The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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Secondary Training Elementary Report 145

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For example, learners might work with a local bakery, a law firm, a tech company, or a recording studio. Virtual Learning Academy Charter School : The Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) is a statewide virtual school created in 2007 that serves K–12 learners throughout New Hampshire.

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Education Course System Assessment 116

Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

According to Yale psychologist and social-emotional expert Peter Salovey, the five main examples of emotional intelligence are:[15]. For example, a student can be academically gifted but lack social skills.[6] 15] This means that one of the best ways you can promote emotional intelligence in your students is by setting a good example.[3]

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 19, 2018

The actual game was more or less an assessment of what my players had learned during practice. If teachers are being coached on research-based instruction and digital pedagogy for example, then leaders need to be well equipped to provide useful feedback and conduct effective observations or evaluations.

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Professional Learning Data Study Outcomes 353

Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

If a student might work more efficiently in a quieter learning environment, for example, you could allow them to complete a project in the school library. Our programs assign these lessons based on a student’s placement assessment and their demonstrated mastery. Examples of How to Differentiate Instruction in the Classroom.

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Differentiated Instruction Strategy Libraries Guidelines 250

eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

These elements are: differentiation, adaptivity, student engagement, direct instruction, practice, formative assessment with immediate feedback and student explanation of learning. Though the students are continually assessed throughout the program to adjust to their skills, this initial reading sets them on a path tailored to their needs.

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

Bencivenga, who will be coaching entrepreneurs on acquisitions at EdSurge Immersion NYC in September, founded DataCation (later named CaseNEX DataCation) in 2007, and made his first acquisition in 2011, buying the assessment business DataDriven Classroom. CaseNEX DataCation bought Pals, a reading assessment platform, in 2012.

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Technology Education Company Pearson 132

Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

18] While educators have researched different models and provided various examples of learning styles since the 1970s, Fleming’s model is one that gained a lot of traction among teachers. An auditory learner, for example, may focus better while listening to an audiobook than they would while reading a book. and Howard, K. and Tsai, C.

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Differentiated Instruction Learning Study Examples 176

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For example, learners might work with a local bakery, a law firm, a tech company, or a recording studio. Virtual Learning Academy Charter School : The Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) is a statewide virtual school created in 2007 that serves K–12 learners throughout New Hampshire.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

Teachers can provide opportunities for students to recall information from previous learning either to support connections to new learning or as an opportunity for formative assessment. Spacing learning and recall out over time also supports enduring learning and improves memory. Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. Karpicke, J.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Resources 240

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Ask them to apply critical thinking questions to assess its credibility. How to implement: After a classroom discussion on techniques to identify fake news , ask students to find examples online. Tools to use: Software like iMovie or Adobe Spark Video can make this a seamless process.

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Analysis Adobe Smartphone Video 134

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

If asked to assess the current posture of higher education leaders across the nation, it would be reasonable to describe it as a “defensive crouch.” Brought sharply into focus during the 2007-8 Great Recession — and seemingly every month since in the news and on social media — the U.S.

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Education Social Media Robotics Study 99

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

For example, in project-based learning, students work on complex questions or problems over extended periods, giving them the chance to delve deeply into subjects and apply what they learn in real-world contexts. For example, tasks that involve designing solutions for environmental issues or community problems can be highly impactful.

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Classroom Khan Academy E-rate Internet Safety 127

Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A video from for-profit college American National University shows an example of a student might use a kit from eScience Labs. Founded in 2007, eScience claims to have sold kits to more than 400 universities worldwide. The companies shared about 60 percent of their customers before the acquisition.

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Company Groups Education Robotics 82

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 19, 2016

This is not easy to answer, because in most states, large numbers of students never take a college-entrance exam (in California, for example, at most 43 percent of high-school students sit for the SAT or the ACT). How many high-school students are capable of meeting the College Board benchmark? Image credit: B , Nadège.

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Dropout Meeting Data Course 100

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

After all, research has shown that learners whose mothers have earned a college credential are more likely to attain one themselves (Atwell, et al, 2007; Yakaboski, 2010). The second woman who contributed to my passion for continued education is my Tootie, my “other mother.” Morrison with Thomas and Henrietta “Tootie” Williams in 2010.

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Education Meeting STEM Company 179

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

.” In other words, this is meant as a learning technique, not for assessment. In one example, students who were quizzed after studying a short text could recall significantly more information than students who were asked to reread it (Karpicke, 2007b). There is a great deal of research to support practice testing. Dunlosky et al.

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Strategy E-rate Learning Study 120

Education with Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2015

tuttle, https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/classroom-grades-dont-reflect-student-learning/ ). For example, a teacher might award an “idea generation” badge that indicates that the students can use at least two different brainstorming techniques to generate ideas for their writing.

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Digital Badges Common Core Academic Standards eBook 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Its development has roots that go back to well-known gameful-learning scholars and proponents Lee Sheldon, author of “The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game,” published in 2011, and James Paul Gee, author of “What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy,” published in 2007.

