Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2023

2019) [ 1 ] and several other researchers (e.g., Many educators use tools like flashcards and repetitive reading exercises to help students memorize sight words. Assessment Through Spelling Attempts: Assessing word knowledge through early spelling attempts can provide valuable insight into a student’s progress.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

She showed the students a video to review the math, then sent them scattering to different tables to practice the exercises they’d found challenging. “We In fall 2019, Boynton, the district’s other middle school, adopted DeWitt’s two tiers for eighth grade math. Still, researchers aren’t united on the benefits of eliminating tracking.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

More than a year later, the company has observed a notable uptick in new users for the 2019-20 school year, a sales executive at Freckle confirms. Since then, we have honored all contracts and provided support for TenMarks Math and Writing, which will continue through June 30, 2019.” But they say they never received answers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. The middle school exercise was almost not included in the study because researchers thought it was too easy, said Sam Wineburg, Stanford professor and lead author of the report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. We can help new teachers and each other thrive. We have to help and encourage each other.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

But a large survey of 2,000 elementary schools in three states found that not much advanced content is actually being taught to gifted students. So perhaps these critical thinking and creativity exercises are doing something. Their academic needs cannot be met in a general education class, advocates say.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

Related: 8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact | 2019. You can create exercises where students are allowed to perform experiments on their device screens. An online interactive STEM curriculum, with its frequent assessments and quizzes, compels students to understand concepts rather than learning by rote.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It was a public exercise, with the whole class watching. At the start of each school year, for example, the class devotes a few days to trust-building exercises, not math. At Northside, the share of eighth graders passing the state math standards test fell by 19 percentage points from 2019 to 2021, to 68 percent.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. EdLeader21 has developed a toolkit to guide districts and independent schools in developing their own “portrait of a graduate” as a visioning exercise. Wondering how to teach and assess 21st century competencies?

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The program runs from May 2018-June 2019. This remarkable functionality makes an array of assessment types possible – including spelling tests, short answers, fill-in-the-blank, and more. The program includes in-classroom professional development sessions. For a limited time, 100 schools can receive a grant for 50% off the program fee.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Teacher Meghan Lewis works on math problems with a small group of fourth graders at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Excerpted from Tech With Heart by Stacey Roshan, copyright 2019. In elementary school, I felt as if I was always being timed in math. Though this was a start, I realized that I could embrace tech tools to make the video watching experience a more active exercise for my students. By Stacey Roshan. Pencils down, time’s up.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 2, 2021

What follows is a condensed transcript of my conversation with Amy Stohs , who is currently a 2nd grade teacher in Northern Virginia, and was named Teacher of the Year in 2019 while she was teaching 6th grade. It’s almost like a formative assessment with like a conference day or something. About our guest.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

But, on any given day, an untold number of children in elementary schools nationwide have all or part of their recess revoked for infractions such as failing to finish their work, talking out of turn or not following directions. Children play during recess at a Louisville, Kentucky elementary school. In 2019, Texas Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. BURIEN, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Montgomery, an elementary school in Mound Bayou, Mississippi: Respectful. Mississippi ranked first in the nation in improvement on the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress scores, but with just 32 percent of fourth graders scoring proficient or above in reading, it also was coming from behind many states. During P.E.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I Then it appointed Susie Luckey, a popular elementary school principal, as interim superintendent until June. I think we are in trouble based on what I saw.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The exercise was supposed to represent how easily they could become infected with an STI. Srikanth, who graduated from high school in 2019, said the classmates treated it as a joke and purposefully tried to maximize “infections.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Students at Hunt Arts Elementary in Sioux City, Iowa integrate art into all of their lessons, a technique that ensures students still learning English have multiple ways of expressing what they know. Fifth graders participate in a world drumming lesson as part of their regular music class at Bryant Elementary in Sioux City, Iowa.

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