The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. High school senior Connor Dunbar.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

This is a tone that is becoming increasingly important in the 21st century as access to information increases, as the updating of information happens more naturally, and as blended and mobile learning environments become more common. They are best served by a short, taut the line between student and content-to-be-mastered. Uncertainty.

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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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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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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. According to Futuresource , a UK market research firm, devices running the Chrome operating system accounted for close to 60 percent of all sales of mobile devices in the U.S. K-12 education market in 2017.

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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. by Terry Heick. (Ed Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post). So we’re taking a stand here. So let’s talk.

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JUNE 22, 2015

So, in pursuit of that transparency, below are some questions parents ideally would be asking you to better clarify what’s happening in the classroom. What academic standards do you use, and what do I need to know about them? How are creativity and innovative thinking used on a daily basis in your classroom?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Content-based academic standards. Mobile learning. 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. Differentiation.

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

Seem to ignore that mobile learning is central to education’s future. Resist allowing technology to radically alter our classrooms and ways of doing business within them. Actually believe that every single student can master every single academic standard–without making them think they hate learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

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. For each session they start with the academic standards, then get creative with devising projects that can bring the lessons to life. Not every teacher was initially onboard.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Academic standards could be supplanted by “other content” As access to information increases and social chatter reaches a never-ending crescendo, the need—and impact of—hundreds and hundreds of academic standards changes. Personalized learning will disrupt how we think of curriculum.

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