Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

These principles of Universal Design have transitioned into the educational sphere through various models, such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL; Rose & Meyer, 2000), Universal Design for Instruction (UDI; Scott et al., 2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., To start with, Courey et al. As Evans et al.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

students attend blended classes on campus and take online courses from home, and district educators say a personalized learning solution has had a positive impact in a number of academic areas. Since the school opened, more than 500 PGA students have used Fuel Education curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In today’s post, I am introducing you to blended learning, a concept that is now common parlance within the ‘education speak’ In crafting this comprehensive piece on blended learning, I delved deep into academic literature, drawing on peer-reviewed research papers to create an authoritative and informative post.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 18, 2015

The Challenge Of Personalizing Learning In Real-Time. The conversation on the need to use student achievement data in education is fast-tracking its importance in today’s classrooms. Learning how to find answers – productive struggle – becomes equally important as giving the right answer.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

If you’ve been in the educational field long enough, you’ve probably come across Fleming’s learning styles theory. For over forty years, researchers have sought to classify how different students learn and what teachers can do to support them. What Are the Four Learning Styles? What about your students?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The effort, aptly named the “Unified Classroom” product suite, aims to connect assessment, enrollment, gradebook, professional learning and special education data services to its flagship student information system, which already houses a variety of data including attendance, discipline, health, roster and schedules.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 29, 2017

The Current at Educator Innovator, our redesigned open publishing platform, is now live and ready for your contributions ! The Current gives educators a space to create and share resources and reflections about their practice and experience with Connected Learning and teaching. and Catherine T.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. This is a view of personalized learning that is strikingly similar to the approach Netflix has popularized with movies.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

I want to talk to you today about the history of educational crises and education technology. That means, for one thing, you end up with a Secretary of Education or with a prominent investor/philanthropist or governor or pundit claiming that schools haven't changed in hundreds of years. I was a guest at Desmos today.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Richard Riley, Secretary of Education under Clinton, quoted in Trilling & Fadel, 2009, p. fact, this was the case even before the pandemic but those technophobes of us in education did not want to acknowledge it until they were forced to fully embrace it head-on. using technologies that haven’t yet been invented.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug Green challenges our thinking about school, how we should teach, and the flaws with the testing programs we have in education today. I’ll be speaking with other amazing educators like Suzy Boss, Janet Zadina, Jay McTighe, Dr. Brendan Ozawa de Silva, Scott Sanchez, Dr. Ayanna M Howard and more. She has a blog on Education Week.

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My Island View

JANUARY 29, 2020

The discussion around technology in education often revolves around wha t technology can or can’t do in regard to affecting kids’ learning. Technology’s effect on education is difficult to assess, because it is not just the technology that affects the learning. I find them in education Chats.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Prior to the pandemic, virtual schools were relatively scarce: 691 fully virtual programs enrolled nearly 294,000 students, accounting for less than 1 percent of national public school enrollment, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That mirrors what’s happening in other districts.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 12, 2010

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In mission statements across the country, references to personalized learning abound, hanging proudly from schoolhouse walls. I have a suspicion that these simple words—“every” and “all”—are often overlooked by the hundreds of people who make up an educational organization. O’Neill school desegregation settlement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2014

In this second installment, software engineer Ben Slivka finally ships his educational software but finds his real customer base isn’t what he expected. February 2009: Bellevue, Washington. And so, for the same reason Microsoft delayed shifting to the web, the textbook publishers delayed going into online education.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

So it may have been fate that she landed a job in the low-income, heavily immigrant California Central Valley community of Lindsay in 2009. EdSurge: What motivates you as an educator? Also, the analytics you get from the assessments kids take for placement are really comprehensive. I think of Reading Plus as a vitamin.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2017

Students from underserved populations do not have the same opportunities for a strong education as their more-affluent peers. This is the harsh reality that data from Stanford’s sweeping 2009-2013 study bears out. Related: New advances in measuring social-emotional learning. But is it enough? Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

First, many educational markets are shaped by public policy. Second, K-12 education in the United States is primarily a local affair—with states and districts shouldering most of the costs and driving many key policy decisions. But just as batters can master the curve, so too can education entrepreneurs. K-12 landscape.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

In order to address education equity, administrators must first recognize the common barriers. A holistic approach to child development, education, and differentiated support – This is a chance to make classrooms developmentally conducive to learning. without really looking for the root cause of the issues. Noguera, Ph.D.,

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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.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Imported from Alaska.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Under a set of new standards adopted by the Vermont State Board of Education in 2014 , the class of 2020 will be eligible for graduation when they’ve demonstrated “evidence of proficiency” in the curriculum. said State Board of Education Chair Krista Huling. “I Moving in this direction is really a paradigm shift.”.

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The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In my heart, I truly feel it is the best type of professional development for educators… or anyone for that matter. This is the reason when school districts contact us at Eduro Learning to help teachers understand the changing nature of teaching and learning in a connected classroom, the first thing we tell them is: It takes time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Subscribe today!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

What tools and methods will be discussed on “What makes online learning effective and engaging to the student? MBA, CFD has 11 years of experience in higher education as a professor of Mathematics. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!) , but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too! The Charter was launched in November 2009.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

Eric Sheninger, Senior Fellow and Thought Leader on Digital Leadership with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) and Scholastic Achievement Partners (SAP) , kicked off the 2015 Leading Future Learning conference with his keynote on Digital Leadership. In education, teachers and administrators control everything.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 7, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Connecting 2 the World Connecting ideas, cultures, and disciplines Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Learning Theories: In support of Connectivism I was first introduced to the idea of Connectivism through an online conference hosted by George Sieman s group at the University of Manitoba.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

What tools and methods will be discussed on “What makes online learning effective and engaging to the student? MBA, CFD has 11 years of experience in higher education as a professor of Mathematics. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

When Ann Civitareale’s father passed away in 2009, she little fathomed that she would spend thousands of her inheritance on medical and educational testing for her two sons. Cassandra Archie, Advocates for Educational Equity & Excellence. Related: Sent home early: Lost learning in special education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

percent in 2009 to 87.9 Barile’s class is a prime example of how Revere High School uses “student-centered learning” to reach a highly diverse student body. Students learn at different paces and via different teaching styles, the thinking goes. percent in 2009 to 87.9 percent in 2017. percent in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. By 5W Infographics with Peter D’Amato.

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