Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2018

Welcome to the third and final post in this series focusing on teacher workload, and how technology can assist teachers with the three greatest time heavy activities. And in terms of automating the process there are also a number of great technologies available. Grading: a necessary evil? Conclusion.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Based on universal access to free and equal schools, the social contract for public education equates the attainment of a high school diploma with readiness for college, meaningful participation in the workforce, and the rights and responsibilities of adulthood.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

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. They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Academic Standards LMS 174

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

An asset-based approach emphasizes acceleration and enrichment, with a focus on designing rich, high-quality instructional experiences that provide accessible entry points for all students. As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology.

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Learning Strategy Academic Standards Professional Learning 214

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. Open Access Textbooks Open Access Textbooks are virtual resources that are available for teaching and learning purposes.

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Software eBook How To Classroom 52

PlagiarismCheck

MAY 8, 2023

Plagiarism checkers have made it easier for students to ensure that their work is original and properly cited, ultimately improving the quality of their writing and promoting a culture of academic honesty. Technology and writing formed a strong symbiosis today. Academic honesty promotion is crucial for student success.

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Trends Academic Standards Policies Comparison 59

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Access the assignment provided by the teacher. Once that is completed, access other challenges via online apps (usually third party, outside of the eSpark app), new videos, or something else. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Start by telling eSpark how you’re feeling. Begin the first quest.

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Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 172

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.

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Common Core Academic Standards Data Assessment 148

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

But in the field of education, we don’t even have a complete set of static competency frameworks for digital data that are openly accessible and interoperable—to say nothing of dynamic data that support real-time pathway optimization. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. K-12 learners.

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Google Academic Standards Education Data 94

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.

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Tools Academic Standards Elementary Software 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Historically, wealthier students have had greater access to enriching out-of-school experiences, compounding their privilege. The Chicago Learning Exchange supports out-of-school programs that are trying to change that, particularly those using technology to offer innovative opportunities for kids in Chicago who historically haven’t had them.

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Study Tools Social Media Academic Standards 90

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. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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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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Moodle Software Analysis Academic Standards 52

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. The technologies are often purchased separately as well. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 79

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2017

In order to innovate in ways that anticipate and serve the needs of teachers and students, standards are applied to how OER is tagged, how tags support one another, and the editorial style that is imposed upon all metadata. One of the most common sets of structures are academic standards. The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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OER Academic Standards Policies Common Core 74

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching. A little bit of technology doesn’t change much. Tacked-on learning technology can do this. But deep integration of technology–real at-the-marrow fusion of learning model, curriculum, and #edtech? With technology, the name of the game is publishing.

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Technology Gamification Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 40

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

The tool also offers educators reports on how students perform across various academic standards and skills. Freckle launched with an online, adaptive K-8 math tool and joined the Imagine K12 accelerator for education technology startups. Freckle can group students of similar learning levels for small group activities.

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Education Company Academic Standards Learning 88

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Most educators access information about their profession through online searches, social media, colleagues, supervisors, their professional association or a journal subscription. In particular, educators want to see more research about technology, trauma and mental health, equity and educator talent.

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Survey Social Media Education Academic Standards 115

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 role of technology. In the early years of Lindsay’s experiment, few students had internet access at home. “I It’s a model that’s paid dividends for the district.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 131

eSpark

APRIL 14, 2022

How can technology build these connections? Students write a script for a public access television show. Most teachers simply don’t have enough time or energy to write rigorous lessons that both engage students and meet a diversity of academic needs. Students participate in a writing workshop.

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Student Engagement How To Academic Standards Examples 52

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

Then a re-write of academic standards that had to be mapped to teaching and learning, constantly in revision. Our highest-level political officers, perhaps our actual system has either blocked or not led a new corollary of refined humanity needed to match the explosion of technology.

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Industry Survey System Academic Standards 100

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Another challenge for teachers is the need for more professional development and help in connecting maker activities to curriculum and academic standards. The tools and resources required don’t come cheap: 92 percent of educators said information about grants were somewhat or very important.

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Academic Standards Education Common Core Survey 60

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.

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Libraries Academic Standards Learning System 107

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

Technology, collaboration, and new standards are changing the classroom at a rapid pace. The need for more practical and effective professional learning opportunities for teachers is especially important right now, with new academic standards being introduced and adapted in schools across the country.

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Academic Standards Case Study Common Core Policies 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for. By giving students access to many types of dramatic play props, children have the freedom to explore and develop their own sense of gender and gender roles.

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Meeting Academic Standards Classroom Assessment 218

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. So, what can be done?

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Standards Several – Vendors produce tools that correspond with the Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) , specifications that define how systems exchange and manage information about learning standards and/or competencies in a digitally-referenceable way (goodbye PDFs!). Do vendors use CASE?

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

With all its bells, whistles, apps and toys, technology also creates anxiety for both parents and educators, and research is going to have to follow the charge ahead. Guernsey is a big fan of reminding parents that technology can’t possibly replace other interactions that both teachers and parents might have with children.

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Guidelines Coursera Academic Standards Blended Learning 81

eSpark

MAY 2, 2016

The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. Allowing educators to relate academic standards to student interests and aspirations, PBL is an especially effective way to engage older students who might otherwise be disengaged from the classroom.

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Academic Standards Learning Digital Citizenship Secondary 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Here were the tips that the mock board members, comprised of education technology investors and founders, had to offer. But overall the question that everyone wanted to address was the same: How does a company achieve scale?

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EdTech Company Outcomes Academic Standards 83

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

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. These materials need to be easily accessible for teachers and students—sometimes through the learning management systems used by their school.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2016

Students in South Carolina will soon have access to short Twig Science and Tigtag Science videos through a new statewide partnership. Supplementary STEM videos serve to engage students in science learning. The South Carolina State Board of Education approved the adoption with Carolina Biological.

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Video STEM Academic Standards Instructional Materials 40

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2018

We have a law school, we have a school of business and information technology, we have a college of social and behavioral sciences, we have an open college, and we have health sciences and nursing. Vandenbosch: We are a university in the neighborhood of 30,000 students, divided into six schools and colleges. And it is mostly online?

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Kaplan Course Examples Outcomes 98

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. For over ten years, districts across the U.S. ESSA ensures that all U.S. Blended Learning.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

But in a competency-based model, teachers must assess and record a student’s performance on each academic standard within and across subjects. Empower still uses SIF today and its scripts can access data from certain SISs they work with. It’s almost unfair to ask them to perform at a needed level with SIF.”

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Data LMS Company Education 107

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

To watch the live show at 4:00 pm US-EDT, or to access the recordings afterward, please go to [link] (or [link] ). As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. She was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S.

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Policies Academic Standards Company Assessment 36

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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