EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

Since creating our school’s makerspace in November 2013, I’ve seen a small revolution start to grow within our elementary school and also across our district. Parents were emailing me stating how proud they were of their child’s efforts and creativity. Technology in Elementary Classrooms. MakerFaire.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2013, she, her husband and her cousin founded a nonprofit called Generations Indigenous Ways that offers after-school science programs and seasonal outdoor science camps. Prior to the pandemic, and even during its first year, Siddiqui said many parents reached out to her, asking how to get started. You’re stronger minded.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

published by ISTE in 2013), Learning First, Technology Second (published by ISTE in 2017). She is a MACUL board member and a member of the COSN advisory board for mobile learning and emerging technologies. And parents want to know how to help their children learn. And many times they just don’t know how to do it.

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MindShift

JULY 22, 2018

In a popular 2013 article Jocelyn Sams elaborated, “I have a full schedule of classes on most days, and I don’t have an assistant. Each library shelving books according to its own system is exactly the problem Dewey set out to fix, and it’s one that’s particularly problematic for high-mobility kids who move from school to school, they say.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

SHOW LINK BIO: Rebecca’s dedication to exceptional learners started in elementary school when she was a “special friend” to the mainstream class. By 2013, she transitioned back to her home state of New Jersey and taught 7th grade in a suburban school as a language arts and mathematics resource teacher for five years.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

Gray previously taught elementary grade levels in Chicago Public Schools and middle school computer science at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. In 2013, Brady was named a Teachers for Global Classrooms Fellow by the U.S. Gray is an educational innovation consultant working with schools, organizations, and corporations.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

We’ve discussed before the logistics of how to teach with video games (especially for non-mobile games). Note 3: Also, though we’ve tended towards mobile games because those are simply more accessible to most players, the collection below represents a wide variety of video games for learning. Listly by Terry Heick.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

We thought that if we could help parents download [the software] and show them how to use it, then we could quadruple the amount of time it was being used.” That’s virtually unchanged from 2013, when 35 percent of fourth graders were proficient in reading. Almost every family now has at least one smart device,” Nemko said. “We

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So, how does a district of this size and diversity innovate? And how do educators share best practices across the region? In 2013, Fulton set out to answer those questions by launching their Vanguard Team , a group of 25 passionate educators who were on the forefront of technology integration and innovation.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 26, 2015

Introduction to Portuguese Start studying now and you’ll be ready for Carnival in February 2013. Learn How to Speak Japanese More than 40 instructional videos are bolstered by instruction in grammar, Japanese history, and the country’s culture. The Big Welsh Challenge Can you learn Welsh? Video Channels. Just watch and learn.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Read How to Use Padlet. It’s sort of the reason why it doesn’t seem new and sexy to talk about blogging or to evangelize blogging anymore or show people how to use EduBlog , or how to use WordPress. In 2013 he began serving the Skokie/Morton Grove District 69 as a member of the School Board. And yet, you know what?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. 1425 Walton Avenue, once home to P.S. 64, now houses the Walton Avenue School and Lucero Elementary School. Photo: DJ Cashmere for The Hechinger Report.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

The ultimate learning experience for students is both highly collaborative and extremely personalized, supported by mobile devices and digital content, reports Project Tomorrow in their latest Speak Up report. This year, nearly half of teachers (47 percent) said their students have regular access to mobile devices in their classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Today we talk about the conference, what people can expect from the conference and how to sign up. Currently an education consultant advising a variety of organizations, Lucy Gray previously taught elementary grade levels in Chicago Public Schools and middle school computer science at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

Dr. Carol Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary District 97 (IL), stated, “We were not as prepared as we could have been to have made that shift in terms of our practices and pedagogy.” Schuler described how his district outfitted parking lots with internet and WiFi for students who could not access WiFi at home. Dr. David R.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 78

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Julie Lindsay Director Learning Confluence How to go Global - Lead, Learn, League Emerging technologies and increased access across the world is the catalyst to embed global awareness, interaction and understanding into all learning opportunities, but has this really happened yet? Please join us! See you online!

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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

And while teachers may embrace using technology, they won’t necessarily understand how to use it effectively. This is really for all learners—adults as well as students—not just for those students with disabilities,” said Dr. Carol Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary District 97 (IL). Dr. Carol L.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

During an edWebinar for the Empowered Superintendent series, “Leadership for Mobile Learning: Creating a Shared Vision,” the presenters said school leaders, though, often miss key parts of the planning process and end up with useless “hunks of plastic.” This cannot be a central office issue; this cannot be a central office initiative.

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MindShift

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. My parent community can and will mobilize around things that are important to them,” he said. Recently, Russo had seen a little boy wrapping up some of his school lunch.

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edWeb.net

MAY 5, 2019

Accessible technologies help students with disabilities unlock their full potential by addressing a diversity of needs that include learning, visual, hearing, mobility, neurodiversity, and mental health. Students and teachers can now have rich writing conversations by focusing on developing ideas and working on skills necessary as a writer.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Mobile devices are predicted by 2011 Horizon report to be in mainstream in one year or less. Research shows 60% of low-income students carry a mobile device of some sort. Look for awesome infographic in the Prezi (linked at the top of this post) about how people use their mobile devices based on age range. Equity issues.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

There are two other STEAM labs in this school for third, fourth and fifth graders, which South Fayette opened in 2013. Children in fifth grade at South Fayette elementary school collaborate to make their Rube Goldberg machines do what they wish. Then they switched papers and the next person added onto the design with another part.

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Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 21, 2014

Thursday, May 22nd at 11am Fifth Graders Meet Author Grace Lin , During the winter/spring of 2014, fifth graders at three elementary schools in Illinois and Massachusetts read the novel by Grace Lin entitled Where the Mountain Meets the Moon ( [link] and participated in online discussions about the book using Edmodo. What do you think?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding? Shaheen, Ph.D.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Elementary School Samples Middle School Samples High School Samples I have so say that finding products made through project based learning is difficult. You probably don’t want to have to teach students how to use an app or website. It''s best when students can figure out how to use it themselves.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

COVID’s impact on schools was so substantial that Congress established the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). Reinventing spaces—designing flexible classroom spaces and turning a library into a learning commons with flexible seating and mobile bookshelves. Action 1: Spend Money on Long-Term Initiatives.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Naomi Ganin-Epstein I speak meme! Nina Jeron?i? Publish your ePortfolio using Weebly - Valerie R. Visually Inspire Your Students!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

But despite those new expectations, most school districts in the state where the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till mobilized black Americans still use textbooks that give local civil rights milestones short shrift. She was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, in Yazoo County, and now teaches there, at Bentonia Gibbs Elementary.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 12,000 language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. First, learn how to discover new tools rated for learning, mapped to Common Core, and see how other teachers are using them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. I may need to know how to use this at some point, and I don’t want to go to college or to a job totally clueless.”. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Educators encourage students to share their personal stories as a way to feel proud of their heritage, recognize how strong they are and process trauma. Since 2013, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of children like Nando fleeing poverty and violence in Central America. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The elementary school might evolve. In 2013, most elementary schools are simply diminutive high schools, with a balance of reading, writing, mathematics, geography, and other “core” skills, while character training supplements academic work.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School. In the spring of 2013, a phone survey commissioned by one of the state’s teachers unions found that 85 percent of its members opposed Gist’s contract being renewed. Related: LA’s school counselors strike back.

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