Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

However, our mainstream education and societal training practices have not. The future of American society depends on our ability as parents, educators, edtech professionals and legislators to collaboratively teach our children that words actually do matter. The truth is that society has changed.

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Social Media Comparison Smartphone Survey 210

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. How many kids, families, and educators were ill, recovering from being ill, or still traumatized from loved ones’ deaths, illnesses, or long recoveries? Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, said about these results. emphasis added].

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

I assumed that I would eventually learn how the brain worked because I thought that studying education meant studying how learning happens. If you are a mid-career educator like me, perhaps this sounds familiar. Although some educators are familiar with this research, most of us are not. I was wrong.

Learning 145

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Department of Education’s National Education Technology Plan (2017) calls for “thoughtful intervention and attention” to close this digital use divide, namely by enabling educators to “design highly engaging and relevant learning experiences through technology.” Indicators of impactful technology use.

Technology 185

Technology Tools Survey Student Engagement 185

Waterford

JUNE 28, 2021

Educator Warren Berger recommends letting your students know that questions are always welcome in class and that they will not be judged for asking them.[8]. For example, educator Jackie Walsh suggests making a homework assignment in which students must list both open-ended and closed questions about a subject.[7] January 25, 2019.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Being nerdy pays off, and soon there will be another education technology company on the public market. Better known by its Varsity Tutors brand, Nerdy was founded in 2007 by Chuck Cohn, then an undergraduate at Washington University in St. The deal will give Nerdy a valuation of $1.7

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Until then she had never heard of the federal program, which provides high-quality early childhood education to more than one million children from low-income families each year. It’s in keeping with Head Start’s larger mission to serve two generations, empowering parents to pursue education and careers, often within Head Start facilities.

Education 167

Education Training Advocacy Study 167

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Rita Green, the Washington state education chair for the NAACP, volunteered on the parent-teacher group at Rainier Beach High from 2007 to 2016. The real issue is Washington state just needs to fully fund education. A key priority at the meeting: Ensuring all children had access to a good education and skilled teachers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The ninth annual Global Education Conference starts this coming Monday! This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. The conference is being held Monday, November 18 - Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (November 21 in some time zones). LOTS of information below!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

“That’s what we all are holding our breath about right now,” said Karin Garver, an early childhood education policy specialist at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), who recently published a report that looked at how the pandemic could impact state-funded pre-K. Out of 39 states, including Washington D.C.,

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Waterford

APRIL 23, 2021

Beloved educator and children’s television host Fred Rogers once said , “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. Let’s go over a few of the most notable findings from educational research to show just how crucial unstructured play can be. But for children, play is serious learning.”. Stress management.

Classroom 264

Classroom Elementary Strategy Study 264

Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

International Journal on E-Learning, July 2007, 6(3), pp. Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011. Teaching and Teacher Education, May 2017, 64, pp. Education Week, 2019. Meece, J.L., Anderman, E.M., and Anderman, L.H. Classroom Goal Structure, Student Motivation, and Academic Achievement. Williams, K.,

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Strategy Gamification Blended Learning Examples 275

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2021

It’s been around since 2007 as a way to make animations and simple video games by combining Lego-like icons representing different coding functions. A new refresh of the Scratch system had just been released in January 2019.) As part of that push, the group is holding its first online conference for educators next week.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

It’s just up to educators to help them succeed in finding answers while staying safe in a digital environment. The educational system structure was designed for that analog world. 1] Many educators, especially digital immigrants, struggle to find the best way to do this. We Need to Rethink Education for Digital Natives.”

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media Adobe 264

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since the 1990s, education stories emanating from Massachusetts have largely been positive, but that started to change over the last decade. The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Related: U.S.

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Common Core Academic Standards Comparison Report 120

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This project was supported by Google for Education and involved a number of partners, including our organization, WestEd. Instead, she added that it is important to center edtech around the educator; ultimately it is how teachers use that technology to advance their instructional goals that matters.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2023

I learned the basics of how to be a teacher in my college classes and then learned even more during student teaching from experienced educators. My mom was an educator in Michigan, so I knew that teaching would be extremely rewarding and also extremely frustrating. I don’t want educators to experience student loss.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

Use of free course materials among college students is up, with 22 percent downloading at least one such resource during the spring 2019 semester, according to research published Wednesday by the National Association of College Stores. The percent of students who reported downloading free materials has increased each semester since.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2021

from fall 2019 to fall 2020. Between 2007 and 2011, Black and Hispanic undergraduate enrollment at for-profit four-year colleges nearly doubled. High-price, low-quality institutions charge above-average prices for below-average outcomes and represent the worst offenders in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

