Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. The change already delivers extraordinary results and 96% of teachers claim that EdTech increases student engagement in learning. The Kudan Elementary School in downtown Tokyo organized the first robot teacher testing as far back as 2009.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

But in 2020, when a growing number of children stopped showing up for schooltime classes during the pandemic, ourBRIDGE decided to expand its focus. Before 2020, the school attendance rate for English language learners across the country was high. In many schools, these students were more likely to show up to class than other groups.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Extrinsic motivation, however, is learning because of external factors. Students may be motivated to learn to pass a test, to gain a reward, or to avoid a punishment. An example of extrinsic motivation is a student who is studying so their parents will not ground them for poor grades. V erywell Mind, Jan. Motivating Students.

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Strategy Gamification Blended Learning Examples 275

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Some relief came in 2020 through the CARES Act with an initial $13 billion allotment to K-12 schools. A new funding package from the federal government in December 2020 dedicated an additional $54.3 The Samsung Interactive Display provides engaging, exciting learning experiences for students—from anywhere.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. MORGAN CITY, La.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. There is plenty of time, she reasoned, for her daughter to develop study skills. We learned in a different way,” daughter Aylah said. It’s harder. Way, way harder,” Aylah said of the new grip. 8, 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. He was no longer enrolled, they said. Tameka is her middle name.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

A 2021 study showed that the pandemic disproportionately impacted Black students, prompting a heightened distrust of education. And there is every reason to expect disruptions in student learning post pandemic. We should also consider the learning gains that our students achieved during the pandemic.

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Waterford

JUNE 11, 2020

This year, as schools moved to online learning and teachers scrambled to adjust their curriculum, many teachers, students, and parents gained new appreciation for the value of self-care. If classes continue to be primarily online next year, bite-sized learning activities may be especially useful.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.” Read the stories.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Kathy Neumann’s third graders at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, struggled to understand fractions during this pandemic-disrupted school year. With remote learning, they couldn’t do their usual classroom activity of cutting strips of construction paper into halves, quarters and thirds.

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Strategy Elementary Groups Personalized Learning 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The analysis found the average student lost more than half a school year of learning in math and nearly a quarter of a school year in reading – with some district averages slipping by more than double those amounts, or worse. Lampkin blames the year and a half his sons were away from school buildings from March 2020 until the fall of 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Total enrollment: 3,600 students 1 In-person enrollment: 86 percent after reopening for a four-day week in March 2 Total cases, 2020-2021 school year: 5 cases in the fall (identified by the state in two elementary school outbreaks) 3 17 cases in the spring (15 rapid test positives, 2 PCR test positives); none identified by the state as outbreaks 4.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the summer of 2020 after schools had been shuttered for about three months, another nonprofit maker of math software for elementary schools called Zearn was thinking about a way to keep kids on grade level. Thousands of classrooms elected to try the just-in-time review approach in the fall of 2020. But many classrooms didn’t.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. As parents fearful of coronavirus’s spread and frustrated with their schools’ forays into remote learning seek other options, they are increasingly turning to virtual for-profit charter schools like the one Nemergut chose.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Census data shows that rates of home-schooling doubled between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the fall of that year. Before 2020, Helene Gaddie had never really considered homeschooling. It just made me think my children had another option to learn at home without that hostile environment.”. The Gaddies.

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Facebook Groups Data Survey 137

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. (The Students at B.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

And one of those stressors is trying to teach their kids: Almost three-fourths of adults with children recounted that managing online learning was a “significant source of stress.” Even early on in the pandemic, surveys showed parental stress was affecting children. The stress of teaching in a dual format is exhausting, he said.

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Report Study Survey Online Learning 136

eSpark

AUGUST 4, 2021

With so many options for online learning available, one thing that can set a program apart from the others is a curriculum grounded in proven educational research. Our team submitted evidence to Digital Promise confirming a link between eSpark’s curriculum design and established research on how students learn.

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Competency Based Learning EdTech Online Learning Digital Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The six public schools in Brunswick operated on a hybrid schedule for most of the 2020-21 school year.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 142

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

For the 2020-21 school year, enrollment was up to about 250 children, in pre-K-3 through fourth grade. Increased absences and substitute shortages meant administrators often filled in to teach classes or cover recess duty during the 2020-21 school year. Black boys and girls, they need hugs, they need to be shown affection and love.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project. It can put students on a slower learning track because of the way that they express themselves.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. As numerous studies have shown, Black students are not only more likely to be disciplined , but also more harshly and for lesser offenses, than their white peers. percent, according to Census Bureau data.

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Report Personalized Learning Survey Training 133

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Related: When it comes to liberal arts education, online learning changes only the tools. They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Related: With many schools choosing online learning how can we keep the music alive? Still, we were taking a risk.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Researchers documented that students were often learning a lot less through these prepackaged online courses compared to repeating the class with a human instructor. A 2021 study found that students who earned high school diplomas through credit recovery eventually earned lower wages in the labor market.

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Software Course Instructional Materials Blended Learning 89

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. Jordan Glaude, a social worker at Elkhart Elementary, said just being around helps normalize her role. May 26, 20201.

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Report Training Elementary Survey 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. Recent studies , however, suggest that children may transmit the virus that causes it, complicating decisions about reopening schools. 210,000 — The number of bus drivers working directly for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

But between the start of the pandemic and December 2020, up to 12% of K-12 public school students gained internet connectivity who lacked it previously, and a similar share of students got access to digital devices, estimates Titilayo Tinubu Ali, senior director of research and policy at the Southern Education Foundation.

Learning 141

Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

When Louisiana schools shut down due to Covid-19 in mid-March, Calcasieu Parish teachers scrambled to transition to online learning. Everybody sort of struggled through trying to develop a combination of paper packets and online instruction,” said Bruchhaus, the superintendent. Students faced barriers to virtual learning.

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Online Learning System Exercises Data 132

MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

” Sadie’s teacher reminds her that they’ll be using the educational software that she is already familiar with from her face-to-face classes at Ortega Elementary School: “It’s iReady, so we’ve got that. And that’s true even when online teachers have experience and training with online teaching. .

Learning 52

Learning Training Blended Learning Laptops 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

Both children keep studying at home because we have no choice. It would be extremely risky,” said De la Torre of her decision to keep them learning remotely, even after schools reopened. And the disparity is even greater for students of color, according to a study by McKinsey & Company published in December 2020.

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Laptops Blackboard Study Report 120

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She is among hundreds of thousands of students around the country who disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn’t resume their studies elsewhere. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead.

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