Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Founded in 1997, Powerschool was first bought by Apple in 2001, and then by Pearson in 2006. Through these deals, the company has expanded its product suite beyond its original K-12 student information system offering to assessment, enrollment, special education and talent management services. and Canada. and Canada.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Started in 2006, it aims to educate and raise awareness of bullying prevention around the world and is supported by hundreds of schools, corporations, and celebrities. National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015 ). Hawkins, Pepler, and Craig, 2001 ). October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Sadly: 14.8%

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Tony is one of the most creative educators I know. In 2001 I had a one-to-one classroom with Palm Pilots, and in 2005 I started one of the first podcasts from an elementary school. In 2006 I became a self-employed consultant. In 2006 I became a self-employed consultant.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Dr. Reid emphasized the importance of listening and grounding equity work in the voices of the students and other community members, and also making sure achieving educational and racial justice is a process of removing barriers for all students, rather than taking something from one group and giving it to another.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 1, 2012

This differential is causing a split among educators. When will the administrative trickle-down theory reach mainstream public education? As educators, we need to be thinking about how to teach … in the language of the Digital Natives” (Prensky 4). The Great Divide is especially apparent in high schools across America.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2012

This belief was also the basis for the in Digital Natives and Immigrants theory (Prensky, 2001), a persistent discourse that has greatly influenced the thinking of educators in recent years. 2008) The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence, British Journal of Educational Technology, 39 (5), 775–786.

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Technology STEM Tools Online Learning 71

The Electric Educator

MAY 11, 2011

Fride (2001 in Rice 2006) discovered that the amount of engagement by the adult supervisor seemed to influence the amount of and quality of participation by students. Closely associated with mentor support is the importance of parental support (Rice 2006). A Comprehensive Look at Distance Education in the K-12 context."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Join me Tuesday, December 7th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Kieran Egan , director of the Imaginative Education Research Group. Dr. Egan''s work focuses on a new educational theory and its implications for a changed curriculum, teaching practices, and the institution of the school.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

This is the second in a series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future' Yesterday's post can be found on this link. In May 2000, I was invited to present two keynote speeches about the role technology would play in the future of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.” Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 13, 2011

Join me Tuesday, August 16th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Dr. Gary Lopez to discuss HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

of Education, author of 12 books including the recent Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Danger to Our Public Schools; Cindy Cisneros , Vice President of Education Programs at the Committee for Economic Development at The Conference Board; and Gavin Dykes , from England, Managing Director of Cellcove, Ltd.

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MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Even the best-laid plans will likely remain plans without effective communication and professional development for school faculty and staff, a mechanism for soliciting and truly hearing student voices, and extensive parent education on the goals you are trying to accomplish with your new policies and programs. Courtesy of Denise Pope.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

So the producers of a leading classroom online tool collaborated with an educational psychologist to design an online program for parents and others to teach empathy skills to children as young as 5. According to one study , more than 635,000 students under 18 took community college classes in 2015, an increase of 122 percent from 2001.

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Training Study Trends Course 62

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

As a New Leaders principal candidate back in 2006-2007, King-Morris said she was asked what she thought about the potential of all children to learn and about her track record as a teacher leader up to that point. That may be true, but studies have shown that the race of educators does make a difference to minority students and their schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 23, 2011

Join me Tuesday, July 26th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Kieran Egan , director of the Imaginative Education Research Group. Dr. Egan''s work focuses on a new educational theory and its implications for a changed curriculum, teaching practices, and the institution of the school. He read History (Hons.)

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2012

This belief was also the basis for the Digital Natives and Immigrants theory (Prensky, 2001), a persistent discourse that has greatly influenced the thinking of educators in recent years. 2008) The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence, British Journal of Educational Technology, 39 (5), 775–786. Palfrey, J.

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Technology STEM Tools Online Learning 29

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2017

Gross (more on each below), who will take a look forward at the skills and knowledge needed to support successful libraries of the future, examining educational programs and employer expectations. Presentation and discussion will include requirements and expectations from educators and from both the employee and employer’s perspective.

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Libraries Conference Study Blackboard 42

Learning With Lucie

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The challenge provides educators with a new prompt each day for educators to reflect on and blog about for 30 days starting September 1 using the hashtag #reflectiveteacher to share with a greater audience. I made sure there were lots of links to related research for any topic I wrote about.

