Edthena

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The author of Ed Tech Essentials and founder of Class Tech Tips encourages educators to use tech tools for their own professional learning. In this PLtogether Lounge Talk, Monica Burns talked with Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about the advantages of integrating educational technology into adult learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

They know that when it comes to learning and productivity, space matters. An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. Teaching and learning in unbounded time.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Last year, Digital Promise, with generous support from Google, launched the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) to continue its effort to close the Digital Learning Gap. Effective PD includes five key attributes: Content focus, active learning, sustained duration, collective participation and coherence. Active Learning.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2016

In the pre-smartphone era, when traditional mobile phones – or “dumb phones”, how I like to call them – ruled the world, students simply couldn’t use their phones for learning. I think today’s generation of students would definitely consider these phones rather boring. The one-and-a half-hour seminar almost flew away.

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Edthena

JUNE 1, 2021

This thoughtful approach and the potential insight gained from student work comes down to more than grading. Teachers must really ask themselves what students have demonstrated that they learned. Learning how to do online teaching and do it well has taken up most of educators’ time. Are teachers reflecting often?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From fostering collaboration and communication to facilitating project-based learning and remote instruction, these platforms are redefining the boundaries of traditional classrooms. This format is especially advantageous for engaging students who might feel more reserved or less comfortable in traditional, text-based discussion settings.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2021

Through the partnership, new Virginia TSA school chapters can purchase Flinn Scientific’s WhiteBox Learning program at an exclusive rate to be used by students as they compete in regional, state, and national competitions that test their engineering skills.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

Schools are often a focal point for community involvement: families send children to school, where they’ll learn many of the skills they need to become happy, healthy, successful members of society. That means the majority of the work involved in breaking down barriers to community engagement in schools often falls to educators.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The post Elevating Innovation – SULS0205 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Discover the wealth of free online learning courses for educators offered through Verizon Innovative Learning HQ. Discover the wealth of free online learning courses for educators offered through Verizon Innovative Learning HQ.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek. Given the importance of college for worldview development and cross-cultural exchanges, can interfaith learning continue in a virtual setting? We believe it can. But will it?

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District Administration

MARCH 25, 2016

Starting with the district’s mission and vision will be key to success District Administration Custom Publishing Group District Administration, May 2016 By leveraging technology and digital content, schools can create highly effective 21st-century teaching and learning environments that significantly impact student engagement and drive achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

He said he plans to use the skills he learned in the class when in college. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I find it interesting that for the course I am taking, Technology and School Leadership , I drive two hours round trip once a week to participate in the learning. Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas). Physically attending class has also broadened my personal learning network.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I find it interesting that for the course I am currently Technology and School Leadership , I drive two hours round trip once a week to participate in the learning. Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas). Physically attending class has also broadened my personal learning network.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. KITABOO is an end-to-end cloud-based digital publishing platform that allows learning content to be published & distributed with ease. Students use Seesaw to showcase their learnings, while teachers and parents use it to monitor students’ performances.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

It got the students engaged and doing something as opposed to saying, ‘Well I can’t do that because I don’t have an autoclave.’. Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. I am learning with the students.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

OCTOBER 14, 2012

When the discussion is structured so that all students are vested in the process, students can use critical thinking to practice crafting and supporting arguments. The Socratic Seminar or fishbowl discussion begins with the layout of the classroom and the assigning of roles to students.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For K-12 students, interactive textbooks/ebooks act as a learning companion, as it offers constant interaction. Moreover, if you plan to keep your target audience engaged, you need to provide them with something that will hold their interest for a longer time. Be it an online video or a live seminar. Download Now!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Higher grades and more motivated students sound good. But it’s unclear if students are actually learning more. No one is asking these students to take additional, outside assessments to measure their learning gains. Plus, it’s hard to gauge how much students already knew prior to taking a course.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

National Museum of African American History and Culture Many of the touchscreen experiences immerse students into the era, lives and opinions of Black Americans. We are creating more lesson plans that can go into the Learning Lab , more video clips, online seminars and workshops for teachers,” says Flanagan.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. Impact on meaningful learning .

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. Impact on meaningful learning .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Considering sprawling campuses with their impressive but deserted buildings, I find myself reflecting on how the accessibility of blended learning has contested the authority of these spaces, which so often are homogenous places, gatekeepers of class and privilege. Remote learning also improved accessibility for some students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Considering sprawling campuses with their impressive but deserted buildings, I find myself reflecting on how the accessibility of blended learning has contested the authority of these spaces, which so often are homogenous places, gatekeepers of class and privilege. Remote learning also improved accessibility for some students.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

There are a handful of institutions offering their students transformative, purposeful learning experiences. The learning is based on the student’s individual interests. There are, however, a few colleges that have started fascinating experiments to tinker with new models of learning. For instance, Franklin W.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Flipped Learning and Higher Education are rarely found together in the same sentence. Perhaps that is the case because the idea of flipped learning is attributed to two high school teachers and is a rather new concept, while stakeholders of Higher Education prefer to refer to it as “ reverse instruction ”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This new attention to career advising largely stems from growing expectations that institutions will help students get good jobs — which 85 percent of first-year students rated as “very important” among their reasons for going to college in the first place, according to a national survey conducted by an institute at UCLA.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

They are often taught through giant lectures, with limited faculty-student engagement. Many students fail the courses or become so frightened by them that they drop the class — and thus the major. Instead, if students are in jeopardy of failing, there should be an early identification system to support them.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Teachers often focus on what students will learn during a lesson. Rarely, do we stop and ask ourselves, “What will I learn about what my students know or can do during this lesson?” Below are strategies I have used during my lessons to learn about what my students know or can do.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. Impact on meaningful learning .

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Teachers often focus on what students will learn during a lesson. Rarely, do we stop and ask ourselves, “What will I learn about what my students know or can do during this lesson?” Below are strategies I have used during my lessons to learn about what my students know or can do.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Social media caption: The latest trend in assessment tools and gimmicks is the adaptive, “smart” test and the use of individualized learning plans to improve test scores. But what these tests and the resulting learning plans do, is work off a deficit model that only serves to influence the outcome of the test itself.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Learning Culture. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative – Ken Robinson. Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school. Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator – Dave Burgess. Inspiration. Leadership. Leadership.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They had already begun a process of designing a new middle school, called Nexus Middle School, to be a STEM-based school that incorporated personalized learning. These include self-directed learning time, expeditions and executive coaches. They are all keen to use technology to help personalize learning for students.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

As if fate wanted to re-affirm for me the value of KySTE, I learned of a new tool in the very first hour of the very first session of the conference that got me so excited, I knew I'd be doing a blog entry about it! and in May 2020, I became our district's second Digital Learning Coach. How could you use it?

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Edthena

JULY 13, 2021

Edthena turns the feedback you leave on instructional videos inside the platform into useful teacher data designed to help you strategically invest your time with teachers and accelerate their learning. Is Tina struggling with Socratic seminars right now, or was that months ago? Unified dashboard for everyone you support?

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