Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ).

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Their research suggested direct connections between the learning space and sensory stimuli among students. As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. How classroom design affects student engagement.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

It also provides me with an opportunity to reflect on what I see and my take on how the field of education can continue to evolve in ways that better support the needs of all learners. The teacher had the students engaged in a closure activity to demonstrate an understanding of multiplication concepts in math. Case in point.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 16, 2009

85+ Resources: Educator Guide for Integrating Social Media « emergent by design tags : socialmedia , favorite Twitter in the Classroom: Studies Find Increased Student Engagement tags : Twitter , favorite 50 Web Applications for Teachers tags : web2.0 , favorite Using Wordle in the classroom (1 of 2) tags : wordle , favorite Cell Size and Scale tags (..)

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Most people don’t consider education technology to be such an important industry, but it’s actually gigantic. The change already delivers extraordinary results and 96% of teachers claim that EdTech increases student engagement in learning. Traditional education has always been based on the power of storytelling.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2022

education at all,” says García, whose organization has been warning about such shortages for years. Just having a genuinely consequential system of teacher performance assessment is really unusual in American public education” Stanford's Thomas Dee Dallas and D.C. Since 2009, D.C. What Makes a Good Teacher?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Glenn, founder of BASE Education, a student mental health solution acquired by 7 Mindsets in January 2023, will oversee curriculum development and strategic initiatives for 7 Mindsets. as chief science officer.

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User Generated Education

MAY 23, 2016

Watch children, youth, and even adults when they are immersed in learning something of interest of them, and you will see often complete engagement and personal joy. When education is done “right”, learners often feel and experience the following in their both formal and informal educational environments: Joy.

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Learning Dropout Social Media Student Engagement 182

eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

About 7 Mindsets Founded in 2009, 7 Mindsets is a comprehensive social-emotional learning and mental health solution provider for schools and districts across the country. For more information about 7M Cares, please contact Matt Smith at matt@magicwandfoundation.org.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 31, 2019

As the name implies, active learning is learning through engaging with content. That it works so well should come as no surprise to seasoned educators. Many – if not most – are enhanced when instructors and students use interactive touch screen displays. Moving up to higher education. That was in 2009.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In today’s post, I am introducing you to blended learning, a concept that is now common parlance within the ‘education speak’ In crafting this comprehensive piece on blended learning, I delved deep into academic literature, drawing on peer-reviewed research papers to create an authoritative and informative post.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2014

Social media not only helped me find my voice, but it helped me find the voices of so many passionate and amazing educators from across the country and globe. Surrounding yourself with smart people willing to share could possibly be one of the best decisions you could make whether as a leader, educator, or learner.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Students need an authentic purpose for learning 1.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 11, 2017

If you have challenging students in your classes, there’s a good chance someone has suggested that you look into Whole Brain Teaching (WBT). Whole Brain Teaching is an active teaching method designed to maximize student engagement in lessons, positive interactions with classmates, and educational fun.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Quite simply, social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook have improved my effectiveness and efficiency as an educational leader. My journey started in March 2009 when I took a chance and began to utilize Twitter as acommunications tool. As my network has grown, so has my growth as an educational leader.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

eSpark’s Theory of Learning is grounded in seven research-based elements – teaching practices or design elements – that are directly linked to student learning outcomes. 3: Student Engagement Increases Motivation. International Education Studies, 4(4). American Educational Research Journal, 28(3), 683–714.

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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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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. It is learning by doing with a reflective element which, in turn, creates conditions for deeply engaged learning. Learning by doing allows students to become personally invested in their own learning process.

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esri

MAY 23, 2016

Dateline Washington DC, The White House, May 27, 2014: President Obama welcomes Esri to the ConnectED Initiative , a partnership with private industry to help all US K12 students engage in digital learning. Esri also supported a bank of educator workshops in 2015, and is supporting another series in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2014

For example, in 2009, Gallup studied 78,000 students in 160 schools in eight states, finding that a one-percentage-point uptick in a school’s average student engagement was connected to an average six-point increase in reading achievement and eight points in math. This takes the measure directly to the top.

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eSpark

APRIL 18, 2016

For the past five years, Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools has set a standard for innovation in public education. We’re honored to partner with ten of the League’s 73 districts to help their students succeed in school and in life with individualized technology. Elizabeth Forward School District. Elizabeth, PA.

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techlearning

MAY 2, 2018

In April, 2009, I hung my poster, emblazoned with words from T.S. Her work in blended learning, student engagement, and social media has been featured by EdWeek, NBC News, Instructor Magazine, Intel, ASCD, and the NEA. Suzy is a SMART Exemplary Educator, FableVision Ambassador, and MassCUE Pathfinder. Suzy holds a B.S.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 26, 2011

This 140 is different from the others in that it''s focus is all on education. More importantly how real-time information sharing is changing education. But now we have a focus on just education. But Jeff really wants teachers and other educators to be there. Apply For Educator Pricing Still not convinced?

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The Principal of Change

JULY 28, 2016

In his last post, he talks about the phenomenon of “Pokemon Go” , and how educators seem to be clamouring to embed into their classrooms this fall. Pokémon Go will definitely engage our students, but so will any other fancy, new technology.

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Technology EdTech Student Engagement Google 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

What tools and methods will be discussed on “What makes online learning effective and engaging to the student? MBA, CFD has 11 years of experience in higher education as a professor of Mathematics. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 5, 2015

Through the TeacherQuest program, Allegheny County teachers are working with Institute of Play—an Educator Innovator partner—to build a learning community dedicated to collaboration and iteration across sites, putting games and game-making at the center of a new movement in district-wide innovation.

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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. Teachers have used projection systems for well over a century to bring engaging content to students. There’s an abundance of education projector options to choose from.

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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. While some highly value it considering it key in scholarly achievement and academic performance, others view it as a nuisance to students' independence and a cause for unwarranted emotional and physical stress for kids.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This mantra in education particularly in adopting emerging technology is incredibly important. 1 The teacher’s desire to feel successful with his students was echoed by many of the teachers who chose to stay in the profession with their school community.1 Satisfaction What does it mean to be successful at adoption?

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eSchool News

JULY 9, 2021

From educators, IT teams, and school administrators to parents and students, nearly everyone with a stake in the education industry is aware of the promise new digital technologies hold to improve learning outcomes, increase student engagement, and add variety and depth to instruction and assessment.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!) , but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too! The Charter was launched in November 2009.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

In 2013, no females took the exam in Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming, and 11 states had no black students engage in the exam. And the stats haven’t really improved—2015 saw 10 states without a single black AP Computer Science student. [AP In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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techlearning

MARCH 29, 2018

GlobiLab also merges the latest sensor, Internet and satellite technologies so that students can plot measurement data over a Google map, allowing them to map local pollution or weather conditions and compare their data with other schools – opening the door for meaningful collaboration between learners all over the world.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 20, 2016

As a teacher I was naturally most interested in what I might learn from Price’s views on modern education. Open rightly reminds teachers that “high stakes testing” has caused schools to become “learning enclosures” which kill the creativity and passion so valued by educational thought leaders. David Price OBE – Image Source.

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