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 We needed a platform that would help us to facilitate at-scale courses.

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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 103

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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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. This could happen to your online program: Students Suing School Over Online Courses. – Rita-Marie Conrad, J. And often times, they are right.

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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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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. Designing for differences: Cultural issues in the design of www-based course-support sites. British Journal of Educational Technology, 30(3), 201-215.

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Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

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. Here’s what happened. 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

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

heloukee (online), Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media and Social Technologies at the University of Salford. I’m based in Computing, Science and Engineering, so it’s a great place to be as I get to work with techie students, but nowadays I focus on the social and cultural aspects of technology. I’m Helen Keegan a.k.a.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

He was the Chief Research Officer and also the director of External Technology Relations for the WMU College of Education. His teaching responsibilities involved graduate level courses in research methods and in undergraduate and graduate level courses in educational technology. He was a member of U.S.

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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

MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Alex Belous, education portfolio manager for the Cisco Foundation (which has supported MIND Research Institute since 2004), says that when he initially reviewed their program, its installation and training strategy was predominantly in-person, which wouldn’t scale. “It 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. There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. Five percent is nothing.

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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

It’s an intense research project that usually tops out at about 75,000 words, written over the course of four to six weeks. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. I’m not interested in publishing clickbait. The quotation is from 2012.

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

So declares the newest forward-looking publication from the higher-ed information technology association EDUCAUSE, “ 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Information Security Edition.” But it may be enough to know the report exists and can be freely downloaded and doom-scrolled to assess the thinking of dozens of experts.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 25, 2016

He has written several books on the role of games and learning, including What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) and Language and Learning (2004). Of course, the downside of big data is that it can be used for surveillance, and possibly to circumvent civil liberties. Experts Weigh Pros and Cons.

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Gamification Social Media Trends Data 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The quality of online courses still varies drastically, and research shows there are major racial disparities in digital-learning outcomes. We tried to understand who is enrolling in these [online] courses, and what is the course performance of online takers versus similar face-to-face takers. Xu: This is a great question.

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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.

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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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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 8, 2011

By 2014, every single student in college will take at least one course online. By 2020 50% of all college material will be online, and K-12 students will be taking at least two courses online. To see where technology and the value of online spaces are going, watch what teenagers are doing.

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Wiki Education LMS Blended Learning 40

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. Students like Caleb continue to languish in GNET schools while the lawsuit continues its course.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This talk was delivered at MIT for Justin Reich’s Comparative Media Studies class “Learning, Media, and Technology.” I recognize that this class is called “Learning, Media, and Technology.” ” The full slide deck is available here. Thank you for inviting me to speak to your class today.

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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 95

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Now the course is offered each semester and a whopping 3,000 students take it in any given school year. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. The class then had 50 students.

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