Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. Let's call the whole thing off! Some offered multiple-choice questions, for instance, that simply asked kids to pick the correct pronunciation—hardly a useful exercise.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 14, 2012

Professionally produced videos which show knowledgeable practitioners demonstrating teaching practices that work in their classrooms. Get inspired with some new approaches to try out in your classroom! Classroom 2.0 One of my favorites is Digital Storytelling in the Classroom.

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SpeechTechie

MARCH 24, 2016

These ideas were on my mind when working with a client who a) could use a dose of engagement and b) needs support around the idea of using strategies in the classroom. Later, I will be able to duplicate and edit this comic to promote generalization to other levels in the app as well as, of course, more importantly, classroom contexts.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

David Demming, an economist, updated the work of Levy and Murnane from 2003, shows that those jobs that require social skills and non-routine analytical thinking are increasing while routine ones are decreasing. However, if you go into the classrooms where technology is being used phenomenally well, it’s an amazing experience.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Johnson had no intention of giving up retying kindergarteners’ shoes and ducking into classrooms just because she also had to manage federal programs and IT. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In 2003, I used iMovie to document the experience. We didn’t have an overhead projector, so I used the PhotoBooth app on my iPad and set the filter to X-ray. If you don’t have an iPad available, any kind of document camera will work just fine. I remember it took several hours to put together this video.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Take iPads , for example. Or the flipped classroom. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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