Hapara

DECEMBER 4, 2023

That’s why teaching digital citizenship has to be part of our roles as educators. They need to learn how to protect themselves online, respect others, have a healthy relationship with devices and think critically online. They need practice with these skills to learn how to think critically. So what is digital citizenship?

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

At a time of major change at educational software and assessments provider Renaissance Learning executives decided to add one more item to their to-do list. Founded in 2013 and formerly known as Front Row Education, Freckle currently claims more than 700,000 teachers and 10 million students have used the platform across 75,000 schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 20, 2021) —Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District (VWSD) today launched a new multiyear partnership with Discovery Education that helps educators connect current classroom instruction to students’ possible future career paths. said Superintendent Chad Shealy.

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Academic Standards Schoology Social Media Education 89

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Understanding the Online Learning Environment Embracing the online learning landscape is the first step toward your academic success. Online education in computer science offers flexibility and accessibility, but it also demands self-discipline and effective time management.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

We weren’t surprised,” said Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia, and one of the authors of the study , which encompassed 458 children. It’s not about intellect or capacity, it’s just about access. The state spent about $4,500 per enrolled child in 2019. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice. in linguistics from Stanford University, was a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Education from 1974 to 2004. Fillmore is the third recipient of the Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. The model also helped students and educators weather the pandemic’s ups and downs more easily than other districts in the country.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

In his latest EdSurge column , Michael Horn laid out how Google Maps offers an aspirational metaphor for what the future of educational tools could look like. Yet there are several initiatives, some of which I’ve had the privilege of working on, that aim to support the educational data ecosystem necessary for learner navigation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

We get what we educate for. That’s why it’s time to educate for the future we want: healthy, just and sustainable for ourselves and for generations to come. In early grades, connecting children to the places where they live helps them learn to take care of those places — so the places can take care of them over time.

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Education Academic Standards Social Media Report 106

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

taxpayers trying to make sense of the federal tax code, many educators feel that education research is inaccessible and not written in a way they can understand. The resulting chasm creates a problem for educators, who may not be using or incorporating research-backed teaching practices into their instruction. Ahead of the D.C.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

Students need access to tools that work. But today, the decisions educators make regarding the tools they use with students are based on hypothesis rather than solid evidence. School, district, and state leaders make technology decisions every day that will affect student tech fluency, not to mention learning outcomes.

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EdTech Accessibility Future Ready Academic Standards 60

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2018

Today we’ll look at grading and assessment, and how technology can assist teachers to streamline the process, as well as extract more valuable information on how students are tracking on their learning pathways. Read more: What is the role of rubrics in performance-based education? Grading: a necessary evil? Grade for completion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I’m a big believer in online web-based curricula that can be accessed from any browser, any digital device, any location. It makes learning organic, part of life rather than something that must happen from a certain book or room. EL Education K–5 Language Arts. This includes : grades 6–8 Math curriculum. Who is Kiddom?

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Academic Standards LMS 174

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In parallel with this changing nature of librarians, the library itself took on an increased role in the community, offering spaces where the unemployed receive job training, the needy access social services and families gather for daily programming. librarians) are the ones who decide where they want to go and live with those choices.

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Libraries Academic Standards Learning System 107

Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

To help accomplish their vision – that every students get not just to but through college – Brooklyn Lab leverages Cortex, a digital learning platform where student data and work can be accessed by students, teachers, parents, and administrators alike. Mastery of Rigorous Standards. Positive Youth Development.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since the 1990s, education stories emanating from Massachusetts have largely been positive, but that started to change over the last decade. The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Related: U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Empower Learning , a Utah-based developer of a learning management system (LMS), understands this pressure well. Eight years ago, some of its customers requested that Empower support the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) , an open data interoperability standard that was then in vogue with K-12 schools and districts.

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Data LMS Company Education 107

PlagiarismCheck

MAY 8, 2023

Access to billions of scientific research has never been easier, academic journals and the latest discoveries available online and can be analyzed right from mobile phones. Meanwhile, new technology, especially AI and Chat GPT, changed the writing process and turned education from head to toe.

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Trends Academic Standards Policies Comparison 59

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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PlagiarismCheck

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The rise of the internet and the availability of easily accessible content have contributed to the increasing prevalence of plagiarism. Plagiarism checkers compare a submitted text with a vast online and archived content database,academic publications and students’ submissions. Institutions also benefit from promoting authentic work.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

As the new school year begins, elementary school teachers are now able to access a new, free online artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to strengthen their math instruction and help students learn at higher levels. Next page: Educators react to the new AI resource).

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Tools Academic Standards Elementary Software 81

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

Education is changing, things are in flux, and there is uncertainty. In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In a previous EdSurge piece , I described how economics and technology trends tend to drive educational innovation by providing models that reformers build into their visions, sometimes unconsciously. It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. It was a pleasant surprise when she learned about the brewing partnership between the startup and the nonprofit. “We

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 79

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

One recent whitepaper linked the practice to preparing kids for the long road of schooling ahead , in which progress is measured through standardized testing starting in third grade. Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for.

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Meeting Academic Standards Classroom Assessment 218

eSpark

MAY 2, 2016

The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. Luckily, the vast majority of successful project based learning activities share a set of key characteristics that educators can replicate in the classroom and across a district. 3) Authenticity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Historically, wealthier students have had greater access to enriching out-of-school experiences, compounding their privilege.

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eSpark

APRIL 14, 2022

Student engagement—participating in lively class discussions, investing time and energy into their academic work, and applying what they learn in school to the world outside the classroom—increases when educators value social-emotional well-being, according to 81% of teachers. What does student engagement look like? Interaction.

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Student Engagement How To Academic Standards Examples 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. The problem is that many schools haven’t figured out how to leverage technology to accelerate and enrich learning. Tackling these challenges pays off.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 116

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. What is Seesaw? Who can use Seesaw?

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

New pre-released data from the Learning Counsel’s 2019 Survey indicates that 58 percent of schools now rate their highest pressure is their student’s social and emotional needs. Student rights to equitable education sometimes mean the district can’t even close costly small school outposts to consolidate into central locations. .

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

The goals of No Child Left Behind were the right goals: Making a promise to educate every child with an excellent teacher -- that’s the right thing to do, that’s the right goal. Higher standards are right. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. Accountability is right,” Obama said. Testing and Accountability.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

As we collectively elevate teaching so that it may sit comfortably alongside other highly respected and important professions, we must think carefully about how to provide higher-quality, effective continuing education for teaching. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has a vision for how that can happen.

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