Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

If middle and elementary school students are forced to repeat grades because they fall short of a standard anchored to NAEP proficient, vast numbers will repeat grades. Designating NAEP proficient as the achievement benchmark for accountability systems is certainly not cautious use. emphasis added].

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Assessment Report Comparison Outcomes 363

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Even after 144 years, Ward’s Science continues to be a leading provider of a full range of science products, kits, and resources for AP Science, Biology, Chemistry, Digital Science, Earth Science, Physics, and more for elementary-age students through High School (and beyond)–including Makerspace environments.

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STEM Resources Robotics Digital Citizenship 210

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“Born connected: The rise of the AI generation”, reveals the app use and technology habits of children aged 4-18, detailing trends in screen time, social media and communications, mobile gaming, online entertainment, learning tools, and for the first time in the report’s history, use of artificial intelligence tools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Since 1999 there have been over 300 violent tragedies that have played out from college campuses to elementary schools, and 320K students have been exposed to gun violence. While instances of school violence are on the rise, there is strong evidence to suggest that upstream violence prevention is what’s needed to curb this trend.

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STEM Training Outcomes Social Media 78

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But for remote learning this fall, the district planned to introduce the video-based instructional program to another 11,000 K-8 students as a component of its online instruction. The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” We don’t know.

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Learning Social Media Video Online Learning 201

eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Created in San Francisco, California, Mystery Science is used in more than 50% of United States’ elementary schools each month. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students, which is followed by a series of brief videos and prompts used to guide class discussion. Terms were not disclosed.

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Education STEM Professional Learning Social Media 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The curriculum – including YouTube videos of the lectures – is also available for free to any teacher who wants to use it. A follow up report in 2019 found similarly dismal results. Related: Getting schooled in social media. “You have infinite material to pull from in real time.”. It touches everything.

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Social Media Data Course Report 145

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. Adaptive teaching: Reflective practice of two elementary teachers’ visions and adaptations during literacy instruction. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Throughout the pandemic, the American public has struggled to be scientifically literate enough to separate well-grounded scientific findings from social media-driven fiction. I n a 2019 survey of the state’s school principals, 81 percent reported they could find few or no satisfactory applicants for middle-school science jobs.

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Survey Report Data STEM 120

The Innovative Educator

JUNE 24, 2019

2019/20: The Year Of. Fortunately, teachers like April Keck DeGennaro who teaches at Peoples Elementary School in Georgia is. You can check it out in the video below. Dr. Curran explained that she and her son have a joint social media account. But most teachers aren't doing that. You have until July 2 to apply.

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Trends Digital Citizenship Social Media EdTech 76

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In late March, Mindful Schools created a free mindfulness series for kids, in response to Covid-19, which was shared 87,000 times on social media, a record for them. A student in New York City practices emotional awareness after completing an online guided meditation video for kids. Credit: Sarah Garland / The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 31, 2019

She says she discovered K-pop while watching a “multi-animator project” — often a music video that’s animated collaboratively by many different people. So an hour spent playing a video game while texting with your friends could be counted on the survey as two hours of media use. What is this from?

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Friday March 11, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, high quality digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Day nationwide. Discovery Education is the worldwide?EdTech?leader Twitter and? LinkedIn.? .

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Some institutions are even cutting teacher degree programs, such as Oklahoma City University, which has suspended its elementary education and early childhood education tracks. “We And the social media posts about teacher training programs are eliciting enthusiasm. “We Murphy says.

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Training Trends Social Media Policies 148

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. Holley said the staff at Rupert Elementary School in Crawley, West Virginia, where she teaches, has pulled together and she’s never felt more supported.

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Survey Elementary Personalized Learning Report 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15. It’s OK,” Nia would text back.

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Social Media Study Analysis Libraries 135

Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Elementary. ” Desmos just released some more elementary activities! Alice Keeler’s Templates for Elementary Math. Flipgrid is a video response tool (and so much more). Flipgrid is a video response tool (and so much more). Check out this video below for a quick overview: HIGHLIGHTS. Battleship.

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Technology Classroom Google EdTech 78

MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. Holley said the staff at Rupert Elementary School in Crawley, West Virginia, where she teaches, has pulled together and she’s never felt more supported.

