21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 9, 2016

As you read through them please keep in mind that some were new in 2015. Others were ones that I must have waited until 2015 to discover! Reflecting on 2015… Ten Resources I Found Valuable (This is just a small listing of ten…. In this post I would like to share some of my favorite resource finds of the past year.

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Resources Digital Citizenship STEM Conference 60

100mentors

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your learners as individuals through differentiated instruction.

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Flipped Classroom Differentiated Instruction How To Learning 78

100mentors

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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Flipped Classroom Differentiated Instruction How To Learning 68

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

“Based on the results of our assessment, teacher candidates possess a shallow understanding of basic principles of learning science – and, perhaps as a result, they struggle to make instructional decisions that are consistent with our best scientific understanding of how students learn,” the report said.

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Learning Report Differentiated Instruction Assessment 143

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In 2015, Temple High School was chosen to be a Raising Blended Learners pilot site through Raise Your Hand Texas. For the next two years, we had 13 teachers experiment with innovative instructional models and new ways to leverage technology to enhance instruction. Blended learning for everyone.

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Blended Learning Learning Differentiated Instruction Education Elements 111

Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in. To get Lumio for FREE, head to Lum.io

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Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment Training 86

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Mobile App Top 50 Sites/Apps of 2015 * Seesaw - Excellent free mobile app (Android/iOS) for students creating digital portfolio w/ educational portal. Help Teaching - A very nice site for educational resources, printables, assessments, and more. Xtranormal) by typing a script. . Be sure to check out JellyBean Writer too!!

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Android iPad Game-Based Learning Differentiated Instruction 28

N2Y

MAY 21, 2020

While unifying the entire stakeholder team, it supports teachers with time-saving, standards-aligned, differentiated instruction and assessment; compliance reporting; behavior management; relevant symbol-supported resources; weekly current events; and skill building games—all powered by best-in-class professional development.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Data Assessment Differentiated Instruction MOOC 77

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Differentiated instruction and Response to Intervention (RTI) share a common goal: modifying instruction until it meets the needs of all learners. In 2016, 77 percent of fifth graders in San Elizario Independent School District (ISD) successfully passed the STAAR science test, up from 57 percent in 2015. What changed?

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 71

eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2015

MobyMax, developer of personalized and blended learning curriculum for K-8 students, is kicking off the 2015-2016 school year by releasing a new Touch Curriculum technology that uses more than 20,000 cognitive skill manipulatives to deepen students’ mastery of science concepts. New K-8 curriculum uses manipulatives to target science mastery.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind in 2015, encourages the incorporation of arts and design into the curriculum by citing states’ obligation to support arts education programs in public schools. Secretary of Education John B. You can learn more about these fully online programs here.

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Learning STEM Differentiated Instruction Study 100

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance. We can channel that money, instead of building new jails and prisons, to educating the children that are in those jails and are not being served.

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Dropout 98

eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Piedmont partnered with us to differentiate instruction for 300 students, and Piedmont students who are using eSpark have grown an average of 13 percentile points on national assessments in 2014. Under Matt Akin’s guidance, we’ve honed our ability to launch and support rural and remote districts from our office in Chicago.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Elementary Personalized Learning 90

eSpark

APRIL 18, 2016

The administrators, teachers, and students in these communities inspire us every day to keep pushing the boundaries of what it means to differentiate instruction and create lifelong learners. In 2015 Mineola UFSD put an end to the summer slide , solving one of the biggest challenges that high performing districts face.

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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. Our differentiated instruction solutions will give these kindergarteners-to-be the right start on the road to college and career success.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

But that’s due to completely revamping their reading courses in 2015. Then they created a second course that built on the foundations course, on how to use assessment data and differentiated instruction to target students who were struggling. . Could teacher training change how many American kids are able to read well?

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Training Elementary Course Report 68

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary became one of five schools in the Dallas Independent School District to pilot personalized learning in 2015-16, principal Lisa Lovato said she and her team grappled with decisions on granular issues, such as “How long should it take a kindergartner to log into a computer?” Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 102

Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Pick and play games for intentional moments in the classroom, such formative assessment, differentiated instruction, and reflection to name a few. Student Digital Portfolios - Rethinking Assessment Using Google and iPads by Holly Clark This session discussed the importance of student-created digital portfolios.

