The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Suppose you've wondered how to bring meaningful change to your school or classroom. In that case, this episode offers actionable insights into teacher leadership, classroom experimentation, and the power of doing less to achieve more. We dive deep into teachers' crucial role in driving innovation and improvement in education.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The National Reading Panel conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis involving 52 peer-reviewed studies that examined the efficacy of phonemic awareness (PA) instruction (Ehri et al. Notably, classroom teachers were found to be quite effective in delivering this instruction. Let’s break it down. In summary, Ehri et al.’s

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Could we be missing an opportunity where emphasizing social emotional learning in the classroom could actually benefit students even more than pre-pandemic research suggests? So, what have researchers discovered about social emotional learning in the classroom? SEL in the Classroom Improves Academic Performance.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 24, 2023

She is an experienced classroom teacher, curriculum designer, presenter, and technology coach. She has taught in a 1:1 classroom since 2008 where her students used MacBooks, iPads, and Chromebooks to collaboratively and creatively demonstrate their learning. Catherine Atkinson is an instructor with EdTechTeacher.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2021

As David Laws points out in the foreword to “ What Does This Look Like in the Classroom ,” “.too Back in 2008, Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa published his dissertation, The Scientifically Substantiated Art of Teaching , after recognizing that concepts from “brain-based learning” were being applied indiscreetly to classroom teaching practices.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

How Digital Natives Process Information in the Classroom. Studies show that’s hard on our cognitive load, so people who multitask consistently end up taking longer to shift their attention and having a harder time filtering out irrelevant information,” she writes.[5]. Using Technology in the Classroom to Teach Digital Natives.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

If you are as old as I am then you will remember the thrill of watching your teacher wheel the TV trolley into the classroom. How can teachers use VR in the classroom. The cardboard goggles when combined with an Android phone, preloaded with any of Google’s Cardboard apps, are a simple way to bring classroom lessons to life.

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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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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

ChatGPT to Your Classroom-your-classroom/ ). ” For me, the best way to find out about the functionality and effectiveness of any potential classroom-based educational technology is to have students test it out for themselves, so that is what I did with my 4th-6th graders. Do you have any suggestions?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores. A study on teaching critical thinking in science.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Embedding new words into classroom conversations and assignments pegged to topics teens care about. The curriculum then provides opportunities for students to use the new words in classroom discussion, debate, and writing. The social studies teacher organizes a debate about the dilemma, using one of several possible formats.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The first thing students do when they enter my classroom makes a big difference. A 2002 study found that telephones, desks, water fountain handles, microwave door handles, and computer keyboards are the most bacteria-laden culprits in our workplaces today. Remember they should also use it when they leave the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

The program is aimed at helping students feel connected to each other and their community in a place where — as in so many rural areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic and the 2008 recession — connectedness and a shared sense of purpose have been in short supply. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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. “I could see it resonated with them,” he says. “It It was the seed of an idea.” The journalists were one part of that.

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You may not know which children in a classroom have experienced trauma, but the way your school reacts to and supports these students can have lasting consequences. One study found, for example, that between 56% and 87% of students had witnessed someone being physically assaulted at school over the past year.[9] Loss of a loved one.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

2004; Vescio, Ross, and Adams, 2008 ; The Wallace Foundation, 2012): A vision of academic success for all students based on high expectations. 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). 2008): Successful Collaboration. 2008): Successful Collaboration. Lesson study. Mentoring programs.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Could we be missing an opportunity where emphasizing social emotional learning in the classroom could actually benefit students even more than pre-pandemic research suggests? So, what have researchers discovered about social emotional learning in the classroom? SEL in the Classroom Improves Academic Performance.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How can I find success in the classroom? The classroom is a space where teachers know that “one-size-fits-none” and where they need support from leaders and community to adapt curriculum. Remember the words of John Maxwell (2008) that we should “Never work alone.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

This call pictured above was one of more than three million umpire calls analyzed by researchers in a 2021 study finding that short breaks refresh an umpire’s attention span. 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.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Embedding new words into classroom conversations and assignments pegged to topics teens care about. The curriculum then provides opportunities for students to use the new words in classroom discussion, debate, and writing. The social studies teacher organizes a debate about the dilemma, using one of several possible formats.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A small classroom in Richton, Mississippi. But after the 2008 recession, local budget cuts forced class sizes to increase again, bumping the pupil-teacher ratio up to 16.1 “But…no studies of high quality have ever found substantial positive effects of reducing class size.” Teachers like them too.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. 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. It is fast becoming a topic of study at universities across the world.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

All this set up an interesting case for us to examine as field researchers who study conflict in organizations. We continued to observe the high school in the 2000s, returning for intensive fieldwork in 2008 after we learned the school had a new principal. The new principal recognized the importance of youth-centered teachers.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

They are essentially media comparison studies or, to be more precise, license comparison studies. It should surprise no one that media comparison studies find no significant difference in student learning. ” This is a theme in media comparison studies that has been repeated in the literature for decades.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S. ” How would the program operate?

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2016

During the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and his team pioneered the use of social media as a powerful campaign tool. It’s easy to forget, given how commonplace the use of social media is today, that back in 2008. Is it productive to encourage the use of social media and smart devices in the classroom?

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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. Impact of Nutrition on Students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Teachers shoulder the stress and try our best to ensure that true best practices are used in our classrooms, while at the same time we are often forced to sip the Kool-Aid of the highly-paid consultants du jour in lieu of designing our own professional development. Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C.

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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. Founded in 2008, 7 Mindsets is a leader in delivering social-emotional learning (SEL) solutions which include mindsets, equity and multicultural pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Smaller groups of students headed to the school’s gym, while others peeled off towards the cafeteria to play board games, get in some extra study time with their Chromebooks, or just chat with their friends. For example, the modeling clay and other crafts were used as part of a stop-motion animation project in his classroom.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

EdSurge: Curriculum Associates was founded in 1969, and you joined in 2008. Waldron: When I came in 2008, the world was in a very difficult place. Meanwhile, the old model, you would do that once in a decade based on 41 kids in the study. And so, we use technology to make that better and better. His name is Frank Ferguson.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In fact, The National Center for Education Statistics points out that after the 2008 recession , pupil-teacher ratio increased. Perhaps one of the most famous studies to come to this conclusion was the Tennessee Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) project in the 1980s. Classrooms Become More Collaborative.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

Europe is already adjusting its curriculum to include robots both as a teaching tools and as a technology for students to study, but why? Data source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2008-2018. So, how is coding included in the traditional school day?

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 15, 2017

But what role does the mind-body connection play in the math classroom? Apply this Research in your Classroom. Interested in learning more about how to apply research around embodied cognition and digital manipulatives in your classroom? This infographic presents highlights of what they found. Download the toolkit: Sources.

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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. Dunlosky et al.

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