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. How can families use Seesaw?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Architecturally, this plays out in new schools resembling whatever is culturally perceived as representing modernity (the factory in the early 20th century, the Google headquarters today). In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” We’ve made it our mission to build lessons that nurture 21st century academic success and empower extraordinary teaching.

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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. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

What is the bare minimum of learning technology integration in a classroom? In that light, we felt like it represented another kind of idea–a bare minimum of technology integration in an average classroom. What might be considered a kind of basic standard for education technology in 2016. Do mystery Skypes/Google Hangouts.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

Explore ways to bring design, computational thinking, coding, robotics, electronics, engineering, and other elements of making into the regular classroom day in support of academic standards across the school in every subject. W071 | Project Based Learning for Your District/Classroom Quickstart. Room: NORTH 220F.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

Both Clayton County Public Schools and Phoenix Union High School District had learning platforms such as Google and Microsoft for years before the pandemic. In addition to her seven years in instructional technology, she was a classroom teacher and media specialist. Challenges. April has served 24 years in the K-12 environment.

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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. 1) Essential Question.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Sharing Platforms – Ralyea notes that a major aspect of digitization is the ability to share standards-aligned resources with peers. That’s already happening with tools like Google Classroom. Imagine this sharing option built into a coordinated system that allows for greater curricular adaptation and usage?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

classroom, home, digital) work together? Which academic standards are the focus of the unit? How will data from formative assessment (that target these standards) help teachers and students respond within the project? Progress towards mastery of academic standards? Who is their audience?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

A common set of academic standards could alleviate the discovery issue, but several states have withdrawn from the Common Core State Standards and decided to adopt their own. Often, finding the best open resources for a classroom is not enough. Forty-two states and Washington, D.C. They also should share their goods.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Classroom design. WiFi signal, outlets, access to frequently move around the class, ways to not disrupt other classrooms with “noise.” ” Your classroom has become the world’s classroom–more of a vessel or template than something your own. Usually learning happens in your classroom.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

The digital resources in the Knovation repository—including videos, games, podcasts and articles—have been selected, evaluated, tagged and aligned to academic standards. By paying for a license to the collection, McGraw-Hill can decide what it wants to do with the curated content, how it will display and be delivered, Wilhelm said.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

It's interesting to point out that the authors came from special education backgrounds, and for most classroom teachers, that is usually their co-teaching situation: a gen ed teacher is the one "in charge," while an ECE teacher pushes in because several children with IEP needs are on the roster. Who's name is on the classroom door?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 10, 2015

Several common classroom tasks are inherently rigorous, including reading idea-dense literature, taking notes, and using the writing process itself, but these are rarely engaging, and don’t always fit with a given academic standard or task. Use Google Earth to make sociological observations. Use literature to frame math.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

But classroom walls are becoming a lot more permeable,” she said, citing examples in which a group of students in Georgia earned a patent for work they completed in school and seven districts in Iowa teamed up to help students spend part of their school days working for local companies. “But

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

This “Google and good luck” approach throws a lot of options, confusion, and competing agendas at teachers. As principals do classroom walkthroughs, they look for specific instruction based in the curriculum, rather than an academic standard dutifully written on the chalkboard but ignored.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

But once a staple—and stable—presence in the classroom, Apple’s dominance in the education market has taken a backseat. And not to mention, Google announced yesterday its first “education tablet made for Chrome OS” that comes with a built-in stylus. That cost is still steeper than Chromebooks, which start at $179. The cost: $329.)

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, disciplinarian, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst? They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

There is also instructional context support available to help teachers implement the content in the classroom. With a classroom full of third through fifth graders who have had inconsistent education in their lives, I need to help my students learn math in different ways, at different levels. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 21, 2015

Tomorrow’s Learning Today: 7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future. This is stuff that’s available not tomorrow with ten grand in classroom funding and 12 hours of summer PD, but today. twitter, Google+, facebook). The post 7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

Meanwhile, the number of tools in classrooms today has ballooned. For instance, a curriculum director may decide that one math program does not align with the district’s academic standards, while another one does. The disconnect between what school leaders buy and what teachers actually use is well-documented.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” Learn three steps districts can take to prevent teacher burnout and cultivate engaging, rigorous instruction across classrooms.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online GOOGLE FOR EDUCATION UPDATES ( edu.google.com ) Google for Education announced updates and new tools to help teachers keep innovation alive in their classrooms. FOLLETT DESTINY 16.0 ( [link] ) Follett has released Destiny 16.0,

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2015

With the exception of in-depth content like Edutopia’s guides , much of the “parent stuff” you’ll find through Googling is decent enough, but it can be surface level or otherwise completely unrelated to process of learning. What academic standards do you use, and what do I need to know about them?

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” Learn three steps districts can take to prevent teacher burnout and cultivate engaging, rigorous instruction across classrooms.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Content-based academic standards. Social media in the classroom. Does that encourage them to pour over peer-reviewed journals of emerging pedagogies to only bring in “proven” methodology into their classroom? A flipped classroom is good, yes? Use of data. Mandates to be research-based in our behavior.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

The first session focused on one tool—Google Slides—and ways to use it creatively to enhance a lesson. Avera would teach them the tools in the morning, then take over one of the teacher’s classrooms in the afternoon to demonstrate the lesson. What resulted were flexible classrooms that moved with the needs of the class that day.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2016

That has been the value of the clearinghouse, he said; not only pointing teachers and others toward online lessons to fit state academic standards, but providing an Ohio-specific seal of approval. “We They’ll have to go to Google and try to do their own review,” Herrelko said. “It

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like? Holzweiss asked.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “George Mason’s President Says Some Donor Agreements Fell ‘Short’ of Academic Standards.” Edwin has received an undisclosed amount of investment from Google for its tutoring app. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Uncovering Koch Role in Faculty Hires.”

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