eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. 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.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 12, 2020

When once distance learning courses were frowned upon and considered to be inferior to traditional campus based degrees, in recent years this opinion has been completely overturned. As early as 2001, Thomas Russell's No Significant Difference studies gave a first indication of the effectiveness of distance and online learning methods.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

This week, REINVENTING.SCHOOL explores an increasingly common practice--home as a place for learning, and in some cases, as a physical replacement for a physical school facility. Diana Ortiz Burns is Director of Operations and Sustainability, Indian Creek School, and a force in the physical reinvention of local facilities used for learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

(Thursday, August 26, 2021) — To welcome K-12 students and teachers back to school, Discovery Education—the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art K-12 digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—and leading corporate and community partners proudly introduce four new engaging, no-cost virtual field trips (VFTs).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

Social media lit up praising the litany of services the school will offer to students and families alike: among them, free uniforms, bicycles and helmets, transportation, breakfast, lunch and snacks—and not to mention guaranteed tuition to the University of Akron to every student who graduates.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Hawkins, Pepler, and Craig, 2001 ). It includes not only websites, but cell phones, Nintendo, and Wii, as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015 ).

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 23, 2015

So if you’ve been wanting to read the report on Social Media Curation , I wrote with Brenda Boyer and Della Curtis, this is your opportunity. You’ll also find this past year’s titles (as well as an archive reaching back to 2001): David Lee King’s Managing Your Library’s Social Media Channels.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 8, 2013

This is a continuation of my series of retrospective reviews of seminal learning and technology books. The book features a number of examples of collective action using new tools, including the creation of the world''s largest repository of knowledge, Wikipedia , which didn''t even exist prior to 2001. For previous reviews start here.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

When I got connected on social media, my lens was expanded and I became aware additional organizations, as well as their supporting tools and resources. This is the third post in a short series meant to highlight the great work of many nonprofit organizations that are working diligently to support students’ learning on a daily basis.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Legends of Learning has awesome free science games and activities to celebrate earth day on April 22. They also have interactive — more learning type games — called Mr. Body, where you see a human body, and as you tap on different parts of the body, the organs will open up, and there will be some information about it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Great teachers attract their students to today’s topic of learning like a 3-year old boy to a mud puddle. As a teacher in San Diego, California, he was a 2001 and 2012 Golden Apple winner in the Grossmont Union High School District and the 2007-2008 Teacher of the Year at West Hills High School. No purchase necessary.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

What we're learning over time is that, of course, Wikipedia had and still has problems with accuracy and relevance. When I talk with faculty about OER, I tend to talk about how OER is just a better teaching-and-learning resource—a better teaching-and-learning experience. Absolutely.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 20, 2012

Most learning professionals have heard of David A. His experiential learning model (1984) is just one part of his grander theory on learning, and is often cited as a model that encapsulates the entire learning journey. It owes more to Piaget's 'scientific' or cognitive constructivist camp. This is questionable.

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MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

For tweens and teens it can also include some time spent on social media. 2014; Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). 2014; Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). Other studies have also linked participation in extracurricular activities to positive social and academic outcomes (Mahoney et al., Courtesy of Denise Pope.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 6, 2014

This is number 15 in my series on learning theories. In this post, we take a look at an emerging theory of learning proposed by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon, known as Heutagogy. As usual, this is a simplified interpretation of the theory, so if you wish to learn more, please read the associated literature.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I learned that my attention isn’t very stable,” a student said. In late March, Mindful Schools created a free mindfulness series for kids, in response to Covid-19, which was shared 87,000 times on social media, a record for them. The kids were learning to self-regulate.” The kids were learning to self-regulate.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

No matter how many maker learning spaces you may visit, you will quickly notice no two are the same. Participants are encouraged to use #library2017 on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Each librarian and makerspace delivers their own brand of service to their individual community.

