The Thinking Stick

MARCH 8, 2020

2011 – I worked with Senators and the State Department in Washington DC to help fund a global Virtual School installment for International Schools to use in case of an emergency. Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, etc) before now, you’re too late. You can’t just flip the Virtual School switch. Every assignment must be rethought.

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LMS Schoology Training Moodle 143

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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iLearn Policies Blended Learning Schoology 63

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Google Classroom ? The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017. Google Classroom ? One of the adaptive learning tools this tech-rich district relies on is the Schoology learning management system, whose core focus is collaboration. Google voice typing ? Reading Eggs ?

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 55

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Get Your House in Order In Allen and Kusky’s 2011 book, “The Little Book of Leadership Development,” they wisely suggest a preliminary step before designing, managing, evaluating and refining a new system: get your shop in order. Google Hangouts/Meet. Google Hangouts/Meet. Google Classroom. BlueJeans Events. YouTube Live.

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Meeting Video Groups Training 212

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“The number of states planning to use the new tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016,” Education Next observed this fall , and many states and districts have opted to use the SAT or ACT instead of those assessments created by the Common Core consortia, SBAC and PARCC. (In Metaphors in ed-tech are so confusing.)

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40