EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

Q&A: Class Tech Tips Blogger Monica Burns Explains How to Work with Digital Tools. Monica Burns first started working with educational technology in 2011 when she was teaching at a New York City school that was becoming a magnet school. Or is it big picture, such as learning how to collaborate more effectively with others?

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Waterford

AUGUST 9, 2022

How to sign up for classroom or field trip volunteering opportunities. 11] If you can figure out how to reach the majority of parents early in the school year, you’re more likely to promote long-term parent engagement. Additionally, let parents know how they can get involved with school events. The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 10, 2018

The University of Sheffield provides the following synopsis that validates the importance of this pedagogical strategy: Reflective learning is a way of allowing students to step back from their learning experience to help them develop critical thinking skills and improve future performance by analyzing their experience.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For Educators: How to Run a Parent-Teacher Conference. Avoid using educational jargon, which can confuse parents who aren’t as familiar with elementary teaching terms.[7]. If you’d like to get more involved in school events, let them know how you’d like to help. Communicating with Parents: Strategies for Teachers.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. 2011, Nurmi et al., Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al.,

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

Read on to discover the impact of technology in education and how to get the most from its unique benefits. Many educators aren’t motivated to use digital resources in class, often because they’re unsure how to use them effectively or are unaware of the benefits.[1] How to Get the Most from Technology in Schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. At the beginning of the year, we sat down with our respective standards to discuss strategy. Brandi Todd has been an elementary teacher for sixteen years.

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Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

13] If you can teach your students how to recognize and regulate their emotions, they’ll be better prepared to focus and reach their potential both inside and outside the classroom. Read on to learn more about emotional intelligence and how it can increase your student’s academic and social-emotional abilities.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Learning games that have compelling, obvious goals are significantly more popular among elementary school children than those that don’t. Another strategy is to give learners examples or hints based on their incorrect answers. Instead of saying, ‘That’s wrong! more effective feedback would be, ‘Interesting answer! Habgood, M.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I focus on how to learn rather than what to learn. I get to experience the joy with them as they accomplish a learning task on their own using their own personal abilities, intelligence, learning strategies, and struggles. I am a process-oriented educator. Weibell, C. Retrieved from [link]. Designing a Video Game. [link].

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

This strategy keeps students working with content that is neither too difficult nor too easy for their individual level. Step-by-step instruction, particularly with math, and clear goal or expectation setting both increases test scores and improves the attitudes of students who struggle (Al-Makahleh, 2011). #5: Why do we do this?

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

How could we transform a traditional, dysfunctional, low-performing system measured by high-stakes assessments into a system with exceptional teaching and learning environments that developed students empowered to change the world? At Summit Elementary, traditional grade levels have been eliminated and replaced with instructional levels.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

I have since become a teacher educator (with some teaching of elementary gifted students at a few Title 1 schools thrown in). People with learning goals are actively engaged in their learning, constantly planning strategies to meet their goals, and monitoring their progress to stay on track. Hope-related cognitions are important.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Having a systemic and systematic strategy for supporting every student made a huge difference when Covid closed the curtain,” said Mary Walsh, executive director of City Connects, an organization based at Boston College. “We Related: NYC’s bold gamble: Spend big on impoverished students’ social and emotional needs to get academic gains.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Another improves reading comprehension among older elementary school students. We don’t have flying frogs and leaping lizards but we do try to teach kids how to understand what they read,” said Kausalai (Kay) Wijekumar, a professor at Texas A&M University who developed the reading comprehension program ITSS that made the list of three.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But READ THE SERIES. Those early years matter!”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The graduation rate in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. And so, no improvement efforts big or small in any city or district could be successful without both understanding historically how that has come to be and addressing it.” Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Literacy experts have long known that reading to toddlers, even babies, can make a big difference in children’s reading abilities later in elementary school. At some health clinics, volunteers model effective book reading strategies for parents. Credit: Shannon Finney/Getty Images.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Strategy 4: Provide PD to Build Cultural Proficiency. Bren Elliott, Chief School Improvement and Supports Officer for District of Columbia Public Schools, “everyone needs foundational training in the origins of racism, how bias takes root in the classroom, and the negative impact it has on how we treat and what we expect of children.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

