The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

Murray @thomascmurray is the 2017 US “Thought Leader of the Year” and shares what actually works in edtech. In this podcast, Tom shares the research and highlights, some of which are included in the book Learning Transformed that he co-authored with Eric Sheninger. That was some sort of a benchmark or maybe just a common assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Inside Castlemont’s media center in May 2021, Chromebook carts are completely empty. In the early days of the pandemic, every Chromebook on campus was lent out to students during remote learning.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 8, 2017

You can’t just order a bunch of Chromebooks and iPads, throw in some software as well, and assume everything else will turn out to be alright. Schools sure have a thing or two to learn from the professional tailor wisdom of my mother, don’t you agree now? This post was originally published on Microsoft UK Schools blog , May 5, 2017.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CDI COMPUTER DEALERS CHROMEBOOK TRADE-IN PROGRAM ( cdicomputers.com ) CDI Computer Dealers has launched a Chromebook Trade-In Program that provides a hassle-free, environmentally-friendly way for schools to dispose of their aging Chromebooks and obtain a free two-year premium extended warranty on the new ones purchased from CDI.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

Baked-In Innovation Schools are staffed with operations, logistics and technology teams that enable teaching and learning staff to focus on curriculum development and delivery, assessment, and professional learning. By the 2017–18 academic year, three network schools will follow this model.)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

But based on initial data from a much smaller pilot in Long Beach, California, in 2017-18 and another in 33 tiny Idaho districts in 2013-14, he was optimistic. million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments. The MAP tests, however, weren’t free: Clark County paid about $1.9

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. history, and biology.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” The company has raised some $77.5

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alexander inspires an innovative approach to learning by embedding interventions led by Istation’s assessment data into the school’s daily instruction. In the wake of the tragedy in Uvalde, TX earlier this year, school administrators across the nation began assessing ways to protect students.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. It’s 2017, and Wired still promotes a narrative that “ hackers ” are all young men.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. The ratio of children to Chromebooks, in grades three through five, is one to one. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Weekly Update.

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