A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 20, 2013

I routinely speak about the need for students to produce learning artifacts that demonstrate conceptual mastery. These are facts, concepts, processes, procedures, and principles (Clark & Chopeta, 2004). Thus, artifacts are used in the learning process for creating knowledge, while in turn, knowledge creates new artifacts.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the digital learning gap. Every student has a unique and “jagged” learning profile.

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User Generated Education

MAY 23, 2016

Watch children, youth, and even adults when they are immersed in learning something of interest of them, and you will see often complete engagement and personal joy. It can be as simple as replicating real life learning in more formal schools. I have discussed this in my post Natural Versus Unnatural Learning. Wonderment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

See related article: Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee At this point, we have all heard about the learning gaps in math and reading scores these past few years. He is the author of Images of America: Sutton (2004) and Images of America: Millbury (2013). Key points: Alarming declines in civic scores demands new strategies.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2023

This effort will support educators as they learn to incorporate renewable energy activities in their classrooms.” The workshops will include background on renewable energy and experience with curriculum and activities educators can use in the classroom to engage students in dynamic, hands-on learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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 One reason so many diagnoses are missed is that thousands of schools in the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 13, 2020

Now in the age of COVID-19 the TGR Foundation and Discovery Education introduce the first module in a new series of no-cost digital professional learning resources, empowering educators with new strategies to support student success far beyond school campuses. Their award-winning curricula has already reached more than one million students.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2022

It’s summer time, and the learning is not easy. Summer learning programs from coast to coast have struggled to hire the number of staff needed to operate at full capacity, leading to limited slots and even closures among programs in Maine , Connecticut , Ohio , Georgia and other states. But teachers are exhausted. I’m still tired.” “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

In a 2004 paper, economist Jonah Rockoff, now at Columbia Business School, tracked how teachers improved over their careers and noticed that teachers were getting better at their jobs by leaps and bounds at first, as measured by their ability to raise their students’ achievement test scores. Old dogs do appear to learn new tricks.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

It has no established center, and students were used to learning and working in that nonhierarchical, flexible space. When I ended the exercise and allowed them to reconfigure the space they were delighted–and had a new sense of the difference between fixed and mobile learning. They have to learn how to learn autonomously.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Our innate capacity to learn, to think, to create, and adapt endowed us with the evolutionary advantages necessary to become one of the most successful organisms on the planet. If you’re a trainer, you fight this process every time you engage a new hire, every time you learn a skill yourself, and every time you teach your child something new.

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Waterford

JULY 30, 2023

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. 2004, November). The Effects of Comprehensive Parent Engagement on Student Learning Outcomes. Redding, S.,

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Edthena

DECEMBER 16, 2021

There are many ideas for how teachers can learn and grow their practice, but it is more effective doing what has been research-proven. Whether in PLCs (professional learning communities) or grade team meetings, educators learn from each other when collaborating. Teachers are motivated to learn from their own videos.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We came away wondering why people don’t talk more about this bit of recent edtech history, and what lessons could still be learned from it. So remind us what Google did back around 2004. Schonfeld is a longtime leader in the library community and is a program director at Ithaka S+ R a nonprofit education consultancy.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

OCTOBER 10, 2022

(Friday, October 7, 2022) — Discovery Education and select social impact partners are offering engaging, high-quality digital learning resources to students and teachers to support observances of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Established in 2004 by Congress, Cybersecurity Awareness Month seeks to raise.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

They know that when it comes to learning and productivity, space matters. An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online.

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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. Hence, if an eLearning course is published in the SCORM format, an internationally accepted format, it will be recognized by all learning management systems (LMS). This is where SCORM comes into play.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2022

2004 seems so far away now, but it was the year when the US National Commission of Writing published a report revealing the importance of writing skills for getting a job and building a career.

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Ditch That Textbook

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

But we’re here, and teaching and learning look very different. When I started teaching in 2004, there was one computer in [.]. And I know there’s a chance that the term “21st Century” might rub you the wrong way. At least they have the potential to.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Today, IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform, announced it has acquired ABCya , the creator of more than 400 educational computer games and apps for kids. Since 2004, ABCya has provided students from pre-K to 5th grade with access to hundreds of educational games and apps.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2015

We need learning to happen. Teachers who experience close relationships with students reported that their students were less likely to avoid school, appeared more self-directed, more cooperative and more engaged in learning (Birch & Ladd, 1997; Decker, Dona, & Christenson, 2007; Klem & Connell, 2004).”

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 13, 2017

Humans learn through this same basic process throughout life -- not by being told, but by doing. We’re hardwired to learn by interacting with the world around us and then perceiving the results. When we understand how important the perception-action cycle is to learning, it’s clear that we need to put it to use in school.

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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. Since 2004, KidWind has held more than 800 training events for more than 50,000 teachers all over the world. As the first U.S.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

The great news is that digital natives want to learn. This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. And that means schools will have to adapt to the way these new students think and learn.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

I described the form’s birth circa 2004, with creators quickly inventing ways of telling stories by digital audio, which echoes of radio theater. We didn’t conclude that digital audio was a universal tool for all learning, but found it one powerful strategy in the edtech ecosystem.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This state of boredom is not just an occasional inconvenience; it is a significant barrier to effective learning. Research has consistently highlighted the detrimental effects of boredom on student learning. 2004; Deci, 1992; Renninger et al., Boredom, as Vogel-Walcutt et al. Furthermore, Pekrun et al.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

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. Student agency has two components: (1) knowing yourself as a learner, and (2) explaining, creating, or asking for what you need to meet your learning needs.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 22, 2022

SCORM put forward specific ways and methods for creating effective and efficient learning management systems. Hence, if an eLearning course is published in the SCORM format, an internationally accepted format, it will be recognized by all learning management systems (LMS). SCORM 2004 . This is where SCORM comes into play.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The workshops are topic-specific and designed to help educators teach about renewable energy during distance and hybrid learning. Workshops will start with background on the topic followed by introducing activities for the classroom to engage students in dynamic, hands-on learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2023

“Our PS 85 community is extremely excited to celebrate World Environment Day together and partner with the AeroFarms Community Farms program to bring hands-on, STEAM learning to life in such a unique way for our students to experience growing and tasting their own food from seed to plate,” said Sara Medina, Principal at PS 85.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2016

This kind of model lightly exposes children to the arts and attends to learning about the arts. Louis Regional Arts Commission, which focuses on at risk youth and attends more to learning about the arts. Such programs get more at learning about, with, and through the arts. Models can be school-wide or classroom-based.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

in linguistics from Stanford University, was a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Education from 1974 to 2004. To learn more about the CGCS, visit CGCS.org. To learn more about Curriculum Associates, visit CurriculumAssociates.com. Fillmore, who received her Ph.D.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2015

2004 ) has shown that effective professional development includes creating classroom content, modeling techniques for teachers to use in their classrooms, and feedback on lessons ( Harris, Graham, and Adkins, 2015 ). 8 Top Tips for Highly Effective Professional Development. Vicki Davis on Edutopia. April 15, 2015. Use What You Are Teaching.

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