Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2014

Here are some graphs from Statistics Canada: Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011. Catalogue-no-81-595-M-No-099-Statistics-Canada ).

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

But those tend to inflate egos beyond reality as well, says Price, pointing to a phenomenon called “ person-positivity-bias ,” documented by David Sears, a social psychologist, that shows that people tend to give high ratings to anyone they look at barring serious red flags. “On These studies date back decades—Patricia C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. Most departures were filled with new hires.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This teacher uses Google Classroom heavily and provides students writing prompts by way of Classroom’s ability to send students their own copy of a document. The teacher selects any one of the convenient abbreviations and a comment is inserted automatically into the document.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

Gilman, Dooley, & Florell, 2006). STEP documents the senior year of a girls’ high-school step dance team against the background of inner-city Baltimore. High-hope students typically are more optimistic (Snyder, Hoza, et al., Accumulating evidence suggests that hope is related to life satisfaction and wellbeing (e.g.,

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Shapegrams are packaged inside a series of Google Drawings documents. In 2006 I became a self-employed consultant. Each Shapegram challenges students to recreate a picture using shapes. Think of it like a puzzle–a puzzle that helps students level up their drawing skills. Shapegrams are designed to be very low prep.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

I was involved for example in documenting the early trials of laser surgery, Lithotripsy and Transurethral resection of prostate surgery, ultrasonic surgical aspirators and initial research into skin cloning (tissue culture) for burns victims in UK hospitals.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, called in 2006 for learning to be measured and reported publicly. Also in 2006, ministers of education from Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member nations agreed in Athens to develop a worldwide measure of learning called the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g., 9) Teaching and education in general are, as Pai, Adler, and Shadiow (2006) put it, inherently a “sociocultural process” (p. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Among the biggest players are online giants including the nonprofit Southern New Hampshire University, which tax documents show spent $144 million on advertising and promotion in 2019. The figures are from 2018 or 2019, whichever was the most recent tax year for which the institutions have provided documents. million; Columbia, $13.2

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 1, 2012

Now, documents are put online, where they are live, and anyone with permission has the ability to edit them, each keystroke recorded and color-coded for future reference. Society has evolved from the days of the infamous phone call: “Hi, did you get my e-mail?” Push notifications take care of that problem. 2011, December 8). Prensky, M.

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MindShift

JULY 16, 2018

” The findings add to a growing body of evidence that documents the effect of heat on mental performance, both in schools and workplaces. For instance, a 2006 study from researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab found that when office temperatures rise above the mid-70s, workers’ performance begins to drop off.

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N2Y

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In 2006, President George W. Whiteboards, SMART Boards, document cameras and worksheets, chart paper with colored markers, and manipulatives are all common materials used for modeling. Bush commissioned a diverse panel of experts to identify and describe best practices for teaching math to American students.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 5, 2011

Attached is a document that highlights the benefits of HB 6. members/ You could also follow up with a quick email urging them to support the bill and email the attached document. Above quote taken from Texas Education Agency 2010 Progress Report on the Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020; accessed from the TEA website).

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

Sir Ken Robinson’s views on creativity are abundantly well documented. In his 2006 TED Talk —still the most-watched of all time—he claimed that “we are educating people out of their creative capacities” and charged the current education system with being too rigid in adhering to traditional academic subjects.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 9, 2015

I remember when my students first collaborated live in a document in 2005 on Writely. In 2006, I joined my first podcast, Women of Web 2.0 – it was a fantastic experience with some great ladies, and then I stopped so I could collaborate globally on Flat Classroom. A blog isn’t a number; it is a journey.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

Communicating with administration, listening to parents’ concerns, and documenting events can diffuse situations that can otherwise become confrontational. He began working at Freed-Hardeman University (FHU) in January 2006, and retired from FHU in May 2019. How do I prepare to deal with an upset parent?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 24, 2015

As much a free-association history of the American road trip as the chronicle of one in particular, Sullivan’s book is rare in that it documents a time-restricted straight-shot across the continent, interstates and chain-motels and all. Abandon nostalgia, all ye who enter here.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Reeves, 2006) Being able to identify the “go-to” or most trusted person in a network to leverage their relationships with others to effect change is more likely to result in change than working from the superintendent down, although you need both approaches.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2011

