Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes. That's pretty good buy-in.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

" It happens here in California, for example. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," as Rahm Emanuel, then President Obama's chief of staff, said in 2009 as the world teetered on the brink of recession. In elementary schools, between 7 to 13% of instructional time was spent watching television.

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 140

The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. Think about it in a lower elementary classroom. Here is an example I use a lot where I asked people to give me their thoughts on what a PLN (Personal Learning Network) means to them. I want to be hip. How did I do?

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Edmodo Tablets Wiki Facebook 100

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. Department of Education says. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Wiseburn Unified School District in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, for example, did a particularly good job preparing its low-income black students to compete with more affluent kids across the state. Key to that success, Johnstone says, was that the district had already started teaching math differently back in 2009.

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Common Core Elementary Groups Robotics 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Most students at his school, Chicago Technology Academy (ChiTech for short), don’t come from places with a lot of college graduates and corporate connections, the sort of folks who can show young people, by example, that they can prosper in the professional world. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.” Who Isn’t Being Served?

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Industry STEM Education Survey 144

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

They own The Wonderful Company, the $4.6 The company is also the world’s biggest processors of almonds and pistachios. Lynda Resnick, owner of The Wonderful Company on the charter schools she and her husband have opened in California’s Central Valley. The Delano charter, which now hosts 1,800 K-12 students, opened in 2009.

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Company Report Course Study 88

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. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website.

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Learning2gether is a participant-driven professional development series that has produced over 420 podcasts since its inception in 2009. and are an excellent example of teachers continuing to learn from one another how to experience connectivist ways of sharing expertise in distributed knowledge spaces. Who are we?

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches. ” Among them: an $8.71

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E-rate Digital Divide Libraries Broadband 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

.” The photographic evidence clearly showed otherwise – the crowds on the mall were visibly smaller than those gathered for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009. So what happens when, for example, we share the research that demonstrates that vouchers do not improve student achievement ?

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Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71