eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students. Students then explore these questions through interactive videos featuring real-world visuals fostering a sense of wonder and actively supporting student engagement in the accompanying discussion prompts.

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Tools EdTech Schoology Social Media 86

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

“Things don’t usually explode in Biology,” chimes another goggle-wearing student with long blond hair to my left. Back in 2012, we didn’t have an autoclave, so we were crushing bouillon cubes to make microbacteria media and being creative with microwaves, and it worked. That usually happens in Chemistry.”.

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STEM Personalized Learning Assessment Course 126

eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

eSpark’s Theory of Learning is grounded in seven research-based elements – teaching practices or design elements – that are directly linked to student learning outcomes. When a student first logs onto eSpark, they’re welcomed with a placement quiz to find their individual learning level. 3: Student Engagement Increases Motivation.

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

When students have autonomy in asking guiding questions as part of their learning, inquiry can also amplify student engagement and empowerment. Teachers can provide opportunities for students to recall information from previous learning either to support connections to new learning or as an opportunity for formative assessment.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Resources 219

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In the dynamic world of education, keeping students engaged and attentive is a challenge every educator faces. Classroom Attention Getters Here are some practical attention grabbers/ attention getters to use in your class to keep students engaged and focused: 1. Capturing students’ attention: An empirical study.

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Examples Classroom Strategy Study 117

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

The Administration’s proposal for College- and Career- Ready Students also will promote the development of State capacity to support district efforts to use technology to improve instruction.” ” FY 2012 $0. 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). FY 2013 $0.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

We had been working for several weeks on a storytelling unit in my ESL classes in 2012. This involves navigating search engines, identifying key ideas, evaluating and assessing the quality of information and adapting it to the player’s own unique game world context. “Can we set the story in Minecraft?”

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Wiki MOOC Handbook Case Study 155

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

So in 2012, we needed a resource that teachers could use to better prepare students in third, fourth and fifth grades for state assessments. This curriculum is 100 percent aligned to the standards and offers teachers the flexibility in a lesson to give students exactly what they need. It just offers so much support.

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Elementary Mobility Assessment Tools 74

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

In this post, I share how digital student portfolios did make a possible difference. I attempted a schoolwide action research project this past year around literacy and engagement. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios.

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Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

In this post, I share how digital student portfolios did make a possible difference. I attempted a schoolwide action research project this past year around literacy and engagement. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios.

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Gameful Learning Lab is one of three, large-scale labs supported under a new enterprise at the university called Academic Innovation , currently made up of 66 initiatives “charged with developing a culture of innovation in learning” that can bring about “personalized, engaged and lifelong” learning experiences. Gameful Design.

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Course LMS Assessment Video 60

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Foundations of Inquiry 11 – BAA Course (2012). Applications of Digital Learning 10 – BAA Course (2012). As described by the Riverside Principal: Our main goal was to create a clear and coherent framework that would enable our students to develop the digital literacy skills necessary in today’s world.

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Secondary Course Digital Learning Digital Citizenship 113

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Educators support the use of STEAM in the classroom, according to Voices from the field: Teachers’ views on the relevance of arts integration , a 2012 study from Lesley University. In addition, STEAM approaches can help students learn skills relevant to the 21st century, including innovation and cultural sensitivity.

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Learning STEM Differentiated Instruction Study 100

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Drawn with Apple Pencil, the Chicago Skyline serves as a backdrop for Tim Cook as he opens the This was only the second time Apple made a major announcement away from its California-based headquarters (the other time being the 2012 event announcing the iBooks Author tool at the Guggenheim).

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iPad Education Software Training 40

edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Mike Nelson works with district educators to provide current and relevant teaching materials and verifies that students are working to meet or exceed district and state standards. The SETDA mission is to build and increase the capacity of state and national leaders to improve education through technology policy and practice.

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OER Instructional Materials Policies Broadband 41

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

My personal example is worth noting as we are starting to see from the research coming available that the results of virtual learning, in which students engage in primarily online- mediated learning experiences, are mixed at best. and 0.82, respectively (Hattie, 2012). In other words, teacher impact can be doubled.

