EdTech Magazine

JUNE 15, 2020

Vrain Valley Schools, and it is the basis of our efforts to ensure our students are well equipped to enter the workforce and higher education with the skills they need to become the next generation of innovators and creators. This philosophy would also benefit other K–12 districts. That is what we believe at St.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

We ventured into the abstract world of Metaphysics, touched on the complexities of Epistemology, and dipped our toes into Aesthetics. We also got a bit political with Social and Political Philosophy, put our logical hats on with Logic and Reason, and even pondered life’s big questions in Existentialism.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Then we ventured into the abstract realms of “Metaphysics” and “Epistemology,” grappling with the nature of reality and the roots of our knowledge. From there, we shifted gears to more societal concerns in “Political and Social Philosophy,” examining concepts like leadership and civic participation.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

NBC’s ‘The Good Place’ attempts to build a comedy around the topic of moral philosophy. To try to get their facts straight, the show’s creators invited philosophy scholars into the writer’s room for the show. Some colleges are now showing episodes of this TV show in their classes, as a way to jump-start discussions of moral philosophy.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2013

Any administrator that has moved to change long embedded grading philosophies and practices knows full well how difficult this change process is. However, it was apparent that current behaviors and actions had to be changed based upon the latest research and what was best for our students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 21, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

You’ll find that charter schools, for instance, are publicly funded but independently run, offering unique educational philosophies or specialized curricula. They provide a choice for parents and students dissatisfied with their assigned public schools. It offers a wide variety of career paths to pursue.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 17, 2021

It puts me in a power position over students which is, for me, contrary to my teaching philosophy of creating a learning community where we all become teachers and learners. Our class feels like a family. I am a seminar facilitator for student teachers, and I teach gifted education at three Title 1 elementary schools.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 22, 2020

Vrain Valley Schools, and it is the basis of our efforts to ensure our students are well equipped to enter the workforce and higher education with the skills they need to become the next generation of innovators and creators. This philosophy would also benefit other K–12 districts. That is what we believe at St.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 17, 2020

Vrain Valley Schools, and it is the basis of our efforts to ensure our students are well equipped to enter the workforce and higher education with the skills they need to become the next generation of innovators and creators. This philosophy would also benefit other K–12 districts. That is what we believe at St.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 16, 2020

Vrain Valley Schools, and it is the basis of our efforts to ensure our students are well equipped to enter the workforce and higher education with the skills they need to become the next generation of innovators and creators. This philosophy would also benefit other K–12 districts. That is what we believe at St.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Both of our fathers worked for Coca-Cola for the majority of their careers. The philosophies and strategies of the Coca-Cola Company played a large role in our upbringing and now shape our work as leaders of personalized learning. -- is “Oh, I bet someone in your family worked for Coca-Cola!”

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TeacherCast

JULY 24, 2022

As an Instructional Coach, we all know the value of communication with our teachers. Today, we are going to walk you through a brand-new philosophy for Coaching Newsletters. A philosophy based on marketing and entrepreneurship rather than on impulse emailing. It is a great question to ask yourself! District Leadership.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Our lives are better, but we own a lot of stuff, to the extent that some people need help to declutter and get rid of some of it. Minimalism is a philosophy of life. For most of human history, the majority of people didn’t own much: a set of clothes, tools to work the field, and the basic things for cooking. Marie Kondo, anyone?

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More Verbs

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Because the nouns need to be in place and function as planned in order to implement our verbs, we’re working toward a philosophy of “Everything Just Works.” So “Everything Just Works” is the intersection of our nouns and verbs. The technology must work before we can get too far into the learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. As Rodin’s famous sculpture of the thinking man propping his chin on his hand, we imagine the mind as all in our heads. And that's the kind of model that dominates our education system.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to the internet, we now have all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips. Just think about it: Cooking, philosophy, engineering, literature–anything you could possibly imagine can likely be found using a simple Google search. The internet is an inescapable part of our students’ lives. Avoiding the TRAAP.

