Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. If the history of education has taught us anything, it is that education is a human process.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Bailey Fraser, 15 (left), and her stepsister Leah Kimball, 15, volunteer with Edible Bethel during their service learning block. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

Recently, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo)and Senator Ed Markey (D-Ma) drafted some modifications to COPPA that have the potential to create an catastrophic damage in the Ed-Tech industry, particularly for all publishers and schools who use literally anything on the internet in educational ways. Saving Personalized Learning.

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2019

Called the Telstar Freshman Academy, or TFA, it involves all its district’s ninth graders in a hands-on learning method that uses outdoor-based projects and community-building activities as ways to teach across several disciplines. Tara Pocock, an educator and 4-H professional, fixes the rain gutter on the campus barn.

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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. While digital technology has become ubiquitous in most communities, there is a hierarchy in how it is used for learning.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Vice President and Managing Director at SIIA, made this statement in a recent edWebinar , with Jeff Mao, CEO, Edmoxie LLC, Bruce Umpstead, Director of State Programs at IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Ilya Zeldin, Founder and CEO of 2gnoMe.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

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. Working with 60 education partners and the U.S.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

In order to address education equity, administrators must first recognize the common barriers. Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. Does everyone feel valued? Noguera, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Whatever you call them, a growing body of research suggests these non-academic, social-emotional competencies deserve our attention. Studies have linked social-emotional learning (SEL) programs with improved focus, stronger relationships, lower anxiety and higher test scores. So what’s a whole child educator to do? Nueva School.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. While credit recovery is one of the fastest-growing fields in online education, many programs are little more than diploma mills hastening students through the curriculum with insufficient support. Department of Education brief.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Achieve3000 is the leading literacy solution in blended learning programs today, specializing in cloud-based, differentiated learning solutions for school-aged youth as well as adult learners. We are looking forward to supporting Virginia Beach’s students and parents, as well as their dedicated educators, with this new initiative.”.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

While it has been derided by educators for decades as incapable of truly measuring understanding, and while performance on such exams can be noticeably improved simply by learning a few tricks, the multiple choice question may have a larger, less obvious flaw that disrupts the tone of learning itself. The Tone of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. For that biomedical project, students had to create a probe and learn to maneuver it sight unseen from behind a curtain on the box’s opening to procure a sample from the intestine/bike tire. “We Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 20, 2015

Ed note: Supporting “commonness” or standardization isn’t a part of our mission at TeachThought, but we are interested in giving equal voice to diverse voices across education. Further, the majority of educators in the United States teach according to the Common Core standards, which makes them of interest to us.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? You don’t have to be a member to attend.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

First, many educational markets are shaped by public policy. For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, etc.). Two key factors drive this complexity.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 1, 2015

16 Books About Modern Learning Every Teacher Should Read. While digital content is handy and accessible, many of the issues we face as educators are deeper than any single post–or series of posts–can adequately address. 16 Books About Learning Every Teacher Should Read. by TeachThought Staff. Of course there is!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. By 5W Infographics with Peter D’Amato.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Insanity In Education: 52 Mistakes We Make Over And Over Again. The context for this one is simple enough–what mistakes do we constantly make in education that hold us back from the best versions of ourselves? Forget learning should be fun. Plan backwards from standards. by Terry Heick. Stigmatize failure.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Being in a New York City alternative high school serving at-risk kids , my students were academically behind and at risk of getting sucked into the school-to-prison pipeline. The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this. STEAM , the CCLS ELA standards, etc.),

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. How to Empower Effective Teachers. Download the Infographic.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined . To see how many factors impact a child’s education. A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined . b)(1) and who enroll in an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act, P.L. Digital learning content.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. How to Empower Effective Teachers. Download the Infographic.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 15, 2015

Consider a few of the key ideas in progressive education. How schools are designed and what students learn–and why–must be reviewed, scrutinized, and refined as closely and with as much enthusiasm as we do the gas mileage of our cars, the downloads speeds of our phones and tablets, or the operating systems of our watches.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As someone who has taught high school history, led a school district, and researched the history of school reform along with the use of educational technologies over the past half-century, I found little that startled me in 2017 (with the exception for one event noted below). That was the election of Donald Trump as President.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Emily, who loves math and wants to be a pharmacist, said that she’s nervous about how hard the classes may be but that she’s eager for a “better education.” Related: Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

13 Ways Education Could Change In The Next 13 Years. Ed note: 2 Pieces for Context– 30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education by 2028 and Curriculum is More Important Than Learning Technology. The focus of that piece was technology, and how it might impact the way students learn in the coming decades.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, briefs President Barack Obama for an interview in the Oval Office July 22, 2009. Former Education Secretary John King has voiced concern about her commitment to protecting civil rights, and the organization he now runs, Education Trust , is firmly opposed to her nomination.

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