Hapara

MAY 25, 2023

It’s still important to provide structure and clear expectations, but student-led learning allows educators to be flexible and support learners’ individual needs. What are the benefits of student-led learning? You can also let them decide how they’ll show what they’ve learned.

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Learning in Hand

AUGUST 10, 2017

Extensions for Chrome are little programs that add functionality to Google's web browser. Register for Classy Graphics with Google Drawings! You are invited to join Tony Vincent for an online learning experience this fall. Tony is gathering a community of educators to explore graphic design with Google Drawings.

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Tablets Google Video Online Learning 99

Shake Up Learning

APRIL 27, 2021

Eleni shares how Mote, a voice note extension, allows you to do so much more than just leave notes and feedback in your favorite Google tools. Thank you to Bobbie Rae Flores on Twitter for sharing her excitement and ideas as she reads Shake Up Learning: Practical Ideas to Move Learning from Static to Dynamic. Click To Tweet.

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Classroom STEM Google Hapara 101

TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Teachers take part in a variety of professional learning opportunities and when finished, submit hours, certificates, or other tokens of completion through a Google Form and it is collected and organized in a central location in the district. Training could be in the form of a 1:1 session, group meeting, or online learning module.

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How To Professional Learning Digital Badges Edcamps 88

TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Teachers take part in a variety of professional learning opportunities and when finished, submit hours, certificates, or other tokens of completion through a Google Form and it is collected and organized in a central location in the district. Training could be in the form of a 1:1 session, group meeting, or online learning module.

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How To Professional Learning Digital Badges Edcamps 88

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. Members made about 600 calls to parents and students to check in on well-being, ask about obstacles to learning and provide technical support on tools like Google Classrooms and Zoom.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 191

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. You can argue that because of that, you get some more-mature course designs, but it’s not the same as scalability.”

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Coursera MOOC Company Course 166

Hansen's Link to Tech

MARCH 18, 2017

New Google Sites. This year Google Sites has transitioned into a visually impressive and ultra simple platform to design websites, online learning spaces, dashboards, student projects, online newsletters, etc. Google Expeditions. Free is always a plus! Availability: Creation – Computer, Chromebook.

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Resources Android Chromebook Classroom 46

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

But after cutting assets ranging from the company’s stake in The Economist to PowerSchool, a student information system, Pearson finally reported a profit again in 2017. Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed? In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3 Persuasive Design.

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MOOC Coursera Chegg Pearson 118

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We We don’t have a distance learning plan that is operating on all cylinders,” he said in April.

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 115

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The speakers included Dhawal Shah, founder of Class Central, Amy Ahearn, associate director at Acumen+, Kapeesh Saraf, head of growth and consumer products at Coursera, and Kristin Palmer, director of online learning at University of Virginia. This week, we’re bringing the event to you—via the podcast of course.

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MOOC Coursera Course Trends 134

techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This leads to a cross roads of districts pushing digital learning into schools with teachers who may not be trained in the use of safe online instruction and hence the problem of a fear of the internet. Launching technology lessons or creating online learning is a huge responsibility.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media Facebook 67

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Thus, garnered from conversations with both K-12 and higher education administrators, the following checklist provides a starting point for any educator interested in prepping for the inevitable task of choosing an LMS for the 2017-2018 school year. Some things just have to be dead simple. That’s great human-centered design.".

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System LMS Schoology Social Media 94

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Teachers in each department have been developing their own custom Google-based websites over the span of a year with help from high school teacher John Hineman, who is overseeing the project. Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge.

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iPad OER Meeting eBook 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). The thread on this tweet has the details. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Technology designed for educators is pushed “as if our ones and zeroes are special,” keynote speaker Clay Shirky told top librarians, publishers and administrators at the Ithaka Next Wave 2017 conference, held in New York City on Wednesday. The university chose 2U as its tech partner to help create and run the online program.

