Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries.

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Libraries Google Analysis Data 164

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). I tackle traditional grading practices and ways to reimagine our approach in my book Balance with Blended Learning for anyone who wants to explore that further. What did they do well?

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2024

Since 2013, according to an analysis , policymakers in 37 states have passed laws or implemented new policies related to reading instruction and stakeholders from scholars and journalists to teachers and parent coalitions have weighed in.

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Trends Advocacy Study Analysis 134

Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2018

As an ESL student and a child from an immigrant, economically disadvantaged family raised in blue-collar northern Ohio, I know first-hand the power a good book can have on a child who feels different and inferior from everyone around him. My kindergartner recently came home with an astronomy book written at an 8th grade reading level.

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Libraries Study EdTech System 296

EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

Six years ago, mixed reality game designer Jane McGonigal ’s keynote at the 2013 ISTE conference focused on how video games can boost resilience in real life. K–12 Schools Find Educational Benefits in Cloud-Based Gaming. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 05/15/2019 - 09:59. She referenced about 1 billion gamers worldwide. .

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

All of this information helped us assess the water quality of the creek. Assessments are then developed for each standard and associated task, which should reveal students’ capacity for that content or skill. New York: Basic Books. As you can likely tell, this wasn’t just an environmental science unit. References. Demarest, A.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Klaus Schwab coined the term in 2013 in his book “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The future of education must focus on teaching people how to learn new skills quickly, find information, assess information for accuracy, and make decisions based on evidence. It is also known as Industry 4.0,

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Industry Learning Robotics Technology 118

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. They administered surveys to teachers and students and developed assessments that were given when the program started and after it ended.

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STEM Education Training Secondary 184

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Klaus Schwab coined the term in 2013 in his book “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The future of education must focus on teaching people how to learn new skills quickly, find information, assess information for accuracy, and make decisions based on evidence. It is also known as Industry 4.0,

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Industry Learning Robotics Technology 110

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Klaus Schwab coined the term in 2013 in his book “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The future of education must focus on teaching people how to learn new skills quickly, find information, assess information for accuracy, and make decisions based on evidence. It is also known as Industry 4.0,

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Industry Learning Robotics Technology 105

Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Our programs assign these lessons based on a student’s placement assessment and their demonstrated mastery. And for older students, you can adjust our book-based study guides to offer personalized lessons on books you’re reading as a class. Students can also select independent reading books from our online library.

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Differentiated Instruction Strategy Libraries Guidelines 250

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). 2013) investigated the impact of instructional adaptations on student literacy achievement. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p.

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Check out their book titled Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner published by Corwin. Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. Struggling Learners.

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Common Core Assessment Strategy Advocacy 241

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

All components: student books, lesson cards, digital learning, reading response journals, sound-spelling activities, and formative assessment cards work together to provide ample opportunities for children to read, talk, and write—all vital steps on the path toward successful reading. For more information, please see www.lwtears.com.

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Accessibility Learning EdTech Company 98

The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 24, 2013

Looking back through my reading notes, if I had to select 7 books that I suggest as “Must-Reads for the Summer of 2013” here’s those seven. Each of these books forced me to examine and challenge fundamental assumptions I had about teaching, technology, leadership and education. That''s where Swanson''s book comes in.

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Common Core Social Media Professional Learning Strategy 86

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Hypothetically, effective mobile learning can empower learners by enabling them to better assess and select relevant information, redefine their goals, and reconsider their understanding of concepts within a shifting and growing frame of reference (the information context).” — Marguerite L. Cristol, D., & & Gimbert, B. mLearn, 15.

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Mobility BYOD Mobile Learning Learning 150

EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Apple has an online SAMR assessment survey (FREE) that will help teachers self-assess where they are in their technology learning. People are notoriously bad at assessing their own skills, however. Could this be done in a blended or fully online space? Unported License.

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Assessment EdTech Survey Libraries 56

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. The Challenge: When identifying plagiarism, teachers need to be confident in their assessment.

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Software Assessment Analysis Tools 147

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

If concluded, the sale would mark yet another major asset that Pearson has shed since John Fallon took over as CEO in 2013. higher-education courseware and in-school assessment in the U.S. Pearson reported that its revenues from e-book rentals have grown by 22 percent, after reducing the rental price for 2,000 titles in fall 2017.

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Pearson Chegg Company Instructional Materials 99

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2018

The latest owner of the digital K-12 literacy platform is Renaissance Learning , a provider of math, literacy and assessment products. In 2013, Renaissance partnered with Capstone (then the owner of myON) to integrate its Accelerated Reader quizzes with myON’s digital books. Renaissance, based in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.

