The Electric Educator

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

This week I am hanging out in Indianapolis at the Virtual School Symposium sponsored by the International Association for K12 Online Learning ( iNACOL ). conference online learning' Today I let an all day pre-conference on Google Apps for Education. I always appreciate feedback on my posts.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

He is currently the chief product officer of Renaissance Learning, which acquired myON in 2018. On the other hand, companies like Curriculum Associates took the path of blended learning and have seen significant growth driven by a technology-first model. Predictions about online learning didn’t really hit the mark, either.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

We can all agree that the phrase “blended learning” is well and truly a part of the modern-day discourse on education; so much so that academics have begun to curate a universal definition, as well as identify sub-themes and genres of the concept. 4 Models of blended learning. In 2012 Heather Staker and Michael B.

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The Thinking Stick

MARCH 8, 2020

NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. Lessons Learned: 1. If you did not require that every teacher in the district must use the adopted LMS (Learning Management System a.k.a

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

There are organizations that support different kinds of transformation in schools and after researching and interviewing some of these organizations, we've learned a great deal about what these changes can look like, how schools go about redesigning aspects of their model, and what types of support they need along the way.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

But that expansion doesn’t necessarily correlate with how the public perceives the quality of online courses, historically questioned for its lack of rigor and limited measurable learning gains. Then they will mention taking one online course and hating it. I will be at a dinner party, and someone will ask what I do.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

When I ask teachers, “How would you describe a successful online or blended learning course? Despite the challenges associated with this moment in education, technology is rapidly evolving to allow students more opportunities to engage in social learning spaces online. What would that look like?”

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 9, 2016

Here was one of my comments: These articles used to really bother me, but what I have learned is that I never know the whole story. There is always more to any article or tweet you read online. When I want to learn something, something that’s important to me, I know where I can find it and who I can learn from.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years into his 12-year tenure as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg and his then education chief, Joel Klein, kicked off a program that they hoped would transform education in the city by making schools “centres of innovation,” Bloomberg told the BBC back in 2011. Driving organizational change is enormously hard.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2021

Yet for a multitude of reasons, not all students have equal access to quality learning. It works exactly as the Statewide Online Education Program was intended, giving students the chance to take world-class courses in a way that best fits their needs.”. At Juan Diego, every class is now a blended online learning class.”.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

This post is the first of a short series meant to highlight the great work of many nonprofit organizations that are working diligently to support students’ learning on a daily basis. The organization’s vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science. URL: www.commonsense.org/education.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 30, 2020

You’re going to have to choose some kind of learning management system before you move forward, and most of your decisions from there are going to depend on the choice you make regarding your LMS, anyhow. Google Classroom also sort-of interacts with popular LTIs (learning tool interoperability) like EdPuzzle, Kami, and Quizizz.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

The CoderDojos are free and volunteer-run, and from a single club started by a teenaged Irish hacker in 2011 they’ve managed to grow into more than 1,200 Dojos in 65 countries and counting. Whelton’s notoriety made friends and classmates eager to learn more, and so he started an after-school coding club. And I said, ‘Oh, ok.’ ”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The school achieves this mainly through its “homebound” program, which allows expecting and new mothers to blend online learning with one-on-one visits from a designated “homebound teacher” until they are able to resume normal classes. She didn’t have any help learning the material, either.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 8, 2011

Notes from a breakout session at South by Southwest Edu 2011 Presenter: David McGeary, Harris County Department of Education, Digital Learning Specialist McGeary helped build the first version of the Texas Tour in ProjectShare Hybrid or blended learning fills the gap between what we teach in the classroom with what they do in the real world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. link] THE NEW BLENDED LEARNING (ELLUMINATE LIVE EVENTS) Tue 7 Dec 01:00PM New York / Tue 7 Dec 06:00PM GMT / Wed 7 Dec 04:00AM Sydney David Wilkins.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Schachter took one of the Center’s first summer trainings and has taught Northport’s news-literacy course since 2011 as an elective that meets New York State’s “participation in government” graduation requirement. “My Still, learning news literacy skills is one thing, and the motivation to use those skills is another.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

” “What’s the bottom line on online preschool ?” “ Florida Virtual School model shows online learning can be engaging,” according to a puff piece by Education Dive , which rewrites a puff piece by eSchool News. ” asks The Hechinger Report. NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” asks Edsurge.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

When Utah passed the law creating a Course Access program in 2011, school districts panicked over what it would do to their budgets. “We This past school year, when students could take four classes online, it cost districts up to $366 per student per semester, according to the Utah State Office of Education. It’s their identity.”.

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