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Meeting Libraries EdTech Conference 90

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” All content is stored in Google docs. Mike Gorman ( [link] / ). Quick Notes.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools. Every school had their individual Google spreadsheet, and there wasn’t a unifying place where any of us could look.”. Like, we had no idea.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). If so, what are they?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

By the time Raveendran formally incorporated Byju’s parent company, Think & Learn, in 2011, 110 million Indians used the internet, only about 9 percent of the country, according to a study from Google and KPMG. Investors and tech In August 2015, Byju’s launched its titular online learning app.

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Company Video Broadband Report 90

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Tokenized Learning According to data tracked by Coinbase , ICOs have raised nearly $3.4

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Sony Learning Company lynda.com 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

MindShift

JUNE 27, 2017

She used it to stay connected with friends through her school’s Google Chat system and watched Netflix, but also saved time for academics. “Parents in low-income neighborhoods want to learn along with their children and are interested in being part of the digital age,” she said. Copyright 2017 NPR.

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Laptops Khan Academy Chromebook Exercises 57

The Principal of Change

MARCH 25, 2020

.” One of the most common questions people asked me was, “How do I convert my face-to-face course into an online course?”. Learning isn’t like a file that converts between a.doc and a PDF and a Google Doc. This is a question that I often ask; are we jumping straight to the teaching without doing the learning?

Online Learning 101

Online Learning Learning Course Video 101

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 24, 2019

While the term “open pedagogy” appeared with some frequency on my blog for a number of years ( Google site search link ), I believe these posts show the important contours of how my thinking evolved: What is Open Pedagogy (2013), where I first “introduce” (more on that below) and define the term.

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OER Technology Exercises Online Learning 113

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

This quick move to emergency remote teaching has left educators scrambling to figure out how to use digital tools, online resources, and apps to continue their teaching at a distance. In fact, there are so many digital tools, apps, and online learning resources being shared, some educators are feeling overwhelmed.

Digital Divide 210

Digital Divide Social Media Microsoft Policies 210

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. Now, during morning meetings via Google classroom, Glick is the one being peppered with questions – and often she can’t answer them. On Monday, Rose learned the student’s father had died. And now it’s all taken away.” Will we get yearbooks?

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Between 2011 and 2017, the percentage of American adults who own a smartphone more than doubled, to 77 percent , according to the Pew Research Center. In data collected by Cal State Dominguez Hills’ psychologist Larry Rosen, his students’ average daily phone use jumped from 3 hours and 40 minutes in 2016 to 4 hours and 22 minutes in 2017.

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Smartphone Laptops Social Media Facebook 173

Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In fact, explicit instruction in digital citizenship , online learning, and online safety may benefit students as they prepare for an increasingly digital future. Online discussions about class material, outreach to content experts, and other strategies can build a real-world learning network for students.

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Smartphone Digital Citizenship Social Media Mobility 136

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

Wright’s district created a parent university that provided opportunities for parents to understand what their children would be experiencing and how they could support learning at home. Dr. Marczak was the recipient of the 2017 National School Boards Association’s “20 to Watch” educational technology leader award.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

Notably, in 2017 she was the first to testify in the landmark Yazzie/Martinez lawsuit that resulted in the court ordering the state to take immediate action to resolve deep inequities and barriers to education faced by at-risk students. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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Advocacy BYOD Accessibility Strategy 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2019

Unlike textbooks or video, virtual reality fully immerses users in a dynamic virtual world – and the headset device can be as simple as a mobile phone inserted into an inexpensive Google Cardboard viewer. Most of the children on the island don’t even swim, so they have no concept of what it looks like under the water.”.

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Conference Report Trends Survey 100

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The school achieves this mainly through its “homebound” program, which allows expecting and new mothers to blend online learning with one-on-one visits from a designated “homebound teacher” until they are able to resume normal classes. She didn’t have any help learning the material, either.

Online Learning 109

Online Learning Blended Learning Chromebook Meeting 109

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 Are you a student?

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

high school students have the opportunity not just to take an online class for credit but a significant proportion of their course load online. New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 Are you a student?

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150