The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2020

Our first Library 2.020 mini-conference of the year is next week: "Wholehearted Libraries," online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 10th , from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Not only do libraries need high tech, they also need staff who approach their work with a wholehearted attitude.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Vescio, Ross, and Adams, 2008 ; The Wallace Foundation, 2012): A vision of academic success for all students based on high expectations.

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

BetterLesson launched in 2008 with a mission to provide a simple way for educators to connect and share high-quality lesson plans. Since then, the organization has grown into a professional development leader with a team that possesses extensive educational experience and a deep-seated commitment to equity in education.

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Technology Education Professional Learning Exercises 54

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Embedding new words into classroom conversations and assignments pegged to topics teens care about. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The curriculum then provides opportunities for students to use the new words in classroom discussion, debate, and writing.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

For Devlin Daley’s next act, he’s employed a strategy that worked for his previous education business: visit college campuses to see what technologies made students’ and instructors’ lives harder. That inspired him to start Instructure in 2008, best known for its Canvas LMS. (He They can also upload open educational resource materials.)

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LMS EdTech Software Pearson 114

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Yon used to hold silent reading time in her classroom; students could read whatever they wanted for 20 minutes. ” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Embedding new words into classroom conversations and assignments pegged to topics teens care about. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The curriculum then provides opportunities for students to use the new words in classroom discussion, debate, and writing.

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Comparison Assessment Study Analysis 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post It wasn’t the Department of Education that made the loan, or the Treasury or Interior departments, or any of the many government departments that support academic research. The decline of rural higher education is also widening one of America’s biggest equity challenges.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

A new survey from the Games and Learning Publishing Council sheds light on just how commonplace games have become in today’s classrooms. So what can librarians and educator innovators take away from this data? Whether we’re in school libraries or programming for teens at public libraries, where does gaming fit into library services?

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Classroom Libraries Survey Laptops 33

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

John Unsworth , dean of libraries and professor of English at the University of Virginia, who led the panel, put the total in perspective. The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use.

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Libraries OER Case Study Robotics 130

EdTechTeacher

JUNE 12, 2018

While completing my undergraduate degree in history education, I recall having to submit a written reflection after completing every lesson. Fast forward to my time as a classroom teacher and I came to realize that reflection served an invaluable purpose. 2) Flipgrid. 4) Shadow Puppet Edu. References. L., & Kallick, B.

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iPad Video Adobe Libraries 72

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Common Sense Education created this essential guide to help your district or school address the key topics E-rate recipients need to teach students, including internet safety, appropriate online behavior, and cyberbullying. What are the educational requirements for compliance? E-rate is complicated. What if I get audited?

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E-rate Digital Citizenship Broadband Internet Safety 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Educators and researchers say students pay the price. Young adolescents go through profound physical, emotional and physiological changes; play inside and outside the classroom can provide one way for kids to develop healthy bonds with friends and become more self-confident. Fairfax County educators had to come up with new solutions.

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Elementary Policies STEM Exercises 138

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

The child care resource library in this small town is housed in what residents call “the purple awning building.” Teachers of 3- and 4-year-olds at the preschool go to the resource and referral center “just about every two weeks” to check out new toys or games for their classrooms, Staten added. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2019

McChester in the classroom; Credit: Sharon Lurye At first glance, it is just a cute interaction between an engaged teacher and an energetic toddler. Not only are these quality rating systems hard for educators to understand, the research is mixed on whether the highest-rated centers actually have a positive effect on child development.

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Tools Udemy System Training 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

school district was the toast of the ed tech community — acclaimed as a shining example of how laptop computers could improve education. Test scores did go up a lot in Mooresville after 2008, when it started handing out laptops. Some used educational software; others used online discussion groups and email.

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Laptops Survey Analysis Study 84

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 2, 2019

As often as not, those blogs live outside of the school library world. Since 2013, Jennifer Gonzales has been regularly blowing my mind with her thoughtful blend of effective classroom strategies and what’s new on the horizon that you can use in your classroom or library tomorrow. by Jennifer Gonzales.

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eBook Libraries EdTech Blended Learning 64

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

As I eventually wrote in Open educational resources: Undertheorized research and untapped potential : Many of the articles reviewed in Hilton (2016), including some articles on which I was an author, are woefully undertheorized. The original OLI-Statistics course comes to mind here, as reported by Lovett ( 2008 ).

