The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug Green challenges our thinking about school, how we should teach, and the flaws with the testing programs we have in education today. Sponsor: The STLinATL Conference will be at Woodward Academy in Atlanta July 26-27, 2018. Link to show: Date: April 5, 2018. Doug: Kids walk in there.They hand them a Mac laptop.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

This past semester I had the opportunity to observe two elementary classrooms using technology in new and exciting ways. One was a fifth-grade class at Whelan Elementary School in North Providence, Rhode Island, that had just agreed to begin a commercial personalized learning program. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 5, 2018

Go to www.coolcatteacher.com/edtech and plan your professional development for 2018. Date: January 5, 2018. There’s many ways to read it that doesn’t require you to sit at your laptop or sit at your Chromebook and stare at the screen the whole day. It’s not just a “how to use the tool.” Listen Now. Enhanced Transcript.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2019

From 2015 to 2018, the school resources crowdfunding site DonorsChoose saw requests for funding for flexible furniture balloon from 110 to 21,163. Critics of the so-called open classroom argued in the 1970s that schools had attempted an overnight transformation without training teachers on how to adjust to the new space.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

During the summers of 2018 and 2019, more than 1,600 students who had failed freshman English or Algebra I were randomly assigned to one of two versions of summer school. The online students sat together but learned at their own pace on laptops, with a teacher in the classroom. Edgenuity has since been acquired by Imagine Learning.)

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

CSEdWeek and The Hour of Code arrive December 3-9, 2018, and this annual event is bigger than ever. How to Run an Hour of Code. New for 2018! Chromebooks, laptops, desktops. Khan Academy tutorial: Learn how to draw with code (Javascript and ProcessingJS). Kodable Curriculum for Elementary. The Grinch.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2018

As I sat at a giant table with 15 colleagues pondering how to make professional learning more personal for our teachers, my eyes drifted to my screen. I spun around my laptop, which was currently displaying Mancrates , a website that sends Valentine’s boxes to avid lovers of artisanal meats. That’s when it dawned on me.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Gray shared their uphill path to success at the 2018 T&L Phoenix Leadership Summit. Members of the highly competitive APSD Dream Academy (and Dream Scholars, their middle-school counterparts) are given laptops for 24/7 use. We just want to provide that comprehensive and wraparound support for our students and their families.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. But we don’t know how to go about it right now and as an industry we are picking and choosing what feels right as opposed to using evidence-based practices.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Sleep is something that’s going to benefit them for the rest of their lives,” Muth said, “if they can learn how to do it now.”. Photo: Bess Adler for The New York Times. By Sophie Margolin.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

On an April morning in Billings’ class, students chatted in groups and surfed the internet on Chromebook laptops, as part of a unit on peace. Later, as a final project, the groups would propose ways to incorporate the study of peace into the 2018-19 history curriculum. Related: What’s school without grade levels? “We points higher.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

On an April morning in Billings’ class, students chatted in groups and surfed the internet on Chromebook laptops, as part of a unit on peace. Later, as a final project, the groups would propose ways to incorporate the study of peace into the 2018-19 history curriculum. Gradually, students started to look forward to wellness class.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. BELGRADE, Mont. she muttered to herself.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. MESA, Ariz.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Like this: how to write paragraphs and stuff. And simple, basic things like, you know, how you have like they, them, they’re, and their and all that stuff? And there’s wrong ways to do it and how to spell it? Dawkins had been a longtime server at the Ritz, but lost her job in 2018. Credit: Rita Omokha.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

1425 Walton Avenue, once home to P.S. 64, now houses the Walton Avenue School and Lucero Elementary School. By the 2018-19 school year, the program had expanded to $195 million for 258 schools.). Russo would have loved to give every student a laptop or to build a state-of-the-art science lab.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. In early 2018, Chicago Public Schools and LEAP received $14 million in grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to train teachers and principals on personalizing learning. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He wanted to learn how to fly an airplane, only not too far off the ground, because heights were scary. Johnson was opening outside the traditional public system not to create some kind of segregated fiefdom but because that’s where she knew how to run a great school. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 7, 2021

Jennifer, Darren, and I will talk a bit about big picture issues, like making time for instruction on digital literacy, and how to teach kids to think critically about conspiracy theories when those conspiracy theories are widely believed among the community you teach in. Teach kids HOW to think, not WHAT to think.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The only sounds were the clacking of computer keys and the occasional joke to break the tension as 12th graders hunched over laptops trying to finish their essays ahead of the looming deadline for their college applications. In 2018 it had the second highest rate among California’s ten largest counties.

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MindShift

APRIL 20, 2020

By the 2018-19 school year, the program had expanded to $195 million for 258 schools.). Walton Avenue shared the money with the school that was in the process of closing and with Lucero Elementary School, the second new school opening at the P.S. 64 campus. The plan allocated $52 million to open 45 community schools. (By

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Brian Sparks is the principal at Lamar Elementary School in San Antonio. SAN ANTONIO — Shoulders hunched and a worried expression plastered on his face, Principal Brian Sparks walked briskly through the halls of Lamar Elementary toward the cafeteria. He helps out with cafeteria duties on the first day of school. Innovation at a cost.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

“If it’s plopping down some obsolete or irrelevant curriculum on a laptop and letting every kid go at their own pace, It’s hard to get excited about that,” he says. Some say students are getting distracted by working on the laptop or merely Googling for answers to quizzes. ” Copyright 2018 NPR.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

In early 2018, Chicago Public Schools and LEAP received $14 million in grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to train teachers and principals on personalizing learning. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I Oh, and then you have to figure out how to fit in eating lunch somewhere in there.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

But now, as educators everywhere try to figure out how to do their jobs remotely, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the instability of relying on one counselor, or just a few, to guide hundreds of students through new academic hurdles, prepare them for an uncertain future and triage their mental health crises.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Of those, only a handful require instruction on how to use or access contraception, according to data gathered by SIECUS , an organization that promotes comprehensive sexual health education policies. We provided laptops and tablets as well as ‘hot spots’ to all our girls who needed them,” Hall said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Schools are struggling to keep learning going as buildings remain closed, federal help for the poor and hungry is shutting down , and desperate families have been left largely on their own to figure out how to avoid a deadly disease while also feeding, housing and educating their children.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Tanya Lieberman, pictured in May 2020, had to figure out how to hold public hearings on proposed legislation during a pandemic. The heightened inclusiveness seen since she took over in 2018 is not some caricature of femininity, all chitchat and smiles, she said. Credit: Tanya Lieberman. It’s strategic. Credit: Seth Bramble.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But at some point, we have to figure out how to clean up this mess. Should you ban laptops ? Flying cars are coming, and you’ll be able to get a nanodegree from Udacity in the subject by 2018. Thermal imaging can now tell how hard you’re thinking. Nobody wants to take responsibility, which is fine. I get that.

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