The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Digital Learning Coach, Instructional Technology Facilitator and Research Associate at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. Lindgren & McDaniel, 2012). Explore it in depth in their blog post, “ Learner Agency, Technology and Emotional Intelligence. By Jaclyn Stevens, M.Ed. About Jaclyn. jaclynbstevens.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

Comparisons to post-Katrina New Orleans make a lot of sense. The mass firing is a case study in itself of the way educators — including the black teachers who made up approximately 70 percent of the teaching force — are often devalued in the wake of a tragedy. They were replaced by a younger, whiter teaching corps.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

They’ve brought the auto world closer to education, with investments from the venture arms of groups like State Farm and carmakers BMW and Volvo. Kango, founded in 2012 but using its current model since 2015, has tested a new strategy to connect children with drivers who serve as virtual tutors to help with schoolwork.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. The other was edX, a nonprofit funded by MIT and Harvard, with high-minded talk by university provosts and presidents about bringing elite education to the world. And how is edX doing by comparison? EdX is like a distant No. They just do more things but never focus.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. The more students used technology in schools, the lower the nation ranked in educational achievement. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

best known for its “American Honors” program, has been acquired by Wellspring International Education , a student recruitment firm for universities around the world. Preliminary findings from Columbia researchers found that 64 percent of the first cohort of students in 2012 graduated in two years.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

One such way educators are trying to introduce “thinking” back into the classroom is by “flipping the classroom”. A flipped classroom is a teaching pedagogy which reverses old classroom teaching and homework through a form of blended learning using modern technology and practical application. [2] It can be applied on three levels.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

For comparison, 5.5 Desai says the school wants to keep coaching and mentoring at the center of students’ experience, and will turn to different teaching methods and technology to support that effort. Desai says he could “imagine us offering continuing education courses to our alumni, maybe some sort of online Master’s program.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

But higher education itself often draws a connection between its research and financial returns, as it did in December after Congress increased annual research funding by $2.6 Many aren’t, technology-transfer directors said. Joseph Allen, former director of technology commercialization in the Commerce Department.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Higher Education. Department of Education, which gives out grants to encourage schools to try educational innovations, such as Teach to One, and test their effectiveness. At the same time, there’s been a backlash against this technology-driven instruction. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 21, 2016

” It kind of stopped me and I still think about that comment to this day in our every day dealings in education and leadership. I think about the comparisons a lot between these two different types of coaches. July 21, 2013 My Bad September 28, 2012 Don’t Use a 2.0 Technology in a 1.0 Both elements are important.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Major online education provider K12 Inc., That same year K12 rebranded a number of its resources under a separate legal entity called Fuel Education, focusing on “personalized learning” platforms, as well as consulting, teacher professional development, and online courses. Udell as its CEO. an operator of alternative schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

The numbers reveal a glaring gap in the nation’s education system: A high school diploma, no matter how recently earned, doesn’t guarantee that students are prepared for college courses. Higher education institutions across the country are forced to spend time, money and energy to solve this disconnect. One of those is Maryland.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 7, 2016

billion –and that was for 2012-13, according to the association’s Education Technology Industry Network. The LearnPlatform is an ed-tech management platform intended to allow educators to simplify the discovery, procurement, implementation and measurement of their ed-tech products.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

As a special education teacher, I work with students who struggle academically. Over the years I’ve become familiar with the ideas and theories commonly advocated for in special education practice. A few focus on broad perspectives regarding moral questions in education while others are myopic. Why is that?

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EdTechSandyK

JANUARY 13, 2012

And even the two phone conversations we were able to have during this awful week paled in comparison to the hug we were finally able to share yesterday. As you move forward in 2012, I encourage you to spend as much, if not more, time investing in in-person relationships as you do in your online relationships.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 10, 2015

What does mobile technology have to do with academic freedom? This remark from John Holt epitomises progressive education. He died in 1985, before the era of the Web and mobile technology, but the thought was undoubtedly already there. Traditional, formal education is playing catch-up. It is about choice.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 22, 2013

Though a partnership between Educator Innovator’s Educating for Participatory Politics (EPP) and Oakland Unified School District, high school teachers are designing new curricula and an enriched vision of senior projects with a focus on civic engagement and community action.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., But hindsight is a very different vantage point for Cassellius, who is now Minnesota’s commissioner of education. “It Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Felix Jacomino , the school’s Director of Technology, managed to lead a team that pulled off an incredible learning event. I had a great time encouraging educators to give students as much ownership over their devices and learning as possible. Examine the question, "How can I integrate technology to meet the CCSS?"

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

A group of recent studies on technology in education, across a wide range of real-world settings, have come up far short of a ringing endorsement. But countries that invested the most in technology for education in recent years showed “no appreciable results” in student achievement. ” That’s right.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. Technology. There have been several technologies that made my life better through this big change. Board Games.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

Notes from panel discussion/concurrent session at SXSWedu 2012 Geoff Wurzel, TechNet Wurzel was one of the influencers on Senate Bill 6 and the creation of the Instructional Materials Allotment in Texas. Does technology improve academic performance? Technology helps with innovation, but technology alone will not help.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 5, 2016

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. The federal agency charged with reporting and deciphering educational statistics recently offered a dire analysis of the competencies of American adults in basic educational tasks when compared with peers in other developed nations. By Leo Doran. The wide distribution in U.S.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Cathryn Merla-Watson But administrators and officials had “an eye toward securing increased state funds and potentially building a medical school,” Inside Higher Ed reported back in 2012. The number of students with commuter visas pales in comparison to the campus’ population of about 27,500.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Four floors above a dull cinder-block lobby in a nondescript building at Ohio State University, the doors of a slow-moving elevator open on an unexpectedly futuristic 10,000-square-foot laboratory bristling with technology. Higher Education. It’s a reveal reminiscent of a James Bond movie. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

It’s that, in spite of its skyrocketing cost — and the $138 billion a year in taxpayer money it gets from federal financial aid alone — traditional higher education makes no such guarantee. “A A higher education is one of the most expensive purchases a person will make in their life. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2017

This includes not only the important questions of how many graduates get jobs in their fields and how much they’ll make with a degree in a given major, but whether their credits will transfer, how students do on graduate school admission tests, and even how much an education will ultimately cost. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

This story about climate change and education was produced as part of the This story was produced as part of the nine-part series “Are We Ready? The 32 print and digital books we examined were published between 2012 and 2020, although most – some 84 percent – were released in 2015 or later. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López.

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