Michael has been a frequent guest on the show, documenting the education white papers and studies coming from Innosight Institute , where he is the Executive Director for Education. Horn has written articles for numerous publications, including Education Week, Forbes, the Boston Globe, and U.S. News and World Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

Research has documented how students’ frustrations, fears and out-of-school trauma can get in the way of learning. million in 2006. They learn how certain foods affect the body, and they practice yoga poses and study the benefits of meditation, which Ms. Brenner said she finds particularly important. exam last year compared with 1.3

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2011

She has also taken part in textbook writing, in developing curricula, in designing national tests, in developing digital content, in translating documents for the Ministry of education and other institutions, and in evaluating documents.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

She attended Grand Valley State University from 2002 to 2006 with undergrad in Elementary Education, emphasis in Integrated Science. Her students have accomplished far more than she ever imagined, as she feels iPads are a great resource to level instruction so that all students needs are being met.

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MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Research shows that including a variety of stakeholders—from parents to students to school teachers and staff—in the design and implementation of a school change is critical to its success (Mitra&Gross, 2009; Osberg, Pope, &Galloway, 2006; Rice, 2011).Will 2013; National Sleep Foundation, 2006). How much is too much?

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Learning With Lucie

JUNE 7, 2015

A similar sense of excitement came over me as I discovered the collaborative power of Google Docs in 2006 and I quickly set up St. Collaborating (both synchronously and asynchronously) on a document was a game-changer for many ways, but perhaps one reason was that it humanized technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Even as early as 2006 and 2007, it was apparent to sociologists Lori Peek and Alice Fothergill, authors of the book “Children of Katrina,” that students were falling way behind as a result of the storm and its aftermath. Certainly, Louisiana schools still have limited resources and tools to help struggling students, White said.

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MindShift

MARCH 14, 2016

An Oregon history teacher of the year in 2006, MacMillan is one of a growing number of intrepid U.S. Lois MacMillan also assigned historical hip-hop raps for her eighth-graders, all of them grounded in historical documents. I’ve rethought almost all my projects after this rap battle was so successful,” she said.

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EdTechSandyK

MAY 26, 2011

There is disagreement on what caused the crisis - how much of it is due to the recession and how much due to a structural deficit caused by an under-performing business tax that was put into place in 2006 - but whatever the cause, the results are the same.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Cultivating the First Language When the dual-language program at the Honors College at Miami Dade College launched in 2006, leaders recognized there was a niche of students who spoke Spanish at home but didn’t have the chance to develop into fully bilingual students. Back in 2006, it started with 50 students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Rankin County Youth Court Judge Thomas Broome told the Jackson Free Press with some pain that before 2006, juvenile-detention centers in the state didn’t have to have school. He had missed a month and a half of regular classroom instruction, and it was already his second time through the 9th grade.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 5, 2016

In 2006, just 26 percent of American Indian youth between the ages of 18 and 24 were enrolled in college or university, as compared with 41 percent of whites. ’ “In all of these situations the student reveals their interest and it’s my job, without ruining it or hijacking the project, to help them document it,” Oppedisano said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Loyola University New Orleans shuttered its education department in 2006, although the school still offers a program for aspiring music teachers. The academic benefits to students of having a same-race teacher have been well documented. Brian Beabout, associate professor of education, University of New Orleans.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Intragroup content knowledge : documentation: Within a group, the content that the group uses and produces is represented through group documents such as reports, memos, agendas, and correspondence within the group. Document collaboration and tacit knowledge. Education, Communication & Information, 2(1), 23-49. Syriquin, A.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

We’ll document and publicly share what we’re doing. My dear friend and former Flat Classroom administrator Lisa Durff is also involved.). We are working to unleash student creativity and compassion as they collaborate, innovate, and learn together. This first project will be smaller.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Since running a deficit in 2017, the college has had balanced budgets , the most recent publicly available financial documents confirm, and its endowment has increased to $62.4 reads the most surprising of the frequently asked questions about the price cut announcement on its website. The answer, Stuebner said, is no.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

Wired for Learning Document-based questions have long been a staple of social studies classrooms—those exercises that ask students to analyze a given text and assess it critically, looking at things like the author’s motivation and intended audience. And it works just as well for comparing maps, blocks of code or two works of literature.

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