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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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 63

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

We admire them and use them as shining examples of our aspirations. 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 secret to our success?

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

with a different child) and require a different solution (Spiro, Coulson, Feltovich, and Anderson, 2004). Luckily, I think technology can be a great tool to help assist teachers with these tricky ill-structured problems. Therefore, the teacher is left with an ill-structured problem that needs to be addressed. Retrieved from [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

A decade of policy support for California’s new teachers: The beginning teacher support and assessment program. Likewise, why should a more seasoned teacher have to struggle with a newer technology that the new teacher knows and can help her learn? We can help new teachers and administrators with collaborative technology tools.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

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

Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

It’s now 2016 and educators still have not discovered the power of infusing a balance of asynchronous and synchronous technologies, as well as engagement into their online classroom. 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). For example, a graduate with an associate’s degree in accounting may be competent for recording inventory, but not creating a company’s tax return. Second International Conference, iTrust 2004, Oxford, UK.

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Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

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. That’s why, for example, 92.9 This is an equity issue.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 93

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Classroom technologies make it easier than ever to collect information on students. For example, big data analysis allows an online bookstore to recommend what a student might like to read next based on previous purchases and downloads she’s made. For example, teachers will re-teach lessons to students who are falling behind. “We

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Classroom Data Learning 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. For example, one research study found that the quality of block play at four years of age was a predictor of high school mathematics achievement (Wolfgang et al.,

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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

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). And Pokémon Go is an example of a very common phenomena today in which gaming and social media are collapsing and inter-mingling.

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Gamification Social Media Trends Data 40

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

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. Hope the book is useful to some of you.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2021

Another example cited by Ptak was the decision to implement a “Black Lives Matter at School” week, which evolved from a surface-level discussion to the creation of great resources and deeper experiences for students so they could hear and see Black and Brown students authentically and listen to their experiences. Lily Talcott.

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Policies Professional Learning Elementary Outcomes 97

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Many of the online courses currently offered at community college, it is simply PowerPoints, it's still the traditional format, instead of making the best use of the technology. When I conducted the study, we compared students across cohorts—between 2004 and 2014. We are just trying to warm them up to using the technology.

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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?”. Approaches and Examples. Each civilization has historical characteristics, along with gameplay that reflects concepts related to history, geography, management, diplomacy and technology.

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Game-Based Learning Education Gamification Learning 100

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 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

edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

They described how districts and schools successfully used sophisticated technology to read students’ “digital signals” to meet their academic and social-emotional needs. Technology, in this case, proved to be (sometimes literally) a lifesaver. Data: The Driving Force. Digital Mental Health Signals, Too. About the Presenters.

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Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics 53

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. We encourage proposals that showcase effective examples of microschool planning, implementation, and sustainability. The call for proposals is now open.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 5, 2022

Education today has become large and focused on many things beyond the needs of learners, such as tests, curriculum and assessment. We encourage proposals that showcase effective examples of microschool planning, implementation, and sustainability. The call for proposals is now open.

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Conference Handbook Libraries Social Media 36

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. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 81

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.” And neither neuroscience nor brain scans, for example, move us any closer to that. It never has been.

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