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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Study Tools Social Media Academic Standards 87

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 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. It’s no wonder that only 58% of teachers are comfortable using technology in class.

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EdTech Academic Standards Social Media Technology 153

The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 20, 2020

I expect them to acclimate to these academic standards while sympathizing with their hunger and growing pains. I remind them often how much potential they have and how they’re giving themselves more opportunities by getting their education in the moments we share. I leave school with 30% of the energy I had coming in.

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Classroom Academic Standards Guidelines Social Media 162

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

As an assistant principal with a social work background, my experience is similar to that of many school counselors and mental health professionals today. As we demonstrated success, we began partnering with our special education department to enhance mental health services. That is not how we approach peer mentoring at Westgate.

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Hubbli

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Many parents are looking for a high-quality educational experience for their children that they may not be able to find in their local public school system. One way to increase enrollment is by emphasizing the advantages of a private school education. Another way to increase enrollment is by harnessing the power of technology.

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Academic Standards Social Media Facebook Trends 52

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

There are at least two truisms when it comes to education technology: 1. That gung-ho initiative is something that Mark Racine, director of technology at Boston Public Schools, applauds. So far, that includes educators in more than 60,000 U.S. Teachers don’t always use what their district purchase.

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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. Here is the text of the bill: [link].

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 21, 2015

But the truth is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to educate children in the face of such radical technological and pedagogical progression. In short, the shift from purely academic standards to critical thinking habits supports personalized, 21st century learning through a preceding shift from institution to learner.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Content-based academic standards. Social media in the classroom. In education, these might be redressed as: What has standardizing content into a narrow range of content areas done to learning? Maker education? Technology. Use of data. Mandates to be research-based in our behavior.

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Academic Standards Mobile Learning Flipped Classroom Mobility 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In the age of blogging and social media, is there still room for books? 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. The Connected Educator by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Lani Ritter Hall.

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Learning Case Study Data Training 40

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). Differentiating between the two is crucial.

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Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 80

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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Comparison Academic Standards Technology Social Media 122

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. What are the emerging technologies in a library? What are the new trends in libraries?

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 97

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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