eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

COVINGTON, KY: October 21, 2021 – A new website launched by a collaboration of leading technology experts, STEP CG and Cradlepoint, is providing information and educational resources to help K-12 schools ensure their students have access to the technology they need to succeed. Cradlepoint?to Cradlepoint?was Cradlepoint?is

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Digital Divide Accessibility Industry Software 93

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. You think they’re OK because you disabled the online access — think again. It now regularly happens in the cyberworld. In fact, 4.7

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Video Guidelines 197

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. Yeah, you need to know how to protect yourself,” replied the instructor. exclaimed a student.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 28, 2019

The post How to Podcast with Your Students – SULS014 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this post and podcast episode, you will learn How to Podcast with Your Students, what tools to use, and how easy it is to get started! Back in 2006, my students created a podcast, “Miss Bell’s Chime Time!”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

education grant offering free credits for its cloud platform, with no credit card required, unlimited access to its suite of tools and training resources. now, but Google says it plans to extend access to other places in the future. In several years, nearly all universities will have a cloud computing provider.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global edtech company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Through our acquisition of Pivot Interactives, Discovery Education is now better positioned to broaden our impact by providing our partner school systems access to phenomena-based, active learning tools.”.

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Education EdTech Social Media Company 56

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Social Media Video 153

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

Students analyze and synthesize concepts and share mental models increasing the collective knowledge of the group. Using Loomio (see Figure 2) allows me to establish simple rules for my class and then simply step back and allow the collective intelligence of the group emerge. When we form groups, we amplify our intelligence.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2023

With technologies like AI taking the world by surprise, the ability to generate and access knowledge has become almost ubiquitous for anyone with an internet connection. They understand how to navigate group dynamics, allocate tasks based on individual strengths, and reach consensus while valuing diverse perspectives.

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Elsevier Pearson Technology Software 137

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. In fact, 4.7

Digital Citizenship 44

Digital Citizenship Social Media Video Guidelines 44

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Familiarity does not equal experience or understanding: Just because staff have some knowledge about technology does not mean they understand how to scale it for effective digital learning. Administrators need to have a detailed home survey for every student to understand how to serve them. Adjust access and support accordingly.

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BYOD Smartphone Accessibility Advocacy 62

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

It’s really just the age-old conversation about waiting for a seat at the table,” said Saba Tshibaka, a senior and organizer with the student group Black Terps Matter. “I is how to open those opportunities to a wider group of potential students. I want U-Md. The benchmark suggests that the issue for U-Md.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. She enlisted Myra Best, executive director of BETA, to help secure legislative approval.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Cepeda et al (2006) reviewed 254 studies, and found that students across studies recalled 10 percent more information after spaced study than after massed (all at one time) study. It has been used with elementary, middle, high school, and college students, but results were mixed for all groups. Cepeda, N. Pashler, H., Wixted, J.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Together students and teachers construct, mostly without being conscious of doing it, an environment of meanings enacted in individual and group behaviors, of conflict and accommodation, rejection and acceptance, alienation and withdrawal” (p. xii cited in Gay, p.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

During the “ National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET) Virtual Post-Inauguration Awards and Policy Panel ,” the presenters discussed the intersection of technology and education and what’s needed to create sustainable, equitable access to a 21st century education. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I urged universities to develop new strategies that were based upon digital technologies to widen access, increase quality and generally subscribe to the idea that students need no longer attend traditional lectures to achieve quality learning outcomes (Wheeler, 2004). E-Learning Groups and Communities. and Wheeler, S. McConnell, D.

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Education Conference Technology Online Learning 61

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

While higher education advertising has historically been dominated by for-profit providers such as the University of Phoenix, spending by those schools began to flatten out or fall in the mid-2010s while advertising spending by public and private nonprofit universities began to rise , another analysis, by the Educational Marketing Group, found.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 17, 2020

Some are also becoming de facto internet service providers as they try to provide WiFi accessibility. Enhanced teacher training: Professional development has always been a part of edtech initiatives, but there’s a difference between leading small group projects within the same classroom and coordinating them between students at home.

