The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

Mooresville Graded School District, near Charlotte, North Carolina, has become a national leader over the last decade in using digital learning tools to improve student achievement. The leader of the district’s digital learning efforts, Mark Edwards, has served as superintendent of the 6,000-student school district since 2007.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. From bundling its clicker technology with course materials from other publishers, the company now offers a marketplace and authoring tools for people to build their own courses on the platform. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Freedom of choice As online technologies offer new ways to deliver—and in many cases, simulate—science instruction, Loomer still sees the importance of online and offline tools for educators. Astronomy, physics and upper-level biology lessons are not easy to replicate with digital tools, he says. “We

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. They’re amazing.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 30, 2019

However, what I continually explore is the connection between technology and Social Emotional Learning (SEL). When I was in graduate school at Vanderbilt University, I studied digital learning with an emphasis on gaming for learning. What life skills can be taught and learned in a gaming environment?

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Omega Notes

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But learning new ways of teaching and preparing new materials in response can be overwhelming, given a faculty member’s overall responsibilities (Loch & Reushle, 2008; Price & Oliver, 2007). Use this information to assess your selection and application of course material toward learning goals.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

EdSurge recently connected with Ames to talk about the book and about her theory about the dangers of what she calls “charismatic technology.” In your book, you say the project is an example of “charismatic technology.” What is charismatic technology? What makes up a charismatic technology? It was all over the news.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 19, 2020

Remote learning has forced educators across the globe to learn on the fly and use digital tools in new ways, often tools they’ve never even used before. Even teachers who resisted technology often hated it and were resentful about any technology or training available saw the light.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The WA Digital Teachkit is an easy-to-use guides crafted by teacher librarians to help K12 educators select, understand, and use commonly-adopted digital learning tools in Washington State. Divided into two sections, WA Digital TeachKit. NYC School Library System: Connect, Create, Lead. Some background: Valenza, J.K.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In 2007, a trio of Harvard researchers found that “even 10 days of teacher absences can have an impact.reducing, for example, students’ math achievement by 3.3 He works collaboratively with classroom teachers across grades and subjects to ensure continuity of instruction in a digitally-rich online format.

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Blended Learning Chromebook Report Training 88

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Overcoming Barriers. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 9, 2018

Has technology always been available to you and your students? Although to be fair, many adults, digital natives or not, lack this same skill…) A few of my students type their papers on their phones and copy and paste them into google classroom because they’re so much quicker that way.

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Laptops Social Media Comparison Google 58

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

Superintendent Mark Edwards talked about the Mooresville Graded School District’s experiences integrating technology into K-12 education during the 2013 Summer Connection in Mooresville, N.C. school district since 2007, will be the senior vice president of digital learning for the Silver Spring, Md.-based

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

PowerSchool Acquires TIENET: The K-12 technology solutions provider acquired TIENET— a software package for the individualized education programs, or IEP s, that are a federal requirement for students with disabilities—from MAXIMUS. Merrifield also co-founded Club Penguin, a social site for kids, which sold to Disney for $350 million in 2007.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 19, 2015

Since at least 2007, Education Next has commissioned an annual public opinion poll to help inform the K-12 education policy discussion in DC and the states, as well as to suggest lines of inquiry for further research. If you had to ask one question about technology in education, was this really the most important one? So it goes.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Districts and technology leaders may be held liable for network-security incidents, and the costs of these incidents can be extremely high. Cybersecurity and cyber safety impacts teaching and learning, especially in this era of digital learning. Student Digital Records.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 8, 2020

On August 26, 2007, an EF4 tornado tore through Northwood, North Dakota. It was extremely important for us that all students had the same access to technology that they needed to continue their distance learning plan from home. The next day, Northwood’s class of 2020 was scheduled to begin kindergarten. WATCH THE STORY HERE.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They will mihi (welcome) you formally in Te Reo (Maori, New Zealand’s first language) and proceed to inform and charm you over 20 minutes via an interactive presentation about their competency in digital learning. Started in 2007, the program now serves 3,500 students, over 80 percent of whom come from Maori and Pasifika families.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2021

But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digital learning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. Teachers have embraced technology to promote the wonder of science. Technology.

Education 79

Education Assessment Professional Learning Policies 79

Hack Education

JULY 2, 2016

Virtual reality is, once again, being heralded as a technology poised to transform education. But just as striking as the parallel between the old and new stereoscopy technology is the similarity of their marketing messages: why should schools adopt this technology? “ But this time it’s different.” Projectors.

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Education Training Company Report 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Dr. Schell, Ed.D.,

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).

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