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Learning With Lucie

AUGUST 18, 2016

This week I got a chance to attend a meeting lead by Lars Hasselblad Torres, Director of the Generator as he kicked off a collaboration project between Burlington's makerspace the Generator, area schools, and Champlain College to help educators vision how MAKING can support Project Based Learning in their classrooms.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

This has implications for agency and ownership as knowledge that is created by and for the organization may be perceived as being owned by the organization (Ende & Lungsford, 2001). Through group filtering and curating, documents become a record of the group’s content knowledge or shared cognition (Cannon-Bower & Salas, 2001).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

This has happened as Georgia officials – like those in many other states – are pushing to increase the number of young residents who have some kind of post-secondary education. Folks aren’t just asking for higher education to be supported because it’s a nice thing. Since 2008, average tuition increased from $4,700 to $8,400.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Event and Recording Page : [link] Kathleen Cushman is an educator and journalist who has specialized in the lives and learning of youth for over two decades. In 2001 she co-founded the nonprofit What Kids Can Do (WKCD), and under its auspices she has since written nine books in collaboration with diverse youth from around the nation.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

We also learned—and have experienced in our careers as mathematics educators and researchers—that spatial reasoning is a curiously unacknowledged and neglected area of the curriculum. Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 28, 2017

Gross (more on each below), who will take a look forward at the skills and knowledge needed to support successful libraries of the future, examining educational programs and employer expectations. She has led a distinguished career as an educator and innovator. Abels , John Bertot , and Valerie J. Abels, John Bertot, Valerie J.

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Libraries Conference Study Blackboard 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 26, 2017

Invited panelists will take a look forward at the skills and knowledge needed to support successful libraries of the future, examining educational programs and employer expectations. Presentation and discussion will include requirements and expectations from educators and from both the employee and employer’s perspective.

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Libraries Conference Study Blackboard 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2011

Join us on Wednesday, April 20th, for a very special live and interactive event with educators from Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, and Morocco. We''ll be discussing the political changes taking place in the Middle East, the impact of technology on both politics and education, and student-to-student interactions worldwide. Dr. Edwin H.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This mantra in education particularly in adopting emerging technology is incredibly important. I regularly encourage anyone in education to think about this as a reminder of who they are and how that informs the expectations they hold on themselves to prepare students for a different future. Moore’s Law – Investopedia.” & Hoy, A.W.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 9, 2015

by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Far too much educational feedback is opaque, alas, as revealed in a true story told to me years ago by a young teacher. Transparent.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

Homework is a controversial topic and the object of differing opinions among teachers, parents, and educators. One of the most comprehensive research studies on homework is a meta-analysis done by professor Harris Cooper and his colleagues (2006) and published in the journal Review of Educational Research. Robinson, J.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2010

While talking to educators about the source of the problem, Roger discovered that there were various vested interests in education that were committed to things staying the way they were. So, he developed a much less costly version of his educational model, which he called the Story Centered Curriculum (SCC).

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2015

A Minnesota native who grew up in a family of teachers—he jokes, “I couldn’t escape it”—Nelson majored in history at the University of Wisconsin and returned to Minnesota to earn his master’s degree in education. He had been playing since 2004—his teams were back-to-back Super Bowl champions in 2005 and 2006—so he knew the game intimately.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

It was still recovering from the economic crash in 2001. Dougherty convened the first Maker Faire in 2006 in San Mateo, Calif., In schools, many teachers saw making as an antidote to the test-driven culture fostered by No Child Left Behind, the federal education policy at the time. It’s not on youth, education or even culture.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

In this post, I’ve synthesized the wisdom from these papers into actionable insights and examples for educators looking to hone their classroom management skills. They provide structured approaches that can be implemented across various educational settings. offer valuable tools and perspectives for educators at all levels.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Kansas’ governor and Legislature are also making national headlines for not equalizing education funding between low-income and wealthier districts. But class sizes have begun to increase, and many of the supports that educators here say helped spark improvements over the last 15 years have been removed. million in 2001.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

By the time I met Pierre-Floyd, I’d talked to dozens of students who said the white educators were well-meaning but often expected black kids to enroll at majority-white colleges and meet white ideals of success. She graduated from high school in 2001 as valedictorian. charter schools and decided to pursue a career in education.

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