Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

The headings I use to organize my thinking come from Appendix A of Regie Routman’s excellent resource Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success (ASCD, 2014). It is a process that respects both the teacher and students. Consider yourself warned: This is a longer post. Routman, p.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

But there are a few things we know for certain: Textbook and tuition costs are too high, student engagement is too low, and students want choice in how they learn. Between 2013 and 2014, the U.S. According to a 2014 study , 90 percent of surveyed institutions required faculty to be on campus to teach online classes.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This was in 2014 when digital learning was still a growing trend and the daily challenges ranged from frozen screens and lost passwords to content filtering, and more. Even back then, I was not alone in finding my footing – according to a 2016 Digital Educational Survey , almost half of classrooms were using a digital device every day.

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MindShift

AUGUST 31, 2020

About 73% of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children live in homes where family members do not regularly sign, according to a 2014 national survey by Gallaudet University. Here are six ASL resources to help Deaf students engage with books and storytelling during distance learning.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

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. Ordonez is able to organize information and present students with a brief introduction on topics ranging from architecture to ancient history.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Students worked on documentaries about race and diversity and a Nobel Prize–winning poet, conducted science experiments, and designed things like a new food waste disposal system for the campus and a low-cost hand prosthetic. 2 Those activities often end up being the most rewarding parts of college.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

Synchronous components of hybrid courses also provide an opportunity for instructors to better ensure students are meeting listening and speaking standards embedded within Idaho Core Standards. But don’t take solely our word for it—hear how the students responded. TEACHERS KNOW BEST, 2015.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I spoke with biology instructor Kathy Watkins and Associate Dean of STEM Bruce Johnson about how CPCC is hoping to transform a biology survey class using adaptive technology. Watkins and Johnson highlight how adaptive tools create more enriching learning environments, improve teaching and learning, and save students money.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 5, 2015

Piloted in Allegheny County in Summer 2014 collaboration with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, the program uses the Quest model’s game-like approach to help teachers design powerful game-based and game-like learning experiences for their students. What does the change look like? About the Teaching With Games Series.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

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. Related: This may be the best way to train teachers, but can we afford it?

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

Between 2014-2016 the University of South Australia has been using the pedagogy associated with both playing and designing LBMLGs to blaze a trail that is informing the development of a contextually-based mobile learning framework for higher education. Professor Thomas Maak, Professor in Responsible Leadership, University of South Australia.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Myriad focus groups and public opinion surveys point to other reasons for the dramatic downward trend. In Alabama, recent high school graduates’ college-going in 2020 fell to 54 percent, down 11 percentage points since 2014; and in Idaho, to 39 percent, down 11 percentage points since 2017.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

Student engagement suffered. Over time, the need to quickly adapt led to heightened online student engagement, according to a CatchOn survey of 47 school districts from January 2020 to January 2021. Logged On but Logged Out: Are Students Engaged? Metropolitan Area (DMV) in both 2014 and 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. McIntosh asked, prompting students to draw lessons from the comic books in front of them. Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

From 2014 to 2016, Ebola ravaged several West African countries, killing thousands and spreading isolated cases to both Europe and the United States. The student engagement was so strong. The student engagement was so strong. “Remember,” Ross said to her class at one point, “all these numbers represent people.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

I’ve had students engage in peer-editing using cloud-based word processing on their phones, for example. I’ve also heard and read about other educators using phones for exciting applications: connecting students to content experts via social media, recording practice presentations and creating “how-to” videos for science experiments.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The Need for Religious Literacy for Student Global Competence, Religion Matters The Things They Carried: A Refugee Project , Lisa C. program in 2014, Courtney returned to her alma mater as the 9th grade African American History/ Human Geography teacher. Social Studies Teacher Licensure to become an educator. After completing her M.Ed.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2014, the college and career planning startup ConnectEDU filed for bankruptcy , as it struggled to make good on its debts despite having raised some $61 million in venture funding. ConnectEDU.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A year after filing a lawsuit against UCLA , two graduate students who said a professor sexually assaulted and harassed them will receive a combined $460,000 as part of a settlement agreement, the university said in a statement on Friday.” Meanwhile on Campus. But rah rah rah!

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