Ditch That Textbook

DECEMBER 12, 2016

It’s a free online conference from Dec. 16-31, 2016. (Wait, that’s probably not true. I’ll probably be even more excited on Thursday.) So … what is the Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit? Did [.].

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

Student engagement suffered. Over time, the need to quickly adapt led to heightened online student engagement, according to a CatchOn survey of 47 school districts from January 2020 to January 2021. And they confer with peers and administrators to see if what they want is beneficial to teaching and learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

DATE: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 COST: Free REGISTRATION: To register for the mini-conference, join LearningRevolution.com. ATTENDING: The sessions and links will appear in the regular conference schedule pages for each time zone. PLATFORM: The mini-conference platform is Zoom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2019

This project was part of our student-led mobile innovation program and after three months of planning, we were finally ready to set up shop. Making Space Located 30 miles north of Chicago, Lake Forest Country Day School (LFCDS) is an independent school that serves students from pre-k through eighth grade.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

REC Foundation’s Girl Powered The Girl Powered initiative provides tools and resources to students and mentors to promote female involvement in STEM and helps create an environment where students’ confidence and abilities can flourish. We’re already seeing the impact of our program. The program was a big success.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 3, 2016

What are your EdTech Resolutions for 2016? Setting Technology Goals for 2016. Attend a conference/unconference. EdSurge Post/List of 2016 EdTech Conferences. Share lessons, images of students engaged in activities to social media. Introduce something New to your students. SoundCloud.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

DATE: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 COST: Free REGISTRATION: To register for the mini-conference, join LearningRevolution.com. ATTENDING: The sessions and links will appear in the regular conference schedule pages for each time zone. PLATFORM: The mini-conference platform is Zoom. He is a Google Certified Innovator, Bammy!

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

I saw the title of this article, “ Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Becoming Obsolete? I was expecting the article to talk about moving away from the “traditional parent conference” (sitting around for 10-20 minutes talking about a child’s experience in school) to something more student-led.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

I go to a lot of educational technology conferences, but I don’t have a lot of experience with “fandom conventions.” Experiencing MINECON 2016 as an educator, I found it to be a melding of the two—and a clear indicator as to why the education world is obsessed with Minecraft.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

YoungMoo Kim, director of the ExCITe Center at Drexel University , connected with the EdClusters network in 2016 and has begun to use the model as a guide for fostering deep education innovation partnerships within the city. At @WorkshopSchool students delve into real-world problems. Philadelphia is at the initial stages of this work.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

The two-hour broadcast showcased students competing at multiplayer Heroes of the Storm, with play-by-play commentary by other gamers. By 2016 ESPN had added a dedicated esports section to its website. In 2017 it's Peach Belt Conference hosted the League of Legends championship in sold-out NBA-sized arenas.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing. Students were able to choose different books to taste and were excited about writing responses. Another sixth grade teacher made up a mystery about Bigfoot and had students write the ending. It’s uncomfortable.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2022

For example, the strongest factor associated with whether four-year institutions resumed in-person instruction was whether the state government was led by Republicans; for two-year public institutions, the strongest positive effect on in-person instruction was by how much the county voted for (or against) the GOP presidential candidate in 2016.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He had the money, at least $13 million raised by July 2016. Some employees heard the news on a conference call. Esther Wojcicki, the esteemed journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, joined in 2016 as the company’s chief learning officer. But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. There was never a doubt.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Schools Full of Readers: Tools for Teachers, Coaches and leaders to Support Students , is also from 2019. In 2016, two books were published: The Reading Intervention Toolkit , by Shell Education and Read Talk Write: 35 Lessons That Teach Students to Analyze Fiction and Nonfiction , published by Corwin Literacy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

The second of our three free Library 2.016 online mini-conferences: " Library as Classroom ," is this Wednesday, June 15th! Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 12:00 pm (PDT): Opening Keynote Panel: Defining the Library as Classroom Michael Stephens, Michael Casey, Brian Kenney, Joyce Valenza, and Jessamyn West. The full schedule is below.

