Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

After all, textbooks are a must in classrooms. Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

That seed later grew into the News Literacy Project (NLP), an independent nonprofit Miller founded in 2008 to help students and teachers discern between fact and fiction in the digital age. The course is taught and led by real journalists, who, through short video clips, walk students through each lesson. (A It was the seed of an idea.”

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

In 2008, Heidi Williams, author of the book “No Fear Coding,” began asking herself some retrospective questions about her role as a teacher at an International Baccalaureate School in Racine, Wisc. She notes that many who attend have no intention to teach in classrooms. “No It is like having a housing secretary who lived in a house.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The first thing students do when they enter my classroom makes a big difference. Remember they should also use it when they leave the classroom. Clean Your Classroom. As I researched my suspicions, I found that an outbreak of the flu at an elementary school in 2008 was blamed on “infected computer equipment.”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2021

The 7 Mindsets portal currently includes a wealth of resources and tools to help build the social emotional health of educators and students, and support equity in schools and classrooms. Seven new JEDI in Action lessons will also be added to each course. A new course for prekindergarten students will be added as well.

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techieMusings

JULY 19, 2020

I want to share my experiences and the resources I’ve built over the years, as both a flipped classroom and purely online AP Calculus AB teacher. I have been teaching AP Calculus AB since 2008. You are welcome to use any of the content I share here in your classroom. I have also flipped my Honors Algebra 2 class.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Episode 793 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Differentiate Math Instruction in the Elementary Classroom Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson. So Each May Soar: The Principles & Practices of Learner-Centered Classrooms (2021) Everybody’s Classroom: Differentiating for the Shared and Unique Needs of Diverse Learners (2022) eSpark.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. Video, of course, enables other innovations. The flipped classroom movement seems to, in pockets, be threatening the college lecture. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. We shall see. An example?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. She cited A.P. Calculus and Latin as examples.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

While being an entrepreneur may not be everyone’s destiny, the skills required to succeed as an entrepreneur are useful for almost any student, regardless of what career or course of study they choose. Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They would work with students on their educational goals, whether that was working through the HiSET prep workbook or completing worksheets for a course. A 2008 state audit found that parents were pleased with how much they learned with these home visits. In 2008, SPICE was already using technology in innovative ways.

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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. That suggests that more than half of the teachers polled use technology frequently in the classroom.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Technology advancements promised to make a great impact to initiate change in the classroom, but now we are faced with a newer set of obstacles. So how are we supporting change? The environment.

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Neo LMS

JULY 6, 2017

Unless you already do, of course. Koehler, who co-authored a paper in 2006 and another one in 2008 , referring to the above core idea with these exact words. This is one reason they are reluctant to using technology in the classroom. Seriously, you can’t. Try as you might, you’ll sooner or later need to consider it.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Without conceptualizing an explanatory mechanism—a reason to believe a difference might exist—they simply compare the outcomes of students whose required course materials are openly licensed with those whose materials are traditionally copyrighted. Grimaldi et al. To be clear – I don’t believe Grimaldi et al.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

That inspired him to start Instructure in 2008, best known for its Canvas LMS. (He Math classrooms are continuously evolving to help today’s students succeed,” Overland said. He left in 2013, a couple years before the company went public.)

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2019

According to Angela Duckworth, of all the factors that we can measure in a classroom, effort has the strongest link to achievement. Ballentine Books, 2008.) Of course, in the real world, using this analogy, they would be earning shares or stock options of the company where they are employed. This post is sponsored by E4Effort.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Sink or swim. million students. All you need is your imagination.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

My critical lenses shaped my classroom practice and eventually led to my participation in a district effort to conceptualize, develop and implement ethnic studies for our school district. Designing an ethnic studies course was personal for us. A Brief Overview Designing an ethnic studies course was personal for us.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

After weighing the life of a laboratory researcher and the life of a physics educator, Shawn enjoyed the interactive classroom setting much better. Deciding to stay in the classroom meant furthering his education for certification. In 2008, there weren’t too many options for a digital platform to ask students to interact outside class.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

In a new study, a team of economists scrutinized all the “strikes” and “balls” shouted and signaled by Major League Baseball (MLB) umpires from 2008 to 2018. A 2016 study of Danish students found that students who take tests later in the day performed worse “because over the course of a regular day, students’ mental resources get taxed.”

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

Data source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2008-2018. According to a Gallup survey, one-half of K-12 principals say that computer science is taught at their school, but upon evaluation of the courses, only one-half of those courses include programming and coding.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2018

Ann also talks about the fifth-grade course piloted by Seton Hall in two of her schools. We were just talking about how we’re pretty sure we met just about ten years ago to the day that we are recording this, in Princeton way back in 2008. She was in the classroom for many, many years. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Of course, the lack of mental health support in schools predates the pandemic, but because of the obvious mental health toll the pandemic caused on students, coupled with the influx of federal dollars into school districts , the chorus grew louder.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

These grade-by-grade projections start to show a drop in first-grade children beginning in 2014, six years after the 2008 recession, when Americans started making fewer babies. Grades eight through 12 are larger cohorts who were born before 2008. Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Technology advancements promised to make a great impact to initiate change in the classroom, but now we are faced with a newer set of obstacles. Happy holidays, and thank you for tuning into our 2019 countdown!].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In this discussion of the benefits of Sustained Silent Reading, it’s apparent that encouraging his students’ love of reading was an effort to extend his curious nature to them—an effort that, after almost four decades in the classroom, clearly paid off. “I failed retirement,” chuckles Steve Gardiner during a recent conversation. That was it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Picture a classroom full of students excited to learn about money. Welcome to the world of free financial literacy courses! These financial literacy courses from EVERFI are a must-have for any middle or high school. Check out their course list.

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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

MAY 26, 2021

Some experts estimate that 85 percent of children became less creative between 1990 and 2008. This requires many concurrent interventions : leadership buy-in; trauma-sensitive classroom practices; positive responses to challenging behaviors; restorative justice practices; policy changes (e.g., There has been some progress.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Example: Before initiating a conversation about race, discuss and agree on classroom rules such as not interrupting others, using respectful language, and keeping shared information confidential. Example: Have regular classroom meetings to discuss current events related to race, diversity, and inclusion.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

Of course, nutrition has an impact on K-12 students as well, from their academic performance to their behavior in the classroom. By providing healthy lunches, schools can help their students perform better in the classroom and improve their overall health. Government Accountability Office report. The State of School Lunches.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

She — and I recognize that teachers aren't always female, but the profession is certainly feminized — is alone in a classroom of other people's children, after all. Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. The company was founded in 2008 and went public in 2015 (at $18 a share), and plans to continue to operate with its same management team after the acquisition.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge learners to engage in Approaches to Learning. This is another concept we may come across now and then without clear instructions about how to make it work in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. Surely a lot has changed!

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