The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

Today Liz Kolb @lkolb talks about how we can put learning first and a very important reason technology should be second. In today’s show, Liz Kolb talks about the role of learning and technology: What is the role of technology in learning. When technology is a distraction. Book: Learning First, Technology Second.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As we know, white women dominate K-12 teaching, particularly elementary,” says Maureen Kelleher, editorial director at Georgetown University’s FutureEd. In fact, many experts say a major cause was the 2008 financial crisis. “It It turns out the dip in interest in teacher prep programs started even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Manyak (2008) rounds off by stressing that phonemic awareness is key to understanding the alphabetic principle and, consequently, the acquisition of early phonics skills (p. Word-Reading Strategies in Elementary School Children: Relations to Comprehension, Reading Time, and Phonemic Awareness. 393, cited in Freebody & Byrne, 1988).

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2018

In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999. In 2008, he was named by Contribute Magazine as one of 10 Tech Revolutionaries Redefining the Power and Face of Philanthropy. Website: [link]. The post Whose Land?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

While we’ve seen tremendous support from kindergarten and elementary teachers in the past five years who individually purchased Osmo to use inside classrooms across the country, we’d love to build sales and begin support for the education community at the district level.”. Glovin has a B.A. from Hobart College. About Osmo from BYJU’S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Pandemic school closures and remote instruction made learning to read much harder, especially for young, low-income students who didn’t have adequate technology at home or an adult who could assist them during the day. Her Dallas elementary school extended its school year in an effort to help students make up for lost time.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Use Media and Technology Thoughtfully In the age of technology, media can be a powerful tool in educating students about diversity and inclusion. We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. Complicated Conversations: Exploring Race and Ideology in an Elementary Classroom. link] Sosa, T.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

Secondary teacher positions are harder to fill than elementary ones; as are science and math openings. Just as it did during the 2008 recession, the government should extend the Pell Grant program by temporarily extending it to cover non-degree programs—something that’s currently under discussion. Mark Warner (D-Va.),

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In her latest book, Where Teachers Thrive , Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Susan Moore Johnson describes 14 schools studied between 2008 and 2015. Or consider having teachers specialize in one or two subjects in upper elementary grades so that they can concentrate their time and efforts on doing well what they know best.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2008, the Holly Square Shopping Center in northeast Denver was firebombed with molotov cocktails in gang-related arson. In 2015, we opened the doors of Roots Elementary to 100 kindergarteners and first graders in the neighborhood. Roots Elementary. Five Most Critical Changes We Made. Teacher Roles.

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Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

And, of course, the educational technology community has now begun to focus on this. I did not take into account my future role as a parent nor did I take into account the possibility of ever being on the board for an elementary school or becoming so fully enamored with elementary education. I began reading Ed.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. The future of tech in schools isn’t suburban or urban. It’s rural.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. It’s not just about adopting the technology,” Arnett said.

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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. Thanks to video technology called PITCHf/x , the economists determined the accuracy of the umpires’ calls.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2008, there weren’t too many options for a digital platform to ask students to interact outside class. Because these are universal truths Classcraft can work in upper elementary, middle, and high school. At a time when many teachers have been drowned in technology, Kasey asks why use an app to manage face-to-face relationships.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

Organized by SETDA, the State Education Technology Directors Association, the edWebinar included a 2 nd grade teacher who had previously taught online only during inclement weather and never expected to be teaching remotely for an extended period. Olivia Miller is a 2nd grade teacher at South Ripley Elementary School in Versailles, IN.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. Sweat the school culture Culture matters more than technology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

When the pandemic struck, districts around the country, especially those in low-income areas, were still recovering from economic losses sustained during the 2008 recession, when nearly 300,000 teachers and other school staff were laid off. This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

And you know, I’m kind of technology agnostic in some ways. I like technology. I was a science educator, so I’m pretty comfortable and confident using technologies of all kinds, although the kids have really surpassed me when we start to get some of the newer tools that their using, particularly as part of their Maker Work.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

was often the best choice given the resources and technologies of that time in history. This essentialist, instructivist, pedagogical teaching model is still the most predominant model in current Kindergarten through College public education, even in these modern times of unbiquitous information and technology. Education 1.0:

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

The former Kaplan executive, who served as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, oversaw 67 acquisitions that turned the test-prep business into a global education services provider. Over the past three years, private equity groups have upped their stake in education technology companies. Yet that’s not all.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Want to hear another episode on technology tools? Jon was the co-designer of Minarets High School , which originated as a GAFE, 1:1 Macbook and PBL based high school in 2008 and has been named an Apple Distinguished School three times. And this is the beauty of technology. Making it easier to teach vocabulary.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 26, 2019

It can be argued that language was the first human technology, a means developed by our ancestors to communicate within communities (Wheeler, 2015). When there is substantial geographical distance between two interlocutors, technology must be used to mediate the interactions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2018

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. Now she is working as Director of K-12 Instructional Technology for the 93 schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, and really working with their digital citizenship initiative.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

This week’s podcast sponsor is Emporia State University’s online Elementary Education program: designed for career changers interested in becoming elementary teachers. But just like after the 2008 financial crisis, I'm sure that University of Chicago will recover, and students who have had to take on debt will not.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 5, 2017

This conversation is so much fun and will give PE teachers and coaches lots of ideas for using technology to improve sports performance and get fit. I travel the world helping #physed teachers use technology more meaningfully in their classes. geek is helping us learn five simple ways to improve physical education with technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

Some experts estimate that 85 percent of children became less creative between 1990 and 2008. Some examples of impactful social-emotional programs include: Roots of Empathy , which is taught in early childhood and elementary schools, where a baby and his/her parent or caregiver join a classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Rob Brown, Elementary School Principal Southside Christian School, South Carolina In brief, I realized this important fact: A teacher’s smile is a teacher’s game face.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 14, 2019

Currently, Dr. Rob serves as Principal at South Park Elementary Center outside of Pittsburgh, PA, and has truly become a sought-after leader in topics surrounding the field of education today. Dr. Rob is the author of several books including Reading, Technology, and Digital Literacy and the ISTE bestselling title Are You Future Ready.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

I've researched, written, designed, produced, and pitched data stories in higher education, at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture , and at a financial technology company called Earnest. Completing a doctorate in Instructional Technology, she went on to earn a Superintendent’s Letter of Eligibility in Pennsylvania.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

“She goes to school, feels uncertain about who she is, tryin’ to hide behind the curtain so she lashes out, out of fear of bein’ known, inside and out.” These raw lines open the music video “ Jagged ,” written, directed and starred in by elementary school students. The bias didn’t end when I graduated.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

While Wiggins’ suggestions on reading comprehension improvements are tenuous and unlikely to result in much progress, researchers Verhoeven and Leeuwe (2008) have generated more concrete techniques that can be employed in the classroom. 2008): 407-23. vocabulary. .” ” Sources: Verhoeven, Ludo, and Jan Van Leeuwe.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Preschool students at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado play at the water table during choice time. Since 2008, Utah has given its families an alternative to preschool called Upstart. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. In education, there are always a host of programs and policies clamoring for funding.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he founded Provost Systems an online learning platform acquired by Edison Learning in 2008. What have I done wrong?”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The eighth grader can also remember each of the kids she began school with back at Boudreaux Canal Elementary School. The elementary she went to next, Upper Little Caillou, had replaced another nearby school that had shuttered for the same reasons a few years earlier. I do see an effect.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56 billion on elementary and secondary education.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The E-rate program was put into place to ensure that education institutions have access to the technological resources necessary to keep students and teachers connected. Through E-rate, your school or library can receive support to purchase communication services and other technological products. What if I get audited?

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