eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

Furthermore, major educational and psychological organizations, such as the National Association of School Psychologists and the American Psychological Association, are recommending the use of universal screening (Albers et al., Among these challenges is student mental health.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In many cases, without even realizing it, educators plan their curriculum without considering whether it includes the diverse backgrounds and identities of their students. 9,16] If educators are unaware how to teach and support multicultural students, they will fail to reach a significant portion of their school. Sources : Gay, G.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2023

Learner-centered education can play a critical role in reshaping education systems, offering a more holistic approach to meeting learners’ needs and helping students find fulfillment in their academic accomplishments. For example, learners might work with a local bakery, a law firm, a tech company, or a recording studio.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Learner-centered education can play a critical role in reshaping education systems, offering a more holistic approach to meeting learners’ needs and helping students find fulfillment in their academic accomplishments. For example, learners might work with a local bakery, a law firm, a tech company, or a recording studio.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Learner-centered education can play a critical role in reshaping education systems, offering a more holistic approach to meeting learners’ needs and helping students find fulfillment in their academic accomplishments. For example, learners might work with a local bakery, a law firm, a tech company, or a recording studio.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 2, 2019

It is one of many examples that fall into what I call the “death trap” in education – that’s the way we have always done it. Correct me if I am wrong, but in education, teachers and administrators don’t receive zeros if they: Don’t arrive to work on time. Portland, OR: Educational Testing Service. O'Connor, K. Reeves, D.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

These new programs did help close some gaps for the lowest-income households, but never fully met the long-term goal of creating equity in early education. The National Institute for Early Education Research found that in Maryland, for example, only 26 percent of 3- and 4- year-olds who live below the poverty level are enrolled in Head Start.

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Education Outcomes Industry Report 98

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Pam Moran, superintendent in Albemarle County in Virginia, shares about some cool virtual reality in Virginia, some challenges with helping new teachers get started, and how she thinks education is entering a new Renaissance of creativity and innovation. Educating Kids for Life Not for Tests. 4 Virtual Reality Examples in Virginia.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

And it’s part of a steady decline in spending on course materials since the 2007-08 school year, when students were coughing up $701 on course materials. This year’s spending on textbooks and other course materials represents a 26 percent fall from the previous year, when students spent $456, or $53 per course. What’s driving the decline?

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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. higher education sector amounted to $80.8

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Education Robotics Social Media Study 94

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.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

An example of intrinsic motivation is a student learning new vocabulary words because they love to read. An example of extrinsic motivation is a student who is studying so their parents will not ground them for poor grades. If you’re holding a reading contest, for example, you could make the prize a book of the child’s choice.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Higher education is heading into the eye of the tornado. Now, more than ever, as educators and institutions, we need to recenter ourselves on our why —not on how we get through this or when this storm will be over. In education, we are really good at focusing on what and how and when, at solving the problems before us.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate about helping every teacher use the arts in their classroom. That arts are an essential element of education, just like reading, writing, and arithmetic.”. We all need arts in every classroom, in every subject, in what we do as educators.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 31, 2016

Student graduation and thruput of students is dropping and our educational delivery method for our mobile, digitally driven next generation is failing. “This combination is enabling us to expand course subjects and grade levels throughout educational systems around the world.”. Tuition is at an all-time high and rising.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

To learn how educators can help students develop intrinsic motivation, we spoke with Dr. Christina Hinton, faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Founder and Executive Director of Research Schools International (RSI) , and Dr. Tom Callahan, Director of the Merck-Horton Center for Teaching and Learning, and educator at St.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

As public confidence in the value of higher education wanes, state and national higher education leaders must do more to invest in programs that have demonstrated success at improving college completion rates and helping students find well-paying jobs. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 4, 2024

For example, Kansas State University’s Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative course fee is a $10 fee that is payed by students in courses that use OER and other free, traditionally copyrighted resources. The sustainability of OER efforts has been a primary concern for the open education movement from the beginning back in the 1990s.

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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. A lot of companies make acquisitions just to bolt on revenue.

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Technology Education Company Pearson 119

Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Allington’s book with Patricia Cunningham, Schools that Work: Where All Children Read and Write (Pearson, 2007), is also excellent for literacy leaders. His book Readicide is an essential resource for educators. I encourage educators to explore his website , where he shares many resources for free, such as his one-pagers idea.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. Riconscente says one example of balancing free choice and difficulty level is when games have an exploratory nature to them, with embedded challenges. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975, 67, 776–783.

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Technology How To Education Outcomes 120

Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

According to Yale psychologist and social-emotional expert Peter Salovey, the five main examples of emotional intelligence are:[15]. But many educators argue that a focus on only cognitive ability is too narrow to measure a student’s ability and undermines the importance of emotional intelligence. Knowing your own emotions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Since I write about education and tech, I wondered if there were applications in the world that EdSurge covers. My first step, naturally, was to reach out to an educator who knows the NFT space. To explain what’s different about NFTs, she pointed to a recent example of a viral YouTube video that fetched a huge price.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

At least, that’s the idea for Tim Loomer, CEO of science education holding company Science Interactive Group. Science Interactive claims it will be the largest lab products and services provider to the distance education market, servicing more than 650 higher education institutions following the acquisition. The Englewood, Colo.-based

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Company Groups Education Robotics 81

Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. In a survey from the International Journal of Education, 97% of teachers reported never or seldom using a flexible curriculum for their students.[2] What is Differentiated Instruction?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2017

Busy education leaders and entrepreneurs don’t have time to sift through hundreds of papers, and often don’t know where to start. Still, there are increasing calls for educators and entrepreneurs alike to design and implement innovative education programs and products based on learning science findings.

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STEM Analysis Learning Twitter 142

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.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

Reflecting on this evolution, I’m struck by the radical changes that have shaped the educational environment, particularly in this early part of the 21st century. These reflections are not just an academic exercise but a practical one, aimed at understanding and adapting to the evolving dynamics of education.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

If you’ve been in the educational field long enough, you’ve probably come across Fleming’s learning styles theory. In talking about the learning styles theory, we’re defining it here as the educational model proposed by Neil Fleming in 1984 that presents four types of learning styles.[18] What about your students?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

In today’s increasingly diverse and interconnected world, conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion have become essential components of education. As teachers and educators, we bear the responsibility of facilitating these critical discussions with our students. Example: Instead of asking, “Was segregation wrong?”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Wedding vow negotiations were a somewhat contentious business when my English teacher fiance and I, a science educator, prepared to tie the knot back in 2007. Relationship building belongs at the core of educator work. Relationship building belongs at the core of educator work. Problem: Bullying.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 19, 2018

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

How did New Orleans prove urban-education reform can “work” ? For many, the New Orleans experiment is an example of what is possible in education reform. About half of the terminated teachers returned to Louisiana public schools by fall 2007. Photo: Andre Perry. By firing and replacing the black workforce of course.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 29, 2015

In August 2007, Chris Messina introduced hashtags (#) into Twitter’s code , which meant anyone using the platform could add a # sign front of any word(s) without spaces to make it a clickable link leading to a page where all tweets with this hashtag were aggregated. Use hashtags to find your educator community (ex.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

In his latest EdSurge column , Michael Horn laid out how Google Maps offers an aspirational metaphor for what the future of educational tools could look like. Yet there are several initiatives, some of which I’ve had the privilege of working on, that aim to support the educational data ecosystem necessary for learner navigation.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

This is the fourth post in our series on “Powerful Learning,” a set of principles guiding our work supporting schools and educators to develop learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners as we introduce new technologies. Reflection supports deeper learning in context 3. Get started with Powerful Learning. Karpicke, J.

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