In July of 2015, the district paid more than $400,000 for alignment, strategy and professional services from Education Elements, a for-profit personalized learning consultant, according to receipts obtained by EdSurge from the district. Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia. In the end, $21 million dollars went to consulting work.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2020

Miacademy videos on ASU For You address academic needs across all elementary and middle-school ages. As a former special education teacher, Newman knows how to support a variety of learners and uses these strategies to direct the creation of Miacademy videos. “If Writes Miacademy mom Jennifer, “Miacademy Learning, thank you!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2011, a panel of mathematicians and math educators mapped college-prep sequences in high school math and proposed pathways that led not only to calculus but also to statistics, linear algebra and data analysis. It’s time to reconsider the dominance of calculus.

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techlearning

APRIL 11, 2018

Gooch Elementary School in Dallas, TX, to break down barriers for students with special needs and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It was amazing to see Milo in action at Gooch Elementary School. The school adopted Milo and the robots4autism curriculum in early April, and within days were seeing results with students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

link] EP: COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE LEARNER OUTCOMES ( Australia Series ) Mon 28 Feb 08:00PM New York / Tue 1 Mar 01:00AM GMT / Tue 1 Mar 12:00PM Sydney Coach Carole. If this is your first time hearing about the series you can catch up by viewing the archived events or be a pioneer and join us for a live upcoming lecture!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2011

How did you learn? How would you support Let''s explore the strategies, best practice and courses available for learning about efacilitation. If you’d like to present for a few minutes on how you teach new efacilitators, please contact me or simply join us on the day, them in their learning journey?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

We've been offering EBT interventions as part of that model since the 2011-2012 school year. Douglas Gotel For example, we use child-centered play therapy intervention in our elementary schools where kids learn how to solve their problems and work through relational difficulties.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

From 2011-12 to 2021-22, as suspensions for willful defiance fell from 4,500 to near zero, suspensions across all categories fell too, to 1,633, a more than 90 percent drop, according to state data. Together, these strategies seek to address the root causes of challenging behavior. He described seeing a student with his phone out.

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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. Connaway, Lanclos, & Hood, 2013a; 2013b; White, 2011).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

link] "MINI-GEEK FEST" MONTHLY ONLINE CONVERSATION-FEBRUARY, 2011 (AzTEA 2.0 Participants will learn how to create Flickr Galleries, slide shows, and Geo-tag their photos. This month we visit with Toby Price, Assistant Principal of Richland Upper Elementary School in Richland, MS. link] PSYCHOLOGY OF MATH LEARNING ( Math 2.0

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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. Individuals have belief systems.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Mark Nelson was ready to take a final during his sophomore year at Monrovia High School in Southern California in 2011. Sign up for our newsletter. MONROVIA, Calif. The goal of the class is to introduce students to technology.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

Though the flipped class model proved to be an effective strategy in which we saw increases in student achievement and engagement, we only did the traditional flipped classroom for one year. In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. So we “invented” what we began to call the Flipped Mastery Model.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Based on his own experience as a swim coach, McTighe also recommended “teaching like a coach,” which requires “thinking backward” from an upcoming event and then having the students practice appropriate skills and strategies they can apply in the future. Responsiveness and Outcomes.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Try and see how you can figure out how many are up there without counting one by one. Christine also introduced hand signals for Number Talks, specifically putting a number of fingers at your chest to indicate how many strategies you have. A student asked, “A strategy is a different way of counting?”

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Learn how to use the iPad apps “Book Creator” and “Creative Book Builder” to create and share enhanced/multimedia eBooks using DropBox for free cloud storage/distribution. Examine the evolution of the writing process, identifying tools and strategies that may not have been previously conceivable. If You Challenge Them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

She authored Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education (published by ISTE in 2008), Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for the K-12 Educator (published by ISTE in 2011), Help Your Child Learn With Their Cell Phone and Web 2.0 And parents want to know how to help their children learn.

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