Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

When it first opened its doors in 2004 as a part of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the organization took a leading role in opening charter schools across the city—130 of them, to be exact. Creating a Platform to Help Parents Navigate New Schools for Chicago wasn’t always focused on school choice.

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Elementary System Study STEM 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Seven years ago, Walton was the first school in Albemarle County to give every student a laptop.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 96

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

At the event, Carolyn Sykora , Senior Director of the ISTE Standards Program, shared that the 1998 standards described a landscape in which we were learning to use technology. The 2007 standards described a landscape in which we were using technology to learn. ISTELIB on Twitter. Librarians Network on Facebook. 2014/15 Webinars.

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Libraries Technology Conference BYOD 40

MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

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. In one of the first studies of its kind to show specific links between spatial and mathematical skills, Cheng and Mix (2013) assessed children in both spatial and math skills.

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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

Some of these reasons according to Blazer include: - Review and reinforce materials learned in class - Check students understanding and assess their skills and knowledge - Enhance students study skills - Provide students with learning opportunities where they can use their newly acquired skills to explore new insights. The Homework Scam.

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Study Elementary Analysis Mobile Learning 145

edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2021

Ithaca City School District (ICSD) Deputy Superintendent Lily Talcott helps oversee principals, instructional technology, mathematics curricula/instruction, APPR teacher evaluation, professional development, and human resources. Lily, an Ithaca native, served as Principal of Northeast Elementary School from 2015 to 2018.

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Policies Professional Learning Elementary Outcomes 97

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3 The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”. Finally, digital games have grown in popularity; worldwide revenues for digital gaming exceeded $70 billion in 2015. As a result, digital games may have a permanent home in education.

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Game-Based Learning Education Gamification Learning 100

edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

The Role of Technology During COVID. Even though many had been using technology in the classroom, they were not ready for the full-on virtual digital learning environment COVID demanded. Following this assessment is the design of an implementation plan centered on anticipated program outcomes. Professional Learning.

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Learning Data Outcomes Survey 97

EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Being an educational technology trainer and an educator for more than a decade, I have had a fair share of training and professional development sessions both on giving and receiving end. For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles.

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Education MOOC Training Udemy 47

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs. There are children like Caleb and his GNETS classmates all over the country — with diagnoses including ADHD, bipolar disorder and, increasingly, autism.

Education 82

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Yet, the fact remains that too many students still scrounge for the vital internet access their classmates (and technology-enamored school reformers) take for granted. In 2004, President George W. Jim” Snider, founder of iSolon.org, a nonprofit promoting technology for democratic reform, it starts with ignorance of spectrum itself.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 91