The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Parents created Facebook groups to oppose the changes. I have spent my career studying this question and, although the logic of separate classes seems strong, evidence leads us in a different direction. Many believe that children learn more effectively in schools or classes with similar learners, but are they right?

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Groups Study Report Facebook 89

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Tokyo-based adaptive study tool Cerego has operations in San Francisco. Last year, Tokyo-based Arcterus won the Global Edtech Startup Awards, an annual international competition that began in 2014. When we run ads on Facebook, we pitch ourselves as a coding class,” Tan said. We are not a coding school. But they will for coding.”

Technology 115

Technology Sony Education Industry 115

ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Another study showed that 49% of blended classrooms use online curriculum. Doubling in use from 2013-2014, 20% of digital classroom instructors in the 2015 Speak Up survey were developing their own video content to support the curriculum. Parents surveyed further supported digital video for learning.

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Video Classroom Flipped Classroom Blended Learning 229

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Parents created Facebook groups to oppose the changes. I have spent my career studying this question and, although the logic of separate classes seems strong, evidence leads us in a different direction. Many believe that children learn more effectively in schools or classes with similar learners, but are they right?

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Groups Study Report Facebook 76

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

From my experience observing and studying the use of edtech in schools in urban settings, rural areas, and everywhere in between, it boils down to three things: 1. Digital Tools —from the 2014 - 2015 study, Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instructional Tools. Professional development.

EdTech 60

EdTech Classroom Digital Divide Data 60

The Principal of Change

JULY 10, 2018

At the beginning of July, I started to lead a book study on Instagram on “ The Innovator’s Mindset.” InnovatorsMindset book study happening on July 2 on Instagram. This one by Beth Ludwig is a compilation of her week of learning: Photo collage of my week 1 work for The Innovator’s Mindset book study!!

Learning 40

Learning Study Groups Facebook 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Space for Students Paucek explains that 2U sees students already congregating—on Facebook, on their own or through the partner program. Market Responds 2U made its public debut in March 2014. By contrast, 2U launched four degree programs in 2014). Since then the stock has risen more than four fold. (It

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Company EdTech LMS Software 69

MindShift

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

But a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests many more teenage girls in the U.S. Between 2005 and 2014, the scientists found, rates of depression went up significantly — if extrapolated to all U.S. What’s more, three-fourths of those depressed teens in the study were girls.

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Social Media Comparison Training Facebook 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

She arrived for class one day in the summer of 2014 and was met with chaos. Yet a Hechinger Report review of news reports since 2014 found more than 30 schools like Anamarc that announced their closings with little or no warning. By that summer of 2014, the federal government knew that Anamarc was struggling.

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Report Policies Groups Assessment 99

The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

English teachers should study and understand how writing has changed over the years and have students practice writing in mediums that apply to 2014. How to handle a situation in which a parents sends you a DM on Facebook about their child (yes they can…yes it happens). Blogs, Tweets, Status Updates, images and videos.

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Gamification MOOC Guidelines Report 99

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning looks different in every classroom, but common features include letting students set their own goals, study the curriculum online at their own pace, or decide when to take tests. The goal of this movement is to give students more control over their education and customize lessons based on their needs. Teira Rucker, 11.

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I cannot check Twitter, Facebook or a Google+ Community, so I seek different forms of cognitive engagement, such as connecting with my family more and attending to the immediate experiences in front of me. My initial response is panic (“What if someone is trying to get a hold of me?”). After this is general acceptance of my disconnectedness.

Social Media 28

Social Media Facebook Smartphone Education 28

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I cannot check Twitter, Facebook or a Google+ Community, so I seek different forms of cognitive engagement, such as connecting with my family more and attending to the immediate experiences in front of me. My initial response is panic (“What if someone is trying to get a hold of me?”). After this is general acceptance of my disconnectedness.

Social Media 28

Social Media Facebook Smartphone Education 28

ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The reliably contentious topic of academic workload popped up again thanks to a Twitter debate that began last week and resurfaced many old studies and debates regarding the labor of faculty. Last summer, Natalie Houston recommended a tool for estimating course workload hours for students based on readings and assignments.

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Twitter Course Meeting Study 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Aranda is also part of a Facebook group with other parents of first-generation college students, whom he met through a federal government program called Gear Up. According to one study, a third of first-generation college students drop out within three years. He talks to Alexis nearly every day.

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Report Study Groups Video 111

MindShift

APRIL 4, 2018

A 2014 article from the United Nations states that about 54 percent of the human population lives in urban areas (more by now), a proportion that is projected to increase to 66 percent by 2050. The book lists studies that consistently show a substantial reduction of stress hormones. There is a paradox with living as a human nowadays.

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Study Facebook Twitter Data 47

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 29th, 2014 Teaching is not just a job. Samantha Adams Becker taught the first online course ever to take place in Facebook. Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (10am-2pm ET/ 9am-1pm CT/ 7am-11am PT). GlobalEdCon 2014 - Last Week to Submit Your Proposal.

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Libraries Maker Movement Conference Learning 52

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The essential premise underpinning the use of any Social Web application is that over a period of time it genuinely becomes self-supporting, and that the students will enjoy the freedom to produce their own content and study pathways. Retrieved 7 February, 2014. BMC Medical Education 6, 41. O''Reilly, T. What is Web 2.0. van Dijk, J.

