eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Tuesday, August 17, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. As part of the Discovery Education family of services, DoodleLearning will continue to apply its educational ability to building and deploying affordable learning solutions for students worldwide.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. During this time I also worked closely with several leading NHS surgeons and physicians as they developed new techniques and explored new technologies.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Much of that money will apparently go toward paying off debt and covering fees related to going public, though officials say they are also putting $1 million in a donation to “philanthropic initiatives to benefit K-12 educators.” Then publishing giant Pearson bought it from Apple in 2006. Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global edtech company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Pivot Interactives is Discovery Education’s second acquisition this month, having also acquired DoodleLearning. . We’re thrilled to be joining the Discovery Education family,” said Mr. Bohacek.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 20, 2016

If you’ve ever taught kids who have their own smartphones, you know how quickly social media problems can escalate at school. I’ve also included some of my favorite free digital citizenship education options. She is also the Skype Education Ambassador. Episode 296 Listening Guide. Read more about her here.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Friends and social media users began alerting her that images and material from one of her children’s books, “I Am Not a Number,” about a young Indigenous girl sent to a residential school in Canada and based on the experience of her grandmother, had made their way into paid lessons on the site that she had never seen before.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This vibrant educator community hosts teacher-authors who wish to sell their original lessons and ideas to other teachers, district administrators, homeschoolers, and unschoolers. Since its start in 2006 by a former teacher, it’s grown to over 3.4 Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. The pace of change, driven predominantly by the rapid encroachment of digital and now AI technologies, has accelerated dramatically.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Discovery Education —the Charlotte, North Carolina based global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms—today announced the appointment of Scott Kinney as its new Chief Executive Officer and Kelli Campbell as the company’s new President.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

Teachers want their students to create, but don’t want to fight with clunky technology. Today’s show will help you understand one of the simplest technologies to use in the classroom: podcasting. Today’s show will help you understand one of the simplest technologies to use in the classroom: podcasting.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” Educational Leadership , 63 (4), 54-59. . I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. Virtual Libraries: Their Influence on High School Students’ Information Seeking and Use. Chapter in Mary K. Chelton and Colleen Cool.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Of higher education institutions advertising, she said: “I didn’t know that was a thing”. The marketing and advertising boom is also a response to increasing public skepticism about the need to go to college in the first place, said Elizabeth Johnson, chair of the higher education marketing agency SimpsonScarborough. I mean, wow.”

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EdTechTeam

JULY 14, 2017

After seeing droves of people flock the EdTechTeam booth at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference, I finally decided to look into what might be getting so many people excited! I learned that it is possible to become a Certified Google Educator and thought, “I love to use Google tools for Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Started in 2006, it aims to educate and raise awareness of bullying prevention around the world and is supported by hundreds of schools, corporations, and celebrities. National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015 ). Teaching students to recognize, avoid, and survive cyberbullying starts with you, the educator.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It was 2006, and Miller—then an investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times—had just spoken to 175 sixth graders at his daughter’s middle school about his job as a journalist and why it mattered. The News Literacy Project also recently began offering a program for educators, called NewsLitCamps.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today on the podcast we’re talking about news literacy, and the challenge of teaching students to navigate the relentless flow of information they get through social media and websites and YouTube and. Really with the advent of the first iPhone, around 2006, everything changed, and social media really took off.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

But in 2006, he gained recognition for something that no other TED speaker in history has done. Well, it’s been ten years, and with the recent proliferation of terms like “personalized,” “mastery-based,” and “blended” in the education world, some of Robinson’s viewers may wonder if or how his take on schools has changed.

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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.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

I''m gradually working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Monte Tatom, Associate Professor of Education at Freed-Hardeman University, TN, explained in his edWebinar, “ How to Survive Live Streaming and Podcasting in Your Classes,” it’s fairly easy for teachers to start. Moreover, he’s also seen many educators use the technology for professional development. You can follow Dr.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 21, 2015

One major phenomenon of the last decade has undoubtedly been the global and exponential rise of social media. Seeded at the turn of the century, the social web phase of Internet development promoted connections, participation, networked sociality. The social web truly is a powerful communication technology.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Informal and self regulated learning are defining characteristics of 21 st Century education. Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). The central tenet of heutagogy is that people inherently know how to learn.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Essentially, the Web has become more social.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

For example, since I started teaching moviemaking with my students in 2006, I have used a Storyboard Dictionary of shots that I originally adapted from the American Film Institute. Create Engaging Projects The third way Adobe Premiere Rush promotes creativity is the interest students have in YouTube, Instagram, and social media style videos.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MARCH 9, 2015

Barrow Elementary’s Andy Plemmons Named to the “20 to Watch” Education Technology Leaders by the National School Boards Association. Athens, Ga.) — Barrow Elementary School Media Specialist Andy Plemmons was today named by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to their list of “20 to Watch” top technology educators for 2014-15.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

Two months after the COVID-19 crisis forced educators across the United States to leave their classrooms and start teaching online, the scope of the changes and challenges have now become clear, and educational leaders have started to identify what’s working and what still needs improvement. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve seen evidence of this in the many curated digital collections shared across social media, including all of those lovely Bitmoji libraries. At this point, it is heavy on organizing and presenting free resources that might be used by every students and educator. Not every library has a realistic budget.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

He’s held a teaching credential in the state since 2006, based on passing the state’s biological sciences and geosciences teaching exams, state records show. Throughout the pandemic, the American public has struggled to be scientifically literate enough to separate well-grounded scientific findings from social media-driven fiction.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 16, 2016

A key feature of social media is its open architecture, because it allows all members of a community to easily modify, extend or delete content. Wikis for example, can subvert traditional values such as personal ownership and intellectual property (Richardson, 2006) but community ownership of the content becomes an equalising factor.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Shanaes Akhtar first heard about Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) as a middle schooler. Subscribe today!

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2018

In education, schools and colleges even use big data to nudge students to stay on track. EdSurge connected with Eubanks this month to ask her about her explorations of technology’s unintended consequences, and about what people in education should consider as they leverage big data systems. They can speed results.

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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. MEDSKL founder, Dr. “I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 1, 2013

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Michael Fullan is Professor Emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy for Education. He received his B.A.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 31, 2015

I first met Graham at an event in the UK around 2006, just when I was becoming aware of the potential of social media such as wikis, blogs and social networking platforms as a learning tools. He has some radical things to say about education, and he isn't always popular.

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