Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 30, 2013

The school has been 1:1 since 2010, and Lotta is fortunate enough to be able to work with the finding and implementation of digital resources and best practices. Lotta has been using Edmodo since May 2012, and really appreciates "the global teachers'' lounge" that Edmodo creates. And I was wide awake again.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Most people who are middle-income or better, the Common Core kindergarten standards almost seem ridiculously easy. Like, of course my kid knows how to do those things. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011.

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There is no box

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

As Educators, the art and the craft of our profession is in designing the learning experiences in our schools and classrooms. In the age of ubiquitous access to content, we are responsible for more than just access to the what, we are, now more than ever, responsible for the how of learning. gocrickets.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

And, even if you could be a fly on the wall in every classroom in America, one person’s view of a good lesson might differ from another’s. Two previous studies, of math instruction, combined classroom observations and teacher interviews. “How can we improve classroom instruction in the midst of high-stakes testing?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Ithaca’s detracking efforts have their roots in Susan Danskin’s classroom at DeWitt Middle School. The changes to the math curriculum have their roots in Susan Danskin’s classroom. He partly blamed the 2010 Common Core requirements, which had toughened middle school math at all levels and raised the cost of moving too quickly.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

Related: Will the new Common Core SAT close the privilege gap? In teaching assistant Natalie Nowicki’s math class at San Diego State, for example, step one is to reconfigure the classroom. Today the students are learning about something called fractals and how to mathematically define dimension. Easy, right?

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MindShift

JANUARY 8, 2016

Their answers can tell us a lot about what they believe and expect of their students and what they actually do in their classrooms. The authors chose to compare teachers’ responses from two years, 1998 and 2010. Among the differences: In 2010, prekindergarten prep was expected. That figure jumped to 80 percent by 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. But the shift to the Common Core State Standards meant it would have to go.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Wednesday, September 17th at 7pm ISTE Webinar: 10 Classroom Tools for the Maker Movement , Discover the maker movement and find out how to harness its power to bring new tools and technology for hands-on learning to all grades and content areas – especially STEM and STEAM. Tune in live at [link] or [link]. Learn more here.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The district says it has tried to prevent the cuts from reaching the classroom by spending its limited funding more efficiently. We put them all together and with the KCK folks figured out how to implement them in an integrated way so they could enhance each other,” said James Connell, co-founder and president of IRRE. Fair funding.

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Common Core Report Groups Meeting 40

Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Financial literacy for students (2010) Financial literacy for students grades K-2 The meaning of money Counting bills and coins Writing out money: decimals and dollar signs Financial literacy for students grades 3-5 Earning power Needs versus wants saving for a goal What do banks do?

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Handbook Common Core Data Study 40

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

To help the teachers at O’Keeffe learn how to do inquiry-based teaching, she gave them training. She and her administrative team would visit classrooms, hoping to see all this great inquiry-based teaching. So they fell back on what they remembered about how their teachers taught, says Bankhead. And that was it.”.

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Study Learning Common Core Groups 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

. — On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. During the same time, the percentage of classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Now, I’m not equating the import of weighing your options in caffeinated beverage with one’s choice in how to display knowledge of your content area, but it seems to me that at some point, there was a shift in expectation in our culture outside of school that soon became reflected within school as well. Patall, Cooper, & Wynn, 2010).

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course. Often the same book did both!

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Competency Based Learning Education Blended Learning Common Core 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

He’s not going to be up in front of people talking about [how] we’re going to charge together. He knows how to engage people, bring people to the table, knowing you can’t solve any of these complex problems singularly. He’s more collaborative. That’ll be his main theme.”. “He The other co-chair was then-Sen. Miguel Cardona.

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Education Elementary Common Core System 120

The Daring Librarian

OCTOBER 12, 2014

ISTE NETS & the Common Core I recently ended that four year elected term on the ISTE Board of Directors and as I reflect upon my service, participation, and accomplishments balanced with Glenda''s comment, I can say that if that was the sole standard of success - I failed! This would get our admin''s attention, right? Is it enough?

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Advocacy Common Core Education Conference 63

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He wanted to learn how to fly an airplane, only not too far off the ground, because heights were scary. Johnson was opening outside the traditional public system not to create some kind of segregated fiefdom but because that’s where she knew how to run a great school. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2019

About 10 years ago, in 2010, when Common Core was launched in the U.S., The required change came at a time when, as teachers began to explore and embrace alternative resources, many began to adopt technologies for the classroom too. Q: How is edtech preparing Generation Z students to survive the future of work?

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EdTech Industry Common Core Study 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. To date, more than 70 percent of schools are equipped with a Wi-Fi network that enables digital learning in the classroom.

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Broadband Policies Company Common Core 107

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The Flipped Classroom".

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But it appears that the massive growth that the sector has experienced since 2010 stopped this year. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. Funding has shrunk.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. In Tulsa, she needs all the bodies in her classrooms she can get. “I

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