EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Check the deals out today at www.dell.com/epp/coolcatteacher and enjoy some awesome new technology this holiday season! He spent twenty-four years as a classroom teacher in Colorado before becoming a technology facilitator in the Chicago suburbs. Or, you know, how far does it go? How long was in the air?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The champions, as he calls the elementary school students he works with, are part of a program called Classroom Champions that pairs Olympians, Paralympians, student-athletes and professional athletes with students and teachers in high-poverty schools in the U.S. and Canada.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Use Media and Technology Thoughtfully In the age of technology, media can be a powerful tool in educating students about diversity and inclusion. Example: Teach students how to critically evaluate media representations of race. We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Rural school districts face many unique trials, and access to educational technology is no different. During the edWebinar “ Technology in Rural Schools: Leading with Why,” the presenters discussed how they overcame challenges and helped the community understand the value of tech in schools. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. If you are giving a school a technology that they cannot use—or it is not really going to make a difference in reading scores or school performance—then it is not the right input, not the right system.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

It’s how we recruit, how we use resources, how we conduct business in the district.”. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. It’s not just about teachers teaching. These goals still guide the district today.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

link] MINI-GEEK FEST MONTHLY ONLINE CONVERSATION-NOVEMBER, 2010 (AZTEA) Mon 8 Nov 10:00PM New York / Tue 8 Nov 03:00AM GMT / Tue 8 Nov 01:00PM Sydney Peggy George and Kim Thomas. Do you get excited and energized by talking with other educators about technology tools and resources? If you do, then the Mini-Geek Fest is here for you!

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2014

Via technology, students get real-time instruction and instant feedback as needed to help them master skills and content. If we can show people how to do this, and how to make it easier, we can make it happen across the country faster. Technology has transformed every industry on the planet with incredible benefits.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In a recent edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, both from New Canaan High School in Connecticut, showcased the transformation of the NCHS library from a collection of used reference and biography books into a living, breathing makerspace. Follow her on Twitter @mluhtala.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike. was often the best choice given the resources and technologies of that time in history. I classify these technologies as worksheets on steroids.). The Basics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In 2010, Illinois passed the tougher law, and the results were dramatic. This inside look at an innovative university program shows how school leaders have been trained for more than a decade. UIC leader Steve Tozer describes the program’s philosophy and results. The video shows her weekly coaching with UIC coach Cynthia Barron.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This guest speaker was talking about how to run group interviews, and she, a white woman, was imparting what she learned from years of research with various U.S. populations, including “tips” on how to work with diverse communities. Asians have a politeness norm, so it’s difficult to get anything useful out of them,” she continued.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Elementary think alouds. At the elementary stage, these quotes represent talking points from our 4th and 5th graders. On the other had, a smaller number of elementary students see Wikipedia as a starting point to discover additional content. Context, disciplinarity and type of use play a role in how we view it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Williams may have never considered herself to be a "tech person," but she recognized the value of code and discovered how a supportive community could empower her and her students to learn. Roadblock: I am not a programmer, so I can’t learn how to code. “I can barely fix a printer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. million in 2010) and a Race to the Top grant ($16.6

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This model is NOT just for elementary! Think about how to foster collaboration with your in-class students and your online students. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2010 in Sonoma County, where she taught for 16 years. Catlin earned her doctorate in learning technologies at Pepperdine University.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. Field Elementary, where nearly one out of every five students is classified as having some sort of a disability, has actually managed to do this. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

It sets these schools apart from a more recent wave of personalized learning, which is often dominated by technology and dogged by criticism that it isolates students from each other and from learning’s larger purpose. And how to listen to each other.”. Related: Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. “My I can count with my hand the times he actually gave us information about how to apply to college.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 2011

Steve Hargadon interviews Ira David Socol on education, reform, technology, and more. Participants will learn how to use Audacity, to record, import and edit sound including filtering and export a sound file in different formats for classroom and web use. His areas of interest are learning, ICT, video and Assistive Technology.

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iLearn Technology

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

What it is: I’m telling you, the edublog alliance I created in 2010 is like the gift that keeps on giving. It is so much fun, I had to share here as well on the off-chance you don’t already follow Karen’s blog (iTeach with Technology ). These are my go to blogs before all others! Enter the virtual version!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark. Yet for years, students like McGee had limited exposure to the world of STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math. It showed me the potential I could have academically.”.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to the generations before who had to adapt to the Internet, how are those who grew up using the Internet — the so-called “Google generation” — different? There is a relative lack of research available examining the effect of search engines on our brains even as the technology is rapidly dominating our lives.

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MindShift

MAY 21, 2017

Professor John Dunlosky is trying to bridge these two worlds , intentionally studying the effectiveness of strategies that lab studies indicate are promising, but that don’t require special technology or extra resources. His students get a lot of retrieval practice on things like how to tackle a text and how to stay organized.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Introduce modern technology, and interactions can quickly grow from mischievous to malicious. Since 2010, the school has used public and private grants to support a student-centered learning approach in which small-group work and individual projects dominate. Nobody knows how to laugh at themselves.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 5, 2011

Shannon Miller, librarian at Van Meter Schools in Iowa, and Mark Moran, Founder of Dulcinea Media, will offer guidance and insight that helps teacher librarians teach students - and faculty - how to use the Web effectively, safely, efficiently and responsibly. Steve will talk with Kevin Kelly about his brilliant book, What Technology Wants.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2011

The topic will be ‘How to use Elluminate in conjunction with Moodle for Online courses’. It will cover how to set up an Elluminate room, upload your slides and how to give your students access to the link before and recording after. Are you looking for fun way for students to demonstrate what they have learned using technology?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts commissioner of elementary and secondary education, was the first to suggest combining MCAS and PARCC into MCAS 2.0. (AP

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Today we talk about the conference, what people can expect from the conference and how to sign up. The first year was 2010. He has worked as a technology entrepreneur in a variety of different fields related to children’s media. It’s interesting to us, like, “How do we push the conversation further?” Listen Now.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 21, 2014

The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. Leaders of 2014 , Tune in to hear about the top 14 technology resources of 2014. This webinar builds on the popular series of articles and workshops that have been presented annually since 2010. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JANUARY 5, 2011

Here''s The BEST of 2010, arranged by Topic , for the BEST GROUP of People I Know. Yes, I''m aiming for 12 crème de la crème links -- we''ll see how it goes. photo © 2007 Kasia | more info (via: Wylio ) Good morning Colleagues, Here are the 12 Days of Christmas Gifts I emailed you, all in one spot, for easy access at your convenience.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers has several online professional development options to check out: GSuite for Teachers , Teaching History with Technology , and Practical Edtech Coaching. Read How to Use Padlet. And not force yourself to feel guilty for not taking the time to play with a new technology.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2012

Anderson is known to many in the world of education as a passionate and knowledgeable promoter of social media and technology for learning. He has been a prime mover in some of the most innovative projects for technology supported learning in the past few years. The same can be said of the educational technology movement.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

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