Marketplace K-12

JUNE 24, 2016

Many of the 16,000 attendees expected to flock to ISTE 2016 come looking for ideas on how to make smart use of technology in their classrooms and schools, and for a preview of tech trends on the horizon. The list of sessions on tap for ISTE 2016 –there are roughly 1,000 of them–offers some clues on that front. 76 nations.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

Teachers who are most confident about educational technology tend to work in low-poverty and suburban schools, bringing their students a wide range of experiences and potential benefits that other young people may lack, concludes a survey released today by the Education Week Research Center. See also: Looking to Land a District PD Contract?

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

Created to assist executives and curriculum and technology directors in guiding the transition to digital curriculum and content, the survey also offers schools the chance win national awards. The Learning Counsel’s 2016 Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey and Assessment Tool is now available online.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 1, 2016

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Jessica Sanders. Many school leaders and education professionals tout personalized learning as the future of learning. If your school already uses a learning management system (LMS) , this is an excellent tool for gathering student-specific information. Don’t worry.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016. GROWING PAINS: In a recent national survey , 97 percent of teachers agreed that students should have a growth mindset. Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Was he right?

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. And that means schools will have to adapt to the way these new students think and learn. 3] Getting the students involved is the key to helping them learn.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2018

After deliberation, they determined their goal was to shift to smaller, more personalized learning. . While 91 percent of teachers are excited at the prospect of bringing more digital tools into the classroom, only 16 percent believe their schools are executing proper integration plans, according to a 2016 national survey. .

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

Courtney Egelston, the school’s cofounder and assistant principal, learned early in her attempt to implement personalized learning that teachers had to address students' emotional needs. [Our Egelston explains how difficulties implementing academic personalized learning and restorative practices took a toll on the staff.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

And while systems might not continue to operate as 100 percent virtual schools in a post-COVID world, better access to learning technology is no longer negotiable in this increasingly-digital world. Dolan’s 2016 research “ Splicing the Divide ” tackled this equity piece with data way before COVID-19 reached U.S. Jennifer E.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Others were jumping ahead to concepts that were grade levels ahead of what they would traditionally be learning. Along with this rise in high-tech individualized — or personalized learning as it often called — there has also been a backlash. A preliminary report , summarizing the findings, was released in August.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., EdClusters16 brought more than 140 leading educators, ed-tech entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and thought leaders to collaborate, work, and learn together.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies. In January 2016, the team collectively took a district self-assessment to gauge BWRSD’s digital learning readiness. Upgrading Infrastructure. Scaling Innovation.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Jessie Woolley-Wilson, CEO of DreamBox Learning Jessie Woolley-Wilson (CEO, DreamBox Learning): In the past, educators were focused on how to get more devices in the classroom. We’ve largely succeeded—according to a recent Common Sense Media survey , eight out of 10 K-12 teachers have computing devices in their classrooms.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In 2016, Credential Engine set out to tally all the badges , degrees, certificates, licenses and diplomas available to denote educational attainment. Credential Engine hopes its database will eventually help people discern which credentials offer the most value for personal learning and employment opportunities.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A 2016 survey of such programs found that only about 4 percent of respondents offered field experiences such as student teaching in K-12 online settings. “We are very much focused on classroom teaching.” That’s not unique to Auburn. Few teacher preparation programs in the U.S. train future educators to teach online, experts say.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Nearly 60 percent of teachers reported using games in their classrooms in 2016, according to Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up survey, up from 23 percent in 2010. These games vary widely in style and impact on student learning, and there are critics who say some teachers rely too much on games to entice students to do their work.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2017

Ask many public school parents about student data use and privacy, and you’ll likely end up with a heated debate about protecting sensitive, personal information. But what do parents really understand about school technology use and student data privacy?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

So in spring of 2014, when the district proposed implementing a 1:1 technology initiative that would help teachers and students transition to a personalized learning model, there was some resistance from families and the board rejected the proposal. Presidential Scholars. By fall of 2018, all students in grades 1-12 will have a device.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: Remote learning has been a disaster for many students. In an internal survey of program participants in the 2016-17 school year, 94 percent of teachers reported that Classroom Champions enabled them to better engage their students. But some kids have thrived.

