21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 9, 2016

I have enjoyed sharing with you in the past year, and look forward to new opportunities and educational possibilities as we proceed into the New Year. 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!

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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

Hapara

AUGUST 17, 2022

Has your school district started to use open educational resources (OER) yet? Maybe educators in your district have collaborated on finding and curating openly-licensed nonfiction or fiction, videos, images, simulations or audio clips to add to lessons. Education funding is always top-of-mind.

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OER Differentiated Instruction Hapara Resources 157

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

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Here's our list of 2015's most wow-worthy websites and web-based edtech tools: A.D.A.M. Dedicated tools just for education help teachers and students harness the site's best features in a smaller, safer space. Price: Free (for educators), $49/student; Platform: Download; Grades: 6-12. Interactive Anatomy Online.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. This isn’t to say we’ve fixed all the infrastructural or the many other challenges in public education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I want to help educators be excellent every day. NASA mars scientists posted at 1:30 pm on 9/28/2015 just a few hours after it was announced that liquid water was found on MARS — that they would be answering questions on Reddit. 10 Questioning Strategies to Differentiate Instruction | Minds in Bloom.

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Trends Education Outcomes Mobility 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Stuart Udell has overseen nearly two dozen mergers and acquisitions across his career in the education industry, which spans stints at Penn Foster, Catapult Learning and K12 Inc. In 2015, the company was acquired by private equity firm Insight Venture Partners. Stuart adds Achieve3000 is “nicely profitable.”)

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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.

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Android iPad Game-Based Learning Differentiated Instruction 28

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. That’s why we began working with Education Elements in 2016.

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Blended Learning Learning Differentiated Instruction Education Elements 106

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

When it comes to their children’s education, parents are like drug-sniffing dogs. Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. When Dan D.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 98

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

As educators, we always encourage our students to work together; we promise them two heads are better than one. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. .

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How To Differentiated Instruction Common Core Groups 129

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

A theme here at Proof Points is that many things that go on at schools are at odds with the conclusions of rigorous education research. However, experts say schools of education — the institutions that train teachers — often don’t do that. Higher Education. Most anti-bullying programs don’t work.

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Learning Report Differentiated Instruction Assessment 143

District Administration

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This web seminar, originally broadcast on November 4, 2015, explored some of the keys to using blended and online learning effectively to drive academic growth in any school system.

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Online Learning Differentiated Instruction Blended Learning Learning 40

Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Providing whole class instruction, small groups, assign differentiated instruction, collaborative work, or individual practice. Educators want their students to be less a consumer of knowledge and more a creator of learning. A difficult task for many educators. Monica holds a Ph.D.

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Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment Training 86

Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

More than 340,000 students, educators and parents have “spoken” so far as part of this year’s Speak Up surveys about how they use – and how they would like to use – technology for learning. See a short video of the findings and the Speak Up 2014 Snapshots for Educators blog post. Today’s findings are about teachers.

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Classroom Survey Differentiated Instruction Blackboard 136

N2Y

MAY 21, 2020

Huron, Ohio— Business Wire n2y, an innovator in the fields of special education and virtual learning, had the honor of receiving the 2020 CODiE Awards in the Best Solution for Exceptional Students category for its Total Solution, and Best Data Solution category for Positivity ®. About the SIIA CODiE Awards.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

This situation has sparked a lot of conversation across the education landscape about how student learning will be impacted. At MIND, we know that school closures are exacerbating the existing problems with both traditional math education, and with society’s relationship with math. Unequally.” And access by itself is not enough.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. During the 2015-16 school year, teachers began using STEMscopes Texas as their primary science curriculum. What changed?

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To this end, we began using Renaissance Star Assessments districtwide in the 2015–2016 school year. In the past couple of years, we have also implemented a scripted data-driven instruction (DDI) protocol to guide conversations that we hold in our professional learning communities (PLCs).

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Data Assessment Differentiated Instruction Mobility 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Sifting out solutions from the struggle may help solve chronic problems of quality and equity, say education experts. After a moment of disruption – of major disruption – the conditions are ripe for accelerating innovation,” says Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. “We Learning from Lockdown.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

with Michelle Sigmann, Vice Principal in Ontario 10:00 AM - Differentiated instruction: Making the most out of learners' individual differences with Thuy Thi Hieu Tran, M.A., Her scholarly work has appeared in journals such as Cognitive Development, Harvard Educational Review, and the American Education Research Journal.

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Conference Education Differentiated Instruction Learning 36

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The need for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is critical, especially because there will be more than 3 million job openings in STEM-related fields by 2018. But administrators and policy makers now recognize the benefits of integrating arts education into STEM subjects. Secretary of Education John B.

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Learning STEM Differentiated Instruction Study 100

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 31, 2015

I want to take a break from my Over 70 STEM Resource Series to have a conversation on Personalized Learning and its relationship to the Walls of education. Not only is Andrew a friend, but he is an wonderful educator, writing and providing PD for BIE (Buck Institute), ASCD, and Edutopia.

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Personalized Learning Differentiated Instruction STEM Learning 60

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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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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Differentiated Instruction Professional Learning Meeting Advocacy 82

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

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. 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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The product allows students who need remediation or acceleration opportunities to soar, and teachers can personalize students’ learning to support their established classroom instruction. During the 2015-16 school year, the district won a grant allowing our K-3 students unlimited access to myON’s digital library. Winston, Ph.D.

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Laptops Libraries Differentiated Instruction Accessibility 72

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5 But for others, the teacher is still central to the picture, using technology as a means to support differentiated instruction.

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Personalized Learning Education Elements Learning Outcomes 124

eSpark

APRIL 18, 2016

For the past five years, Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools has set a standard for innovation in public education. 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.

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eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The trajectory of eSpark Learning has been marked by what I like to call “magic moments,” instances in which fearless educators and administrators have aligned with our team to work towards a vision in which every student, regardless of circumstance or background, has the opportunity to set and realize an ambitious dream. Mundelein, Illinois.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Elementary iPad 90

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full – Mike. Also, find professional development resources such as a video on differentiated instruction or a tutorial on what engineering might look like in your classroom. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Sign Up Now!

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STEM Resources UDL Differentiated Instruction 60

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0;

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0;

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Our differentiated instruction solutions will give these kindergarteners-to-be the right start on the road to college and career success. We are looking forward to supporting Virginia Beach’s students and parents, as well as their dedicated educators, with this new initiative.”.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

They found that undergraduate university education programs were more likely to offer scientific-based courses, with 57% earning an “A” or “B” rating. Of the 674 K-2 and special education elementary teachers surveyed by the EdWeek Research Center , 72 percent said their schools use balanced literacy.

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