Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn? Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Click on any of the titles below to read our full review of the tool's classroom potential. Google Classroom. Don't see your favorite tool? This list is just the tip of the iceberg. Flocabulary.

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Brainscape

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Either way, teaching your kids at home definitely causes a little anxiety in parents who haven’t had to be a part of a classroom in many, many years. Side note: Our advice is mostly tailored for parents of younger kids who are recreating a classroom and the full school day at home. You never signed up for this.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Courses are taught—remotely and often asynchronously—by highly-paid master teachers who leverage adaptive learning technologies that build an individualized learning path for your child. Public education is, by its very definition, political.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

This curriculum design approach is used by teachers who work in traditional classrooms, but holds up just as well in the digital realm. Lesson 4: Go study other great teachers and other great learning experiences. The field is so new that there are no definitive ways to do it “right” and lots of approaches are worth learning from.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. Milliron: Higher education right now is definitely in the beginning stages of any kind of use of AI. I work in a slightly different level than the work that Civitas works on, though, with the Open Learning Initiative.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Still, there is a pull to upgrade our instruction to meet the demands of the 21st century, summarized as the “Four Cs” – critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. I prefer this definition over the typically more technical description frequently offered by #edtech evangelists. The demand is real.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Still, there is a pull to upgrade our instruction to meet the demands of the 21st century, summarized as the “Four Cs” – critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. I prefer this definition over the typically more technical description frequently offered by #edtech evangelists. The demand is real.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Even though I have been on-site for workshops since the start of the pandemic, last week was my first time working with educators in small groups and visiting classrooms with students. Either group all the remote students together or use data to regularly group and regroup kids as they work to approach, meet, or exceed standards.

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Brainscape

MAY 16, 2022

But now, more than ever before, our homes have become our classrooms, libraries, study dens, and offices, where we are expected to be productive. What sets Brainscape apart from any other study app is that its adaptive learning algorithm leverages decades of cognitive science research. So how do you study at home?

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 26, 2020

While this is admirable, what I have experienced firsthand is a lack of a uniform vision and plan or collective understanding as to what it means to personalize learning. It is definitely not about putting all kids on a device at the same time with no discourse under the guise that a tool can create a truly personal experience.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. If this more radical and child-centered definition of “personalized” is to be achieved, the role teachers play also need reimagining.

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Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

Now I have confess, I made a major mistake (ok this is nothing new and definitely not my first nor last) by not taking the full Columbia Readers and Writers Workshop while at TC. In fact, I''ve seen reading scores on major standardize exams that definitely do not match up with a student''s ability to communicate verbally in a classroom.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The post 100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Did I actually title this 100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom? 100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom. Idea Sparks – lesson ideas, apps to try, and other classroom inspiration.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2018

Schools are increasingly moving toward personalized and adaptive learning programs. Technology plays a leading role in making personalized learning possible. Because the majority of students carry a high-definition screen in their pockets, bright, vivid high-definition displays in the classroom have become a necessity.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 24, 2017

The applications of AI in education are incredibly various, and will definitely transform how teachers teach and how students learn today. Delivering adaptive learning. Adaptive learning takes personalized learning on a deeper level. No human teacher can do this well with 30 students in a classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

EVENTS This Thursday, as part of the Future of Education interview series , my guest will be Mike Marriner from Roadtrip Nation , the fascinating program to empower students to get out into their communities and connect what they learn to their real world. The Classroom 2.0 Definitely worth a listen. show is back!

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

DISCOVERY EDUCATION STEM CONNECT ( discoveryeducation.com ) Discovery Education debuted STEM Connect, a cutting-edge, web-based, interdisciplinary K-8 supplemental resource that empowers educators to bring STEM to life in their classrooms. classrooms with a range of education packages available online. KANO EDUCATION PACKAGES ( kano.me/educators/packages

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including everything from fractions to negative decimals — in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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Brainscape

JANUARY 11, 2023

According to cognitive scientists , the answer is almost definitely Student B (assuming Student A isn’t Elton John). Because Student B made use of a powerful learning strategy called interleaving or mixed practice , which has been widely shown to improve learning and retention. Think about it.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Freedman: How is this different than companies like Toolwire, or Second Avenue Learning, or Smart Sparrow? A lot of the technology that’s built for the classroom is organizational technologies like, Hey, organize this better, organize that better, get a lot of stuff out of there. But I definitely would be interested.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

Today, we turn our focus to the characteristics of 21st-century learning itself. To kick things off, we’ll start with a clear definition of what 21st-century learning entails, setting the stage for a deeper exploration of its features and implications.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The district failed to meet its burden of proof and interpreted a state law in a way that is ‘offensive to fundamental rights of free speech,’ the judge said.” Via The Washington Post : “Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature.” Upgrades and Downgrades. million total.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For us in education, and although the schools are opening back their doors and students are back to their classrooms, a new hybrid modus operandi is in place where both synchronous and asynchronous modes of teaching are harmoniously working together. They can be used in flipped classrooms or in blended learning environments.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

” I’ll discuss some of the competing definitions of what “personalization” might mean, but in this case, it’s the emphasis on working “at your own pace” on school assignments. A student working on a science assignment, for example, may choose to create a project using video, text or audio files.

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