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Survey Elementary Report Social Media 69

Shake Up Learning

APRIL 2, 2019

Jasmine is a second-year fourth-grade teacher at Marrington Elementary School near Charleston, South Carolina. 17:44] – Does Jasmine have any videos of the projects she’s been talking about? [18:35] Marrington Elementary School Rookie Teacher of the Year 2018. © Shake Up Learning 2019. – @ShakeUpLearning.

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Technology Robotics Learning Google 64

MindShift

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Some teachers are integrating discussions about emotions into daily lessons or starting class with a short mindfulness practice to help everyone feel centered and prepared to learn, while others are sharing mindfulness apps and using online mindfulness videos. They noted that it drew 10 times the organization’s usual number of attendees.

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Exercises Survey Elementary Report 60

Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

According to the 2018 Common Sense report Social Media, Social Life , 13 percent of teens age 13-17 say they’ve been cyberbullied, including 9 percent who say it has happened to them more than twice. Find ways to demonstrate that your classroom is a safe, emotionally caring environment.

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Digital Citizenship Report Survey Resources 74

MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

“At the end of the unit, as a culminating project, students choose groups, researched current solutions for physical and economic water scarcity and created PSA videos using iMovie about the problem and how their solution could help to combat the issue.” Check out the #trashtag challenge on social media, for example.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

According to the 2018 Common Sense report Social Media, Social Life , 13 percent of teens age 13-17 say they’ve been cyberbullied, including 9 percent who say it has happened to them more than twice. Find ways to demonstrate that your classroom is a safe, emotionally caring environment.

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Digital Citizenship Report Survey Resources 40

Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

According to the 2018 Common Sense report Social Media, Social Life , 13 percent of teens age 13-17 say they’ve been cyberbullied, including 9 percent who say it has happened to them more than twice. Find ways to demonstrate that your classroom is a safe, emotionally caring environment.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Report Survey Resources 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. To create compelling video arguments, student teams interviewed experts in economic development, researched state history and geography, and even wrote poems to sing the praises of their region.

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Assessment Gamification Digital Citizenship Social Media 167

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. But Dee said, between fall 2019 and fall 2021, enrollment declined by 2.5

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E-rate Elementary Education Report 129

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. This page will provide some amazing articles and videos as you explore Blended Learning.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 - 27, 2019. Asynchronously interact with each other by posting text, audio or video greetings and/or multimedia content that informs other participants about their class, school, town or cultures.

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

In Tennessee, 50,000 or roughly 5 percent of the state’s elementary and middle school students were assigned high-dosage tutoring during the 2021-22 school year. In 2019, before the pandemic, 31 percent of Tennessee’s low-income students were reading on a “below basic” level. More than 80 percent received less, often far less.

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Data Company Report Elementary 110

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the absence of detailed information about Asian American history at school, they’re teaching themselves through social media — such as videos on Tik Tok and infographics on Instagram — and their networks of friends. In 2019, 53,291 Bangladeshis made up just 6.3 175,340 Asian American students (comprising 16.6%

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Groups Study System Advocacy 103

Shake Up Learning

MAY 7, 2019

29:48] – Did Tony get special permission from parents to get student videos up on YouTube? [30:50] 34:42] – We hear about a couple of courses that Tony offers for teachers: Classy Graphics and Classy Videos. [38:52] Classy Videos. © Shake Up Learning 2019. He shares the good and bad news about it. [27:34]

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How To Google Facebook Course 64

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. Logan is part of a generation of “digital natives” who were raised on screens.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 124

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Lisa Grant, superintendent for the Centralia school district, makes her monthly rounds in a fifth grade class at Fords Prairie Elementary School on Dec. The school district welcomed all elementary students back for in-person learning in early December. Credit: Katie Cotterill for The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Report Policies System 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

As a ninth grader, in 2019, she clashed with students who wanted to fly the Confederate flag at school; Meryl and her friends wanted to fly a rainbow flag. In some cases, that meant removing any information on sexuality or sexual maturation from elementary school health curricula, and also revising health, psychology and certain A.P.

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Advocacy Report Libraries Policies 140

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Young people are early adopters of TikTok or use Snapchat, and tend to get most of their news from social media. Social media platforms are not necessarily the best place to find factual news or information. Students can start using critical media literacy skills right away to get a handle on the 2020 election.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Blended Learning Digital Learning 97