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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g., Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., Adaptive teaching: Reflective practice of two elementary teachers’ visions and adaptations during literacy instruction. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al.,

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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

The Kudan Elementary School in downtown Tokyo organized the first robot teacher testing as far back as 2009. If you want to see the original Watergate Affair documents, you can find them on NewseumED. They can customize the teaching so as to match the specific requirements of each student individually.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2009 $269,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $0).

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Lowest student-to-school-counselor ratio since 1986

The Hechinger Report

Some of the recent hiring merely recouped all the school counselors laid off between 2009 and 2014 in the aftermath of the great recession. Cook explained that the profession has shifted to a data-driven approach, documenting improvements in achievement, attendance and behavior from school counseling programs, to persuade policymakers.

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Educators as Purveyors of Hope

User Generated Education

I have since become a teacher educator (with some teaching of elementary gifted students at a few Title 1 schools thrown in). Hope is positively associated with perceived competence and self-worth (Marques, Pais-Ribeiro, & Lopez, 2009) and negatively associated with symptoms of depression (Snyder, Hoza, et al.,

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PROOF POINTS: New evidence of high school grade inflation

The Hechinger Report

points from a 3.0 – a B – in 2009 to 3.11 The College Board, which administers the SAT, has also documented grade inflation by comparing SAT scores with high school grades. Another bad sign is that the grade inflation detected by ACT closely mirrors Department of Education research. In a study of actual U.S.

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Hindsight: How I *WISH* I had Supported Our Technology Rollout

Tech Helpful

Simon Sinek originally published his book Start with the Why in 2009. Our elementary school started with a rolling cart of iPads and we have slowly added more and more into the mix for use and a chromebook cart as well. Over the last few years, we have created a Technology Integration: Goals and Outcomes for Students document.