been forced to leverage their own talents and networks to navigate a changing world Like teaching, librarianship is a majority-female profession (83 percent of librarians are women compared to 76 percent of public-school teachers) that performs a public good with limited resources.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 4, 2023

They need to learn how to protect themselves online, respect others, have a healthy relationship with devices and think critically online. They need practice with these skills to learn how to think critically. By scheduling guided browsing sessions ahead of time, students will stay on track, which means learning time won’t be lost.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2018

My second post examined a number of useful resources for how to create shortcuts in your lesson planning, without sacrificing quality or outcomes. Many teachers complain not only of spending inordinate amounts of time grading, but also that teaching to standards also removes some of the joy and fun from both teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). Yet many teachers still ask: “Why can’t I find the open educational resources I’m looking for?” From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

Alignment of Data Standards for Describing Learning Objectives When applying the Google Maps metaphor to learner navigation, the points of interest on the map are competencies—the things that a person can learn, such as skills, knowledge, dispositions, and habits of practice. K-12 learners.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

I know he can learn and do the math, but his struggles with attention and staying focused, along with the structure of school, make it really hard for him and others who share his challenges to find the success they deserve. Trapped between the schedule of the day and his own brain, he was going to fail.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

Sphero has acquired littleBits , a New York City-based company best known for its electronic kits and instructional resources that introduce kids to building and programming by hand. “We But we have different ways of bringing that to life.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

She specifically focused on social and cognitive processes in language learning, cultural differences in language learning behavior, sources of variation in learning, and primary language retention and loss. To learn more about the CGCS, visit CGCS.org.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Gone are the days when a blackboard/whiteboard and textbooks were the only student resources available to learners. How to Select the Best Educational Software for Classrooms?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Academic standards were the next to go. But the new money won’t be accompanied by high standards and accountability.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2022

To learn more about the CGCS, visit CGCS.org. To learn more about Curriculum Associates, visit CurriculumAssociates.com. It is the special mission of America’s urban public schools to educate the nation’s most diverse student body to the highest academic standards and prepare them to contribute to our democracy and global community.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Mississippi created new academic standards that are more rigorous and better-aligned to national expectations for students. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

As the new school year begins, elementary school teachers are now able to access a new, free online artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to strengthen their math instruction and help students learn at higher levels. Next page: Educators react to the new AI resource).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In early grades, connecting children to the places where they live helps them learn to take care of those places — so the places can take care of them over time. Teachers and students can learn by doing place-based projects together, all the while meeting and exceeding required academic standards in authentic and meaningful ways.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Here’s what they’ve learned so far (note: these findings are preliminary and the survey remains open). Here are some of the ideas they proposed for education associations: Create resources to train undergraduates—essentially the “educators in training”—on understanding, using and vetting research. Ahead of the D.C. and Omaha, Neb.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Besides learning about their bodies, this integrates technology transparently into student learning, as a process rather than a product — as a tool used to complete their project. There are also lots of teacher resources to help in using this unit such as lesson plans, training, and academic standards met.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Rather, investments in education—both public and private—made at the local, state and national level have been spread across a range of activities committed to making the “line teacher” more effective at delivering learning to their “customers” (students). But the success of such improvement efforts have proven elusive.

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eSpark

MAY 2, 2016

The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. Luckily, the vast majority of successful project based learning activities share a set of key characteristics that educators can replicate in the classroom and across a district. 1) Essential Question.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

First… I hope you enjoyed the over 150 STEM Resources in the last few posts. Thanks for learning with me. I am excited about learning with thousands of other educators at this amazing conference. Early Learning. I also have also provided those over 150 STEM Resources. I have the URL’s below.

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eSpark

APRIL 14, 2022

Student engagement—participating in lively class discussions, investing time and energy into their academic work, and applying what they learn in school to the world outside the classroom—increases when educators value social-emotional well-being, according to 81% of teachers. What does student engagement look like? Interaction.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

“I have devoted my 44-year career at the Council to improving education for children in the nation’s cities and fighting for equity and the critical resources our urban schools need to help the students they serve meet the highest academic standards and become successful and productive members of society.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 29, 2024

By incorporating feedback from seasoned writers, students can refine their papers to meet higher academic standards and develop a deeper understanding of effective writing techniques, ensuring they produce impressive and impactful work. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

From textbooks to tests and from research papers to group projects, public education is in the midst of a sea change in how it provides learning opportunities to its students, in the tools it offers, and in what it expects its educators and students to use. There simply is no room for instructional black boxes in public education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. The problem is that many schools haven’t figured out how to leverage technology to accelerate and enrich learning. Tackling these challenges pays off.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

The internet and the rapid technological improvement are making the world a little bit smaller and are eliminating barriers to learning. Do you have the resources of financial capability to pay for the service? Effective communication is key for your child’s learning experience. Would it really benefit your child?

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PlagiarismCheck

MAY 8, 2023

Research methods have been somewhat influenced by the significant jump in online learning due to covid-19 and the substantial increase in the use of mobile phones for learning and research.(1) How Plagiarism Checkers Encourage Academic Honesty and Integrity Academic ethics education reached a new level with plagiarism checkers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. While digital technology has become ubiquitous in most communities, there is a hierarchy in how it is used for learning.

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Insight Education Group

OCTOBER 16, 2017

are comprised of 15 or fewer schools and many of these school districts lack the resources and infrastructure of larger districts, but confront the same basic challenges. We look forward to regularly sharing with the field at large about the important lessons and best practices we learn as we implement E3.

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