The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Website traffic to the homepage for IXL, a popular tool that lets students practice skills across five subjects through online quizzes, spiked in March.

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Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Photo by William White on unsplash Still other virtual clans are emerging from the cultures surrounding online leisure activities such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), strategy games and transnational special interest groups that meet en masse, online. and Brasswell, R. Distance Education.

Groups 29

Groups Meeting Online Learning Strategy 29

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

She sometimes observes teachers, and other times helps children in small groups. When she mustered the courage to research options for joining the profession, she learned it would cost somewhere between $5,000 to $15,000 a year over at least four years. “I Some Reach classes go until 11 p.m. There are promising signs.

Elementary 93

Elementary Report Training Classroom 93

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. My main recommendation however, was one grounded in the technology mediated learning approach.

Education 61

Education Conference Technology Online Learning 61

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. Our goal was to create digital content that appeals to various learning styles—text-based, auditory, and visual,” Sharma explains.

Khan Academy 69

Khan Academy MOOC Flipped Classroom Trends 69

Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. My main recommendation however, was one grounded in the technology mediated learning approach.

Conference 51

Conference Technology Online Learning Strategy 51

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

In 2006, journalist Daniel Golden exposed how President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, found his way into Harvard despite lackluster grades with the help of his dad’s $2.5 I do not want to take classes online and I don’t want to miss out on football games and the whole college experience,” Fogel said. million donation.

Education 108

Education Policies System Survey 108

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. 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. Activity-Based Learning. Blended Learning.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This post is a continuation of Wednesday's post entitled: Virtual Clans Still other virtual clans are emerging from the cultures surrounding online leisure activities such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), strategy games and transnational special interest groups that meet en masse, online.

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Groups Meeting Online Learning Strategy 28

The Electric Educator

JUNE 28, 2010

These schools are after long-tail students Up until recently, education was a product of atoms, meaning it required students to go to a physical place and learn in the presence of trained professionals. The rise of virtual learning and online schools has blown open the possibilities for niche education. Choice is good.

Education 45

Education Training Online Learning STEM 45

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

This practice is not necessarily radical,not disruptive, but should be part of the fabric of how we teach and learn now. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc). For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). For example: Googling people to learn about them.

Trends 41

Trends LMS Data MOOC 41

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

This practice is not necessarily radical,not disruptive, but should be part of the fabric of how we teach and learn now. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc). For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). For example: Googling people to learn about them.

Trends 40

Trends LMS Data MOOC 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you''ll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!

ePortfolio 28

ePortfolio Google Conference Online Learning 28

Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

The Traditional Model The traditional model used by organizational learning theorists begins with the depth of knowledge. Knowledge can be created by the individual through reflection or developed through interaction at the intra- or inter-group levels. Individual content knowledge: Resume and portfolio of work.

Groups 52

Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

All conversations start with why: Get all constituents involved from the beginning—even students and teachers—as to how the schools might adopt digital learning. Ann served as co-chair of Texas Education Technology Advisory Committee which developed the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020. Join the Community.

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BYOD Smartphone Accessibility Advocacy 65

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

Tom Greaves, The Greaves Group www.projectred.org Project Red - large scale research project funded by Pearson and Intel; Collected data from over 1000 schools around the country and looked at 136 variables. Examples of their initiatives include PBS TeacherLine, PBS LearningMedia, CPB Ready to Learn (PBS Kids), PBS Kids Lab (learning games).

Learning 61

Learning Pearson Study Survey 61

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic closed schools and launched a national experiment in remote learning that has been chaotic and stressful for millions of American families. Rainey, his maternal grandma, returned to New Orleans before her family, in late 2006, replacing her destroyed family home with a modular structure set on cinderblock pilings.

Report 108

Report Elementary Study Secondary 108

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final week. For the next eight days we'll be publishing three special 30-minute video interviews each day with an amazing set of learning experts (see below), for a total of 24 interviews (and maybe a surprise bonus interview or two). See all of the speakers here.

Learning 48

Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2012

With four thoughtful and articulate education thinkers, my job will be to help them describe their alternative views to the current narratives that drive much of the impassioned debate around teaching and learning worldwide. psid=2012-08-08.0905.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

Blackboard 76

Blackboard Laptops Study Assessment 76

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

When her classes were assigned group projects, no one wanted her in their group. She was a high school junior when she learned she was pregnant, and didn’t receive the support she needed from school officials to continue. Except for one friend, even those who had been in the accident with her pulled away. And recently, the U.S.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 132

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In Nevada, in fact, parents can spend state education dollars any way they please — on private, public, online, part-time and full-time schools, on tutoring and extra books — through education savings accounts, which an advocate for them calls “the purest form of educational freedom.”. They want them at school learning.

Policies 40

Policies Course Accessibility Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Department of Education Releases Guidance on Supporting Early Learning through the Every Student Succeeds Act ,” per the press release. ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “For-profit education company Apollo Education Group Inc. ” The company in question: Dipont Education Management Group. Through an LMS.

Education 40

Education Company Pearson E-rate 40