Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

The MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Initiative) program coevolved with the technology available. Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009.

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iPad Laptops Classroom Report 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Instead, the educators told Barlow that they wanted her son to attend a classroom across town meant for children who are profoundly impacted by their disabilities. An IQ test can look beyond assumptions and capture abilities that are not assessed in the classroom.”

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Assessment Policies Accessibility Report 123

Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

This is the progression of technology integration at CCS lower school since I came on staff in January of 2004 as a part-time related arts computer teacher. I graduated with a Masters in Instructional Technology in 2007. I wanted them to learn that technology was a tool for their learning. We've come a long way baby!

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Technology Digital Citizenship Khan Academy Elementary 40

Veative

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

By creating specially designed virtual environments for the detection, assessment and treatment of this disorder, Virtual Reality can serve both as a diagnostic tool and an effective therapeutic strategy in the rehabilitation of children with ADHD. How can VR help children with ADHD. More importantly, as Diaz-Orueta et al.

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Assessment Analysis Study Strategy 80

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

He’s been involved with cutting-edge educational technology, including virtual worlds, mobile applications, new media, and the web, for more than 15 years. The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We So, the actual percentage is more like 5% to 10%.

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LMS Professional Learning Learning Handbook 94

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 14, 2012

Teachers in many schools will tell you they are running hard just to stand still as they attempt to adopt new technologies for learning. And yet, with a clear framework or roadmap for adoption, many of the challenges of adopting new technology can be met, and many of the fears teachers have can be assuaged. Adpated from John, P.

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Technology Assessment Classroom Tools 55

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Beginning teachers’ practice is enhanced further when their mentors also receive formal training and are released from some of their own classroom duties to provide one-to-one observation and coaching in the classroom, so they can demonstrate effective methods and help new teachers solve problems of practice.(33) 32) Ingersoll, R.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

As innovators and early adopters of emerging technology we often find ourselves in the situation to help our colleagues. How do we best help them to understand the value of new technology and how it might benefit their students lives (rather than how might it help my fit into their classroom).

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Examples Strategy Technology Study 61

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The Innovation Academy workspace at Dysart Unified School District looked more like a tech startup’s headquarters than a classroom. It was only the fifth day of school, but he was already getting used to this unconventional classroom setup. Classroom technologies make it easier than ever to collect information on students.

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Personalized Learning Classroom Data Learning 40

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

2006), classrooms teachers are left to use their own resourcefulness and basic classroom accommodations to support anxious children. with a different child) and require a different solution (Spiro, Coulson, Feltovich, and Anderson, 2004). Therefore, the teacher is left with an ill-structured problem that needs to be addressed.

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Training Meeting Study Examples 40

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A Tale of Two Keynotes We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. Wheeler, 2000a).

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Education Conference Technology Online Learning 61

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2016, our Anna Reynolds Elementary School was the recipient of the National Blue Ribbon Award for high performance , and every school in the district routinely outperforms the competing magnet school on standardized assessments. The program started with 1:1 iPads in two first grade classrooms in 2010. The secret to our success?

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STEM Personalized Learning BYOD iPad 112

Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

While educators and learners in classroom-based courses have already discovered the benefits of using engagement as a part of education, the power of online is yet to be fully realized. Encourage Reflection through Student Self-Assessment : Self-assessment rubrics and discussion boards allow for reflective thinking of assignment content.

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Online Learning Learning Course Adobe 42

Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Unlike formal schooling, individual content knowledge is not necessarily assessed through testing (Diaz, et al, 1999). Second International Conference, iTrust 2004, Oxford, UK. British Journal of Educational Technology, 30(3), 201-215. British Journal of Educational Technology, 28, 199-217. The Knowledge Evolution.

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Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In a traditional classroom setting, “If you couldn’t follow the instructions from the teacher, you were lost. The United States lags behind other nations in math and science performance, ranking 29 th in math and 22 nd in science, according to the Program for International Student Assessment. In the U.S., Source: U.S.

