Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Simply put, giving teachers choice in their own learning—and making it relevant to their individual classrooms—is an effective way to spread personalized learning across a district 6. Most often, our greatest lessons learned are those which stemmed from initial failure. What’s Good for the Goose…. The Learning Is In The Struggle.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

Her original research went into the design of Renton Preparatory in Seattle, which was a 2016 Top Three STEM School in the nation. In my own classroom, I have my students run Hour of Code each December for the whole school – grades K5- sixth grade. See: Creating Elementary Portfolios and One Note in the Classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

DALLAS — In Levar Dobbins’ eighth grade classroom, a dozen students were learning about workforce trends. The early teen years are also a stage when students are especially vulnerable to “identity foreclosure,” or the walling off of certain options, such as a STEM career, as not for them, Deutsch said.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 31, 2019

There’s no one-size-fits-all answer for ideal classroom display solutions. Most classrooms benefit (hugely) from at least one interactive touch screen display. Many find that more than one display is ideal for flexible classrooms that maximize active learning. Forget telling students about the results of scientific study.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. To the other 13 school/district case studies, click here. Yuma) The two decided to pool the Title 1 money and buy five laptop computers for every classroom teaching math across the district (approximately 450 laptops) in the spring of 2009.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

To make up the gap, states are putting teachers without a strong science background in front of classrooms. But the state’s teacher shortage means there’s no guarantee that there are teachers with a science background in classrooms. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

We help millions study at their own pace, on their own time regardless of location, social status, or background. Our team is driven to create the best content and study tools because we’re out to change the test prep experience for all. Magoosh started in 2009 with four co-founders and a few computers. Are detail oriented.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

We’ve become a leader in STEM Education by changing the way we structure schools. The district was the first in the state to open STEM Academies as part of their general public-school program. Each academy has a planned program of study with numerous branches students can choose from.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Whether that means adding classrooms in a new campus addition, strengthening relationships with area employers and universities, or introducing technology to streamline student communication with professors, we’re committed to continually improving what we do. In 2009, we honored 22 graduates. This year, we recognized 56.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

. ” There’s lots of lip service about closing the achievement gap, serving marginalized populations, helping students gain 21st century skills, and preparing students for STEM-related careers. Interestingly, though, a Study Finds 52% of U.S. Adults Say No. Engages the senses. More likely to engage emotions.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. There are numerous research studies that demonstrate the relationship between spatial reasoning and what we typically think of as mathematical ability.

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techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

(June 25, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional learning for K-12 classrooms, today announced that upcoming enhancements to its award-winning Techbook series will help educators maximize instructional time by making engaging digital content even more accessible to teachers and students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. In 2009, at the subway station, local transit police shot 22-year-old Oscar Grant, an event many consider to have started the Black Lives Matter movement.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. “It They really don’t even tell you to study for it,” Flores said. “We Department of Education says.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Without measurement, there is no pressure for improvement,” he said in a 2009 speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Renick came to Georgia State as a religious studies professor in the 1980s. But some STEM majors are tougher than others. Around the same time, philanthropic foundations weighed in.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

The report called Americans’ struggle with math “the most significant barrier” to finishing a degree in both STEM and non-STEM fields. There’s going to be a need for a million more STEM graduates in the next decade than we’re currently producing,” said Chris Rasmussen, professor of mathematics education at San Diego State.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

million 12- to 17-year-olds still met the criteria for a substance use disorder in 2014, and studies find that 9 in 10 adults with addiction problems began their chemical dependency before age 18. “My While national surveys indicate that adolescent drug use has fallen across the board in recent years, some 1.3

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Explore the iPad and some great apps for the middle school classroom. We’ll focus on apps that lend themselves to STEM as well as apps to facilitate integration across disciplines. In 2009, EPA WaterSense''s 2,100 partners collectively saved over 36 BILLION gallons of precious drinking water. link] CLASSROOM 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Classroom 2.0 The recordings of recent FutureofEducation.com shows are posted: David Loertscher on Library 2.0 , Gina Bianchini on Mightybell , Tim Wilson on Redirect , Peter Cookson on a Children''s Education Bill of Rights , and an iPads in the Classroom report. Details and log-in links here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. It is a perfect inquiry-based tool you can use in your classroom and with your students. It used to be 30-40% of my kids wanted to be a classroom teacher.

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techlearning

MARCH 29, 2018

– Boxlight Corporation (Nasdaq: BOXL) (“Boxlight”), and K-12 science technology pioneer Globisens have released a new version of the GlobiLab analytical software for the Labdisc portable STEM lab. The company improves student engagement and learning outcomes by providing educators the products they need for the 21 century classroom.

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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. Do you see kids’ enthusiasm for reading blossom outside the classroom, too? Lindsay Unified School District Case Study. Is that a book? Can I check that out?” Absolutely.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The primary goals of this event are to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, institutions of informal learning and universities around the world, and to introduce others to the tools, resources, projects, and networks that are available to educators today. This will take you to the event VoiceThread.)

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 13, 2016

Along with opening a new school focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), they knew they wanted to create an engaging afterschool program. Fast-forward several months, and the building, now known as The Dome, is home to the new STEM school as well as the CareerConnectED Center , which houses YOUmedia Springfield.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

In drab classrooms, students, many of whom have struggled with school, presented research that would determine whether they would graduate this year. Tianna’s social studies project aimed to refute the “dominant narrative” that racism is largely dead in the United States. Photo: Alan Cheng, City-as-School.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

While there’s been ample research on tracking’s negative effects, studies of positive effects resulting from detracking are scant. The Portland school district in Oregon planned to compress two levels of middle school math into one starting in 2023, but after criticism, said the issue needed more study.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Children line up to go inside their classroom at Mainspring Schools in Austin, Texas. Supalla, who opened the first of her Discovery Kidzone Learning Centers in 2009, noticed that children were having more emotional challenges and that their social skills were declining. He stopped writing his name, too.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Students don’t pay attention to lectures, they would argue. They’re distracted.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

At least 10 states now permit students to take classes part-time online (and sometimes in other in-person classrooms), instead of being limited to their local course offerings; eight adopted or considered laws in just the last four years.

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