Learning with 'e's

MAY 18, 2020

In 'normal times' transformation is often slow, usually driven by technology. During the Second World War , which was far from normal, a number of radical developments in medicine, science and technology rapidly emerged. Schools, colleges and universities are either locked down, or operating at a reduced capacity. They had to.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

There is no other way to put it: The reopening of schools after COVID-19 is going to be expensive. Add to that the costs of designing and implementing new remote learning programs, on top of childcare, transportation, and everything else that will inevitably increase the cost of doing business. billion for all public schools, at least.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey. Worse, it began sapping her love of teaching. She says she loved working in elementary school but the switch to middle school was tough.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

We had the chance to interview keynote speaker Mike Trucano, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institution on to get a sneak peek on his ideas and insights into what could be the most impactful technology to affect education in history. 00:00:50 Speaker 2 And. 00:00:58 Speaker 1 Yes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2017

Even if they did it on a computer, I remember numerous before-school visits from students to use my printer because theirs was broken, out of ink–add your own dilemma to this list. Here are five factors to consider as you establish your class or school LMS: cost : What’s your budget? It didn’t stop there.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 1, 2017

Transcript of How to Make it to the End of the School Year. And Erika, this message is for you. Imagine you driving to your special needs school and having a more positive mindset as you listen to the 10 Minute Teacher. And now let’s get started with Episode 66; How to Make it To The End of The School Year.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Even with all our new technology and the amazing strides we have made in the science of learning, our sons’ classrooms in Gastonia look a lot like my classroom did–and an awful lot like my father’s, who was born in 1923. It was expected that after school a person might work the remainder of his life in one role for one company.

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Adjusting Course

JANUARY 21, 2021

Supporting teachers, students, and our school community has never been more challenging.or Worse yet, the three instincts below could potentially do harm to the people you're wanting to serve. The number of decisions school leaders make on any given day is staggering. The instinct to standardize all practices.

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More Verbs

MARCH 3, 2016

If you are reading this, I suspect you want to help move your school or district forward, and recognize that a critical first step is developing a shared vision with stakeholders, including your staff and community. The worse outcome would be that it would not be used to improve teaching and learning. Comfortable with technology.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 6, 2019

Is technology the savior of education, or a pervasive evil transforming our idyllic educational institutions? They also have the responsibility of justifying their actions if test scores don’t improve—or worse, if test scores decline. It may surprise you, but the problem isn’t too much technology, it’s not enough.

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Tech Helpful

MAY 23, 2019

I feel very strongly about the importance of all educators that have technology in their classroom speaking into appropriate usage- with rights come responsibilities. Let your technology teachers spend extra time on it but every teacher should be speaking into digital citizenship issues because we are all stewards of it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2020

Marcus also discusses what to look out for in the lead up to the new school year this fall and whether or not colleges that were already struggling financially, will survive. I just taught a high school class the other day, that’s taught by a friend who teaches at a private school, and those students, some of them hadn’t shown up.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When that’s happening, to me it’s worse than getting a student complaint. It also helps curb spending in information technology by decreasing the amount of time spent fixing our legacy system when updates to the base software would break the customizations we had implemented. Get your school SaaS-ready.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I’m in.” It made me consider switching out of my major a handful of times.”. Joy Malak, left, changed her major as a freshman at the University of California, Santa Cruz, while balancing grades with work and school. The Covid-19 pandemic made things even worse.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 18, 2021

.” Of course, every school and district has its own procedures for conducting this process, but I wanted to share some of the ideas I have learned from my own personal experience. Look for people that will add to your school/district culture. “Everything happens for a reason.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2021

People who have enough wealth to pay for college out of pocket, start a business and purchase homes are much more likely to attend higher-performing schools, go to college and hold political office. However, if we don’t focus on those who have been most impacted by that crisis — people who’ve been denied wealth — we could make matters worse.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? This will create a new demand for online tutoring services and I anticipate and hope that more federal resources are allocated to school districts to offer this 1:1 tutoring to students. education system.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

School leader, Jordan Silvestri and Kiddom representative, Melissa Giroux, describe what it takes for an edtech company to deliver the kind of personalized experience to its customers that teachers give to their students. His concrete goals made us confident we could support his staff’s day-to-day work from afar.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2017

While many of the present educators seemed to embrace blended learning as not only inevitable but necessary, an anxiety around technology—and a nagging suspicion that something is missing from the conversation—made itself known. There’s no line anymore” For many in the education field, addressing SEL in schools is a non-negotiable.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art. Try our Financial Fitness Tracker.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

The recent school closures due to COVID-19 mean that most students will not be returning to the classroom for several months. At MIND, we know that school closures are exacerbating the existing problems with both traditional math education, and with society’s relationship with math. Basic Needs and Social Emotional Support.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

But high school English and journalism teacher Bryan Christopher is using micro-writing regularly in his classroom to support identity development and to build a sense of belonging. As it turns out, schools that invest in SEL see a major return on investment. But are educators on board? And ask more questions.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 26, 2017

It could have been much worse. It could have been much, much worse. You can only choose what is placed in front of you, and it's all or nothing (just like the school curriculum). The technology playground was particularly well conceived, jammed full of all the latest tools and technologies for teachers to try for themselves.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 19, 2020

Amid all of the new problems and the existing problems that have been made worse by the pandemic, there are also bright spots. There are results we’re getting right now that we probably wouldn’t be getting if the school year had progressed as normal. . I also want to add that many students are happier now, too.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

In July, three members from EdSurge Independent, a student-run group that meets weekly to discuss ideas around higher education and technology, joined EdSurge Live to share what they wish faculty knew about students today, and propose ways to fuse instructional gaps. This conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

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RafranzDavis.com

APRIL 30, 2018

Three years ago, I joined my current school district in what can only be described as my dream job in education. but in schools, there are so many of us still trying to convince people that technology does in fact have its space in the work of kids.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

At a time of unusual vitriol in society among grown-ups – on abortion, school curricula, election counts, you name it – we wanted to plumb the minds of youth who are becoming aware of the world but still retain an innocence. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2017

Making lasting change in schools is difficult not only because schools are communities made up of individuals with their own opinions about what’s best for kids, but also because, like most institutions, they are full of “bad habits” that can be tough to break.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

It came from George Siemens, a longtime leader in trying to understand the impact of technology on higher ed. In public institutions, we claim the higher ground but almost everything is driven by student numbers, enrollment, and dollars. The other day I was scrolling through Twitter when a message caught my eye. Learn more here.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Main entrance at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School. Ava had always felt comfortable at the small, private K-8 school she attended just north of Boston. But in high school everything changed. Ava first began to experience anxiety and depression after her parents divorced, when she was still in grade school.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

None of these technologies are things a “normal” teacher is in a position to reproduce for themselves. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, referenced these difficulties in his email announcing the first availability of Linux source code: Are you finding it frustrating when everything works on minix?

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2020

Garland is the executive editor at The Hechinger Report, and she’s been watching as parents like her across the country have been forced to sub as teachers while schools are closed because of Covid-19. For students, school as a mainstay of day-to-day life has evaporated. I mean, everything has changed. Sarah Garland.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

As one variant of the saying goes, if your strength is using a hammer, everything can look like a nail. Examples abound in attempts to use new technologies to enhance (if not “transform”, or even “disrupt”) education. Their role, then, is to bring their technological prowess to bear to make this process more efficient.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 22, 2020

This is a time in which it’s likely that schools will be taught remotely for the rest of the school year in the entire country AND standardized testing will be canceled. We knew the way we were doing school was killing students’ love of learning and our love of teaching. Sponsored by PowerSchool and ViewSonic.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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