Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. You think they’re OK because you disabled the online access — think again. The video’s only seven minutes long, easily shown to a group.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Not so for Southern New Hampshire University , which has partnered with Rethink Education , a venture firm based in White Plains, NY, to launch a $15 million seed fund to support early-stage edtech startups. Dubbed “Rethink Education Seed,” the fund will support about two dozen startups over the next five years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Credit: Cavan Images The research on early childhood education can seem as messy as a playground sandbox. Studies of the Perry preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan and the Abecedarian preschool in Chapel Hill, North Carolina documented higher levels of educational attainment and higher earnings for children who attended.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Educational travel can be made attainable for all students if you create a plan and stick with it. The experts shared tips on planning for educational travel to make it accessible for all students. Consider focus groups. Look beyond base prices. Provide “exit tickets.” About the Presenters.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. You think they’re OK because you disabled the online access — think again. But what about cyberbullying?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The school has an on-campus clinic where students can receive therapy and join support groups — all free of charge. Educators and others are experimenting with new ways to address students’ mental health needs — or reinvent old strategies. Hispanic psychologists make up the second-largest group at 7%, while only 3% are Black.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

For young people today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise,” says Julie, Evans, the CEO of education nonprofit Project Tomorrow. “It In the survey, you're using sixth graders as a representative group to represent today’s students. Now, learning—like the internet—is everywhere thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and chromebooks.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The student had access to firearms at home; he had witnessed abuse while growing up; and he had a difficult relationship with his father. Doris Bergen, a professor at Miami University’s Department of Educational Psychology. Play is essential to education. Play is education for children.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. Black parents hold more student debt than parents or nonparents of any other racial or ethnic group. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. In recent years, as U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. You think they’re OK because you disabled the online access — think again. But what about cyberbullying?

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

Naturally, the Internet is far and away the richest and most radical change from the days I was a student, and education will, frankly, never be the same again. billion by 2025, while the education sector will attract 15 million users. Google’s Expeditions program is a Cardboard extension specifically oriented towards educators.

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Connecting 2 the World

MARCH 16, 2014

Cell phones and mobile technology has created a new level of social identity in which a person does not have to physically be present to categorize themselves or play a role expected when they perceive themselves as part of a group. When discussing social identity, it is important to understand the two leading theories of identity in groups.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. It is a complex network of dynamic resources that we all acknowledge is constantly changing to adapt to the growing demand for entertainment, communication and access to knowledge. BMC Medical Education 6, 41.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 3, 2018

Educational travel can be made attainable for all students if you create a plan and stick with it. The experts shared tips on planning for educational travel to make it accessible for all students. They also created an information packet to review at the very first meeting, explaining all the details of educational travel.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Since the school is located nearly 30 minutes from the town center, it was difficult to access after the storm, and the power was expected to be out for months. For the Department of Education of Puerto Rico, this initiative is expected to saving more than $25,000 a year in energy costs. We want to inspire more schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. You think they’re OK because you disabled the online access — think again. The video’s only seven minutes long, easily shown to a group.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Video Guidelines 46

Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Information becomes content when there is a situation to apply it (Nonaka, 1999, Yaklief, 2010), but does not require a depth of understanding to access or transfer. Knowledge can be created by the individual through reflection or developed through interaction at the intra- or inter-group levels.

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 19, 2011

I constantly look for ways to give teachers instruction that they can do on their own or in groups, together. Department of Education, with the ultimate goal of providing easy to use computer tutorials to students and adults with learning disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

This story about preschool was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA and the Naples Daily News. million from the foundation since 2003. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. NAPLES, Fla.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). ST Unitas , South Korea’s largest education business, acquired Princeton Review , the iconic U.S. Yet education ministries across Asia recognize they need more than test-takers; they need students who can ideate, create and compete in a global economy. Last month. Authess $2.2

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

I''m gradually working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. Milgram''s question was, how many someones are in the chain?'' (Watts, 2003, p38.) Where groups collaborate, social ties are critical in ensuring that their aims are achieved.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 4, 2015

This article was first published in the May Edition of Educational Leadership from ASCD. Over the past century, radio, television, video cassette recorders, desktop computers, laptop computers, handheld devices, tablets, and cell phones have all been heralded as potentially transformative classroom tools (Cuban, 1986, 2003).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

Pat Farenga describes himself as a “writer and education activist who addresses academic and general audiences about working with children, not on children, to help them learn.” Please join us at www.reinventing.school for the live shows as well as access to the recordings (also on YouTube ).

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Connecting 2 the World

APRIL 11, 2012

Transactional and Negotiated Knowledge There are two different types of knowledge used in distributed group processes: transactional and negotiated. Employees that have access to a wide breath of knowledge when it is needed will be the most valuable to the organization, coworkers, and departments.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

In order to address education equity, administrators must first recognize the common barriers. Unequal access to external support: Staff can’t just assume students will have access to the same resources at home or that they will willingly talk about what they have and don’t have. I think for the last 20 years,” said Pedro A.

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Connecting 2 the World

MAY 26, 2011

The traditional model of collaborative knowledge is based on the type of knowledge (moving from tangible to intangible, explicit to tacit) and the place of collaboration (moving from the individual to the group to the organization). The assumption is that knowledge within an organization is housed and can be captured for use.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 19, 2017

NMC has attracted an unusual group, different from what you might see around other educational technology venues. I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. The announcement’s language suggests the site will go away, at least in its current, accessible form. That’s a lot of material.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

Angel Carter, a senior at Tulane University, leads the Green Wave Ambassadors, the tour guide group for the admissions office. Krislov was vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan in 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled in Gratz v. Adelaide Basco. What do they bring that is unique, yet enhances a community?

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Will jobs go begging? Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 6, 2012

In analyzing collaborative writing in distributed groups, genres could be applied to different ways in which knowledge is organized, created, accessed, and used. The result is different structures in the organization, creation, storage, and access of knowledge which creates different knowledge genres. 1999; Nonaka, 1994).

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Groups Knowledge Base Accessibility Study 61

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Dave Cormier is an educational activist, researcher, online community advocate and the Manager of Web Communications and Innovations at the University of Prince Edward Island. He has published on open education, Rhizomatic Learning, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Digital Identity, and practical classroom uses of virtual worlds.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. Considering that community college students oftentimes have access to fewer resources, it seems at first that this would be counter-intuitive. ANDERSON, T (2003). References: Brooks, D.C.

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Smartphone Learning Mobility Social Media 28

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In addition to the academic demands, she and her friends acknowledged, they’re concerned about the cost of their graduate educations, the debt they may accumulate to pay for it and whether jobs will be available at the other end. Department of Education. Graduate education is being used to subsidize undergraduate education.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 19, 2017

NMC has attracted an unusual group, different from what you might see around other educational technology venues. I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. The announcement’s language suggests the site will go away, at least in its current, accessible form. That’s a lot of material.

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Pearson Report Trends Conference 40