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Reading By Example

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Our school’s faculty completed a building-wide technology implementation survey last year. Join me in three weeks at AcceleratED in Portland, Oregon on February 24, 2016 to discuss how technology can enhance student assessment, professional learning communities, and your own personal learning network.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2017

We also delivered an extension program for Future Ready Schools that includes an edtech audit—a simple survey tool built upon our EdSurge Index—on top of the Concierge service. And we published the Edtech Selection Playbook , a collection of personalized learning research, observations and process, freely available to the public.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

In January 2016, the parent teacher organization at Roosevelt Elementary generously purchased a number of new tools for our school including Spheros, Dash and Dots, Cubelets, Snap Circuits, Osmos, Marble Mazes and a 3D printer. Fortunately, after an initial survey, it was clear that the upcoming fourth-graders were eager to take the lead.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In addition, the district uses town halls, “empathy interviews,” equity audits, and school climate surveys to capture a wider range of input that can help district and school officials make informed decisions about the students’ education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2017

In 2016, only 3 percent of the conference’s 350 sessions explicitly addressed the role that technology plays in impacting the opportunity gap. In her team’s surveys, Rodriguez found that “50 percent of all girls believe STEM isn’t a typical career path for girls,” citing the lack of role models as one central reason.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 30, 2018

They also send a technical survey to the vendor, many times followed by a call or meeting to review more details of that resource. Named 2012 Washington State Teacher of the Year and an NSBA “20 to Watch” in 2015, he developed and led digital learning, professional development, and innovative librarian programs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

This post is part of a series of conversations with thought leaders deeply-rooted in dialogue about courseware for digital learning. Gates Bryant: Courseware is central to personalized learning, but the discovery and procurement process seems confounding. Other posts include. Why Research Fails in the Classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2016

Conner tells EdSurge how the use of adaptive-learning tools offers extraordinarily promising results for more personalized learning and teaching experiences. Additionally, a relatively small sample of 39 students who completed a survey about their perceptions of adaptive learning platforms had positive reactions, with 79.5

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 7, 2016

billion, and are likely to be about $5 billion in 2016, according to Linn Huang, the research director of devices and displays with IDC, a market research company. The Gates foundation provides financial support for Education Week’s coverage of the implementation of college- and career-ready standards and the use of personalized learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Noodle Partners landed its first customer, Pepperdine University, in March 2016, and the company will launch 10 more online degree programs this spring. Our vision of Noodle is toward agile universities,” he says, meaning he sees the company filling in holes between online and in-person learning. “We Babson survey.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2017

classrooms and is becoming an increasingly popular choice for computers, while Apple’s iOS platform holds the lead on mobile devices, according to a new survey from game-based learning provider Kahoot! K-12 education in the first quarter of 2017, and iOS claimed 73 percent of the mobile market–up from 70 percent in 2016.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 2, 2019

Among Pernille’s recent posts are Why Writing Sucks and We Need to Talk About It and Getting to Know Our Students Survey. TeachThought.com was founded and is directed by Terry Heick , an author and former classroom teacher interested in rethinking how we think about K-12 teaching and learning. by Terry Heick.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

In 2016, Hernandez decided to go back to school for her associate degree in nursing at BMCC. Last spring, Hernandez passed both the midterm and final that she and many other students had missed in March when the school shut down in-person learning. Friends and colleagues suggested she try nursing. “I I want to be a nurse.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Advocates call this concept “personalized learning” but this sci-fi idyll (or dystopia, depending on your point of view) has been slow to catch on in American classrooms. In surveys, teachers said it changes how they review homework. I rarely hear about “personalized learning” any more in a classroom context.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. My guess is it will go to 5 hours plus.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. MESA, Ariz.

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