21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 2, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 2: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Part 2: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Crash Course.

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Reading By Example

JANUARY 25, 2015

Book Review: Unmistakable Impact by Jim Knight ( MiddleWeb , January 22, 2015). Is Facebook the New School Webpage? EdTech – Focus on K-12 , January 20, 2015). Several staff members in our district are using Facebook as a way to quickly communicate school news and student learning with families.

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Facebook Analysis EdTech Study 28

ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In 2015, more than 90% of district administrators said instructional tech is important to achieving their core mission of educating students. In the 2016 Speak Up survey, 68% of teachers said they used online videos in 2015 – compared to 48% in 2010. Another study showed that 49% of blended classrooms use online curriculum.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 3, 2021

Drawing from a larger ethnographic study, Thomas describes how one teachers’ classroom talk included information about his racial identity as a Black man, the identities of students, as well as the identity of a book’s author and characters. Join a discussion with the author at our NWP CoLab via Facebook.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Gisela Quiñones in Indiana has been home-schooling her two children for years and runs a Facebook group for Latino families who home-school. The nonprofit Muslim Homeschool Network now has several thousand likes and follows on its Facebook page. Home school is attractive because you get to spend more time as a family.”. The Siddiquis.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Facebook demands its potential users to be at least 13, but a lot of school kids say they never or rarely use Facebook anyway. Data from Speak Up 2015 National Findings show that 54% of students use YouTube all the time, and almost 40% of them are finding online videos to help with their homework.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Let’s, for instance, take how companies like Google and Facebook “personalize” a user’s web browsing experience through search results, ads and content—and then apply that to instructional experiences. Facebook got slapped for discreetly tinkering with users’ news feeds for a controversial study on emotional manipulation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2017

In an interview with EdSurge, Alexandra Pickett, the Director of New York State University’s Center for Online Teaching Excellence, noted that many of her students know how to use online platforms such as Twitter and Facebook for fun, but have no idea how to leverage them for academic and professional use.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Parents created Facebook groups to oppose the changes. I have spent my career studying this question and, although the logic of separate classes seems strong, evidence leads us in a different direction. Many believe that children learn more effectively in schools or classes with similar learners, but are they right?

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Groups Study Report Facebook 90

Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow. At the end of 2015, there were 188 privacy-related bills in 47 states awaiting deliberation in state legislatures, with 28 new laws having already been implemented. Commit to Long-term Sustainability.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Then in 2015, the company took a gamble: It raised $12 million for its first round of outside investment. Today the company has nearly 60 full-time staff, almost quadruple the number from early 2015. high school students using its studying tools. Then—and now—it ranked among the top 25 most popular U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

which makes weighted blankets and sleep sacks, points to multiple studies about toddlers and adults using weighted blankets on a web page about the product’s safety for infants. The company also includes one infant study as evidence of its products’ safety. I kind of stumbled upon it on Facebook … nobody really talked about safe sleep.”

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Guidelines Study Report Facebook 95

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2023

There, as the sun begins to set on a 70-degree February day, the students in the auto collision repair night class are preparing to spend the next five hours studying. In Tennessee, the state’s overall community college enrollment took a hit during the pandemic, despite a 2015 state program that made community college tuition free.

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Education Study Report Course 141

EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

Having studied geography in college, I find it intuitive to optimize my classroom layout to meet my intended learning objectives. In October of 2015, attending HIVE Hackathon at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the journey of room2learn began. You can follow room2learn on Twitter , Medium and Facebook.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Parents created Facebook groups to oppose the changes. I have spent my career studying this question and, although the logic of separate classes seems strong, evidence leads us in a different direction. Many believe that children learn more effectively in schools or classes with similar learners, but are they right?

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Groups Study Report Facebook 76

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Yet with Google ramping up sales of its Expeditions Kit , and Facebook giving away 500 free Oculus Rift headsets to schools in Arkansas , the number of teachers using VR tools in U.S. According to a 2016 survey of 38,000 U.S. educators, just around 5 percent of teachers said they used any virtual or augmented reality programs in class.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

William Carter, Center for Strategic and International Studies A particularly notable deal this year centers on Edmodo , a cross between a social networking platform and a learning management system for schools that boasts having upwards of 90 million users.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2019

But these teachers are active in private Facebook groups, and they talk about this issue a lot. And then when someone posts, many teachers comment—I would say dozens of teachers comment—on most of these Facebook posts saying, "Yes, it's happened to me. In 2015, China passed a law banning domestic violence. This is what I did."

