Knowledge Avatars K-12

JANUARY 17, 2021

Just as I was beginning to recognize the problem, the late education luminary, Sir Ken Robinson, had already discovered the solution. In 2006, Robinson gave a TED Talk entitled "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. Then I remembered.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. Using Fuel Education ’s self-paced online curriculum, students quickly move through material they have mastered and spend more time on areas in which they are struggling.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 29, 2017

Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Instruction (Heinemann, 2006) is one of those books that can have an impact on any K-12 educator. It was also interesting to discover that rubrics were developed by the College Board, the same organization that came up with the Common Core State Standards. For another time…).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Higher Education. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

In recent years, cognitive scientists have done gobs of research on how making mistakes help us learn, much of it funded by the federal Institute for Education Science. Traditionally, educators and psychologists in the U.S. American educators, perhaps influenced by Skinner, have tended to see things the same way.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Each year, when they get to campus, more than half a million American college students have to take so-called remedial or developmental education classes to teach them basic math and English skills they should have learned in high school. Mary Fulton, a senior project manager and policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States.

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MindShift

JULY 26, 2017

In recent years, cognitive scientists have done gobs of research on how making mistakes help us learn, much of it funded by the federal Institute for Education Science. Traditionally, educators and psychologists in the U.S. American educators, perhaps influenced by Skinner, have tended to see things the same way.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

” Yet at the same time, we also heard from teachers and education organizations who are introducing the topic in subjects from social studies to math to English language arts, and at every grade level, from preschool on up. At the same time, there’s a tension in pushing more educators to take this on. Do citizen science.

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Classroom Resources Common Core Study 50

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Kansas’ governor and Legislature are also making national headlines for not equalizing education funding between low-income and wealthier districts. But class sizes have begun to increase, and many of the supports that educators here say helped spark improvements over the last 15 years have been removed. The money runs out.

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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). They cared for my education and they wanted me to succeed.”. ’ Tracy Thompson, High school math teacher.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Audience: K-12 & higher ed educators, researchers, institutions, and organizations globally. Google Apps for Education.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2020

Educators must first have a deep and cohesive understanding of what they’re trying to accomplish in the classroom and how they’re trying to do it. With 20 years as an educator, Dr. Removcik’s experiences include teaching mathematics, leadership at both the school and district level, and working for a Pennsylvania Intermediate Unit.

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Online Assessments Assessment Student Data Privacy BYOD 53

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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Educator Innovator

MARCH 9, 2017

Math Teachers Circles create a space for educators to connect with the joys of discovery and collaborative problem-solving, creating lessons that inform their classroom practice. Although she has settled into a life of teaching undergraduate students and working on her own research, Manes still cares deeply about K-12 education.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Although she has settled into a life of teaching undergraduate students and working on her own research, Manes still cares deeply about K-12 education. Her organization supported the first Math Teachers’ Circle in 2006 and has helped educators around the country as they start their own.

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Common Core Elementary Strategy Classroom 28

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. To be honest, think Thiel and his ed-tech politics have more in common with the rest of Silicon Valley than those that feign outrage at his support of Trump. Education Politics.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Education Politics. Betsy DeVos has been confirmed as the Secretary of Education – the first time that a Vice President has had to break a tie in the Senate for this sort of vote. See also, via Market Watch : “ K12 ’s stock rallies after DeVos confirmed as Secretary of Education.” ” Yet.

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