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Meeting Software Outcomes Elementary 40

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. We can flip the classroom. We can extend the learning day. Explaining why requires some history.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 96

Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

‘May you live in interesting times’ (Old Chinese curse) We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. Wheeler, 2000a).

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Conference Technology Online Learning Strategy 51

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Learning, or at least what we referred to it as was more or less a monotonous task consisting of the same types of activities and assessments that occurred over and over again. The GRASPS model (Wiggins & McTighe, 2004) can greatly assist educators in the construction of quality performance tasks. Wiggins, G., &

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Social Media Assessment Study Examples 219

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. The award-winning classroom teachers at my table wondered too.

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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

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. We focused on the essential needs of the market—curriculum, assessment, and intervention—which aligned with our core competencies and interests. Sometimes very hard.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 140

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 20, 2019

Few school systems currently have powerful technology integration as a core competency for classroom teaching staff. Until this changes, meaningful and authentic uses of multimedia technologies in P-12 classrooms will continue to be isolated aberrations rather than routine observances.

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Social Media Learning System Adaptive Learning 176

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.). ” Interest wanes.

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2021

As to how this process can look in a classroom, Talcott described an “aha moment” when a middle school math teacher realized almost all the students in her algebra class were White or Asian, while students in the same grade taking a more basic math class were mostly Black or Brown-skinned males. Anti-Racist Implementation. Lily Talcott.

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Policies Professional Learning Elementary Outcomes 97

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

MAY 7, 2021

The changes altered the educational landscape, inspiring educators to embrace new instructional methods and carry them over to their classrooms once they returned to normalcy. The Role of Technology During COVID. Following this assessment is the design of an implementation plan centered on anticipated program outcomes.

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Learning Data Outcomes Survey 98

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?”. But by analyzing a game’s strengths and weaknesses, and by matching it to course content, educators can take advantage of the many games that are suitable for the classroom. Definitions.

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Game-Based Learning Education Gamification Learning 100

The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

As a young teacher, I had prided myself on running a challenging class and had focused much of my attention on getting my students prepared for what we were both going to be assessed on: the test. Yet, I was actively trying to match my lessons and activities to what they would be assessed on later down the road. And guess what?

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Assessment Data Classroom Learning 76

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. The key to effective classrooms seems to be at the grassroots level i.e. effective professional development for teachers.

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Education MOOC Training Udemy 47

edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

They wondered: Would it be possible for students to learn effectively outside of the classroom? They described how districts and schools successfully used sophisticated technology to read students’ “digital signals” to meet their academic and social-emotional needs. Could instruction be adapted to keep learners engaged from afar?

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Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics 53

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 8, 2011

Notes from a breakout session at South by Southwest Edu 2011 Presenter: David McGeary, Harris County Department of Education, Digital Learning Specialist McGeary helped build the first version of the Texas Tour in ProjectShare Hybrid or blended learning fills the gap between what we teach in the classroom with what they do in the real world.

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Wiki Education LMS Blended Learning 40

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 15, 2018

“ Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed. ” - Seymour Papert When it comes to improving outcomes in the digital age, efficacy matters more than ever. Tom Murray and I shared this thought in Learning Transformed : Educational technology is not a silver bullet.

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Learning Outcomes Technology Assessment 302

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2017

I remember the days when I was not a very big believer in educational technology. As I moved from the classroom to administration, I still saw technology from a mere delivery aspect. From 2004 through 2008, I basically rubber-stamped the status quo while adding a splash here and there of technology.

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EdTech Social Media Learning Outcomes 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 13, 2022

Education today has become large and focused on many things beyond the needs of learners, such as tests, curriculum and assessment. Completing a doctorate in Instructional Technology, she went on to earn a Superintendent’s Letter of Eligibility in Pennsylvania. Mara is the international two-time best selling author of HELP!

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Education Handbook Conference Libraries 53

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

Education today has become large and focused on many things beyond the needs of learners, such as tests, curriculum and assessment. Completing a doctorate in Instructional Technology, she went on to earn a Superintendent’s Letter of Eligibility in Pennsylvania. Mara is the international two-time best selling author of HELP!

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