A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Twitter chats have increased from a handful to now hundreds happening on a weekly basis. How are we adapting and evolving?

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

In addition, each school district superintendent nominated a classroom teacher or district-level content supervisor to perform independent reviews. With Core5, teachers are empowered to differentiate instruction for each student using meaningful data powered by Lexia’s patented Assessment Without Testing® technology.

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N2Y

JUNE 8, 2021

Unique was truly a lifesaver for teachers during the pandemic in remote settings and continues to be so in the classroom.”. Differentiated, standards-based academic content, enhanced by powerful assessment, data, and reporting tools, also supports the IEP process. About EdTech.

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techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

.) – for implementing full-time, statewide virtual school opportunities to provide students with rigorous online courses in a learning model that meets their individual needs. The company provides innovative solutions for pre-K through 12th grade that empower districts to implement successful online and blended learning programs.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, April 25, 2018 — Summit™ Math , a curriculum of adaptive online math courses from Fuel Education ®(FuelEd®), and Stride ™, FuelEd’s supplemental learning solution for skills practice for students in PreK–8 grade, were both selected as winners in The ComputED Gazette ’s 24th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIES).

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

Today almost 5 million students and educators around the world use Istation for teaching, learning and assessment. EdSurge caught up with Collins to talk about education reform, personalized learning, and what the future holds for Istation. Twitter @rhcoll. Every child is different and they all learn different ways.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

Our goal is to shift the teacher from the head of the classroom to moving around the classroom working with students on a more individualized basis. His fluidity perfectly suits his new role as CEO of Carnegie Learning —a company he believes is on the cusp of transforming itself and math instruction.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

acquired the San Francisco-based startup that helps K-12 educators “use data to analyze the past, understand the present, and anticipate the future,” according to the company’s Twitter page. Excelligence Learning Acquires Really Good Stuff: Brentwood Associates -backed Excelligence Learning Corp.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

At a conference where educators and entrepreneurs seemed enraptured by the possibility of personalized and adaptive learning technology, Mitra offered this warning: “The problem we have in our system is that we think we can tell the learner where to go.” A guiding principle behind the company’s approach to data is “prose, not graphs.”

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2017

You can check out our Twitter discussion, Storified , or listen to an audio recording of the whole session , thanks to Roxanne Riskin: Yet maybe the conversation won’t stop there, at 3:05 pm EDT on June 29th. from Twitter: @PhilOnEdTech @BryanAlexander What is Phil's take on Facebook's LMS project? link] #FTTE.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2017

You can check out our Twitter discussion, Storified , or listen to an audio recording of the whole session , thanks to Roxanne Riskin: Yet maybe the conversation won’t stop there, at 3:05 pm EDT on June 29th. from Twitter: @PhilOnEdTech @BryanAlexander What is Phil's take on Facebook's LMS project? link] #FTTE.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. They’re amazing.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 15, 2018

For educators, Google Forms are an integral component of facilitating personalized and adaptive learning. Google Forms, which can be used to facilitate a survey or quiz , reports data into Google Sheets so teachers and administrators can use the raw data. meghan.bogardu…. Thu, 03/15/2018 - 14:37. CDW Segment.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Please share in the comments or via Twitter. ”. For context, we need to go a little father back, to the piece last week on Wired– The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids –that is getting a lot of run on twitter recently. So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Learning simulations.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

We''ll be talking about Mozilla''s Open Badges project , the issues around recognizing skills and achievements that happen outside of traditional learning institutions, and the HASTAC Badges Competition: Badges For Lifelong Learning. The Classroom 2.0 Details and log-in links here. And apps like Kno and Stanza failed to work.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. –Patty Hagan, Teaching and Learning Coach, St. public schools. It is all about the balance.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2023

The finalists’ ventures are focused on some of the biggest challenges in education, including college access and persistence, social-emotional learning, literacy, adaptive learning, and more. Find more on educationcompetition.org or follow the conversation on Twitter: @CatalystPennGSE and #MilkenPennGSE. EdVisorly, Inc.

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Tech Helpful

MAY 6, 2016

I recently participated in a #TnTechChat Twitter chat moderated by @TeachTnTech regarding Technology skills needed in preservice teachers. For many of us in the chat we felt that new teachers are not necessarily entering the workforce equipped for a tech-rich classroom. The value of professional learning networks (PLNs).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. Computer Science For All. What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

.” Via David Perry : “A professor of Atmospheric Sciences stepped down (he was 70) at the University of Illinois rather than appropriately address accommodations in his classroom. danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. “Blame Big Data.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Via Chalkbeat : “Can in-house child care keep young teachers in the classroom? ” Via Edsurge : “With a Year of Crisis Text Line Data, California Community Colleges Launch Mental Health Program.” ” “ Campuswire launches to redesign classroom communications,” writes Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. They also demanded to view their personal data profiles by Sept.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Classrooms.” And more online education news in the “Betteridge’s Law of Headlines” section and in the research and data section below. A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senate bill compels data collection on foreign-born college students.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

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