Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

So when Apple’s longtime vice-president of education, John Couch, published a book this year with his thoughts on the future of education and accounts of his work at Apple, it opened a rare window into the company’s views on education. The book is called Rewiring Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student's Potential.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Consultants charged the district as much as $1,000 per day for their services, as recorded in former Washington Post reporter Dale Russakoff’s book, The Prize. Traditionally, he notes, management consulting companies help districts set up strategic plans but leave the implementation process to teachers. Graphic credit: Jenny Abamu.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 14, 2019

Currently, Dr. Rob serves as Principal at South Park Elementary Center outside of Pittsburgh, PA, and has truly become a sought-after leader in topics surrounding the field of education today. Dr. Rob is the author of several books including Reading, Technology, and Digital Literacy and the ISTE bestselling title Are You Future Ready.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes. That's pretty good buy-in.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Among other things, the boosters who pitched international companies to come and do business in this port city promised that its high quality of education would guarantee a steady supply of skilled employees. High school graduation rates in Mobile are way up, from 55 percent before 2011 to 86 percent in 2018. MOBILE, Ala.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2015

These efforts led to the formation of the Guilford Parent Academy (GPA) in 2011, a multifaceted parent engagement initiative that is partly supported by federal Race to the Top money. The district also provides access to a large library of e-books for students and their families. Free online tutoring.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Another notable area of growth: the size of the report itself, which has expanded from 66 slides in 2011 to 355 this year , with the number of slides almost doubling in the last year alone. “Why are there 72 slides about gaming, from a company invested in EA, Zynga, Mobcrush, and Magic Leap?” ” he asks.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” Daphne Bavelier , a professor at the University of Geneva, wrote in 2011 that we may have lost the ability for oral memorization valued by the Greeks when writing was invented, but we gained additional skills of reading and text analysis. … I don’t read books as much as I used to,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

That’s the thing that shocked me more than anything,” said O’Brien, who is now retired after decades working at Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical company. Tessa, 7, of Lafayette, Indiana, reads a book in her bright pink bedroom. She attends a local elementary school, where Matt Rhoda is the principal.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Valve , the company behind the video game hit Portal, is working on an educational game. We have attendees signed up from 133 countries!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. The Senate Education Committee began work this week sifting through the 800-some-odd-page reauthorization for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. No matter where you are in the world you can see the schedule in your own time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Sean’s book is Teaching over Testing. Enter the contest to win a copy of the book. Something I talk about in my first book is something that concerns me — especially with standardized assessments — is that we try to boil schools, students, teachers down to one test result. Meet Next Generation Science Standards.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 15, 2017

I have met owners of companies who make a ton of money who are miserable and hate what they do, and then I have met people like that young lady who work at McDonald’s who feel they are making a difference in their work every single day. Yet, I often hear people demean jobs like working at McDonald’s.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. Rod Murray: What made you decide you needed to solve this problem, and how’d you go about forming a company? And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now. My handle is @rodspods.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The discussion course involved reading a book, participating in asynchronous online discussions and reflecting on what was going poorly and well in his own implementation of the strategies. Megan Sayas, a third-grade teacher at Cushing Elementary, has taken numerous micro-credentials, often with her grade-level team.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since 2011, Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into a research informed and patented platform used by schools districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers. So let’s remind everyone about your book. Your book focuses on how to use video to help teachers improve.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. Rod Murray: What made you decide you needed to solve this problem, and how’d you go about forming a company? And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now. My handle is @rodspods.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In 2013-2015 he taught 4th and 5th grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Independence Elementary in Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas Tech University in 2011. He is the author of several books on effectively using digital technologies to communicate and assess learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. What’s more, many districts completely block social media sites, something the Federal Communications Commission said in 2011 was inconsistent with CIPA. schools censor the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They are already struggling — it would be too confusing to be in a dual language program,’” said Emily Bivins, former principal of a dual-language school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina whose company provides professional development for dual-language programs. “We We all know the research is counter to that.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. Gaudino is a member of the international advisor panel for the Global Education Conference since 2011. Both books can be purchased on Amazon.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

But as it turned out, the zeppelin company had gone out of business – I imagine that many people, like myself, could only think about Christopher Walken and Grace Jones’ characters and opted not to go. In the meantime, these companies continue to collect a lot of “driving” data. Google versus Uber.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The district has already spent more than $3 million since 2011 on tablets, laptops, software programs, fiber optic wiring, and engineers to oversee all the instructional technology. But computers are expensive.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

.” Via Politico : “Partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to the displacement of more than 300,000 Hispanic students between 2000 and 2011, with most of those students disappearing from elementary schools.” The learn-to-code company has raised $6.9

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

In comments that surfaced in 2011, Florida State Rep. DeSantis is the public face of policies happening nationwide to remove the contributions of non-whites from history books. DeSantis is the public face of policies happening nationwide to remove the contributions of non-whites from history books.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.” “Dean Dad” Matt Reed on “‘ Netflix for Books.’”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. a month.). .” Increased by just 2, but still.).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

In Highland Park, Michigan, where grass grows knee-high around decaying, long-abandoned schools, the state turned the troubled suburban district over to a private company and shut down the city’s only high school. “As As a voter, what do you do when they stole your vote?” said Danielle Floyd, a mother in Highland Park. “I Chrysler moved.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

It was a nod, in part, to Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking , a book that I’ve found useful in understanding how grief clouds our thinking, how grief makes use want to believe the unbelievable, how it “ruptures the rational,” as I wrote then. And Americans don’t just struggle with facts about science.

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