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. We have seen this repeatedly in education.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For the past several decades, I have had my feet in both elementary education and teacher training and development. The problem is that the school systems working toward these changes are using a factory model of education prevalent in the 19th and 20th centuries to do so. What is EE ). . Engages the senses.

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The Innovative Educator

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Most recently I had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of elementary students about social media and which platforms they are using. When I suggested this would be a great game to be reviewed on an education site, I was told, the site only reviews games that were educational. They definitely knew how to handle it.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

My first stint of homelessness came in 2009, while I was in elementary school in Nebraska. I remember being uncomfortable and definitely confused. After I finished elementary school, I moved to Colorado to be with my father. The scholarships I earned are making the education of my dreams affordable.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

Come June 30, operations at the Amazon-owned online education program will cease entirely. Freckle , a math education provider that was recently acquired by Renaissance Learning, published a blog post in April 2018, just days after TenMarks announced it would be shutting down, positioning itself as a strong alternative for districts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week. Thirty years of focus on increasing academic minutes in the school day has resulted in reduced recess and physical education time at many schools. A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Higher Education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. Personalized Learning, Personal Meanings.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Higher Education. But to the parents, it’s worth it.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 29, 2017

What is Creativity in Education? There are a lot of definitions of creativity in the education world today. One of the biggest changes to education in the past fifteen years is the access to information. What Does Creativity Look Like for Educators? It turns out, we can’t help but be creative.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

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. Meanwhile, SNHU’s enrollment increased from 2,000 students in 2009 to 34,000 by 2014 and continues to climb.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 1, 2016

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in July 2016 and is re-posted here with permission. __ Back in December of 2013, I posted a blog entry titled Sketchnoting: A Primer. Hall and Russac work with teachers and have students visual note-taking in the elementary grades.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

As educators we all study the importance of giving students the time to play during the school day. Play Can Help Educators Beat Burnout. Play can take many forms and has many definitions. outlines five characteristics of play in the article “ The Value of Play I: The Definition of Play Gives Insights ”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

Black children and boys are more likely than their peers to be suspended, a fact experts attribute in part to implicit racial bias among educators. I’m definitely more calm. The consultations “generally helped improve overall quality of early care and education settings and was linked to reduced staff turnover,” the report stated.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

Homework is a controversial topic and the object of differing opinions among teachers, parents, and educators. Cooper's definition is similar to the one found in Cambridge Dictionary which defines homework as "work that teachers give their students to do at home" or as "studying that students do at home to prepare for school".

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

The school, where more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 14 percent are counted as homeless, was founded in 2009 to teach skills valued by the booming technology sector. Related: One possible solution for the future of career and technical education. Field trips toured local startups.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

It actually is quite obvious that the Arts should be included in STEM education. The very first time I heard the idea of integrating the Arts into STEM education was while watching a 2009 keynote made by Daniel Pink at the NECC Conference in Washington DC… yes prior to ISTE Conferences! Number one, explore the new metrics.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 20, 2019

Considering an education projector for your classrooms or lecture hall? This useful tech has a long history of helping educators present content. There’s an abundance of education projector options to choose from. There’s an abundance of education projector options to choose from. That’s a smart move.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

After years of disappointing, confusing and uneven results, charter schools are generally getting better at educating students. Racial gaps in learning – a stubborn problem in education – had been eliminated at these charters, which the researchers dubbed “gap busters.” million students across 40 states.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, who is native herself, launched the state’s Schools of Promise grant program in 2009. If we’re going to achieve equity in education we need to look at ways that we may provide more resources to certain areas than others.”. But his more recent ancestors were not educated 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. We live right now in a world that the educational systems are very rigid. You have 300+ million people who have 300+ million ideas about how education is.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Another thing that’s changed my perception a lot is teaching at American College of Education and Cal State San Marcos. With the papers they write, quite honestly, we borrow a lot in education. This whole idea of randomized formative assessment is definitely one that I’ll be investigating more. So thank you, Sean!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

And of course, education is the most important thing. The Delano charter, which now hosts 1,800 K-12 students, opened in 2009. Students who don’t accept a fellowship can continue their education at a four-year college with the company’s help. I want to change the paradigm of poverty in the Central Valley.”. This is my legacy.”.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Here''s my first in 2009. You definitely must check out Amazon’s Trade-In Program. Sure, it''s a little elementary-ish but I LOVE Owls! Every educator who leaves a non-spam comment gets an automatic Twitter follow from me- I love your comments! GREAT customer service! Follow on Twitter Follow on Twitter 11.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2021

It’s a late-summer routine that Carr, the homeless education liaison for Washington County Schools, and many of his counterparts across the U.S. And many of the methods usually used to find and enroll these kids — teacher referrals, in-person searches, visits to classrooms — were unavailable to homeless education liaisons like Carr last year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

In at least 20 states, lawmakers have stripped locally elected school board members of their power in impoverished, mostly minority communities, leaving parents without a voice – or a vote – in their children’s education, according to a News21 state-by-state analysis of school takeovers. More than 5.6 I can’t say that we can go out and vote.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. ” Many educators were angered , insisting that this wasn’t their fault. I get that.

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