But WPI discovered an important lesson when it went that route in 2007: Dropping the test requirement does little to transform a student body unless it’s accompanied by other changes in the admissions process and shifts in the way financial aid is handed out. “You You have to put many more strategies in place.”. Credit: Ricky Shore/Flickr.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

When students come into Danielle Insel’s college and career advising office with their sights set on higher education, she has a checklist of next steps ready. Nationwide, 62% of recent high school graduates enrolled in college in 2022, down from 66% in 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. newsletters.

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Social Media Outcomes Report Data 109

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language and online community, back in 2007. Graphical programming languages were generally seen as toys or gimmicks, not appropriate for educational applications. There is a growing recognition of the value of introducing coding to all students.

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Libraries Elementary Technology Strategy 167

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The results also bolster findings showing that early childhood education can have a positive effect on children, she added. Similarly, a 2007 study of children in the United States found more time in center-based care was linked to teacher-reported problem behavior later in elementary school. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Study Report Trends Industry 91

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We’re going deep into methodologies that empower students to take the reins of their own educational journey. Indeed, once you understand how to foster self-directed learning, it’s like unlocking a whole new world of educational potential. A study by Rohrer and Taylor in 2007 validated this strategy. Morris, T.

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Strategy Gamification Learning EdTech 138

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Unlike at Olmsted, the highest-scoring elementary school in the city, students at Eve scored around the dismal city average in math and English in 2019, when fewer than a quarter of students passed state tests. And admissions for gifted programs tend to favor children with wealthy, educated parents, who are more likely to be white.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Next week, February 17-23, 2019, is DiscoverE’s Engineers Week. Since 2007, the number of engineering grads nationwide has shot up 33%. The purpose of Engineers Week is as much to celebrate engineers as to increase public dialogue, in that way bringing them to life for kids, educators, and parents. has approximately 1.6

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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. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

When “ Disrupting Class ” was published in 2008, we caused a stir by predicting that by the fall of 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses would be delivered online in some form or fashion. A large majority of respondents say that students are not reaching high levels of educational achievement today.

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Digital Learning Survey Learning EdTech 99

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Set a few miles from the sea and surrounded by swampy state parks, Indian River Community College was for years a lone outpost of higher education on Florida’s Treasure Coast. Not everyone in higher education is thrilled about what some leaders of four-year institutions see as competition for students.

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Accessibility Outcomes Training System 170

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

So concurred cybersecurity experts and educational leaders participating in the ENA -sponsored edLeader Panel, “ Critical Cybersecurity Conversations K-12 Leaders Should Be Having.” Jonathan Ryglicki has been the cyber security manager for the Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) since 2019. Malware ( virus ). Website defacement.

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Policies Data System Industry 89

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Some solutions in education are expensive. Higher Education. Three classes of students (those who started ninth grade in 2005, 2006 and 2007) were followed for six years after high school. Department of Education. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it? For students, that’s a degree with zero tuition.

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Comparison Analysis Report Study 144

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019, 2031), you are a person who "remember past events well and learn quickly from your mistakes. NG) This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ). If you were born in the Dog year (e.g.,

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Mobile Learning Mobility Groups Company 91

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

In 2007, Congress introduced a new version of income-driven repayment plans (known as IDRs), which allowed student borrowers to pay a small amount each month as a proportion of what they were earning. Higher education segregation is specifically why Black borrowers have so much more debt,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The pandemic has clearly upended the college experience for a generation of students and higher education professionals. A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents.

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Survey Report Accessibility Trends 101

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Peyton’s testimony is an example of “action civics,” a growing, if controversial, trend in American education of which Massachusetts is the undisputed leader. To be sure, there are many on both sides of the spectrum who believe civics education can — and should — teach both knowledge and skills.

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Study Survey Advocacy Policies 137

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Education funding is like any other public infrastructure investment. Even as distance-education removes the spatial component from public education — lessons no longer happen in a particular classroom, or at a particular school, but on the (ostensibly worldwide) web — these lines still separate children from one another.

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Report 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I taught basic English writing at two community colleges in New Mexico before I retired in 2019. Since 2007, with his spouse, Leilani Darling, J.D., This story about teaching community college was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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