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techieMusings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I wish I had known earlier on how powerful a newsletter home with my class expectations and philosophy could be. I also realized that I was missing a golden opportunity to model my flipped classroom philosophy with parents. I’ve learned that emailing home a personal newsletter early in the school year can make all the difference.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter I hope today's show will provoke thought and thinking about what it means to relate to our students. Tom also emphasizes the need to recognize and support the many and various backgrounds of our students and the need to build trust over time.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With our previous LMS, I had the ability to post media files onto the course website, and then determine whether to make those clips “view-only” or permit them to be downloaded by the students. Unfortunately, our new LMS lacks these refined media capabilities. educational system for at least a generation.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 2, 2019

Regardless of the reasons, I think it is essential to critically examine the message and lesson that we are imparting to our youth through this outdated and, quite frankly, insensitive practice. In my opinion, it is well beyond the time to revisit this practice and determine if it truly is in the best interests of our learners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

These days our word processing systems can do some of the writing for us—with features that suggest what word you might be about to type and save you the trouble of keying in every letter. Smith lays out his views in a new book, “ The Internet is Not What You Think It is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning.”

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 30, 2017

The Bootstrapping Checklist challenges the way public schools engage and evaluate student success – entrepreneurial education of this type gives real authenticity to student projects and collaborations that break down age and ability barriers present for so long in our customary public education models.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2022

What schools, educators and families have experienced over the last two years has radically changed our understanding of what it means to truly care for students and teachers. After nearly 20 years in education, one thing I’ve learned is there is no ‘normal.’ How can schools prepare for the next crisis while ensuring their long-term success?

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2022

Are they able to cheer each other on, or is our higher ed system set up so that there are so few slots that each is much better off if they get a high grade and the other gets a lower grade? I came across this paper while researching our Bootstraps podcast series about educational equity. It's some value of solidarity.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In today’s podcast, I interview the director of the program Aaron Joyner to talk about the philosophy behind Disney’s education magic. The Disney Youth Education program hosted me at the end of this past summer to experience three of their programs first-hand.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2023

Our research-based assessments empower educators with the knowledge to help each learner, while the Thrively platform helps to unlock the students’ potential and increase overall classroom engagement.” Students are 30 times more engaged when the school is committed to building on their strengths. For more information, visit [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Steve Jobs said in his final Apple keynote introducing the iPad 2, “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.”. Introducing Catherine Davis-Hayes and her philosophy of arts in education. What’s your philosophy of that? Catherine: We try.

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Hubbli

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Understand your school’s educational philosophy, values, and goals to find teachers who align with them. For more tips and insights on education and private school staffing, feel free to contact us or explore our other blog posts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Surely, there is progress to be made, and as teachers strive for equity in and out of the classroom, we must reflect on and honor the diversity of our students. We formed classroom norms and discussed how we would arrange tables and groups to strengthen our community.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

What we want to do is bring to bear all the expertise of all our disciplines in the liberal arts college on AI,” McFadden says. Throughout higher education, disciplines like philosophy and art are laying claim to artificial intelligence and the technology that enables it.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We discussed how restorative justice as a philosophy and set of practices more closely aligns with Indigenous knowledge systems than dominant criminal justice approaches in the U.S. Within my own culture, circles are often used symbolically and literally for their ability to promote equity, interconnection and holism.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., This is a dilemma.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2020

My motto and philosophy for my school library is “expect the miraculous.” By expecting the miraculous, I believe we can begin to appreciate the little miracles that happen when we teach our students not just digital- citizenship but digital- leadership skills. Related content: 5 ways to develop a school leadership program.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

My personal philosophy is if you want to grow the economy, you grow the workforce and business will come to where there’s talent. Communities we are interested in connecting with are reflective of the overall school population of the Highline district, which is about 78 percent non-white. Ryan Calkins Commissioner, Port of Seattle.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2018

That’s the term coined by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, to describe a time when new technologies blur the physical, digital and biological boundaries of our lives. Every generation confronts the challenges of preparing its kids for an uncertain future.

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TeacherCast

JULY 24, 2022

As an Instructional Coach, we all know the value of communication with our teachers. Today, we are going to walk you through a brand-new philosophy for Coaching Newsletters. A philosophy based on marketing and entrepreneurship rather than on impulse emailing. It is a great question to ask yourself!

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