Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 20, 2020

Our chief instigators are… Yong Zhao , @yongzhaoed | Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas; Professor in Educational Leadership, Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Related Posts.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Thursday, November 20th, is day four of the fifth annual Global Education Conference. Fariha Asif Education for a Better World Imaginarium: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Global Education Lesson Plans - Lisa Swayhoover, Ph.D. We do always need more volunteers to help moderate sessions, join us here.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2018

But several colleges experimenting with such programs are avoiding a tactic that other public institutions are increasingly using to boost numbers: online learning. percent of students who started the program in 2015 graduated within five semesters, about 7 percent higher than the 2014 class.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. While online-only programs have come under fire for deprioritizing classroom relationships and providing too little instructional support for students, blended programs have been seen as able to strike an ideal balance. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 21st, 2014 In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Research also suggests that online learning can encourage intrinsic motivation.[1] 1] In part, this is because online learning often involves some level of independence—and independent learning is also linked to motivated students.[12] Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011. Education Week, 2019.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

This was an idea inspired by the book, The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne that I wrote about in 2014 and included in my book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators: Small Steps to Transform Your Teaching. Several extremely successful people and celebrities have vision boards. I’ve been encouraging students to create digital vision boards.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. 2016 Brightspace Awards for Excellence Winners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Today’s show has the Episode 296 Listening Guide to help you take notes and to implement what you learn in your classroom. I’ve also included some of my favorite free digital citizenship education options. She is also the Skype Education Ambassador. In 2014, Shannon was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

Enrollment in the program, ourBRIDGE for Kids, has bloomed over the last few years, from 35 students when it opened in 2014 to about 230 children in 2023, with more on waitlists. The afterschool program, which Ganzó started in 2014, now has more than three dozen employees and over 100 volunteers. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Schools across the country were forced to rapidly shift to distance learning last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the 2020-2021 school year began in the fall and teachers and students were still trying to adjust to this “new normal,” those in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program had an advantage.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 19, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. We’ve been waiting for evidence that online education can fulfill its promise to reach underserved students and expand opportunity. Expanding the Higher Education Market. Read the original version here. Implications.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

With most K-12 students, parents, teachers and administrators engaged in another semester or full academic year of pandemic-induced remote learning, it is clear that the future of education is going to include a significant online component. About iTutor and Virtual School.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

Winner of the ISTE Online Learning Award 2006 and Best Talk Show Host in Education 2014 and many Best Teacher Blog awards, Vicki seeks to shine a spotlight on what works in education wherever it happens in the world. Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher is a full-time classroom teacher in Camilla, Georgia.

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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 20, 2014

A result has been a backlash in which many still believe that online learning is not as effective as face to face learning (despite the body of work that proves that online learning, if done correctly, has no significant difference to learning outcomes than face to face traditional learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Beijing —The Chinese government is pushing online education these days, and like so many things in this country of 1.4 Most of the occupants offer products or services in online learning, though not necessarily massive open online courses or MOOCs, despite being the building's namesake.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 15, 2014

The new Reinventing The Classroom Virtual Conference aims to discover and share the most innovative, long-lasting and creative projects and share in a global conversation about what is right with education, world-wide.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

Winner of the ISTE Online Learning Award 2006 and Best Talk Show Host in Education 2014 and many Best Teacher Blog awards, Vicki seeks to shine a spotlight on what works in education wherever it happens in the world. Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher is a full-time classroom teacher in Camilla, Georgia.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The same is true for educators and students. Setting Expectations for Remote Learning Students. The National Institute for STEM Education (NISE) recommends teachers clearly post the routines and expectations for all students.[3]. These can cover things like: What they will be learning. Online Classroom Routines.”

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

The unconventional flurry of both in-person and virtual academics in a school that had never before offered AP physics is part of a broader experiment that experts say could herald the future of education, especially for rural schools. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

To help teachers with the transition to online instruction, an edWebinar hosted by SETDA featured educators sharing what is working for them as they teach students online during the COVID-19 crisis. Candice Dodson is the Executive Director of the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA).

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 20, 2016

is a District Technology Resource Teacher for Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, KY where she conducts professional development and provides supports to educators in instructional technology. Host: Vicki Davis. Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher is a full-time classroom teacher in Camilla, Georgia. Read more about her here.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But as my colleague Ryan Craig likes to say, no one has ever gone broke betting against the pace of change in higher education. Since 2014, Salesforce has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop curriculum for Trailhead, its free online learning platform.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

Currently, she is working as a technology educator to Freshman and Sophomores at Bio-Med Science Academy. Winner of the ISTE Online Learning Award 2006 and Best Talk Show Host in Education 2014 and many Best Teacher Blog awards, Vicki seeks to shine a spotlight on what works in education wherever it happens in the world.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

Learn about Listenwise. An educational technology speaker, instructor, and author, Tom Daccord @ thomasdaccord is Director of EdTechTeacher and has worked with schools, colleges and educational organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. How to improve learning and listening in the classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

While online education companies offer engineering, programming and business skills, one company wants to make sure that the fine arts isn’t being left behind. Joining the MOOC party As formal college education becomes more unaffordable, online education has become a popular alternative or supplement.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2016

Learning Outcomes. According to findings culled from five meta-analyses, blending technology with face-to-face teacher time generally produces better outcomes than face-to-face or online learning alone ( Cheung and Slavin, 2011; Cheung and Slavin, 2012 ; Tamim, Bernard, Borokhovski, Abrami, and Schmid, 2011 ; Means et al, 2009 ; Means et al.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

Lack of focus plagues almost every aspect of education. Winner of the ISTE Online Learning Award 2006 and Best Talk Show Host in Education 2014 and many Best Teacher Blog awards, Vicki seeks to shine a spotlight on what works in education wherever it happens in the world. There are too many apps.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. Over the years, it saw the most success in education and the company shifted to focus specifically on that market. Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based He’s not far off.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Website traffic to the homepage for IXL, a popular tool that lets students practice skills across five subjects through online quizzes, spiked in March.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

According to a recent research report , 43 percent of children age 0-17 had millennial parents in 2014, and this figure is expected to exceed 50 percent in 2016. Compared to older generations, this generation of parents has more experience in education options beyond brick and mortar schools, such as online courses and blended learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Department of Education shows that 30 percent of undergraduate students enrolled in at least one online education course in 2016, up from 27.1 percent in 2014, Inside Higher Ed reports. The new college appears to follow another trend in the higher education: competency-based education.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 7, 2016

The Education Industry Association, which struggled to keep membership after a downturn in federal funding for tutoring, is joining a division of the Software & Information Industry Association, or ETIN, effective immediately, under an agreement announced today. Terms of the agreement were not released. and GSV Advisors, she said.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

…very little of the work we give students in school provides them with a sense that they are making a contribution to anything other than their own educational progress toward graduation. — Alan November, Who Owns the Learning. Traditional PD uses an attendance sheet as the primary measurement of “learning”.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2020

Detailed lesson plans on the fundamentals of 3D printing and how to 3D print the Maker Mask can be found on Further , pi-top’s online learning space. Founders Jesse Lozano and Ryan Dunwoody created the first 3D printable laptop in 2014, as recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2017. About pi-top.

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