eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Developed for students born after September 11, 2001, this experience highlights ways people in the United States came together during and after the terrorist attacks. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Karen Bosch explains why Merge Cubes are so hot, how they are being used in classrooms, and how she’s using them to build critical thinking and creativity in her school. Other Resources: Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom. Aurasma and Augmented Reality in the Classroom. Join Merge Cube Mania!

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

“The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. Most teachers use the free version, but the company offers a more full-featured product that costs $65-per year.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As the district prepares to reopen for full in-person learning on August 30, teachers are attending training sessions and figuring out just what role technology will play in their classrooms. My goal for this year is to see how I’ll make [digital tools] effective in the classroom.”. Ashley LaCroix, a school technology integrator.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Working in the gig economy as a contractor with a ride-share company precludes the kinds of deep relationships that lead to professional advancement.

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100mentors

JANUARY 23, 2018

This post will focus on the importance of reorienting education from knowledge acquisition to skill mastery, making what students learn at school more relevant to their lives outside the classroom, consequently increasing student motivation to learn and willingness to actively engage in lessons.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

And as technology platforms have accelerated over the years, her job has increasingly involved keeping up with the ways young people use social media, and advising parents, teachers and even tech companies about what they need to know. Can tell us a little bit about that process and working with the company?

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

Conner also identified three levels of innovation that need to occur, starting with the application of efficiency logic to smaller systems like classroom design. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. He is also a senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In terms of student proficiency, today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In these classrooms, teachers face a seemingly impossible task -- providing effective instruction to all the unique students under their care. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

He previously managed UConn’s Network Engineering and Data Center Operations teams, having started his career there as a junior network technician in the summer of 2001. In 2018, ENA joined forces with a company who share ENA’s same vision and passion for delivering excellence—CatchOn.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Susannah Moran, Senior Project Manager at myON, presented tips for providing students with these important media literacy skills in “ Teaching Media Literacy in the Classroom.”. Within the classroom, teaching media literacy should become a routine part of the day. About the Presenter.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2023

But as years and then decades passed, her plans to enter the classroom were repeatedly sidetracked and eventually stalled. But even during those experiences, Talley Ochoa held onto the idea that she belonged in the classroom. I served for four years of active service, and I actually finished my service the week of September 11, 2001.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In the run-up to a new school year, I was proud to contribute $100 to the parent teacher association at my son’s school for classroom supplies. The movement manifests itself in corporate tax breaks, which don’t require companies to contribute their fair share to state taxes, a significant part of districts’ budgets. AP Photo/Ted S.

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techlearning

JUNE 14, 2018

Available at no cost, the initiative’s resources help promote lifesaving discussions in the home and classroom. About the DEA Educational Foundation Established in 2001, the DEA Educational Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preventing drug abuse. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s not alone: the parent company that owns the for-profit Argosy University and Art Institutes, Dream Center Education Holdings LLC, is “ discontinuing campus-based programs ” at seven of its campuses in California. Internationally, the market shattered its own funding record, with 813 different companies landing a total of $9.52

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Both Obimma and VonSeggen tutored remotely, but some tutors have come back into the classroom along with the students.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Located in the suburbs north of Seattle, and close to the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, the Northshore School District’s students are 60% White, 17% Asian, and 13% Hispanic, with another 9% identifying as mixed race. Systems, Strategies, and an Equity Framework.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Indiana’s foster care intake has more than doubled since 2001 , the sharpest increase in the nation. That’s the thing that shocked me more than anything,” said O’Brien, who is now retired after decades working at Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical company. In Indiana, where Tessa lives, the situation is especially dire.

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Both Obimma and VonSeggen tutored remotely, but some tutors have come back into the classroom along with the students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

And numerous studies point to the benefits of diverse organizational leadership, including one by the consulting firm McKinsey showing that companies with diverse boards performed better than those with mostly white men on their boards. (That’s important because black students have been underrepresented in gifted programs for decades.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

After World War II broke out, Lawrence Holt, the father of one of Hahn’s students and a partner in a shipping company, noticed that many young sailors were dying after their ships were torpedoed, while older seamen were able to hang on. That boy, Chaffee explained, spends much of his day in a special classroom.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 17, 2016

But speaking as a teacher with more than 10 years of experience, coming from a family of teachers with over 50 years of combined classroom experience from all levels from kindergarten to college, it is not exactly the choicest curriculum for students in the 21st Century. So, there’s nothing wrong with Chaucer, per se. I want to learn about Y.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

We discuss hiring, inspiring, and having conversations that inspire people to change and improve their classrooms. But also, I just remember for example, when Flat Classroom happened. So many of the projects in my classroom happened because I went to you, and we had conversations. You know, what’s going on in their classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

But when it comes to demonstrating that products “work,” too many companies fall back on testimonials. In fact, we’d argue that the best way to ramp and grow a company is to create a compelling portfolio of efficacy. The conditions of a classroom are too different from those in a medical clinic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

This discomfort has been capitalized upon—perhaps to an exaggerated extent—in movies like Terminator and 2001: Space Odyssey. The matter is hardly helped when companies claim they are capable of building mind-reading robo-tutors. Too often, these insights are confined to a single classroom or school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

Saga Education, a nonprofit tutoring company that focuses on ninth-grade algebra in low-income schools, reported that 78 percent of the more than 6,000 students it tutored across six cities passed their math classes in the spring of 2022. . He is also a former executive at tutor.com, a tutoring company. “No

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Sesame Ventures, Sesame Workshop’s new investment arm, will provide portfolio companies with access to Sesame Workshop’s staff, research, and decades of child development and expertise, the company said. Established in 1997, Apple acquired the PowerSchool platform in 2001. operator of the Koolearn.com online education platform.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Finally in 2001, the school leadership and the parents jointly engaged in a painful analysis that lead to a profound conclusion: If we don’t change, the results won’t change. Classroom practices needed a radical and science-based overhaul. Education results plummeted along with employment. Community Buy-In. It was a bumpy process.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The primary goals of this event are to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, institutions of informal learning and universities around the world, and to introduce others to the tools, resources, projects, and networks that are available to educators today. This will take you to the event VoiceThread.)

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Use ChatGPT as an innovative pathway in education For students and educators alike, allowing for creativity in new types of learning in the classroom should always be encouraged. In other words, this technology has the potential to level the playing field for students and create classroom environments that make all learners feel supported.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. Though his students learn from home, Albert Morales is still delivering instruction from his classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

During a previous enrollment slump, Emmanuel College leased a corner of its campus for $50 million to the pharmaceutical company Merck, which built this 12-story, glass-walled research lab. Doing that required leveraging another corner of the favorably situated campus, which Emmanuel leased to the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

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