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MindShift

APRIL 8, 2020

When her middle school opened for a few minutes the next day, the seventh grade English teacher and creator of the Global Read-Aloud grabbed all the books she could from her classroom library, before the school closed for the foreseeable future. . I thought that this might be it for the rest of the school year.” .

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Handbook Libraries Facebook Video 66

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

Monsignor Tighe calls his educational profile and path “one of the most disjointed you will ever find.” He developed his personal theory of communication in the classroom, and it served him well when he was called to the Vatican to work specifically on the burgeoning field of digital communication. I was lucky.

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Social Media Secondary Learning Libraries 98

Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

I don't work in a school or a library. I don't maintain the learning management system or the library management software. What does one say to anyone who works in education — at any institution anywhere. I am fascinated, as the subtitle of my website probably indicates, by "the history of the future of education."

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Khan Academy Course Conference Technology 126

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2018

That year, the overall graduation rate for first-time, full-time students at Texarkana College was 12 percent, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. The graduation rate for first-time, full-time students at Texarkana College went from 9 to 31 percent from 2008 to 2016. There were physical changes, too.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

8, 2018 – CDI Computer Dealers announced today it has partnered with littleBits to offer STEAM Coding Starter Kits for classrooms, makerspaces and libraries. A Code Kit , which introduces coding to the classroom through creating and playing games. o Educator resources. Chicago IL – Feb. o 16 Bits and 30 accessories.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And a slightly higher percentage of nonwhite teachers than white ones—45 percent vs. 42 percent—said that they were considering leaving their position last school year, researchers at the University of Arkansas’ College of Education & Health Professions found.

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The 21st Century Principal

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In addition, I use it for quick notes during a classroom visit, or meeting notes. I''ve had a Twitter account since 2008. Another way I use Twitter is through my personal-professional Twitter account to share resources with my larger PLN and to engage in the international conversation about education. Evernote is the other.

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Tools Edmodo Handbook Android 81

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. In higher education, colleges are using analytics to keep students enrolled and continue collecting tuition dollars.

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Data Dropout Company Report 109

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

Steve Steve Hargadon LearningRevolution.com | Library 2.0 | Classroom 2.0 | GlobalEducationConference.org More about this week's guests: Lian Chikako Chang: " I'm a data storyteller. Tasha Ring is a licensed early childhood and elementary educator specializing in multisensory-based methodologies. See you "online!"

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Trends Handbook Kaplan Company 36

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

What this whole crisis has done to higher education is just exposed the cracks that have been there for over a decade of financial mismanagement.” American higher education is composed of thousands of colleges and universities, with different track records and results. It’s the previous budgets that weren’t done correctly.”.

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EdTechSandyK

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

I think giving a shout-out to these people/resources benefits the entire online educational community by highlighting great resources others may not know about and giving those of us less experienced in blogging and PLN building examples to learn from. It blends the educational side of technology with the technical side.

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iPad Twitter Libraries EdTech 67

Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. Though the flipped class model proved to be an effective strategy in which we saw increases in student achievement and engagement, we only did the traditional flipped classroom for one year. These five points resonate with me.

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Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Learning Assessment 40

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. Spearheaded by The Alliance for Excellent Education , the event provided teachers with resources like lesson plans and toolkits. It also brought influential education leaders together at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.,

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 28

MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

He wrote about the subject in a 2008 article for The Atlantic titled “ Is Google Making Us Stupid.” A 2008 study commissioned by the British Library found that young people go through information online very quickly without evaluating it for accuracy.

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Google Learning Study Company 28

Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

I’m very pleased to share my New York Times Learning Network blog post with the Educator Innovator blog. Many outstanding teachers guide student civic action in their classrooms, and some have been at it for a long time. Next, have students brainstorm other resources they might use to augment what a web or library search offers.

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Advocacy Examples Survey Groups 69

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

1-4, 25-26) While children who visit the library to immerse in their favorite books may not realize it at the time, they’re building the skill of thoughtful reading—the foundation of critical thinking, academic success, and, eventually, a happy and productive adult life. (1, Educated mothers are 50% more likely to immunize their children.

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Outcomes Libraries Accessibility Trends 227

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Join us as we talk about features in the Blackboard Collaborate online classroom. If you do, then the Mini-Geek Fest is here for you!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. Related: “Education costs money,” says state superintendent in Mississippi.

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Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 59