eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

Each day, Geneva CUSD 304’s teachers, administrators, and staff seek to educate the nearly 5,500 students they serve within an environment that encourages the desire to learn and meets the unique academic, personal, physical, and social needs of each child.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

JUNE 26, 2019

Vodicka along with Erik Burmeister, Superintendent, and Theresa Fox, Coordinator of Technology and Innovation, both from Menlo Park City School District, CA, agreed that if 80% of students are graduating, then 20% of students are not graduating and that educational professionals can’t be satisfied with these statistics.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 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.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Pat Farenga: Trusting Every Child's Unique Learning Path THE AERO CONFERENCE Yong Zhao Keynote at the 2016 AERO Conference Peter Gray: Self Directed Education. Gina Riley: Intrinsic Motivation and Self Determination in Learning Blake Boles: Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School? What Is It, How Does It Work? hours a day.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

Amal Abdi at her high school graduation in June, 2016. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016. They digitized the lessons in the textbooks they used to publish offering tips on writing essays, finding scholarships and identifying quality colleges that matched student interests. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016. Photo: Hajira Dahir.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

The list is drawn in part from work presented recently at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, held here. Wingo, George Mason University, paper presented at AERA 2016.). They found that it can work–“for some students, in some ways, at some times.” Sheridan, Abigail W.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

She is a 2017 State Teacher of the year, a 2016 Association of Supervision, Curriculum, and Development (ASCD) Emerging Leader, and the 2017 University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Outstanding Alumnus of the Year. She is also is on the advisory board for Learner Variability Project and Digital Promise.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

The Global Leadership Summit is a pre-conference special event at ASCD’s Empower19: The Conference for Every Educator and part of the Global Education Conference Network’s fourth annual Global Leadership Week. He has presented at many conferences in North America, Asia, and Europe.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

Between 2014-2016 the University of South Australia has been using the pedagogy associated with both playing and designing LBMLGs to blaze a trail that is informing the development of a contextually-based mobile learning framework for higher education. Professor Thomas Maak, Professor in Responsible Leadership, University of South Australia.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

showed her students the 2016 documentary Before the Flood , featuring Leonardo diCaprio journeying to five continents and the Arctic to see the effects of climate change. “It is our intention to make our students engaged citizens,” Fisher says. “They were very engaged, they loved it,” she explains.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Wednesday, November 16th, is the final day of our the seventh annual Global Education Conference. It's been an amazing conference, hope you can join us for some of the final keynotes or sessions! IMPORTANT NOTES: Simple instructions on joining the conference for newcomers: [link]. Want to volunteer to help moderate sessions?

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