A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 27, 2017

When it came to technology and innovation, I was great at telling others what they should be doing. After getting on Twitter in 2009 I realized that we had to be better for our kids. Basically he told me that no one was integrating technology or implementing innovative ideas because I wasn’t doing any of it myself.

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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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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 18, 2015

The Challenge Of Personalizing Learning In Real-Time. We are forging ahead with designing a new model that relies on using data for real-time progress monitoring that results in a true personalized learning environment – no more pre and post test analysis. The Challenge Of Personalizing Learning In Real-Time.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

How would you discover a student’s learning style? Measuring learning styles often involves an assessment such as this one from the Georgia Department of Education. One study conducted in Taiwan, for example, came to the conclusion that educating students on learning styles can encourage self-reflection—always a positive thing.[9]

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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. The marriage of those two requires an understanding of not just subject content, but an understanding of the technology and the students as well.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

New schools are being built every few years to keep pace with a surge in families moving to the area due to its proximity to technology and engineering firm Sandia National Laboratories and new business hubs for companies such as Intel and NTX Bio. That mirrors what’s happening in other districts.

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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. So, what can be done?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

This is a view of personalized learning that is strikingly similar to the approach Netflix has popularized with movies. Unlike movie enjoyment, which is an inherently subjective evaluation, learning is an objective outcome. And the problem is that education companies often seem to be measuring everything but learning--e.g.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In mission statements across the country, references to personalized learning abound, hanging proudly from schoolhouse walls. Getting results—for every child The impact of personalizing learning is clear. All the tools and resources at our fingertips must be looked at as tools and not an answer to personalizing learning.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Embracing Opportunities for Self-Directed Learning in Formal Learning Environments: Bernard Bull. Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. New Pathways to Knowledge and Learning: Rónán O’Beirne. I classify these technologies as worksheets on steroids.). Education 1.0

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Are any education technologies, for that matter? I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. The company has raised some $77.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2017

This is the harsh reality that data from Stanford’s sweeping 2009-2013 study bears out. As policymakers and educators struggle with how to shift this phenomenon, social-emotional learning has emerged as a solution to the challenge of achieving educational equity; they certainly comprise part of the solution to this multifaceted challenge. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2014

February 2009: Bellevue, Washington. When Ben Slivka decided to create his own interactive learning software in 2006, the online options for students, parents, and teachers were pretty bleak. “You I was trying to do individual learning, letting [Slivka''s son] and another really smart kid to do things together.”

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The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Research shows that long-term professional development has a positive effect on technology skills of educators and a deeper integration of technology. Meet the mentors and learn more about the micro-credentials in this webinar. The Coach : All of us at Eduro Learning have been in this role.

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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. " But the answers to that question are, of course, bound up in our beliefs and practices and expectations, in our assessments of what "preparedness" even means. And we surely need to ask, who proposes technology as the solution?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

She also holds two Master of Science Degrees in Higher Education minoring in Teaching and Learning and Online Technology from Kaplan University now Purdue University. He authored two regular columns for Library Journal Academic Newswire, "From the Bell Tower" and "Leading From the Library" from 2009 through 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. Subscribe today! And it opened Robins’ eyes.

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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. They want to be engaged in learning.

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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

She also holds two Master of Science Degrees in Higher Education minoring in Teaching and Learning and Online Technology from Kaplan University now Purdue University. He authored two regular columns for Library Journal Academic Newswire, "From the Bell Tower" and "Leading From the Library" from 2009 through 2019.

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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. After an initial reading assessment, learners read texts that automatically adjust depth, pace and difficulty to an individual’s vocabulary, comprehension and fluency levels.

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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. The April issue’s theme was “Nontraditional learning.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The teacher evaluation market has grown dramatically over the last few years, driven by the 2009 implementation of. K-12 landscape. To illustrate this dynamic, consider the market for teacher evaluation tools. Race To The Top (RTTT) and the subsequent introduction of NCLB waivers in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In February 2009 the words of the world were collected and given to the Council of Conscience, a gathering of religious leaders and thinkers, who are now crafting the final document. The Charter was launched in November 2009. Our students are children of technology and the web.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

Further elaborating on the flexibility and opportunities UDL offers, Evans (2010) notes that it provides “flexibility and opportunity for teachers and students by incorporating collaborative partnerships, technology tools, and differentiated instruction” (p. 2006; Kurtts, Matthews, & Smallwood, 2009), and reading (Meo, 2008).

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

using technologies that haven’t yet been invented. Richard Riley, Secretary of Education under Clinton, quoted in Trilling & Fadel, 2009, p. 3) Technology has become a major player in the pedagogical equation.In They can be used in flipped classrooms or in blended learning environments. Better be prepared than sorry.

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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. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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