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Wiki Education Facebook Twitter 62

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

As a professor who studies technology integration in K-12 schools, I can say the answer is yes, but there are some critical caveats." Tagged on: August 13, 2017 GitHub: Open Education State Policy Tracking | SPARC and Foresight Law + Policy → Since 2014, SPARC and Foresight Law + Policy have worked to track U.S.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Reading By Example

MAY 10, 2018

This repost would have served as a quick guide of sorts for contributors for our upcoming book study that starts May 14. July 2014). My ignorance as a classroom teacher was quickly revealed to me through our collective study of the reading-writing connection via the Regie Routman in Residence online professional development program.

Elementary 41

Elementary Facebook Study Strategy 41

EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

In 2013-2014, the real beginning of the digital transformation, schools mostly stumbled about as they either considered or implemented a widespread acquisition of computing devices. Facebook sends anniversary videos to keep engagement at a high whine, capturing attention in order to capture everything else you do. The Future.

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Industry Software Data Strategy 100

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. This summer, for the first time, nine students will study abroad. It also organizes weeklong internships and job shadowing during school breaks.

Robotics 87

Robotics STEM Company Software 87

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

Triumphant members of La Raza and the University of Texas-Austin Class of 2014 pause for a photo. Facebook tells me another is a pilot. And Eduardo Rios, 20, is still in school, studying business. Members of La Raza kayak on Barton Springs in Austin with visiting friends from home during Spring Break 2014. AUSTIN, Tex.

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Groups Facebook Report Study 77

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

She has taught English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film, Journalism, and enjoys writing, illustrating, and cooking in her free time. Learn more or connect with Amanda on Twitter @ AmandaFoxSTEM Brad Weinstein Brad Weinstein founded TeacherGoals in 2014 as a way to inspire educators that do such important work with students.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 29, 2015

More than once, a relative referenced a picture and/or comment one of us made on Facebook (usually about our kids). Cindy Truett (@cindytruett) August 9, 2014. A5: If schools leverage the power of @twitter @facebook @RemindHQ the rest of connectedness will take care of itself #satchatoc. How should we be defining connectedness

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Social Media Facebook EdTech Twitter 28

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Long before Lockett knew where he’d go to college, he knew what he wanted to study. “I Lockett researched science and technology fields his sophomore year and decided on bioengineering, a discipline that combines science and math to study living things. News and World Report’s list — but he didn’t feel at home when he toured in 2014.

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Report Libraries Data Analysis 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Take a game like, ‘Do I have a Right?’ ” said Brian Furgione, a middle-school social studies teacher near Orlando, Florida. “In The site encourages teachers to contribute their own approaches via Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks. Indeed, teachers often use iCivics games as a prelude to more topical class conversations.

Education 73

Education Social Media Policies Survey 73

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update May 27th, 2014 The secret of education is respecting the pupil. Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Gaming in Ed , September 15th - 19th, 2014 Upcoming deadlines: The Call for Proposals for the inaugural Gaming in Ed conference is now open.

Libraries 55

Libraries Conference Game-Based Learning Education 55

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

According to a recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health , 1 out of 9 children self-reported a suicide attempt before graduating high school; with forty percent of those children in grade school. Website: [link] Twitter: @iFredorg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ ifredorg. Culture Sociology culture whole child'

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Facebook Tools Twitter Study 40

Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

This is especially true because many people think that technology or the study of technology is new, perhaps beginning with the microcomputer explosion of the early 80s or the development of the World Wide Web in the early 90s. Youths’ use of CMC : Although the majority of students enrolled in U.S. Technology in U.S.

Technology 71

Technology MOOC Industry Social Media 71

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 13, 2014

Thursday, May 15th in Indianapolis, IN CoSN - 2014 Indiana CTO Clinic , This year''s Indiana CTO Clinic will focus on "Constantly Learning. Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Read more at [link]. Join the session here. Courageously Leading." Tune in here. Join the session here.

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Conference UDL Libraries Learning 54

Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

Below, I share some quotes from early-late 20th century sources that would be at home in an article, book, or blog post written in 2014. We’ve worried whether Google is making us stupid and we’ve often worried if Facebook is demeaning the value and meaning of friendship. Instead, grades are.

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MOOC Conference Learning Analytics Facebook 67

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

NEW YORK — While studying abroad last year, Swarthmore College senior Chinyere Odim met Valerie Smith, the first black president of her largely white liberal arts college. Oliver’s first challenge: a community message addressing a black Pitzer student’s widely publicized Facebook post requesting a non-white roommate.

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Survey Data Report Study 40

The Principal of Change

JULY 7, 2017

In one of my favorite experiments, a group of Vanderbilt University researchers in 2008 published a study in which several dozen 4- and 5-year-olds were shown patterns of colored bugs and asked to predict which would be next in the sequence. Not because I pay them or I compelled them to do so, but because they want to help.

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Edcamps Social Media Facebook Groups 73

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

Geo-educators can join the community through a variety of online platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and the secure educator site, Edmodo ( www.geo-educatorcommunity.org ). Reinventing the Classroom , May 1st, 2014 Upcoming deadlines: Presentation proposals will be accepted between now and April 25th for Reinventing the Classroom.

Libraries 59

Libraries Common Core Classroom Digital Citizenship 59

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Smith is not one for silence ( he delivered a TED talk about the “danger of silence” in 2014 , in fact) and has used digital venues including Twitter to encourage others to speak up and recognize how history shapes the present. There’s also something else he brings up—his beliefs, specifically his concerns that educators across the U.S.

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Twitter Technology Learning Advocacy 86

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. This summer, for the first time, nine students will study abroad. It also organizes weeklong internships and job shadowing during school breaks.

STEM 38

STEM Robotics Company Software 38