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. Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements, argues that he can’t make promises about academic results. “Of In the end, $21 million dollars went to consulting work.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 14, 2019

We don’t have a booth, but we’ll be checking out all the exhibits, learning about the newest innovations in the education field, and connecting with colleagues and looking for all of our educator friends, partners and sponsors! Learn more about how she uses edWeb as part of her Rocket University professional learning program.

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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. " Let's master pedagogy first.

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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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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. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.” ” 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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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

This story about the opioid crisis and foster care was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. . Lafayette, Ind.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Whenever new technology emerges — including newspapers and television — discussions about how it will threaten our brainpower always crops up, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker wrote in a 2010 op-ed in The New York Times. He wrote about the subject in a 2008 article for The Atlantic titled “ Is Google Making Us Stupid.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. We''ll be talking about Mozilla''s Open Badges project , the issues around recognizing skills and achievements that happen outside of traditional learning institutions, and the HASTAC Badges Competition: Badges For Lifelong Learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We did try to keep the podcast a little shorter this week--although it wasn''t easy--to much to talk about, and too fun! The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. this week that the number of unique visitors to the webiste is up over 300% from last year, up to about 3.5 million per month.

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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. Sean: About seven years ago, three colleagues and myself wrote a grant proposal for a quarter of a million dollars to implement iPads into math and science classrooms. They can talk about the misconception. We’ll draw one random winner.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. Now here’s Steve with this week’s show. Louis, Missouri.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

Learn more about Edthena’s start and video-powered professional learning in this conversation between Rod Murray of The Pulse podcast and Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller. I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. Love a good origin story? My handle is @rodspods.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

Learn more about Edthena’s start and video-powered professional learning in this conversation between Rod Murray of The Pulse podcast and Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller. I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. Love a good origin story? My handle is @rodspods.

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Professional Learning Video Learning LMS 52

The Principal of Change

JULY 15, 2017

Just something I was thinking about the other day…excuse the ramble. Years ago as a principal and assistant principal, I would go to the same McDonald’s for breakfast about once a week and over four years, and the same young lady was working the drive-thru. But many aspects of status quo are useful and healthy.

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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. Kettle Moraine, a small suburban Wisconsin district about 30 miles west of Milwaukee, has taken the lead on micro-credentials.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But we must discuss and help people understand what deep fake is and to be careful about what they believe. However, Facebook’s refusal to take them off Facebook has caused conversations about just how series Facebook is — or not — about the removal of debunked news from their site.) Wesley completed his Ph.D.

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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. The blocks raise questions about whether schools’ online censorship runs afoul of constitutional law and federal guidance. The Markup requested records from 26 school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in Slate Families never receive a “score” on the test, which is available in both English or Spanish, or any information about how it is used in the admissions process — just word on whether their child made it in. The district communications office did not respond to multiple queries about the process.)

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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. The Need for Religious Literacy for Student Global Competence, Religion Matters The Things They Carried: A Refugee Project , Lisa C.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

When Thrun first invited us all to this event – about ten of us – he promised that at the end of the weekend, we would take a ride in a zeppelin over San Francisco. It was 2012, I should reiterate, so it was right at the beginning of all this hype about a future of autonomous vehicles.). It’s a model.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

In wealthy school districts around the country, parents and teachers talk often about keeping computer use to a minimum. Their worry is about excessive time spent online, about 
the distractions of the virtual world replacing interaction with the real world. The national average is about $12,000 per student.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. There’s more about the Trump Administration’s plans for student loans in the financial aid section below. “ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom? National) Education Politics. ” asks Edsurge.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Many were fearful of teaching this history and many cried during our breakout Q&A session in speaking about their frustration. One would never know that from reading the Florida standards, which only speak about Black people in terms of their relationships to white people. In comments that surfaced in 2011, Florida State Rep.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. There are more stories about some of DeVos’s other policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. This is part three of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. Funding has shrunk. ” You are a fool. . ”). .”

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?” And I hardly noticed any freak out about these scores this week like there usually is about math scores. It’s almost as though the narrative about “failing schools” doesn’t care much about students’ creativity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

The Detroit suburb has lost about 76 percent of its population since 1950, according to U.S. About 43 percent are African-American and around 20 percent are Hispanic. Ask most longtime residents and, chances are, their parents worked for one of the Big Three automobile companies, like the Chrysler Corp., Census data.

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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. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? Journalists.

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