Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A functioning democracy depends on an informed public. The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media. But the big question is: of what quality is that information?

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User Generated Education

JULY 31, 2023

Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and other academic information provided by the teacher to the students in a mostly one-way communication.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). Reading comprehension and information retention improve when students write about what they read (Graham & Herbert, 2011). ” Dr. Novak and I wholeheartedly agree!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2023

Consumer Skills – Learning to comparison shop for cars, houses and being an informed consumer. Insurance – Understanding how to make wise insurance decisions. Saving and Managing Expenses – In this scenario, students help advise a person on how to manage their paycheck and daily expenses. According to the U.S.

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Waterford

MARCH 4, 2021

A second version was published in 2019, with a stronger focus on recognizing barriers to family involvement and more researched-based guidance on family partnerships.[6] When families are engaged and informed about their child’s education, student achievement improves as a whole.[2] El Nokali, N.E., Bachman, H.J., and Votruba-Drzal.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

I understand and believe in value of learning through board games, and have incorporated them into my classrooms – both elementary and higher education – throughout my decades long teaching career. and from Knowledge Quest : Games provide stories and information, presented in a new format.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2019

Sun, 04/14/2019 - 10:28. Because students are inevitably exposed to the online world, it is important that adults teach them how to be responsible digital citizens — to protect both themselves and their peers. Be safe: Information security is a key component of digital citizenship. eli.zimmerman_9856. by Jennifer Brown.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

How to get to the site. You’ll see when you login that you start off by being able to add activities, explore the resources they have, or get some training on how to use this collaborative learning tool. In particular, math teachers and elementary teachers will love the manipulatives that you can adapt for your own lessons. .

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Fri, 11/22/2019 - 12:10. Defining the knowledge and skills students need to succeed in a digital world , establishing a shared vision of curricular and pedagogical approaches, and developing a strategic plan should precede and then inform technology decisions that prioritize educational value.” . shailaja.neela….

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

Tue, 06/11/2019 - 11:38. Recent research shows excessive visual stimuli can be detrimental to students’ ability to focus and retain information. If a presentation, assignment or class website is overloaded with clip art, unreadable fonts and other bells and whistles, students may find the information less accessible. .

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Fri, 12/06/2019 - 10:25. A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. It seems schools haven’t taught students how — or why — to keep personal information safe. shailaja.neela….

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Fri, 10/04/2019 - 13:13. This requires a balancing act: How do educators leverage connected technology without putting student data and other critical information at risk? This requires a balancing act: How do educators leverage connected technology without putting student data and other critical information at risk?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, just over one-third of students in the U.S. Results from the fall 2020 assessment showed that students in grades 1-8 “lost” an extra 1 percent in reading compared to fall 2019, with high-poverty students “losing” more. In 2019, Mississippi was the only state in the nation to post significant gains on NAEP assessments.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

How K–12 Schools Should Define and Act on Digital Learning. Thu, 04/11/2019 - 15:35. The tradigital learning environment encourages all teachers — elementary, middle and high school — to adopt a station rotation model. MORE FROM EDTECH: See how to prepare K–12 teachers to bring blended learning programs in their classrooms.

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Digital Learning Blended Learning Learning Outcomes 410

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 26, 2018

This model is an easier shift for elementary teachers who are already use learning stations with students. Unfortunately, most secondary teachers do not learn how to design lessons using stations in credential school. I create a Google Sheet for the school year labeled “2018-2019 Grouping Strategies.”

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Snow Horse Elementary was not one of them. A few district administrators and I visited classrooms in March 2019. After the session was completed, a team of second-grade teachers stayed after to begin planning on how to implement what they learned immediately. Fast forward to January 2019. Below are their reflections.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2024

According to CDC data from 2009-2019, 1 out of 5 adolescents aged 12 to 17 reported having experienced at least some kind of major depressive episode. District officials read guidance from the National Center for School Mental Health and SAMHSA to really understand how to start.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

By 2019, Ayers had helped impoverished Perry County reach an 86 percent college-going rate (57 students), the highest in the state, according to government figures. percent for fall 2020 over fall 2019, according to federal data — OTC says it had a 14 percent rise last summer and only a 2 percent drop this fall.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Like last year , we’ve also added a selection of editor’s picks—our favorite stories, op-eds and investigations from the past year spotlighting how the education system is meeting a diverse array of challenges. This Lesson Shows Students How to Recognize It. Happy New Year! Everyone Has Invisible Bias.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