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Course LMS Assessment Video 60

Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Back in 2007, when the virtual world Second Life was being discovered by educators, I joined an island, Eduisland II, and conducted professional development in this virtual world along with Will Richardson, Ian Jukes, David Warlick, Doug Johnson, Annette Lamb, and Alan November. A little history.

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Social Media Twitter Conference Training 52

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

Last updated in 2007, the international standards body has defined a data model for describing, referencing, and sharing competency definitions, primarily in the context of online and distributed learning. For example, a K-12 state education agency could use tools based on the CEDS and IMS CASE data standards for academic standards.

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Google Academic Standards Education Data 108

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug: Well, the people that started this back in about 2007… They just started recording their lessons. Vicki: Give us some examples. You want to make sure that your formative assessments are based on where the student is at, not some kind of standard that every student in your classroom has to jump through. Doug: Yeah.

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Khan Academy Elementary Company Personalized Learning 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. As one example, there are a tremendous amount of high quality resources produced by various organizations supported by the U.S. As an example, a quick search in YouTube for “calculate the area of a circle” returns over 55,000 videos. Last year, the U.S.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 3, 2018

A district is assessing itself with a massive project for 800 eighth graders. How to Assess Your District: The Global Challenge Project is an Example. Give us an example of one of the winning projects. How the District Uses This Project to Assess Itself. Just learning and sharing. Sign up now. Listen Now.

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Case Study Assessment Study How To 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

That assessment may be technically true, but many librarians and scholars see the legacy of the project differently. Transforming Scholarship Ted Underwood ’s work is one of the more prominent examples of the kind of scholarship born of Google’s scanning push. Underwood described the thrust of the work in a blog post last year.

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Libraries Google Analysis Data 166

edWeb.net

MAY 23, 2019

During the edWebinar, “ Learning in the 21st Century: What Teachers Think Matters,” the presenters talked about the science of individuality, how they’re using the research to help developers create products to meet these individual needs, and examples that show how the Learner Variability Project can work in the classroom. Dr. Baron R.

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Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Policies 67

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment).

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

Insight Education Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In South Carolina, for example, there were simply not enough qualified teachers to fill positions during the 2017–2018 school year: 6,700 South Carolina teachers left their positions after the 2016–2017 school year, with 4,900 leaving teaching altogether. University of Tennessee Value-Added Research and Assessment Center. Sanders, W.

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Social Media Policies Survey Examples 79

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. Each assessment also covers slightly different curriculum content. Related: When fourth-grade problems include gunfire.

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Dropout Assessment Report Trends 40

Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Another way to assess the affordance of CMC is to use the categories created by Herring (2007). A good example of this is facebook. Classification) (2007) A Faceted Classification Scheme for Computer-Mediated Discourse. One thing that all agree upon is that the web 3.0 categories. References Herring, S.

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Tools Facebook Software Assessment 45

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

To the best of my knowledge there is no one really working on next gen OER—OER that are interactive, simulative, really rich with multimedia AND combined with OAR [open assessment resources] that drive diagnosis, remediation, and adaptation. For example, imagine two versions of a college algebra course. No 5Rs and no open pedagogy.

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OER LMS Pearson System 60

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2017

To the best of my knowledge there is no one really working on next gen OER – OER that are interactive, simulative, really rich with multimedia AND combined with OAR [open assessment resources] that drive diagnosis, remediation, and adaptation. For example, imagine two versions of a College Algebra course. No 5Rs and no open pedagogy.

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OER Pearson System Assessment 60

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 26, 2016

For example, when someone posts on their blog, this published piece is sometimes the start of a conversation rather than finished work. Teaching Digital Literacies for the Common Core: What Results From New Assessments Tell Us. Critical literacy applied in this fashion better prepares students to be college and career ready.

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Common Core Social Media Assessment Online Learning 43

Shake Up Learning

MAY 19, 2020

I knew when I got my masters in edtech in 2007; I couldn’t go wrong. How to use G Suite tools to assess, give feedback, and facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Assessment data is a critical part of any classroom! Have we ever seen a more perfect example of the need for digital literacy and citizenship skills?

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Google Learning Blended Learning Digital Citizenship 80

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Instead of assessing the end result, process feedback focuses on the journey and supports students as they make progress toward a clear objective or desired result. For example, a teacher might run a series of stations, like those pictured below, to make time for real-time feedback sessions at the teacher-led station.

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Blended Learning Strategy Assessment Video 370

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2017

In a newly published paper , researchers showed not only that math anxiety was negatively related to performance in 63 of the 64 countries tested in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), but also that the highest achieving students had the most striking negative relationship between math anxiety and performance.

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Common Core Conference STEM Report 55

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 26, 2016

For example, when someone posts on their blog, this published piece is sometimes the start of a conversation rather than finished work. Teaching Digital Literacies for the Common Core: What Results From New Assessments Tell Us. Critical literacy applied in this fashion better prepares students to be college and career ready.

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Common Core Social Media Assessment Online Learning 28