eSchool News

JULY 27, 2017

What is flipped learning? But while the term is recognizable, definitions vary–and the wrong idea about flipped learning could be detrimental to schools. At ISTE 2017, flipped learning pioneer Jon Bergmann introduced session attendees to Flipped Learning 3.0,

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

This blog post is part of a series that highlight different stakeholders' perspectives on purchasing practices for K-12 personalized learning tools. It’s a reminder both of how the quest for a definitive answer can stunt innovation and how failure can be inevitable without enough planning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

And they found MidSchoolMath —much to the delight of Erica Wheeler, Lead Instructional Materials Coordinator for Santa Fe Public Schools. We knew we needed high engagement that would capture their attention and foster learning in a different way. That’s the beauty of story-based learning. This definitely fits into that.

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K12 Open Ed

MAY 3, 2016

The reasons for this are many — ranging from the culture of some schools that holds instructional materials as sacrosanct to the lack of time and/or expertise to do this work. However, I think another key element is the very nature of instructional materials.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

The consulting firm Education Elements designated four factors as the keys to successfully integrating a personalized learning model, based on its experience with 100 districts, 300 schools and 300,000 students. Students can review their own data to make learning decisions. The Core Four.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

We should learn from experiences, particularly if those experiences show our previous beliefs to be untrue. So why are people so easy to fool when it comes to beliefs about learning? For years, a stream of articles have tried to dispel pervasive but wrong ideas about how people learn, but those ideas still linger.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

Questioning the quality of instructional materials isn’t new to the digital education era. Thus, there is the potential for more disparity in the quality of materials from school to school. As important as having a definition and criteria are, though, SETDA also emphasized the need for state-level leadership.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

News that schools and districts across the country are closing campuses and preparing to transition their staff and students to online learning have led to a flurry of questions and, subsequently, people lending support. For that, I’m definitely grateful.”

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Hapara

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently a fifth grade teacher and Digital Learning Coach at Oak Grove Elementary School in Lexington, South Carolina. We were what would be called the “locked-down learning” method. The certification training definitely helped us understand the ins and outs of H?para We have 672 students with class sizes 20-25 students.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2016

Students LEARN as a result of the things they DO. Asking students to DO some things leads to better learning than asking them to DO other things. Definition: Efforts to re-read notes, tests, or textbooks to prepare for class or further testing. Definition: Editing and rearranging of instructional materials to improve learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2015

Triumph Learning, producer of K-12 texts and interactive digital tools, unveiled new versions of Waggle, its smart practice solution, to align with learning standards in New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. State standard codes and definitions appear throughout students’ practice and are included in educator reports.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Educational approaches that use Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) are pushing the learning capacity of students by focusing on inquiry, problem-solving, and innovation. . But good teaching is good teaching and without higher-level uses of technology, it becomes just another dusty book on a shelf.

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edWeb.net

JULY 7, 2021

After becoming Superintendent, Dr. Goffney did a learning-and-listening tour of the district and spent additional time surveying staff members. To respond, Aldine developed a leadership plan that included a clear definition of what leadership is in Aldine. It centers on three keywords—connect, inspire and impact. About the Presenters.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

“I believe, absolutely, there will be a massive increase in credit recovery, not just during the pandemic, but continuing for a long time afterwards,” said Kinsey Rawe, senior vice president and general manager of courseware and instructional services at Imagine Learning, a leading seller of credit recovery programs to schools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While barely a blimp on the global scale, it could impact learning trajectories for millions of American students and have a significant impact on the conventional model of schooling. They can have very different purposes but tend to share common characteristics, such as more personalized and project-based learning. Microschools.

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Knowledge Avatars K-12

JULY 9, 2019

Our teacher, to her credit, tried to help students to review and learn last years' concepts, but alas had to abandon the effort because the of the pressure to cover new material. For each concept, you need to have instructional materials to teach and to test the concept. Just look at the definition of any concept.

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Instructional Materials Elementary Exercises Analysis 40

Knowledge Avatars K-12

JULY 9, 2019

Our teacher, to her credit, tried to help students to review and learn last years' concepts, but alas had to abandon the effort because the of the pressure to cover new material. For each concept, you need to have instructional materials to teach and to test the concept. Just look at the definition of any concept.

