Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Students with special educational needs and/or disabilities are often overlooked in the grand scheme of education. One thing that I’ve been thrilled about is that technology and online learning have really supported these students to continue their education, even though the pandemic disrupted many systems and processes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Education policy should be top of mind as state policymakers continue their legislative work this spring. After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. Now, almost every state does.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

, which Dweck associates with a false growth mindset, won’t help them achieve their learning goals, at least not in the long run. Educators need to be consistent with the messages they send and incorporate a growth mindset in what they do, including technology — or especially in the way they use technology to teach.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

Truth be told, when it comes to education, there is no perfection, no matter where quantitative and qualitative metrics reside. There is always work to be done and effective educators embrace this wholeheartedly. Teachers were seen pulling students based on data for targeted support in small groups or individually in math and ELA.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

In-person schooling provided an environment for students with cognitive or physical challenges to be fully supported with personalized instruction, tailored supports, and customized technologies. As a sector, we have been espousing and advocating for student agency and personalized learning for years.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 19, 2015

Today we have access to more instructional strategies, procedures, and technologies than ever before.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

Academic achievement is the final goal of a student’s educational journey. However, to reach optimal results, students need several skills such as critical thinking, planning, self-monitoring, and problem-solving that they develop throughout their educational process. – Cathi Allen”.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

A 2018 study conducted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) highlights schools in 9 states that have already started to implement interoperable systems with promising results. Utah teachers are now not only able to keep tabs on how students develop, but they can better develop personalized learning initiatives.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. The model also helped students and educators weather the pandemic’s ups and downs more easily than other districts in the country.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? And intellectually, it makes a lot of sense to every educator. The other lever I think we have is working with the system itself, where we move to a competency-based world.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The certainty of climate change and likelihood of more pandemics and other large-scale disruptions leave us with questions about what the future of education will look like. We should use this moment to catalyze a digital transformation of education that will prepare schools for our uncertain future.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! So, do you think you have a pilot approach others could learn from?

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Robotics Education Competency Based Learning Program Evaluation 120

Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. We’re excited for the opportunity to spread the word of what’s happening – and what’s possible – in education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 12 million students, announced that it has earned the Research-Based Design product certification from Digital Promise, an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress to spur innovation in education.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Even though it’s emerged as a national model for 21st-century rural education , it’s still difficult for a district like Piedmont to navigate the growing and expansive ed-tech marketplace. There is strong leadership from the superintendent and middle school principal, focused on using technology to power personalized learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. So many bright educators love teaching and love kids, but they're physically and emotionally exhausted. Focusing first on math and then expanding to ELA and science, its objective is to make personalized learning scalable.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Students have continued pursuing their studies despite prolonged lockdowns through platforms such as learning management systems (LMSs) and video conferencing software. Educators have also adjusted to teaching online, and this trend is here to stay even if most schools have reopened their doors. Lower dropout rates.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Free, personalized online tool makes high-quality content available to all users. In a move to make high-quality educational content easily available all in one place, The Girard Education Foundation will migrate its teacher-created resources on Activate Instruction to Gooru. Every student is unique and learns differently.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 27, 2017

At that point in her school life, she didn't have easy accessibility to technology. Educational technology was not even a strong game at that point. What does this mean to education? With educational technology comes faster access to information and opinions. There is no blame in this statement, just a fact.I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Related: How one educator broke rules, influenced a state law, and got all of his students to graduation. Education is the only market that forces its consumer to consume a product without justification of its benefit or variety in choice.”. In the field of education, however, this practice has been overlooked and undervalued.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

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. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Every year for the past 15 years the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have been taking the pulse of where education technology stands among K-12 educators. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

And it lacks the enthusiasm—as well as the desire to help kids own and engage in their learning—that defines us as innovative educators. With transformative digital changes happening in classrooms today, basic learning management systems now deliver the answers to most of those well worn questions on parent portals.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Beginning that very first year in my Algebra classroom, I've strived to make it easier for educators to design their own curriculum. competency-based (a.k.a. standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Nearly ten years ago, I started my career in education as a math teacher at a new alternative high school serving over-age, under-credited youth in New York City. If we, the educators, were going to serve our students well, we were going to have to get pedagogically creative. Abbas Manjee's standards-based Algebra 1 scope and sequence.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” More via Buzzfeed and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “What You Need to Know About Race-Conscious Admissions in 2017.” In the past, Secretaries of Education have just used the department’s own force.

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