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What Educators Need to Know Right Now About Digital Citizenship

The CoolCatTeacher

A youth advocate with more than 20 years’ writing and speaking about youth and digital media, Anne has served on three national task forces on Internet safety, including the Obama administration’s 2009 Online Safety & Technology Working Group, which she co-chaired.

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How Family Engagement Leads to Student Success

Waterford

Developmental psychology, 2009, 45(3), 740-63. Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006, 98, 653-664. “Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement.” Dearing, E., Kreider, H., Simpkins, S., & Weiss, H. Henderson, A., & Berla, N.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Guidance on the Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed Tech) Program: Funds Made Available Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (July 2009). FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2009 $269,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2010 $100,000,000.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

In 2009, Gerald Bracey, one of our nation’s foremost experts on educational assessment, stated : In its prescriptive aspect, the NAEP reports the percentage of students reaching various achievement levels—Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. emphasis added].

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

A 2009 Vanderbilt University review in the Journal of Educational Psychology looked at over 50 years of longitudinal research on spatial ability , and concluded that “spatial ability plays a critical role in developing expertise in STEM.” The Science of Spatial-Temporal Mathematics. Spatial Temporal White Paper. References. Caswell, B.,

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Giving Grace While Modelling Change

The Principal of Change

I started on Twitter and social media probably around 2009 and saw so much value in the platform. Twitter existed in 2006, and my brother Alec was on my case about starting account years prior. So why didn’t I start in 2006? It is about helping people move from THEIR point A to THEIR point B. I was hooked!

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). On the other hand, one-shot, “drive-by,” or fragmented, “spray-and-pray” workshops lasting 14 hours or less show no statistically significant effect on student learning ( Darling-Hammond, Wei, Andree, Richardson, and Orphanos, 2009 ).

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