But just how widespread are these activities, and how do they affect different student populations? A new report from Common Sense, The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2019 , helps us connect what we're observing in classrooms with larger trends. Why and How to Use YouTube Video Essays in Your Classroom?.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Radcliffe was beginning to think more intentionally about the brain and to explicitly teach her students about how it functions. Counselors at our school began using specific names of brain structures, such as the amygdala and hippocampus, when teaching learners how to self-regulate. She wasn’t the only one. So, I put out my feelers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Experts and educators say the Early Head Start partnership program could serve as a model, showing states how to design systems to better support child care programs and raise quality — assuming states get more funding under Biden’s plan. A 2019 report found about one-third of grantees terminated a partnership within a year.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The post How to Make an Impact as a Tech Coach appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Alison Jalufka is a Learning Coach at an elementary school in her Central Texas school district. She started her teaching career in elementary education as a first-grade teacher and now has the opportunity to make an impact as a tech coach. .

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Wed, 09/18/2019 - 11:12. It works well for giant projects like museum displays, science fair projects, but it also works well for weekly vocabulary assignments,” says Robyn Tanksley, third-grade teacher at the Sexton Mountain Elementary School in Beaverton, in a video about Adobe Spark. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

Q&A: Adam Welcome on How K–12 Educators Can Integrate Technology for Engagement. Wed, 01/16/2019 - 13:21. We spoke to Welcome about why he thinks students need to have more freedom to explore the technology available to them in their classroom, and how teachers can use technology to build relationships with their students. .

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

In the winter of 2019, a group of college faculty members, education consultants and government employees from the Department of Education and the National Security Agency were discussing how to address a talent gap in cybersecurity — there were more 300,000 job openings in the growing sector and no one qualified to fill them.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

August 8, 2019. October 30, 2019. December 16, 2019. October 21, 2019. Brian Bushart is an elementary math curriculum coordinator. I love the way @MrsFyffe_BCE shares a variety of examples in this blog post that illustrate how she purposefully orients students to each others' ideas. December 10, 2019.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

I’m writing this post inspired by the young man, Tyler Haggerty, on episode 537 of the show that is being released on August 6, 2019. Then we use that data to then inform our other programs and our other types of assessments to see how we can improve those.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2019

Katrise Perera as the superintendent in July of 2017, she set out to listen and learn from students, parents, staff, and community members how to best serve our students. How to drive innovation. — Powell Valley Elementary School (@Panthers_PVES) March 21, 2019. Engage multiple stakeholders. Develop pathways.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 7, 2023

Are you anxious that your child isn't living up to their potential, but you're not sure how to support them? Do you worry that your child fell behind during COVID, but you don't know how to help them catch up? Please forward where appropriate! Are you tired of nagging and hovering, but worried that if you stop, your child will fail?

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 27, 2019

A version of this post was originally published in Teach Secondary Magazine , July 2019. said Erin Ermis , a fifth grade teacher at an elementary school in Wisconsin, regarding her experiences with Alexa-powered devices in her classroom, at ISTE just last year. She was like another person in our class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A Southern Regional Education Board analysis of 2019-20 data in 11 states found roughly 4 percent of teachers — which could be up to 56,000 educators – were uncertified or teaching with an emergency certification. But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It seems schools haven’t taught students how — or why — to keep personal information safe. Begin by teaching them about privacy concerns and how to manage their digital identities. If you only do one thing to better protect your online privacy in 2019, start using a VPN,” writes Michael Grothaus in Fast Company. .

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Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It seems schools haven’t taught students how — or why — to keep personal information safe. Begin by teaching them about privacy concerns and how to manage their digital identities. If you only do one thing to better protect your online privacy in 2019, start using a VPN,” writes Michael Grothaus in Fast Company. .

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Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It seems schools haven’t taught students how — or why — to keep personal information safe. Begin by teaching them about privacy concerns and how to manage their digital identities. If you only do one thing to better protect your online privacy in 2019, start using a VPN,” writes Michael Grothaus in Fast Company. .

Data 150

Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It seems schools haven’t taught students how — or why — to keep personal information safe. Begin by teaching them about privacy concerns and how to manage their digital identities. If you only do one thing to better protect your online privacy in 2019, start using a VPN,” writes Michael Grothaus in Fast Company. .

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Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150