The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S. Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 6, 2020

Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools [interview with an American Teacher in China] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Are you prepared for online learning if your school is closed for an extended period of time? FREE Webinar: Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools. Click To Tweet.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! When possible we should provide them opportunities to learn outdoors and play. Moving outdoors uplifts students’ emotions, teaches them how to socialize and problem solve with others, and gets students moving. Students can works in groups to invent a sport.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A real-time national education study of more than one million students by two leading not-for-profit education groups has found that continued engagement with technology-enabled instruction during COVID-19 school closures has significantly reduced students’ loss of potential reading growth. This study is the second in a series.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Without reliable access to the internet and devices like laptops or cell phones, college students probably aren’t going to succeed in online learning. A new survey shows that college students’ attitudes correlate with their personal experiences with online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

It’s a lot of really down-to-earth people who want to be doctors because they know how to talk to people, not because they’re really good at chemistry,” she said. “I Yoni Lotan performs as his captain character for a remote birthday party produced by Camp, in his apartment in Brooklyn on March 26, 2020. Study abroad, virtually.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2020

I’m an adjunct professor – online only–for a variety of major universities (CSU for one). I’ve taught many years in both environments and love online teaching because it is flexible, diversified, self-directed, and self-paced. I agree with many studies—that online is more effective (one from IBM).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Before we explore how to motivate your students to learn, let’s go over the difference between two types: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation occurs when students are engaged because of internal rewards, like a love of learning or interest in a subject.[3] Teaching and Teacher Education, May 2017, 64, pp.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

The March 2020 shift from face-to-face classes to what many call “Zoom University” was triage for faculty and administrators accustomed to being in the same room as their students. To get a better understanding of what has happened in online classrooms since March 2020, Acosta said, the report’s authors spoke to more than 50 students.

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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

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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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2020

In the middle of the abrupt changes to the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year, edtech companies offered resources and access to help educators, students, and parents make the best of at-home learning. Related content: How to make remote learning easily accessible.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But, as an outside observer, I find it upsetting that a potential solution to improving graduation rates is to sacrifice learning. Related: Five studies find online courses are not working well at community colleges. Related: The online paradox at community colleges. I’d settle for not worse.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

As students return to school for the 2021-22 year, educators are thinking about how to teach children who have missed months of instruction because of the pandemic. Or should they start fourth graders off at the usual beginning, learning place values through millions and billions, as if third grade hadn’t been disrupted?

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The Thinking Stick

MARCH 8, 2020

NCCE 2020 here in Seattle has just wrapped up. NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. In a fully online learning environment, you must rethink the time you allow students to complete tasks.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In this MarketScale EdTech Today podcast from host Kevin Hogan, remote learning expert Sal Khan and Anne Wintroub, director of Social Innovation for the AT&T Foundation, discuss a variety of topics related to edtech, COVID learning, and connectivity. How unfortunate there’s a pandemic. “Oh, wow.

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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 23, 2020

While we are facing a lot of uncertainty about what school will look like this fall, it is virtually certain that, when the 2020-21 school year begins, teachers who have always had diverse levels of student performance in their classroom will be looking at even greater diversity. The disruption will widen equity gaps.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Features such as Immersive Reader and well-being check-ins offer students ways to direct their own learning experiences and give teachers more information about how to support and encourage their students. Reading Progress lets students practice reading and helps teachers see where they need additional support.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Unfortunately, between 15 and 16 million K — 12 learners and 400,000 educators in the United States lacked adequate connectivity , a device or both in 2020. Promote engagement and collaboration through project-based learning. When learning is structured, students are less prone to distraction and can relax and focus on their studies.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

It speaks directly to a primary challenge facing our education system in this COVID-era: Some students and families have the means to succeed in a remote learning environment, and others do not. The problem may worsen this autumn, as many colleges are planning for online or hybrid instruction for the start of the new school year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

When students clicked on a help button, they sometimes received a teacher’s hint, which could be a pop-up text explanation or a video of how to solve the problem. CLICK TO ENLARGE: The examples above show how a text explanation (left) and video explanation (right) appear to students who click on a help button.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2021

In a New York Times article this past April, entitled " How to Help Your Adolescent Think About the Last Year ," writer Judith Warner notes that: "On and offline, parents are trading stories — poignant and painful — about all of the ways that they fear their middle schoolers are losing ground."

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

But there’s another factor that’s impeding remote learning. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online. No one ever taught them how—or asked them to learn. “To They don’t have to start from scratch: Research about how to successfully teach kids in virtual classrooms has been underway for years.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2022

The quarantine period occurred mostly during the academic year of 2019/2020 and forced many institutions to halt in-person classes and move a considerable amount of instruction online. This shift meant students who did not already engage in online learning were constrained to learn by an online learning modality.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Many discussions have highlighted uncertainty about how colleges will support the academic pathways of students beyond their initial enrollment to ensure degree persistence. In a recent study conducted by McKinsey & Company, statistical models based on academic studies estimated the potential influence of school closures on learning.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2020

I cannot talk about dynamic learning and give you a static book. So I have created a companion website with a dedicated page for each chapter, including additional resources, posts, videos, and more, as well as book study questions. #2: 3: Remote Learning Tips. 31, 2020.). Here’s how to claim the Early Bird BONUS!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

So far, we have two well-designed studies where students were randomly assigned to receive online tutoring and their academic progress was measured. The first showed promising results for low-income immigrant middle schoolers in Italy in the spring of 2020. It was a pilot study and it wasn’t particularly large.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There is plenty of time, she reasoned, for her daughter to develop study skills. And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. She knows how to spell her name,” Engram said. school system.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

They worry about keeping their families healthy and how to juggle work and childcare. As millions of children moved to distance learning, there were challenges of how to provide students devices and WiFi as well as training in how to use the technology. are facing an unprecedented amount of stress.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Dora Bray Magilke had been unemployed for over a month when someone from her local career center in Branson, Missouri, reached out in the summer of 2020 with an offer. Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts.

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MindShift

JULY 13, 2021

Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning.

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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. Children are learning how to be even more resilient, and technology is helping that happen.”.

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