User Generated Education

MAY 23, 2016

Student engagement, described as the tendency to be behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively involved in academic activities, is a key construct in motivation research (Thijs & Verkuyten, 2009). Encouraging Positive Student Engagement and Motivation: Tips for Teachers ). Watching and learning from those more experienced than them.

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Learning Dropout Social Media Student Engagement 182

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2019

percent of students who graduated or left school during the 2009-10 year. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. And it’s a whopping 4.6 “But there’s a bureaucracy.

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Dropout Data Report Google 52

The Thinking Stick

JUNE 15, 2016

Last week at a training that Kim and I were facilitating for Cohort 2 (the next 150 teachers) a math teacher said to me, “I’ve started using Google Forms and ‘Flipping’ my class, but other than that I’m not doing much.”. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. Impacting the learning of roughly 11,000 students. What an honor!

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Conference Chromebook Training Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the past few years, Apple, Google, IBM and other high-profile companies have stripped the bachelor’s degree requirement from many of their positions. That timespan should look familiar: The Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. A growing number of businesses are listening.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Bush and Obama administrations, with initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (2001) and Race to the Top (2009), spurred what’s been called a “ nationalization of education politics ” and, many teachers say, a relentless cycle of shiny fads promising to revolutionize the field. We use Google all the time. The George W.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 102