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Libraries Company Learning Assessment 66

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 197

The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

I once used the analogy that my “blog” is my formative assessment, and my book is my “summative” assessment. I googled “Formative vs Summative Assessment”, and the first page that popped up in the search was this one , in which I screen captured the comparisons between the two ideas.

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Assessment Comparison Google Learning 28

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

That transition fell largely on outgoing CEO Fallon, who took the helm in January 2013. For 2018, the company reported that 62 percent of its overall business came from fully digital or digitally enabled services, such as e-books. At times, the transition was turbulent. That figure ticked up, to 66 percent, in 2019.

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Pearson Company Report Industry 172

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MAY 30, 2013

While I''ve written quite a bit about assessing writing (ad nauseum) via digital means, reading instruction and assessment have remained a primarily paper-based enterprise in my class. The content creation is already done; all the teacher has to do is assign the books. I got to meet Jason, Sean, and Marika at EdmodoCon 2013.

Common Core 162

Common Core Digital Citizenship Analysis Assessment 162

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Stewart Hase contacted a group of us due to our interest in heutagogy for the purpose of writing a chapter in an edited book. This past week, because of their hard work, this book has been published through Amazon. What follows is: The Book Description. Book Description. The Table of Contents. Through Education 2.0

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In this post, I want to share the second part of the last post and discuss ideas for self-assessment, connected learning, critical thinkers, and problem-finders/solvers. Self-Assessment. Meeting the social-emotional needs of our students in a remote learning environment. 8 Ideas to Consider for Remote Learning (Part 1).

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Social Media Learning Blended Learning Course 94

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere.

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Assessment Report Dropout System 142

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

She co-founded the institute in 2007 and served as its executive director through 2013. The experimental institution, called Quest to Learn , opened its doors in 2009 and became the subject of many books and articles. Starting in 2013, the Institute of Play scaled back its day-to-day involvement.

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Game-Based Learning Pearson Training Report 142

The Principal of Change

MARCH 8, 2022

My thinking today is 2022 has evolved since 2013, and in many ways, I wish I had talked more about the idea below. I think about this quote from Dale Carnegie in one of my favorite books of all time : I also think that when we sit back and listen more, the times we do share ideas become more powerful and relevant. .

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Social Media Assessment Examples How To 75

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

PHARRELL TEACHES GARAGEBAND: Apple has a new book on the shelf: Tuniversity , a project co-founded by Pharrell Williams that aims to “reinvigorate” music education by helping teachers use Apple’s Garageband in the classroom. The book costs $4.99 The app will be ready to use starting in September.

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SchoolDude Microsoft Company Learning Analytics 119

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

The new book was written by Stanley Litow, a former vice president of IBM and architect of the school model, and journalist Tina Kelley. “If The book is being published this month by Teachers College Press; The Hechinger Report is an independent unit of Teachers College). Ninth graders are assessed early – and often. “We

Industry 145

Industry Report Groups Study 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In the program, students who fall below college-level standards on math assessment tests in 11th grade are guided to remedial courses during their senior year in high school, which allows them to start their higher ed career ready for credit bearing coursework. million in tuition and books. According to the.

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Education Course Case Study Assessment 99

Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

High school student Jeff Bliss famously said in 2013 , “If you would just get up and teach them instead of handing them a freakin’ packet, yo. Their assessment is in the quality of what they do, not just recalling minutiae that can be found in five seconds with a smartphone voice command. It’s kids in here that don’t learn like that.

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Guidelines Smartphone Social Media Video 100

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JANUARY 4, 2014

During the 2013 Conference on English Leadership in the Transforming Decisions session lead by Gordon Hultberg , English teacher and department head at Intermountain Christian School in Utah , we discussed the concept of choice in our ELA classrooms. Why do all teachers in a district need to teach the same book at the same time?

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Study Conference Classroom Assessment 92

The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Whether this is how report cards and assessment are changing, how technology can be used in meaningful ways to create opportunities for learning that adults did not have as students, or any other opportunities, we need to bring in diverse viewpoints from our communities. June 28, 2013 The Prophets In Your Land.

Professional Learning 78

Professional Learning Learning Twitter Assessment 78

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Check out my Booking Page . What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

In 2013, he documented the experience in a case study in the Atlantic Marketing Journal, titled “ Operating a Very Large-Section, Hybrid Principles of Marketing Class at a Public University: Lessons Learned over Ten Years.” At the end of the day, students assess how they did and adjust accordingly.

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Classroom Exercises Gamification Course 120