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

During the 2015-16 school year, I visited schools across the nation to see how technology can transform teaching and learning. Data from the 2015 Teachers Know Best survey , Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Digital Tools —from the 2014 - 2015 study, Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instructional Tools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Tiana Young is a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where a racist Facebook post from a student in the alt-right group Turning Point left the African-American community shaken and frustrated by the school’s lack of public response. According to one recent study , 37.5 Photo: Stuart Miller for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

Superintendent Devin Vodicka, named California’s Superintendent of the Year for 2015 by the Association of California School Administrators, notes that the digital transformation has “driven [his] students outside.” Montgomery students prepare to film their video project for Social Studies, explaining Buddhism and the Eightfold Path.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

If they did, their students wouldn’t be the only ones to benefit; studies show incorporating character education is good for teachers, too. Whether it’s home-grown or off-the-shelf, the possibilities for adding future-ready skills to a science or social studies project are endless. It’s a learning process—and we’re not done learning.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 7, 2019

An email pops up on your desktop screen asking for your 'urgent' attention, Facebook messenger pings on your smartphone telling you someone has responded to your earlier status update. Distractions can also lead to poor decision making and inevitably increase task completion time (Lee and Duffy, 2015). This is a continuation.

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MindShift

JANUARY 21, 2020

That’s a record number, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. A study by AARP found isolation is associated with nearly $7 billion in additional annual spending by Medicare. Founder Trish Lopez pitched the idea at a startup weekend for women entrepreneurs in 2015 after realizing that her mother needed help.

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TeacherCast

JULY 2, 2015

Studyo is a school planner (agenda) adapted to rota)ng day or block schedules and which puts the student at the center of their task and study planning. Facebook: facebook.com/studyoco. Twitter: @StudyoCo Facebook: facebook.com/studyoco Email: info@studyo.co About Studyo. Who we are and what we do. Links of interest.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2017

Co-led by Relay Ventures and Reach Capital, with participation from University Ventures and others, the funding round follows a previous $800,000 that the company pulled after participating in 2015 Techstars accelerator program. Combined, AdmitHub has raised a total $2.95 million in seed funding.

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Company Study EdTech Facebook 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2019

The space, upgraded in the 2015-2016 school year, is continuously changing. From 2015 to 2018, the school resources crowdfunding site DonorsChoose saw requests for funding for flexible furniture balloon from 110 to 21,163. Barrett’s study of 153 U.K. Barrett’s study of 153 U.K.

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Classroom Elementary Report Laptops 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning looks different in every classroom, but common features include letting students set their own goals, study the curriculum online at their own pace, or decide when to take tests. Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 101

The Principal of Change

JULY 10, 2018

At the beginning of July, I started to lead a book study on Instagram on “ The Innovator’s Mindset.” InnovatorsMindset book study happening on July 2 on Instagram. This one by Beth Ludwig is a compilation of her week of learning: Photo collage of my week 1 work for The Innovator’s Mindset book study!!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

You see all your friends on Facebook and Instagram and they’re all graduated and moving out of the state and have jobs and are starting families and I’m not even done with school yet.” Alysia Kennedy, 26, said she chose to enroll at Margrove in 2015 in part because her mother had been one of those 68 women.

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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). Our social media page is HERE with links to Facebook , Google+ , Twitter , and more.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I cannot check Twitter, Facebook or a Google+ Community, so I seek different forms of cognitive engagement, such as connecting with my family more and attending to the immediate experiences in front of me. My initial response is panic (“What if someone is trying to get a hold of me?”). After this is general acceptance of my disconnectedness.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I cannot check Twitter, Facebook or a Google+ Community, so I seek different forms of cognitive engagement, such as connecting with my family more and attending to the immediate experiences in front of me. My initial response is panic (“What if someone is trying to get a hold of me?”). After this is general acceptance of my disconnectedness.

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Social Media Facebook Smartphone Twitter 28

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

DECEMBER 27, 2016

18, 2016. " ' The whole flow of the information is a lot more conversational and a lot more decentralized,' says Rich Edmonds, media analyst at the Poynter Institute. " • Facebook's fake news problem in one chart. 50-minute social studies lesson plan, for grades 7-12. Fast Company, Nov. Jeff Dunn, tech reporter. Business Insider, Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

She’s used Facebook and text messaging to keep in touch with her eighth graders as the district builds online resources and begins to distribute devices to those who need them. as refugees in 2015, is desperate for his youngest son to retain his English skills. My concern is that academically, they are already behind,” she said. “If

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Digital Divide Policies Resources Study 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sanfelippo is pictured here in 2015 recording a #gocrickets podcast with his daughter Alena, then a third-grader. Since 2015, the district’s teachers have used #mashpee on Twitter to show off student achievement and to post classroom announcements, including homework reminders. Photo: Cindy Kolpien.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 25, 2016

Company cofounders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don to the publication that the funding round closed in late 2015 and that the company plans use the new capital to “grow their team, and to figure out what kind of content and features can be useful to parents who use the app, not just during the school day, but at home.”.

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