Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

These resources are designed to support and enhance our collective efforts to create more inclusive and empathetic learning environments. Example: Before teaching a lesson on the civil rights movement, take time to learn about various perspectives, historical contexts, and the language used to discuss race.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

30+ ideas to improve learning with awesome classroom design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Classroom Design Resources. Blog Posts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. In short, they’re learning good sportsmanship, and that in turn has made a dramatic difference in the way students treat each other.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I’ve been reading more Substack newsletters about education this year as well and have learned so much from so many of them, including Derek Newton’s The Cheat Sheet about academic integrity; Nick Fouriezos’s Mile Markers about rural higher education; and Ethan Mollick’s One Useful Thing , which has included many timely nuggets on AI in education.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Barlow immediately resisted, because she knew the curriculum would likely focus on life skills, and her son might never be taught much reading beyond learning the shape of common, functional words like stop and exit. “I I think about it 10 years later and it still makes me want to cry,” said Barlow.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2020

We have four Learning Revolution shows this week ("Teaching by Heart" took the week off). Times are US-Eastern Daylight Time--to see the schedule in your own time zone, and to get the links to attend live in Zoom, please use the SCHEDULE page on the Learning Revolution site.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In fact, it seems as if all eyes are on Higuera and his classmates as they pioneer what the superintendent of Dysart, Gail Pletnick, calls “the future of education” — a personalized learning environment that puts students in control of what, when and how they learn, with teachers as their guides. Right now, most do not.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

A summary of research by the Cyberbullying Research Center on cyberbullying in middle and high school from 2004 to 2016 indicated that, on average, 28 percent of students have been targets of cyberbullying and 16 percent of students admitted to cyberbullying others. These situations can be learning opportunities for everyone involved.

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Waterford

MARCH 31, 2020

Because approximately 1 in 59 students are diagnosed with autism, learning how to help students with this disorder in the classroom is so important.[1] 1] Teaching young students with autism communication skills and learning strategies makes it all the more likely that they’ll reach their academic potential later on.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In elementary school, Matthew Peterson struggled mightily with math. You had no way to learn on your own,” Peterson, who suffered from dyslexia, says. Students must figure out how to help JiJi get past a variety of obstacles (each representing an important mathematical concept) by building bridges, filling in holes, and so on. “It

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Graphite Blog

MAY 9, 2018

How is this relevant to my elementary school-level classroom? " Founded in 2004 by a few Stanford professors including faculty director David Kelley , the d.School offers courses to all students at Stanford, no matter their major. During this phase, we practice how to receive feedback. Isn't it just for techies?

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

A summary of research by the Cyberbullying Research Center on cyberbullying in middle and high school from 2004 to 2016 indicated that, on average, 28 percent of students have been targets of cyberbullying and 16 percent of students admitted to cyberbullying others. These situations can be learning opportunities for everyone involved.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

A summary of research by the Cyberbullying Research Center on cyberbullying in middle and high school from 2004 to 2016 indicated that, on average, 28 percent of students have been targets of cyberbullying and 16 percent of students admitted to cyberbullying others. These situations can be learning opportunities for everyone involved.

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Digital Citizenship Report Survey Resources 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

Design creative ways to advocate and implement global learning initiatives. This professional learning event includes thought-provoking practitioner and expert panelists, student speakers, and an interactive design thinking challenge on "How can schools cultivate a culture of changemaking?"

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

In the primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school sectors some can be conspicuous, because through various Teachmeets around the world, and also online during Twitter #edchats, they make their work known to the wider community. What inspires you most about learning? We are fortunate to have many innovators in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system. All through elementary school, she’d excelled in the classroom, though she spent a lot of time in the principal’s office. “My For each student who drops out, high schools earn a zero.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

There is rarely enough to go around, and the need is great : a 2016 report by school facilities advocates argued that districts would need to spend $46 billion more each year to provide “healthy and safe” learning environments for all students. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. We had to figure out how to survive.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

My mentor and collaborator, Seymour Papert, was a brilliant mathematician, a distinguished computer scientist, an innovative learning theorist, a humanitarian and a visionary for technology-based education change to empower every children. While a visionary, he is also very much a realist. While a visionary, he is also very much a realist.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

. — The floor-to-ceiling glass wall between the high-tech fabrication lab and the hallway at Monticello High School in Albemarle County, Virginia, is meant to showcase the hands-on, self-directed learning done there. “I Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. We can extend the learning day. We can flip the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Piña Mota said she would have felt more comfortable asking for help in navigating how to pay for college, for example. In a 2004 study of Tennessee third-graders, Thomas S. The whole purpose of education is not just to learn about a new subject, but to find out about who you are, and what you want to do in life. “As

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

To some, this might sound like little more than classic “Mean Girls” behavior, as immortalized in the 2004 cult teen flick, but it can include mean boys, too. Since 2010, the school has used public and private grants to support a student-centered learning approach in which small-group work and individual projects dominate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. Arguments over how to create the best learning environment for young adolescents go back decades.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first started teaching in Philadelphia in 2004, teachers were lucky if they had one desktop computer in their room for students to use, and students attended weekly computer lab classes. How can schools and districts successfully bring technology into classrooms so teachers can make the most impact on students’ learning?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

One part of that collaboration — ensuring smooth transitions for students from home to preschool and preschool to kindergarten — is what brought Daniel’s teachers from Alderson Elementary, lead teacher Audrey Persinger and assistant teacher Terri Webb, to his home in early May. He is ready to learn to read,” she added.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 26, 2022

In a report from the American Psychological Association, it's said that having a deep conceptual understanding of math creates the problem-solving foundation that all areas of STEM are built on, and early math skills are powerful predictors of later learning. So how can we make math learning more intuitive and accessible for students?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Meya cited the work in South Dakota as one of the best global examples of how to preserve and revitalize an endangered language.

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MindShift

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. Arguments over how to create the best learning environment for young adolescents go back decades.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Redcliffe leaders, in the long tradition of English nursery leaders, believe children learn best when they are taking the lead and exploring the world on their own, complete with the risks that independence carries like, say, a bump on the head from a wooden swing. Advanced their child’s learning? He’s never brought a book to show me.”

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 15, 2022

Phonological awareness is the understanding of how oral language can be divided into smaller components and manipulated. Chard and Dickson, 1999) It is a reading readiness skill that helps a child hear the sounds of orally spoken words before learning to read. Phoneme Awareness For Learning And Using The Alphabetic Principle.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Multiage education is not a return to the one-room schoolhouse of yore, in which students of all ages learned different subjects in one space. On the social side, younger children look for guidance to older students who know the ropes, while the older students in the classroom organically learn about mentoring, leadership and collaboration.

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MindShift

AUGUST 20, 2019

In 2004, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that about a third of adolescents (ages 13-18) have been or will be seriously affected by anxiety in their lifetimes. ” Parents and educators are scrambling to understand why kids seem to be more anxious and how to help them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

But now, as educators everywhere try to figure out how to do their jobs remotely, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the instability of relying on one counselor, or just a few, to guide hundreds of students through new academic hurdles, prepare them for an uncertain future and triage their mental health crises.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. BURIEN, Wash. —

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