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techlearning

JUNE 14, 2018

Winning public service announcements will be featured across DE and DEA digital and social media platforms. To learn more about Operation Prevention, visit operationprevention.com. The prizes awarded to the first, second, third place and People’s Choice Award winners are provided courtesy of the DEA Educational Foundation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Instructional Designers, technologists, and online learning specialists are in high demand across all levels of education as it shifts online. Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryid on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Steven is a past-president of ACRL.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2022

In particular, we need you to focus on your member as a constituent PLUS the members of the education committee : Committee Members District Office & Contact Information District Contact Form Social Media Mailing Address Phone Patrick O'Donnell (Chair) Dem Dem - 70 Contact Form [link] asmpatodonnell Capitol Office, 1021 O Street, Suite 4510 P.O.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. Yet we also see academic deans and provosts showing more interest in digital learning than their faculty. post-2001) web.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2017

Participants are encouraged to use #library2017 on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Gross, MM, MLS, JD, has served as President & CEO of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in Maryland since 2001. PLEASE REGISTER HERE to attend live or to receive the recording links.

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2015

While he earned his degree, he was student-teaching, and like virtually every new teacher who ever lived, he’d begun his career with a hazy Sound of Music idea that everyone surely loved learning as much as he did, and that his students would hang on to his every word. “I They just sort of looked through me.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

He has published on open education, Rhizomatic Learning, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Digital Identity, and practical classroom uses of virtual worlds. Alec Couros is a Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I learned that my attention isn’t very stable,” a student said. Some teachers are integrating discussions about emotions into daily lessons or starting class with a short mindfulness practice to help everyone feel centered and prepared to learn, while others are sharing mindfulness apps and using online mindfulness videos.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 26, 2017

Participants are encouraged to use #library2017 on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Gross, MM, MLS, JD, has served as President & CEO of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in Maryland since 2001. PLEASE REGISTER HERE to attend live or to receive the recording links.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instructional Designers, technologists, and online learning specialists are in high demand across all levels of education as it shifts online. Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryid on their social media posts leading up to and during the event.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There has been an explosion of research in this area in the last decade especially concentrated on youths’ use of social media e.g., Facebook, MySpace. On the same note, it’s also worth revisiting Marc Prensky’s original 2001 Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants article as that discourse is still prevalent today.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There has been an explosion of research in this area in the last decade especially concentrated on youths’ use of social media e.g., Facebook, MySpace. On the same note, it’s also worth revisiting Marc Prensky’s original 2001 Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants article as that discourse is still prevalent today.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

In math, students are on track to recover all of their pandemic learning losses within three years. The Crowley school district especially wanted its lowest achieving third graders to receive tutoring because their first and second-grade years were so disrupted by the pandemic when they were just learning to read.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 23, 2012

Unfortunately, Lorin Anderson's revised model (2001 in conjunction with Krathwohl) of the taxonomy is not as great an improvement on the original model as its adherents might claim. Tim Brook makes the point that the sequence of learning categories is problematic and suggests a matrix instead. Krathwohl (Eds.) Longman, New York.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

It should be obvious, given that the United States has been fighting a series of wars at a planetary scale since September 2001. But how often do we read of those schools in the Chronicle, or hear them discussed at conferences, or see them referenced in the academic social media realm?

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 31, 2015

Here are my top three candidates, listed in order by author’s last name: The Secret School by Avi (Harcourt, 2001). Cara Landry is not settling for less regarding her learning, so she creates a classroom newspaper that highlights the issues in her classroom. This story takes place in a one room schoolhouse in 1925.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Karen has presented at conferences around the country about teaching students to navigate social media and working with teachers to develop digital projects that embrace new media literacies. He helps educational organizations across the world find ways to utilize these tools in support of new learning models.

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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. A current listing of events you can join is below.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Department of Labor figures, that teachers are quitting their jobs at record rates, since such records began to be kept in 2001. Many parents have made efforts to prepare their children for learning. When teachers graduate, they have a lot of book learning, but that does not make them competent to function as a quality educator.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final week. For the next eight days we'll be publishing three special 30-minute video interviews each day with an amazing set of learning experts (see below), for a total of 24 interviews (and maybe a surprise bonus interview or two). See all of the speakers here.

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