Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2015

More recently, Marzano’s research in The Art and Science of Teaching (2007) reconfirmed that asking students to identify similarities and differences through comparative analysis leads to eye-opening gains in student achievement. Word processing reports are typically submitted, not presented. Clearly, this is a seminal skill.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

A report from the Center for American Progress estimates that U.S. 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 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , there was approximately one substitute for every 3.22

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Whereas a Google search for “learning techniques” returns over 400 million results, researchers Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Mitchell, and Willingham (2013) culled through hundreds of studies to provide a “curated” analysis of the 10 most effective learning techniques commonly used by students. Rohrer, D., & Taylor, K.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The company reported revenue of 14 billion rupees (about USD$196.89 In 2007, he started using the name “Byju’s CAT Classes”—a reference to the Management Institutes’ entrance exam—for his services, according to Indian trademark documents. So far, Byju’s performance appears to live up to the hype. million) this fiscal year.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 24, 2011

Microsoft announced the deployment of Office Web Apps as a competitor to Google Apps. Google launched the alpha test of its Chrome OS netbook which lives in the cloud. Both Apple and Android report strong sales/downloads of applications to mobile devices. Cloud computing is here to stay. Everyone seems to be jumping on board.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Gentz reports that there has been confusion about deadlines, many of which are federal but some of which are state imposed. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.

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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.” Looking Forward. Connect with Regina at on Twitter @reginaschaffer.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Since 2007 Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) , has been creating the most wonderful lists of tools based on international survey input from educators, experts, instructional designers, consultants, developers and vendors. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

When Michael Sorrell took over as president of Paul Quinn College in 2007, the place was nearly broke and faced a possible loss of accreditation. Just Google it. Literally, she Googled, “What grows in Dallas?” Some of this is the US News and World Report rankings, right? I said, "We're about to have a farm."

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

In the second, the work is all graded automatically and you have some reporting view of where the class is succeeding and where they’re struggling. You can argue that it might have made a difference in 2007, but it won’t in 2017.).if I (and my teammates at Lumen) have heard over and over and. They don’t.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the second, the work is all graded automatically and you have some reporting view of where the class is succeeding and where they’re struggling. You can argue that it might have made a difference in 2007, but it won’t in 2017.). They don’t.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is a throwback post, first published in March 2014 (and referring to yet another post all the way back in 2007). First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007. Back in 2007, I was just using Geometers Sketchpad and Derive (anybody remember Derive?), Mostly this is because of two things.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. So here is the consensus from the past twelve years of the Horizon Report for higher education. The quotation is from 2012. How do you do that?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

But those relentless higher-than-inflation tuition hikes came to a halt in the fall, when the College Board reports that tuition rose at less than the Consumer Price Index. Credit: John O'Boyle for The Hechinger Report. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. That sudden restraint was not entirely a choice.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2017

The National Center for Education Statistics reported that the average public school teacher in 1991 spent 46.3 The Apple App Store wasn’t invented until 2008, the iPhone in 2007, Google Maps in 2005, Facebook in 2004—before 1999, most laptops didn’t even have wifi. hours working.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The top cybersecurity threats to schools outlined in the CoSN Cybersecurity Report are Phishing, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), Data Breach, Ransomware, and IoT (Internet of Things) Attacks. In 2007, he was the first educational leader to bring Google for Education into a K-12 school setting. The Threats.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

public schools over six years (2007/08 to 2012/13). This is an interactive Google Fusion map, created by Jill Barshay and Sarah Butrymowicz of The Hechinger Report.). The post OPINION: Three ways to help students who switch schools midyear appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2015

Thanks to its over fifty million users, Waze gives you real-time crowd sourced reports about which highway is jammed, the location of accidents, where to find the cheapest gas, and when your friends are arriving at the same destination as you. You can even send an ‘I’m on my way!’ Insider tips. I’m glad I did.

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Hack Education

JULY 2, 2016

VR appeared in some of the earliest Horizon Reports for example, with the 2007 report positing that virtual worlds would be adopted by higher ed institutions within two to three years’ time; funnily enough, the 2016 report offers the same outlook: we’re still two to three years out from widespread adoption of VR.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2021

The 2020 Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis report said 88% of teachers indicated that students spent less time learning science remotely than in a face-to-face situation; only 38% had been involved in experiments and investigations while learning remotely.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education over the past decade, and more recently, a new flashpoint in the culture wars.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Via The Huffington Post : “ White House Quietly Removes Sexual Assault Report From Website.” ” “ Boston University and Wheelock College enter talks to combine the institutions,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” New America has received more than $21 million from Google. Go, School Sports Team!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

They noted the menu of research reports, graphics and videos, and the “About” page describing the site as a project of a “nonprofit research organization” called the Employment Policies Institute. By and large, according to a report the group published last month, the answer in each case is no. Will they seek corroboration?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. “ Iowa State University seeks 7 percent annual tuition hike for each of next 5 years,” The Des Moines Register reports. ” The Google Memo. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Holy s**t.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

” It’s been over a decade since comedian Stephen Colbert introduced the word “ truthiness ” on The Colbert Report – his attempt to describe political arguments, particularly those made by conservatives, that need no facts or evidence because they “just feel right.” So who do you believe? “Soon.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” Michael Teitelbaum, a scholar on the history of STEM, said in 2014 to an audience of education reporters that the post-war U.S. The rate nationally: 16%.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. 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. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

The Department of Education’s Chief Privacy Officer Kathleen Styles has been “reassigned,” Education Week reports. ” The Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump Administration might limit the number of visas available to Chinese students. Perhaps this should go in the “reports” section.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. Also via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans.” ” “ Jerry Falwell Jr. Jerry Falwell Jr.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

.” DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince , is the founder of the private military company Blackwater , infamous for its human rights violations, including the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 by its employees. ” The New York Times also reports that the Trump Foundation will not pay the $25 million settlement for Trump. (It

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

. “Members of Congress are in an unusual position as they demand an explanation for Mylan NV's 400 percent price hike for the EpiPen and focus attention squarely on its CEO: Heather Bresch,” Bloomberg reports. “Coding Startup Treehouse Trims Staff to ‘Cross the Chasm to Profitability’,” Edsurge reports.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

” The photo was taken as part of a 2007 profile in Fortune magazine. AltSchool founder Max Ventilla was a Google exec. Yet it’s complicated by the paucity of independent reporting on education technology – that is, from sites not partially or wholly funded by tech investors or tech philanthropists.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

EdSurge connected with O'Neil to hear how her behind-the-scenes view of the 2008 financial crisis led her to try to push for tools that can audit Facebook, Google, and other algorithm-fueled systems now asserting themselves in human affairs. The US News and World Report college ranking algorithm is really old and really horrible.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Google)’s biotech company, Calico. this year, according to the annual Grapevine Report – 39 states reported an increase and 9 reported a decrease in funding. According to a report from the Wisconsin HOPE Lab , Three in four undergraduates defy traditional stereotypes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I’ve also done online office hours in a live format, where students, alumni, or random visitors basically used AOL Instant Messenger or Google Talk to ask questions. Discover how Course Hero can help inspire your course design. We use a free online service called Ustream to make it possible for students everywhere to watch.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. When questioned by reporters from The New York Times and elsewhere, Trump has repeated his accusation that these journalists constitute “fake news.” ” Their reporting should not be trusted.

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