Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. Though I was technology savvy, none of my classwork or student teaching prepared me for this.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

How to Differentiate Instruction in Your Classroom. One of the most efficient ways to differentiate instruction is through educational technology that adapts to students’ needs.[3] International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013, 17(1), pp. Examples of How to Differentiate Instruction in the Classroom. Tomlinson, C.A.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

Today Liz Kolb @lkolb talks about how we can put learning first and a very important reason technology should be second. In today’s show, Liz Kolb talks about the role of learning and technology: What is the role of technology in learning. When technology is a distraction. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 28, 2017

Today Justin Kamp @kampmiltonmusic Kids can learn to make music with iPads and technology. Technotunes and how to use them. Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen share awesome apps for iPads in the elementary classroom. This isn’t just child’s play – some serious music learning can happen.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2019

Virtual Valentines Awesome Squiggles Project San Diego Zoo Teacher Field Trip Dyane Smokorowski Instructional Technology Coach Dyane Smokorowski is the 2013 Kansas Teacher of the Year and is currently serving as an Instructional Technology Coach in the Andover Public schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Today is day three of the 2013 Global Education Conference. and Macedonian University Students - Carine Ullom, Director Office of Academic Technology Ottawa University Ottawa, Kansas 12:00pm KEYNOTE: Jaime Casap - The Transformation of Education 1:00pm A Semester of Service - Shayne A. . -

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Experts say it’s a promising model for alleviating some of the problems plaguing ed tech.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In July 2013 by a unanimous vote, the Board of Trustees for McComb School District in Mississippi appointed me as superintendent of schools. But figuring out how to operate a district within a dual system, staying true to our state’s accountability model and meeting the needs of our learners hasn’t been easy.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. But technology is only one part of it. Rogers Elementary is one of 10 “wall-to-wall” personalized learning schools that recently emerged as part of an initiative at Dallas ISD—one of the largest school districts in the country, serving 157,000 students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The elementary school my younger son attends was incredibly supportive. In 2013, Mary C. Snow West Side Elementary School in Charleston, West Virginia, partnered with local first responders to pilot a model for how to support children faced with a traumatic event. It was dubbed “Handle with Care.” Teachers at Mary C.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference. Middle East and North Africa through Online Projects - Jennifer Russell, Program Coordinator Developing and sustaining communities of practice in elementary history education: Doing history in the classroom with limited professional development support - Katherine Ireland, B.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. And Breanna Gruhn-McLaughlin, a family facilitator who plans monthly get-togethers for families, pours over a stack of manuals on how to nurture parent-child relationships. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Our list of Must-Read K—12 IT Blogs includes a mixture of teachers, instructional technology specialists, IT leaders, administrators and consultants. If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. FCPS Office of Instructional Technology. Tim Stahmer.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 29, 2015

This point in the school year is often a time of reflection for teachers, instructional technology coaches, and administrators. This technology, which works with iOS7 or iOS8 devices such as cell phones and iPads, allows students to react to pingable content that is presented in the classroom. Location – Australia.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. The Five Imperatives of Technology Leadership , the presenters explored how they have shifted their approaches to integrating edtech in the classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Use Media and Technology Thoughtfully In the age of technology, media can be a powerful tool in educating students about diversity and inclusion. Example: Teach students how to critically evaluate media representations of race. We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. link] Sosa, T.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2018

We were just talking about how we’re pretty sure we met just about ten years ago to the day that we are recording this, in Princeton way back in 2008. Now she is working as Director of K-12 Instructional Technology for the 93 schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, and really working with their digital citizenship initiative.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

“I want to be a lawyer because I like to speak, and I like getting my points across,” said Gio, in what was clearly an understatement: Watch this video where he explains how technology he uses in class helps him plot future career goals. Across the U.S.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2018

For 20 years, I was a teacher librarian and worked in elementary, middle, and high school libraries. And for the last five years, I’ve been a district administrator, including almost two years as chief digital officer overseeing IT and educational technology operations for a district of nearly 24,000 students.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

Earlier this year, the company partnered with Facebook to create a $250,000 scholarship program for women and underrepresented groups in technology. Ironhack was founded in 2013 by Ariel Quinones and Gonzalo Manrique. You may not know what a computer science major knows, but you will know how to make an app,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos knew there were many kids like her, eager to keep up with school but lacking the technology to do so. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We To her, it was “heartbreaking.”. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. Often, they’re not clear about what the goal is and how they want to evaluate changes in student outcomes,” Arnett said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Some school leaders turn to expensive technology and troves of data as an answer to low proficiency problems in public schools. The elementary, located in an economically-strapped part of the state, has 100 percent of its 850 students on free or reduced lunch, and almost 40 percent of its population are English language learners.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike. was often the best choice given the resources and technologies of that time in history. I classify these technologies as worksheets on steroids.). The Basics.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

These vulnerable lines open the music video “ Jagged ,” an award-winning film written, directed and starred in by elementary school students at Rocketship schools in California. She founded QueenHype in 2013, and now serves as the CEO. LaToya Fernandez is a charter school educator at Rocketship Education.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

Notes from a panel session at SXSWedu 2013 [link] Teaching is a complex undertaking. How do we approach game development and what role does it have in learning? Play is fundamental to how we learn. How to make them work in education is the question. Who are students and teachers in 2013? Schools are messy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Jennifer gives you a description in simple language, a screenshot of the tool in action and then a play button that takes you to a video about how the tool works. Drones in the Classroom.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Principal Tim Beekmann emphasized the importance of being strategic and explicitly clear about how to make school work for each student so the students are not left on their own to navigate around barriers that prevent them from achieving school success. Working with the Tools of Cultural Proficiency. Recently, Ms. Join the Community.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

She spent many of her weekends this past fall at an elementary school in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, alongside 83 other peers, including fellow classroom teachers and other educators. Rose, who teaches first and second grade special education at Los Cerritos Elementary School in South San Francisco, felt like she was “was drowning.”

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. They learned how to manipulate various Photoshop Elements tools to crop, select, paint and fill select areas of their work with contrast colors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. In January, adults could attend two 30-minute workshops on everything from how to set limits to understanding trauma — topics the parents had suggested themselves. “I LOVELAND, Colo.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We had a great talk about why group work is terrible and how to fix it, so check out the Q&A if you haven’t already.) The real-life Paloma was featured on the cover of a 2013 issue of Wired, which inspired the film, with the headline “The Next Steve Jobs.” But you won’t have that problem at home! See what they did there?

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

On this county-wide professional development day, while teachers at many schools around Chesterfield watched the clock, thinking about papers that needed to be graded and plans that needed to be written, the staff at Weaver Elementary spent the day immersed in service and learning together.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. But it can help.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In today’s show, learn how one successful district has tackled this process and how they are getting buy in from teachers on the vision during the second year of implementation. Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2017

Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology. Alan November.

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