The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Wednesday, November 18th, is day three of the sixth annual Global Education Conference. Thomas Petra ‏ @ RealWorldMath 6h 6 hours ago Day 2 of the Global Educ Conference. We've had two great days of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Across the nation, district equity discussions include how schools must examine current biases from bus stops to classroom materials to educator and staff expectations. Instead, said Duchesneau, educators and staff need to recognize cultural and contextual differences and how they impact students. and “Are they learning enough?”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

The magazine’s “30 Under 30” list, which highlights young leaders in fields such as technology, music and healthcare, added education to the list in 2013 and since then has grown from nearly 90 nominations in 2014 to more than 450 last year. The Students Unique this year are the honorees working on education from the inside: students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Earlier this week, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative named Sandra Liu Huang as its head of education, filling a vacancy created when Jim Sheldon, the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, left the organization this summer. The development of the technology platform has been run by CZI since 2017.)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Thursday, November 19th, is the fourth and final day of the sixth annual Global Education Conference ! Thursday, November 18th ( US-Eastern Time ) 12:00 AM Dialogue Culture in Education - PhD Galina Pokhmelkina Exploring Global Learning Opportunities - Nikolette Grace A. Mohammad Dayem Adnan.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You can change one simple thing to help transform your classroom. Thank you, Pam for your time and wisdom and I hope everyone has enjoyed this four-part series with a truly remarkable educator. Vicki: So, educators, we’ve gotten so many great thoughts here. Sponsor: The US Matific Games are coming this February. Vicki: Yeah.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

HAMILTON, Ohio — Suzanne Prescott first noticed the changes in children’s behaviors in 2015. In some cases, staff had to evacuate entire classrooms to ensure the safety of the other children in their care. She attributes this shift to the onslaught of the opioid epidemic, adding that “we saw behaviors in every single classroom we had.”

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As protests against racial injustice spread to communities large and small in this year, many educators have been pushed to examine how systemic racism harms students. Some have publicly proclaimed the steps they will take to create anti-racist schools , including diversifying classroom and library bookshelves. More than half of U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

to use in their classroom. The 2015 film chronicles the life of eighteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and an outspoken advocate for girls’ education across the world. The campaign has had significant impact for educators who screened the film and brought Malala’s story into their classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Students can co-create curriculum and their classrooms with teachers for powerful learning experiences. Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. Higher Education. African-Americans comprised 10 percent of freshmen at Ole Miss in 2015, an 8-percentage-point drop since 2010. .

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. READ THE SERIES.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

In 2015, Vanessa Ford’s 4-year-old came out as transgender. Even though she had spent 14 years as an educator at D.C. In March, at ASCD Empower, which is a conference for educators with a focus on equity, she presented with Becca Mui, an education manager at GLSEN , an LGBTQ advocacy group focused on schools.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

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Kathy Schrock

AUGUST 1, 2019

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in August 2019 and is re-posted here with permission. _ As you grab those last days of summer vacation, remember how far we have come with meaningful technology use in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

during the 2015-16 school year were women. during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. Department of Education, “preschool teachers are paid less than mail order clerks, tree trimmers and pest control workers.”

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 19, 2017

In 2015 I was attending a training program called Women in Leadership. I was inspired and immediately began blogging on a number of topics, primarily on a professional level, aiming to train my employees, promote myself as a conference presenter and educator, and most importantly, to advocate for early childhood education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. A new report from SETDA and Common Sense Kids Action focuses on K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity, state leadership for infrastructure, state broadband implementation highlights, and state advocacy for federal broadband support.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. ” Many educators were angered , insisting that this wasn’t their fault. I get that.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The ninth annual Global Education Conference starts this coming Monday! This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. The hidden treasure of the Global Education Conference is volunteering--you will love it! LOTS of information below! Go to [link] 4.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Sitting quietly at the back of the room is no longer an option in classrooms that prize student engagement. But the classroom visit persuaded Picard. All of us deciding together.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. As I eventually wrote in Open educational resources: Undertheorized research and untapped potential : Many of the articles reviewed in Hilton (2016), including some articles on which I was an author, are woefully undertheorized.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, blended learning is a style of education in which students learn via electronic and online media and traditional face-to-face teaching. Educational content needs to be available outside of the classroom and easy to access. By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

This is part ten of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Perhaps it’s no surprise that there was so much talk this year about education, technology, and emotional health. All the talk of the importance of “emotion” in education reflects other trends too. They turn into products.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

That philosophy is also reflected in his district’s emphasis on viewing education through a social justice lens. This involves eliminating and dismantling systemic and systematic discriminatory practices and services that prevent students from receiving a premier educational experience. An educator for more than 20 years, Dr. Baron R.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

In order to address education equity, administrators must first recognize the common barriers. Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. Does everyone feel valued? Noguera, Ph.D.,

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I want to share a number of databases of incredible resources for any digital classroom. I am almost booked through August and am already taking fall dates for 2015 – Mike. I have traveled many places where educators have stated how much they enjoyed the Thinkfinity Search Engine. s of workshops and presentations.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

While there are many factors that play into this dismal outcome, according to the 2015 ACT College Choice Report , research has shown that one issue is the alignment (or lack of alignment) between a student’s core interests and their chosen major. When it is missing, students battle to complete their education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

These tenets hold as true for education apps as they do for those in the consumer market, privacy experts contend. Today, the Apple app store alone features more than 75,000 education apps. There’s not enough time in the day for educators to read each company’s privacy policy. Some apps do more harm than good.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Before, librarians or education leaders could say, well, we think that most of the schools that have a high number of Hispanic students don’t have school librarians. Many librarians and education leaders will say that we’re losing school librarians because library aides and paraprofessionals are now being hired to run the library.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

The changes altered the educational landscape, inspiring educators to embrace new instructional methods and carry them over to their classrooms once they returned to normalcy. Even though many had been using technology in the classroom, they were not ready for the full-on virtual digital learning environment COVID demanded.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Domenech cited an estimate that as many as 14 million students still don’t have the equipment they need to receive an equitable education in areas where schools may be closed. And it is intended to make sure students have a high-quality educational experience no matter which scenario is in effect, or for how long.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A critical topic for schools, communities, and most importantly, our students, is what teachers do in the classroom to nurture ALL students, create a sense of belonging, and keep educational standards high. She is a 2015 Milken Unsung Hero Fellow and a 2015 NEA Foundation Global Fellow. ” You Can’t Look Away.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students.

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