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EdTech Outcomes BYOD Advocacy 53

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

And then when they’re in class with the teacher, the teacher can work with one student or a group of students or even the whole class — depending upon what they’re trying to get at — to help them better internalize the direct instruction they’ve been watching. We need to teach students WHEN to divide, not how to divide.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We talked about how to teach middle and high school students to sort through information, especially when all of us grown-ups have more and more trouble with it. And what is the biggest misconception that teachers have about how to make their students news literate? They can access a lot of. This we know, right?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Not only should local newspapers and consumer protection groups follow the $9.4 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the annual mean income for people working construction jobs in New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner area was $34,460 in 2006. Related: In higher education, the wand chooses the wizard.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Trained teachers: Teachers should be trained in the age group they teach by a teacher-preparation program accredited by the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education. Montessori materials: Montessori materials are extensive and grouped into different areas of learning, including sensorial and practical life.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. As a result, classes are becoming much more interactive, with small group sessions rather than one-hour lectures.”

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

I urged universities to develop new strategies that were based upon digital technologies to widen access, increase quality of provision and generally subscribe to the idea that students need no longer attend traditional lectures to achieve quality learning outcomes (Wheeler, 2004). 2006) E-Learning Groups and Communities.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2019

While teachers may complain, having website filters and blocks can decrease the possibility of criminals accessing the schools’ tech through the web. Additional questions include: Who has access to data on site and at a vendor? How do the vendors treat your data? Schools should also classify data (e.g., About the Host.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Harvard researcher Anthony Jacks revealed in his groundbreaking 2019 book how poor students cleaned showers and toilets and went hungry after cafeterias closed while their wealthier Ivy League classmates fled campus for ski resorts and spring break beaches. Transparent admission standards? million donation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

I came to the Cobb County School District in 2006. The curriculum they were exposed to had already proven itself ineffective—but I didn’t have access to anything better. We spent a lot of money on devices that we didn’t know how to use. My boss at the time, who brought me into education, told me not to worry.

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iPad Assessment Personalized Learning Libraries 124

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

Wikispaces is my go-to group editing website. Whether my class is uploading their Scratch video games, or linking to their website efolios, we post our group work on the class wiki. Wikispaces is also the backbone of my global collaborative projects since 2006, with MAD about Mattering as the most recent example.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Using CoSN’s blueprint for smart IT decisions as a guideline, the three superintendents explained how to align priorities, and balance choice with cost and outcomes to creative sustainable programs. A lot of schools get upfront money from a source, like a grant, but how are they going to sustain the program?

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EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 51

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 190

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Use focus groups, the newspaper, town halls, etc. Make equitable access a priority. Typically, one goal of a 1:1 environment is 24/7 access to learning for both students and teachers. Many students, though, may not have ready access to the Internet at home. Gather stakeholder information every way possible.

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PowerMyLearning Mobile Learning BYOD iPad 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

That’s one of the insights found by the nonprofit group Achieving the Dream , which works with community colleges around the country to try to create a more data-driven culture. How would you sum up the state of community college? Karen Stout: I think we're facing a new access-and-completion call to action. One is leadership.

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Data Course Strategy Training 60

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. It would be the equivalent of education malpractice to have a gifted program that does not look like the students we serve , ” she wrote in a book last year about how to make gifted education racially fair. I didn’t magically become gifted,” Wells said.

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Elementary Data Policies Report 48

MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

A group of young women who had graduated from high school between 1997 and 2006 sat at the front of the room crying and laughing about their experiences learning math at Railside High (a research pseudonym for the school). Each student in the group has a role: team captain, resource manager, recorder-reporter and facilitator.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

So, here are some thoughts about how to broach the subject with students, no matter what subject you teach: 1. Lab activities can be one of the most effective ways to show children how global warming works on an accessible scale. The Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility has a group of 19 lessons for K-12.

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