Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 31, 2021

Here is a smattering of such articles: A time for disruptive innovation in education. COVID-19 as a catalyst for educational change. Despite our wishes otherwise, even the savviest, most skillful, most trusted school leader is going to have difficulty transforming their educational system after the pandemic. Coombs, W.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

So a sideways look at consumer behaviors when it comes to music, movies and newspapers provides insight into where higher education is going and what leaders can do to prepare for the future. The development and widespread adoption of new technologies—VHS tapes and DVD discs- empowered consumers. million to 28.5 billion to $14.3

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Hapara

JANUARY 14, 2022

Integrating technology into instruction and learning is a way of life for educators today. But it can be a struggle to understand how to use classroom technology in meaningful ways. Each of these experts has a background in education, a unique voice and a passion for using technology in the classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

With the pervasive spread of the Internet and web technologies, digital media consumption and production practises have acquired new critical dimensions. It is education that aims to increase students’ understanding and enjoyment of how the media work, how they produce meaning, how they are organized, and how they construct reality.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina literally washed away the New Orleans public school system. You may not like the new charter school presence in New Orleans, but those schools came about because local educators seized the opportunities presented by Katrina and acted upon them as entrepreneurs. Public education will never be the same.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is a podcast for all education trailblazers seeking the cutting edge of professional growth. As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With experts predicting more extreme weather in 2023, that undoubtedly means schools will suffer more disruptions in a K-12 education era already defined by pandemic-related learning setbacks. Climate Change’s Education Cost Climate change impacts on K-12 education are a problem worldwide. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

That fact is not lost on investors who foresee greater demand for early-education programs and services after society reopens its doors. In January, Higher Ground Education, an operator of Montessori education and teacher training centers, raised $40 million. Recent forecasts point to a growing industry. In 2019, total U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Josemaría Carazo Abolafia, is an educational researcher and teacher who lives in Spain–and doesn’t own a car! Josemaria and I share the belief that “…[technology] must be transparent, like a lens; otherwise, it hinders learning.” 9 Good Collections of Videos for Education.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

In this post, I’ve synthesized the wisdom from these papers into actionable insights and examples for educators looking to hone their classroom management skills. 2005; Gage & MacSuga-Gage, 2017). 2005; Gage & MacSuga-Gage, 2017). Supporting students with EBDs requires a tailored approach.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Before technology redefined the way information is developed, organized, shared, and archived, it might have been possible for an individual to learn without a network. Technology is quickly redefining what it means to learn and what learning looks like. Is it possible to learn without being connected to a network of other people?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2023

sometimes still in uniform, and pull into a massive parking lot shared by the local community college and the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology, or TCAT. While almost every sector of higher education is seeing fewer students registering for classes, many trade school programs are booming.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

Without ignoring that much of what differentiates one school from another takes place below the surface, the desire to make schools look like high-tech office spaces might be just the latest demonstration that education has historically followed and reflected —rather than led—technological, political and economic change.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

She has authored three books on how to integrate technology into the elementary music classroom. She is the recipient of the 2005 TI:ME Teacher of the Year, 2016 NJ Master Music Teacher, 2016 Governor’s Leader in Arts Education, and the 2017 NJ Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year Awards. Maarten, and Australia.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2023

Education researchers have long kept an eye on the changing demographics of public schools, some looking at the potential for those shifts to shepherd in inequity as ethnic groups migrate or fluctuate in size. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Census Bureau. Source: American Community Survey.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

December 3, 2021 – Capstone, an innovative publisher and education technology provider of children’s content for schools and home, and Buncee, its newly acquired creation and collaboration tool for students and educators, are inviting students to help create kind and supportive Holiday Hugs messages to children in the hospital this holiday season.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. During this time I also worked closely with several leading NHS surgeons and physicians as they developed new techniques and explored new technologies.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. The pace of change, driven predominantly by the rapid encroachment of digital and now AI technologies, has accelerated dramatically.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 25, 2023

I remember the 1990's when search began and everyone bemoaned how kids wouldn't think and how it was the end of education as we know it. Now, we have schools again thinking this is the end of education as we know it. However, it is a genesis of an educational redefinition. I started this blog as a total beginner in 2005.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. Its graduates have gone on to raise more than $13 billion in total.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

The National Education Association defines teacher burnout as "a more temporary condition in which an educator has exhausted the personal and professional resources necessary to do the job. Demoralization occurs when an educator believes she is unable to perform the work in ways that uphold the high standards of the profession."

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

His latest effort involves a $250,000 investment in Nucleos , a startup trying to make online educational and vocational programs more accessible to those behind bars. When it comes to educational materials, Nucleos prioritizes programs that lead to credits and credentials that schools and employers will recognize. The San Jose, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. In tandem, educators often have the ability to purchase or acquire materials that students do not have access to at home or otherwise.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2017

His analysis of 50,000 educational studies involving more than 80 million students gave us vital information about the relative effectiveness of different teaching practices on student achievement. The National Center for Education Statistics reported that the average public school teacher in 1991 spent 46.3 hours working.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 7, 2023

YouTube first founded in around February 14, 2005 and since then it has grown so exponentially that as of 2021 YouTube boasts 2.24 It is my go to platform for quality educational video content. TED Ed TED Ed is the educational version of TED. Here is a list we have curated for you. TED Ed signature content is its Animations.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

Reflecting on this evolution, I’m struck by the radical changes that have shaped the educational environment, particularly in this early part of the 21st century. It’s a transformation that’s been largely driven by the unprecedented pace of technological advancement.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Yet there are eight education technology startups that currently list the firm as an investor. million fund that Danner and a partner (who he declined to name) launched in 2019, with their own money, to make angel investments in education companies. In 2018, he focused on education, backing nine such startups.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

While these predictions are rooted in reality, just as in the show Black Mirror , technology can have some unintended consequences. That acceptance led to some empowerment for educators and students. In Steve Jobs’ memorable 2005 commencement address at Stanford, he shared a story about “connecting the dots.” AI is different.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 23, 2018

By learning together in a learning community, students have the opportunity to extend and deepen their learning experience, test out new ideas by sharing them with a supportive group, and receive critical and constructive feedback.” ( Palloff & Pratt 2005 ). On connectivism in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2022

This summer, thousands of educators and vendors who serve education descended on New Orleans and braved 110% humidity for the first “back to normal” conference for the International Society of Technology in Education, or ISTE. There are many esoteric challenges facing education today. Not having control is scary.

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Battelle for Kids

JULY 6, 2016

Driving Question : What if a high school combines global education, creativity and technology to prepare students for today's flat world? "By In his landmark book The World is Flat (2005), his predictions made us rethink our place on this planet. Volume 3, Issue 6, Number 2.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

Homework is a controversial topic and the object of differing opinions among teachers, parents, and educators. One of the most comprehensive research studies on homework is a meta-analysis done by professor Harris Cooper and his colleagues (2006) and published in the journal Review of Educational Research. Robinson, J. Dettmers, S.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Cool Cat Teacher, established December 9, 2005 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. On this day in 2005, I started blogging. Many education websites are as useful to me as an ashtray on a motorcycle; I’ll tell you what is useful — your blogs. Bob loved kids.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. We want to celebrate the extraordinary collaborations between educators and the private sector that have occurred because of ConnectED.

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