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Resources iPad Mobility eBook 91

Reading By Example

JUNE 17, 2015

Stage 2: The teacher crafts a performance task that reliably assesses whether or not each student truly understands the content and skills of focus. Students can benefit from this type of instructional planning because it gives them better opportunities to develop mastery in a specific topic of study.

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Differentiated Instruction Common Core Study Assessment 28

ExcelinEd

AUGUST 10, 2015

Originally published October 2012, updated and re-released Summer 2015. This paper is one of nine in the DLN Smart Series – a collection of interactive papers that provides specific guidance regarding the adoption of higher standards and quality assessments focusing on the shift to personal digital learning. Download the full paper.

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Data Differentiated Instruction Digital Learning EdTech 28

MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

The study looked at data for over five million students in grades 3 through 8 who had taken NWEA’s MAP Growth assessments in 2017-2018. Research-based nonprofit NWEA just published a research brief on the potential effects of school closures on academic growth. There is a lot of debate about summer learning loss, though. Additional Resources.

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Meeting Digital Divide Education STEM 61

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Another 2015 study shows that only 30% of teachers improve substantially with PD. In my own experience, I remember sitting through a class on differentiated instruction. To further make this point, let’s discuss what differentiation is. Formative assessment can help teachers understand how students are learning.

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Edcamps Game-Based Learning Conference Differentiated Instruction 288

eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

As a result of Larkin’s innovations regarding district staff’s strategic collaboration, professional development and investment in evidence-based practice, students with disabilities made double-digit gains in reading and math on the NAEP assessments. Between 2011 and 2015, students in fourth grade made the third largest gains in the nation.

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Education Differentiated Instruction Company Assessment 98

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

These taxonomies can be used to plan units, lessons, assessments, and other teaching and learning processes. According to Vahid Motamedi of Tarbiat Moallem University, “Mastery learning is a method of instruction where the focus is on the role of feedback in learning. Mastery Learning. ” (12). Model-Based Learning.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

“Students who participated in our district’s Achieve3000 pilot program as recommended realized significant overall Lexile gains that allowed us to accelerate their literacy instruction. As a result, our district expanded the use of Acieve3000 to schools throughout our district this school year.”. fourth-grade science and social studies.

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Differentiated Instruction Learning Study Assessment 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

To differentiate instruction, teachers can use the PEAK Library to customize courses using FuelEd content, teacher-created content, open education resources, or other third-party content. The school will be accepting enrollment applications through September 28, 2015.

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Differentiated Instruction Online Learning Case Study Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Truesdell was one of the first public schools outside of Summit’s own charter network to adopt the Summit Learning platform in 2015. Before using Summit, Truesdell already had mentorship groups, used project-based learning, had teachers differentiating instruction, and worked with a competency-based grading system called Mastery Connect.

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Personalized Learning Differentiated Instruction Elementary Data 109

eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

Migrating to a single platform for assessment, data analysis, and instruction has simplified most everything for one district. They have to plan instruction for all of their classes. They have to tie this instruction to rigorous state and national standards. They have to differentiate instruction for every child.

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LMS Differentiated Instruction Assessment Software 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The shift in mindset involves moving away from a teaching model that is centered on curriculum and meeting benchmarks toward being student-centered in ways that demand differentiated instruction based on a child’s interests, strengths, weaknesses and background. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Elementary 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Testing and Assessment ? What You Say and What They Hear: A Challenge for Teachers and Instructional Coaches Sugata Mitra : Can Kids Teach Themselves? Special Needs ? Strengths-based Education ? Student 2.0 ? Student Entrepreneurship ? Teacher 2.0 ? Teaching Online ? Temperament and Learning Styles ? Unschooling ? Virtual Schooling ?

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The shift in mindset involves moving away from a teaching model that is centered on curriculum and meeting benchmarks toward being student-centered in ways that demand differentiated instruction based on a child’s interests, strengths, weaknesses and background. Much of this may sound familiar to teachers of special education.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

MindShift

AUGUST 26, 2015

In the spring of 2015, Denver elementary teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to complete this sentence in writing: “I wish my teacher knew. ” It cuts back on classroom management problems, motivates students to work harder, helps us more effectively differentiate instruction, and generally makes school a better place to be for everyone.

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Data How To Survey Differentiated Instruction 28

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2016

Little was left to the imagination when, in 2015, a controversial virtual reality simulator titled 08:46 put users in the perspective of an office worker trapped in the World Trade Center. It also may help realize the elusive dream of truly differentiated instruction, making learning a happier and more equitable place.

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