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PROOF POINTS: Researchers say cries of teacher shortages are overblown

The Hechinger Report

The rate of teachers quitting and retiring from the profession, according to Goldhaber’s calculations in one state, Washington, was about 11 percent in 2020-21 – actually a smidge lower than it was in 2006-07, another year of high turnover when a strong job market lured educators away. By contrast, RAND’s analysis is more refined. “We

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

Edsurge

Founded in 1997, Powerschool was first bought by Apple in 2001, and then by Pearson in 2006. Schoology trails Google Classroom, Canvas and Moodle in terms of adoption in large districts, but is the only one of the four that offers a paid offering focused on K-12.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

9) Teaching and education in general are, as Pai, Adler, and Shadiow (2006) put it, inherently a “sociocultural process” (p. Google’s AI literacy resource can help teachers learn more about how to effectively make the best of artificial intelligence technologies in their educational practice. A meta-analysis.

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Five Learning Strategies that Work

Digital Promise

Whereas a Google search for “learning techniques” returns over 400 million results, researchers Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Mitchell, and Willingham (2013) culled through hundreds of studies to provide a “curated” analysis of the 10 most effective learning techniques commonly used by students. Cepeda, N.

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What Does Innovation Mean in Higher Education?

Edsurge

Since the bond election passed in 2006 for $224 million, enrollment in fall 2015 for the downtown campus reached 10,952. Companies like Apple and Google consistently lead as the most innovative companies in the world. Mainardi said of their analysis in Forbes.

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What Happened to the ‘$100 Laptop’?

Edsurge

“The only criticism—and people really don’t want to criticize this because it is a humanitia effort, it is a nonprofit effort, and to criticize it is a little bit stupid, actually,” said Negroponte, in a TED talk delivered in 2006. The one thing that people could criticize was, ‘Great idea, but these guys can’t do it.’”

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Nostalgia will NOT get my PhD finished….but it is a nice diversion

Learning Confluence

I would like to get rid of this burden, this weight of study, this responsiblity of getting the thesis finished so I can ‘break free’… but I can’t… my PhD analysis and ‘originality’ is the hardest challenge I have had for a long time (possibly for ever!). Do you remember Karl Fisch ?

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