Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. It enhances teaching practices, fosters professional growth, and significantly improves student outcomes. Madda et al.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Three years ago, with the help of the education agency the Grant Wood Area Education Agency (GWAEA), Iowa rolled out its initiative to implement blended learning as a model for the state. MTSS is a process that uses data to identify the academic and behavioral supports every student needs to be successful.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Whether you’re a new teacher or have years of classroom experience, there’s always more to learn. Which activities sparked student engagement, and which proved more of a struggle? What questions did students have? Everything a New Elementary Teacher REALLY Needs to Know (But Didn’t Learn in College).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So Then something changed, said Melody Lee, the district’s learning director.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Here are just a few of their stories.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2015

In a 2014 Forbes article , Richard Tiland makes some significant points when it comes to video and leadership. We don’t even realize how much we know and learn from video—news, commercials, documentaries, even YouTube. Video tools can also be used as pivotal learning tools that save precious time and money.

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Reading By Example

MAY 2, 2016

She believes that if students do not have a voice and choice in their learning, then all of the focus on the core academics will not amount to much. As a principal in a Title I elementary school, I can attest to the needs of these students. We have implemented a plan that has started to better engage all learners.

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Reading By Example

MAY 2, 2016

She believes that if students do not have a voice and choice in their learning, then all of the focus on the core academics will not amount to much. As a principal in a Title I elementary school, I can attest to the needs of these students. We have implemented a plan that has started to better engage all learners.

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esri

MAY 23, 2016

Dateline Washington DC, The White House, May 27, 2014: President Obama welcomes Esri to the ConnectED Initiative , a partnership with private industry to help all US K12 students engage in digital learning. At the 2014 launch, focus was on the potential “ billion dollar commitment.”

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2021

Train for transformation with professional learning focused on cultural competency and implicit bias. Provide mental health and behavioral support for students and teachers. Respect: Students wanted teachers to know who they are as individuals and know who their teachers are as well. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Today’s educators work hard to balance both the increasing demands of blended and digital learning and the best curriculum and instruction for their students. Research shows that current models of professional development calls for collaboration, active engagement, and collective culture-building during such a transition.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

LearnPlatform, founded in 2014 and based in Raleigh, N.C., An accelerator that works with nonprofits is a rarity in the industry, says Peter Gault of Quill.org, a nonprofit that provides writing and grammar activities to help students in elementary, middle and high school. Boddle Learning (Kansas City, Mo.)

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MindShift

MAY 5, 2017

One district employee was smiling about how there were elementary and secondary teachers connecting and sharing: “Where else do you see this?” The session on grant writing, for example, was a dud because everyone there wanted to learn how to write them and nobody knew where to start. — Rich Hovey (@TeacherHovey) November 8, 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Schools are required to spend at least 20 percent of these federal funds on academic catch up programs for students, and the U.S. Salvatore was born in Italy and immigrated to the United States when he was 15 in 2014. Then, in the spring of 2020 when the pandemic erupted, Soka sent students home. Each was by chance.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. They are now in their fifth year of 1:1 with iPads for grades K-12, and have designed learning environments to create student engagement.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In partnering with Common Sense Education since 2014 for our inaugural Digital Citizenship Week (DCW), we have remained committed to cultivating the empowering and collaborative practices of online engagement and technology use throughout our schools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Additionally, mobile devices were provided to additional subject areas, including laptops to all elementary schools. From 2014 to 2018, the subject areas and grade levels in which the district deployed mobile devices have shown consistent increase in student achievement on state assessments and end-of-course assessments.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

.” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S. FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“Teachers would tell me at conferences what I needed to help my son with, they would tell me how he was behaving and everything they did in class, like what they were studying,” said Carolina Rosales, a mother of two elementary-school kids. We cannot reduce our students to becoming letters and numbers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

. — Last year, a student in Yvonne Steadman’s Kindergarten class began missing a lot of days. Steadman, who teaches at Mendell Elementary School in this highly-diverse Boston neighborhood, passed along her concerns to a colleague, Madeline Gillespie, a family support coordinator.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2017

In 2014 Jill Gierasch could see the writing on the wall—students from her New York school district were saturated in technology at home, but that wasn’t the case at school. when choosing technology, educators need to consider whether a tool is a fad or something that can prepare students for the future.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Silent reading is unconstrained by the mechanics of speech production and can be faster than oral reading by as much as 30 percent, according to a 2014 study published in Literacy Research and Instruction. This peaceful moment of learning can be a welcome respite for teachers and students alike. helped them to learn how to read.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Four-year-olds pretend they are growing tall, like plants, in a science lesson that involves a rich vocabulary, hands-on learning and student engagement. Student engagement and positive reinforcement like this, experts say, is a sign of a quality prekindergarten program. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. BROOKLYN, N.Y. —

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Achieve3000 is the leading literacy solution in blended learning programs today, specializing in cloud-based, differentiated learning solutions for school-aged youth as well as adult learners. Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

Vodicka along with Erik Burmeister, Superintendent, and Theresa Fox, Coordinator of Technology and Innovation, both from Menlo Park City School District, CA, agreed that if 80% of students are graduating, then 20% of students are not graduating and that educational professionals can’t be satisfied with these statistics.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

She is passionate about creating equitable and inclusive school environments that celebrate teacher and student voice, and she serves as Leading Educator Ambassador for Equity for the Education Civil Rights Alliance. Monica is the 2014 Texas Teacher of the Year. Kelisa Wing has been an educator for 12 years. Join the Community.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Stephen’s Episcopal Day School hosted Miami Device , a conference held on their campus November 6 & 7, 2014. Felix Jacomino , the school’s Director of Technology, managed to lead a team that pulled off an incredible learning event. Learn about the many creative ways teachers can use Google Forms with their classes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

Design creative ways to advocate and implement global learning initiatives. Network with innovative and inspiring teachers, principals, district leaders, thought leaders, and education organizations from around the country and the world committed to educating students for a diverse, global society.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2017

For this reason, few empirical studies may be more detrimental to encouraging the use of technology in education than Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) “The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard” as well as Carter, Greenberg and Walker’s (2016) “Effect of Computer Usage on Academic Performance.”

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

NEW YORK — One morning, just before classes at New York City’s Quest to Learn Middle School broke for lunch, Etai Kurtzman found himself transformed into a lemon tree. Attempts to use games as assessments ruin the playful experiences that make them an effective learning tool, he said. Read more about technology in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School. 1 recommendation of new and veteran teachers, as well as district leaders and teacher preparation advisers in focus groups and a survey of more than 6,000 educators that Louisiana undertook in 2014, according to Dietsch. It was the No. But “it’s a starting point.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Traditional teaching methods no longer seem to deliver learning experiences and outcomes that reflect the times. While students gain more control over their learning, the role of the educator becomes more of that of a facilitator. Higher Engagement Levels Students today tend to have a very short attention span.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. Enrollment skyrocketed to nearly 300 students.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” As a result, students engage in academics, athletics and extracurriculars because they “know you care.” Eastwood wants each student to be proficient in math and reading before finishing 5th grade. That even if no one in these students’ families attended college, they can be different.

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MindShift

JUNE 12, 2017

Neuroscience isn’t on many elementary school lesson plans. Sarah Wechsler, an instructional coach with wide eyes and a marathoner’s energy, asks the students to think about the development and progress that they’ve made already in their lives. “They were struggling with learning. “Brains are pink!”

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