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Instructional Materials Elementary Exercises Analysis 40

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

Delving deep into the digital world, I’ve amalgamated countless hours of online research, analyzed a plethora of reader reviews, and sprinkled in my personal experiences to craft this definitive list of top projectors for your classroom. presentations, multimedia, interactive learning).

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Buncee

MARCH 26, 2021

My correspondence and instructional materials are very text heavy and visually overwhelming, and I’ve struggled to improve until I found Buncee. I learned how it worked, became comfortable, and sent out “New books! She loves reading, learning, and sharing. Meet the Author.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

“Personalized learning” is a term that people take quite personally—and that leads to a variety of interpretations about what it means. The lack of precision about what the term means—whether it’s about tailoring instruction for individual students or the technology that enables it—leads to confusion and inappropriate assumptions. “As

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. . Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

What’s more, “reading is a gateway to other learning,” she says. Commonlit is a source for free, high-quality instructional materials designed to support literacy development (grades 3-12.). The definitive resource on literacy development and developmentally responsive literacy instruction, PreK-8!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

More than 6 million students in all 50 states use products offered by Curriculum Associates, which sells research-based print and online instructional materials, assessments, and data management tools, including its flagship tool, the adaptive assessment and instruction package, i-Ready. We’ve reinvested our money.”

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

“This will be news to many school districts that have been using commercially developed digital instructional materials for years,” writes Brendan Desetti, the SIIA’s director of education policy. Supporters of OER also point out that for resources to meet this definition, it’s not enough that resources branded as “open” be free.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Just 32 percent of 11th graders surveyed said they learned something of interest in the past week, and over half of high school seniors feel their math work is “too easy.”. Modernizing CTE by aligning it to in-demand, higher wage careers and offering meaningful, work-based learning opportunities. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Instructional Materials Policies Report Survey 31

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 24, 2017

I shared with you before how much I love Kiddom as an easy tool for managing standards-based grading , and there’s a couple of new updates that you definitely need to know about if you’re spending too much time creating resources for differentiated instruction. Learn more about the process here.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. education system.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Along the way they experience collateral benefits of developing learning agility, building social capital and demonstrating creativity. Builds Instructional Partnerships. Facilitates Professional Learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools may signal the integration of technology into learning in profound ways; however, the long trajectory of edtech has not yet changed the fundamental organizing structure between teacher and student. Each prompt offered aligned information sources, and instructional materials and other teacher supports accompanied the tool.

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Tools EdTech Instructional Materials Survey 127

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

during the early months of 2020, we all wondered how—or if—students would continue to learn amid the turbulence. Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies churned out crisis plans for remote instruction in hopes of carrying on, at the very least, until summer break. But not all hope is lost.

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Data LMS EdTech Accessibility 202

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

However, if the Department does act on these comments, the parts of the work that are open will be more widely adopted, will result in more students saving more money, and, most importantly, will result in more students learning more. I hold a PhD in Instructional Psychology and Technology from Brigham Young University.

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User Generated Education

JULY 25, 2016

The learners engaged in these learning activities with high excitement and motivation. I believe it is important to follow learners’ leads and ideas as it creates energy, motivation, and momentum for learning. Traditional teaching is way too often focused on keeping to an agenda both in time and with the learning activities.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 4, 2022

We are looking for method A that will definitively bring about result B, only discover each time, method A only sometimes brings about result A. This is because our thinking about environment C and the instructional materials we use aren’t as simple and uninvolved as we thought. Education is not nor never will be like medicine.

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techlearning

JUNE 13, 2018

June 13, 2018—Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Instruction for Grades K–8 recently met all correlation criteria for the WIDA PRIME V2 Protocol for Review of Instructional Materials for ELLs (PRIME V2). To learn more about i-Ready , visit www.i-Ready.com/achievement. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Ready.com/achievement.

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Instructional Materials Differentiated Instruction Data Assessment 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

How do we deliver better learning experiences to more students? There are fantastic learning resources out there of all breeds bringing different types of value to the learning process. That scaffolding connects concepts and practice together, guiding students through the content in a way that maximizes learning.

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

As the dust settles from emergency distance learning, schools now have the summer to reckon with what worked and what must change as they grapple with the uncertainty of the next academic year. Some educators who want to make online learning more engaging and accessible are exploring the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

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