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techlearning

MAY 29, 2018

We have also increased dual-enrollment options, providing our junior and senior students opportunities to take local community college classes, which has played a significant role in giving our students a taste of real-world jobs once they have displayed mastery. [

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Of students sure there was easy money to be made on TikTok or YouTube, or in jobs at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga. Part of a cadre of advisers deployed by the state to prod more Tennessee high school graduates into college, the women in this conference room have suddenly found their jobs to be much harder.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I am now booked through the end of March, and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Check out my Booking Page. Opportunities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

Increasing Scores and Building Excitement Very rarely does a student understand something on the first try. Since we implemented our PBL model, data shows that in one year (2016 to 2017), reading comprehension scores increased 8 percent, math application increased 9 percent.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Teachers Can More Effectively Collaborate With One Another When it started in 2016, many teachers saw the Personalized Learning Initiative as just one more initiative. Such changes in approaches in individual classrooms have ripple effects in school culture—student engagement ignites and student ownership of learning expands.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Google Classroom currently has more than 10 million active student users, according to Jonathan Rochelle of the Google EDU team—which means that one in six classrooms in the United States use it, he says. teacher), shown above, to reference while students engage with the experience. Source: Google).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Steve Steve Hargadon steve@learningrevolution.com [link] @stevehargadon CURRENT SESSION LIST: Abigail Ekangouo Awanga : Emoji grading a fascinating effect on low proficiency learners AERO : Yong Zhao Keynote at the 2016 AERO Conference AERO : Peter Gray: Self Directed Education. What Is It, How Does It Work? hours a day. hours a day.

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EdTechTeacher

DECEMBER 17, 2015

From our action research, we have found that students engage with the video because they hear their own teacher’s voice and can control the video themselves. Students can create reflection videos using the Explain Everything app. Unexpected Outcomes: Students’ focus increased as they worked distraction free.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Similarly, when motivation levels are high, students engage more deeply in the associated learning task. Ask any educator about the joys of teaching a highly intrinsically motivated student! Suzanne Fergus receiving the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Higher Education Teaching Award in 2016. Full sized image here.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

When Subaru officially committed to moving its headquarters to Camden in 2016, we wanted to enhance our relationship with the community through increased support of children and young adults, as we believe that together we can help build the next generation of leaders,” said Thomas J.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

If the bright lights and casino bling of Las Vegas weren’t enough to dazzle conference-goers from around the world, the awe-inspiring displays of futuristic technology littering the Infocomm 2016 show floor certainly were, such as Epson’s trippy Infinity Room and LG’s mind-bending OLED curved tiling display. 264 compression.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I am now booked through the end of March, and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Check out my Booking Page. Opportunities For You.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That was the question gnawing at Scott Benson two years ago when he ran into his friend—and fellow senior leader in education—Aylon Samouha in a hallway at the iNacol conference in Orlando. How do you find educators who want to completely rethink our notions of what a school is and design something entirely new?

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MAY 29, 2016

Learn from the experts : Summer has some great conferences on flipped learning. There are two FlipCon conferences this summer, and I am leading an all-day workshop in Illinois. There are two FlipCon conferences this summer, and I am leading an all-day workshop in Illinois. FlipCon 2016 : July 19-21 in Allen Texas.

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MindShift

MAY 5, 2017

Technically, if one trusts the etymology, the best way for a teacher to confer with other educators would be an educator conference. Meanwhile, the most enthusiastic listeners whisper to each other, or form mini-groups outside the conference walls, maybe even at a social gathering later that day. PD among the trees.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. Successful schools look at assessments as a jumping off point to evaluate curriculum, teaching methods, student engagement, etc.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

We are trying to be the first company to quantify this invisible metric” of student engagement, says Newlon. Teachers have an innate ability to know when their students are engaged, but we want to give them a superpower so they can track and quantify that over time.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, students did not know what to expect (nor the teachers). However, on his first day using the lab, a physics student engage with virtual reality and expressed, “This is like hands-on learning, without wanting to let go.” Montour High School Student It was clear the risk was worth the reward.

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techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

Delivering individualized resources that engage students in learning concepts, each Techbook includes rich digital assets such as virtual labs, video clips, hands-on activities, text, interactive glossaries, maps, and much more. million students in the 2016-2017 school year.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 17, 2019

Willis and Arakawa underscored the importance of creating learning environments in which students and teachers understand that it is not about getting it right the first time; it is about failing forward and being inspired to keep moving forward. Coding Software. Carrie is also a strategic outreach manager at Wonder Workshop.

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