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Learning Personal Learning Network Examples Analysis 33

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

My personal example is worth noting as we are starting to see from the research coming available that the results of virtual learning, in which students engage in primarily online- mediated learning experiences, are mixed at best. and 0.82, respectively (Hattie, 2012). In other words, teacher impact can be doubled.

Learning 33

Learning Personal Learning Network Examples Analysis 33

edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

Vodicka along with Erik Burmeister, Superintendent, and Theresa Fox, Coordinator of Technology and Innovation, both from Menlo Park City School District, CA, agreed that if 80% of students are graduating, then 20% of students are not graduating and that educational professionals can’t be satisfied with these statistics.

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Education Industry Meeting Assessment 46

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 23, 2012

A Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University School of Education, for the past thirteen years Denise has specialized in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning. She founded and served as director of Stressed-Out Students (SOS), the predecessor to Challenge Success.

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Blackboard Policies Conference Strategy 69

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 217

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 12, 2016

.” The “Back on Track” study , being presented as a series of research briefs at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association this weekend, represents one of the first comprehensive examinations of how online credit recovery impacts student achievement and outcomes. A spokeswoman from K12 Inc.

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Study Course Company Online Learning 40

Educator Innovator

MARCH 5, 2015

TeacherQuest: On a practical level, educators leave TeacherQuest workshops with the ability to use games in several different ways: as tools for student engagement; as tools for supporting and assessing learning in traditional content areas; and as tools for supporting and assessing development of 21st century skills.

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Game-Based Learning Case Study Professional Learning Study 32

Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Pick and play games for intentional moments in the classroom, such formative assessment, differentiated instruction, and reflection to name a few. Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game by Michael Matera Imagine students engaged in a multiplayer world, with XP, quests, mobs, dungeons, and guilds.

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Resources iPad Mobility eBook 91

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Teachers have had to get more creative in helping students understand new concepts, and students have had to take a lot more responsibility for their own learning. Sitting quietly at the back of the room is no longer an option in classrooms that prize student engagement.

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Common Core Advocacy System Personalized Learning 93

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

In a recent report, Education Week dug deep into student proficiency rates on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2003 through 2015. But given the law’s emphasis on test scores, it’s fair to consider what happened to those numbers after the law was enacted.

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Education Policies Learning Report 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2018

We had to go into different websites, find different usage reports, talk to vendors,” says Matthew Raimondi, an assessment and accountability coordinator at U-46, a school district in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. The days of hacking together spreadsheets may be coming to an end, however.

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EdTech Software Company Data 268

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

He suggested that it might help to change the schedule of the school day, so that it offers more opportunities for students to move around, and, he explained, to “actually communicate with somebody about how the day is going.” Student disengagement is not a totally new problem. But that’s not always easy to assess.

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Policies Data Examples Exercises 165

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

New Hampshire is adopting it, too, and developing a statewide assessment method that would replace most standardized tests. Elliot Soloway, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Education, contends that students learn by slowly building on knowledge and frequently returning to it. Students at M.S.

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Learning Common Core System Groups 106

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone sat on the school committee, and he’d been the one to suggest they consider designing a new public school in the first place, back in 2012. Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. And she can’t bring herself to reject anyone’s assessment.

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Meeting Outcomes Study Groups 105

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Why does that matter?

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 134

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” As a result, students engage in academics, athletics and extracurriculars because they “know you care.” Eastwood wants each student to be proficient in math and reading before finishing 5th grade. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Why does that matter?

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

In these environments, you’re not going to see a classroom where students are listening to the teacher’s voice as he or she presents information from the textbook. Instead, you’ll see students engaged in a task and solving a problem. The room is noisy since the students are discussing, solving, and testing ideas.

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Flipped Classroom Classroom Outcomes Course 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Her professional blog, Always Learning, is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking examples of authentic student engagement. She is also co-author of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time, Pearson 2012, and an ADE (Apple Distinguished Educator).

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Khan Academy has recently introduced more assessments, so that more of the exercises in their free library can be used in this way. The company says that participating schools are reporting academic gains for students who start out behind, as well as “greater student engagement, increased attendance, better behavior.”

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

An associate professor in UVA’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures , Stepanic earned the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Award in 2012. How do you keep your students engaged? If you’re not entertaining students enough, they’re not going to pay attention to you.

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Course Education Study Video 120

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. 3D Printing.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145