21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 8, 2015

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 24, 2015

This is a follow up to a previous post about our school’s collective efforts to increase student engagement in reading, especially in their dispositions around talking about and sharing their reading lives. The Common Core State Standards were a primary focus. Our students’ work followed suit.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, a bipartisan bill designed to address the shortcomings of No Child Left Behind. “ These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

The designers behind Quest to Learn believe that student engagement is so significantly enhanced by narrative role-play, analog games and digital games that every subject — from health to math — begins or ends with a game. Etai Kurtzman, 12, at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. It’s the exact opposite.”.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

The Promise of the Maker Movement for Education (Lee Martin, University of California-Davis, in the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2015.). Sewing Electronics in Science Class: Improving Student Interest in Science (Jiangyue Gu, Colby Tofel-Grehl, Deborah A. What Exactly Is the Maker Movement?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Over six thousand classes submitted podcast entries to the 2018 NPR Student Podcast Challenge. This upswell really began around the launch of the popular podcast Serial in 2015. Podcasting can also address Common Core State Standards, including key speaking and listening skills.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

In 2015, the Idaho state legislature approved 19 incubator programs to explore the practice inside its schools. Under the federal education bill passed in 2015, states are permitted to forgo single end-of-year subject tests and use more nuanced measures instead. It’s the narrative we want to change. 442, teachers said.

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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. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. Online Grade Portals.

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