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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Waterford

AUGUST 9, 2022

By preparing in advance, you can help your students return to school excited and ready to learn. So, how do you make the most of the first days of school? Some information families may need during back to school night might include: Login information for remote learning and progress reports.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A survey of educators found that the majority lack enough information and classroom management strategies for students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and that they don’t feel capable to help them.[2] Then, we’ll discuss classroom management strategies and a few quick tips for supporting these students as a teacher.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As it turns out, mistakes are integral to the learning process. Students, however, don’t always understand the full learning potential of their mistakes.[5] But if we can help students redefine what a mistake is, we can teach them a valuable lesson about improvement and learning. What’s the key to learning from mistakes?

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2024

How to fill a critical shortage Once before in my life, I was part of filling a critically needed shortage. Although I did my best to study in advance, I learned via an email that I had passed the reading part of their tests, but had not passed the listening component. Signs of this teacher shortage are evident in my own district.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 22, 2018

“The adolescent mind is essentially a mind or moratorium, a psychosocial stage between childhood and adulthood, and between the morality learned by the child, and the ethics to be developed by the adult” ( Erikson, 1963, p. I began teaching teenagers in 2004 in Texas. Motivating Teens to Learn English from Shelly Sanchez Terrell.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As a first year teacher, I struggled to figure out how I could best meet the needs of my students. I learned that not only did I need to understand their uniqueness, but I also needed to work with them to build their capacity to advocate for themselves. There are tons of resources about learning sciences.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 28, 2023

Last fall, I decided to improve my own listening by signing up to teach a workshop on it (deadlines are an excellent motivator for my learning). My workshop was titled “How to Listen ‘Actively’ rather than ‘Deeply.” How to Become a Better Listener.” In other areas of life too, most people prefer to come to their own solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The strategy worked so well that his teacher moved him to the position of “first reader.” In 2004, as a new Ph.D., She shared that when he was in third grade, school officials had used a so-called discrepancy model that compared intelligence quotient (IQ) with reading performance to rule that he didn’t have a learning disability. “I

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

KidWind will also provide the winners with training on how to incorporate the STEM kits into in-school and/or out-of-school learning environments. Offshore wind energy will be an important part of New Jersey’s decarbonization strategy,” said Michael Arquin, founder of KidWind. As the first U.S.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

SCORM put forward specific ways and methods for creating effective and efficient learning management systems. This article will give you all the comprehensive details about SCORM and how you can benefit from it. This is just like how DVDs are made in a certain way so they can be recognized and read by a DVD player.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

By learning to view it as a means of enhancing your lessons and resources, you can provide your students with tools and opportunities they may not otherwise access. So, why and how should you use technology in your classroom? Read on to discover the impact of technology in education and how to get the most from its unique benefits.

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The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Get ready to dive into the world of screen language, where the episode dives deep and enables listeners to: Discover the power of media literacy education and how it can enhance student learning. Learn effective strategies for teaching screen language skills to students of all ages.

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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 Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Universities are paying more attention to markets like that, said Rob Schnieders, vice president for online strategy and innovation at Fairfield. “A Credit: Rodrique Ngowi/ Associated Press “The demand and the need is going to be at the lifelong-learning level,” even as the supply of 18- to 22-year-olds declines, Aoun said. “On

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2017

months of learning in math during the summer break. They also note that math learning loss is bigger than reading, and cuts across all socioeconomic backgrounds. Summer Learning Opportunities. The summer offers a multitude of learning opportunities. Cignition’s Summer Learning Effort for 2017.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

COVID-19 was tough on schools, calling for swift shifts in teaching and learning practices to support virtual learning environments and a host of new pedagogical demands. At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, schools defaulted to online learning. Professional Learning. By Michele Israel. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 25, 2018

Most of these students have what are often called “nonvisible” disabilities, including learning disabilities, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and, increasingly, mental health disorders such as anxiety or depression. For many, these services are provided under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 ( IDEA ).

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

The idea of using a learning management system (LMS) to deliver professional learning and development to K-12 educators is not new—but it’s not quite mainstream, either. The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We Hint: Think AI.)

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2020

. — With a roomful of rapidly developing children with wildly different needs in their care, early childhood educators will inevitably observe a host of behavioral and learning challenges among their students over the course of a school year. Others may struggle to learn new concepts, or exhibit aggressive tendencies.

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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

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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Intriguing research shows that popular approaches to motivate students using rewards such as money, gold stars, or points (called “extrinsic motivators”) may in fact lead them to lose interest in learning (1). Autonomy in Learning. George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island. George’s to implement research-informed practices.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

At a time when colleges are increasingly focused on how to get and keep students enrolled and on a path to a degree, some of the most surprising challenges are not academic but logistical. She said that neither the local transportation system nor her 2004 Prius with 189,000 miles on it are reliable. “I

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In short, they’re learning good sportsmanship, and that in turn has made a dramatic difference in the way students treat each other. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair? It’s a developmentally critical behavior through which kids learn.” The game keeps going.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life. These courses cover teaching strategies, language acquisition, effective communication with students, and much more.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

Consider a simple academic skill such as learning to name colors. In the end, the child will learn to name two colors, which is good, but it will not impact the life of the family very much. These contexts involve social interactions, activities and routines, and biological factors (McAtee, Carr, & Schulte, 2004).

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techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Elbert Hubbard As a second year teacher, I remember being very excited about leading my students to participate in a project-based learning activity. With great enthusiasm, I ran down the hall to see a teacher, much my senior, that I greatly respected and I wanted to share with him how excited I was.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final week. For the next eight days we'll be publishing three special 30-minute video interviews each day with an amazing set of learning experts (see below), for a total of 24 interviews (and maybe a surprise bonus interview or two).

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Insight Education Group

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Teachers who feel supported “become more self-actualized to plan and teach more than their counterparts, and are therefore more effective” ( Merton, 1948 ; Hoy, Sweetland, & Smith, 2002 ; Shaughnessy, 2004 ). So, how do we increase and retain diversity in our teaching force? If so, what have you learned?

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

This story is part of a series from EdSurge Research on how schools are redefining student success using MyWays , a framework created by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Over time, they have learned that some of the skills that are most critical for success are difficult to teach and even harder to assess.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. My main recommendation however, was one grounded in the technology mediated learning approach.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 3, 2015

Yes, reading strategies–and explicit teaching of them–make a considerable difference, as my previous four blog posts here , here , here , and here make clear. 208–210): An explicit description of the strategy and when and how it should be used. Teacher and/or student modeling of the strategy in action. “I

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 2, 2015

Let’s go back to two seminal papers from 1983 (Paris, Lipson & Wixon) and Palinscar & Brown (1983) on Reciprocal Teaching that foreshadow the problem of transfer of individual lessons in strategy: Palinscar & Brown: “We turn now to the instructional mode, how to teach the activities.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2022

The tech industry's historical amnesia — the inability to learn about, to recognize, to remember what has come before — is deeply intertwined with the idea of "disruption" and its firm belief that new technologies are necessarily innovative and are always "progress. Will is a strategy, or part of a strategy of struggle.

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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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