The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Janessa Esquivel Library Media Technician Sr.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Why did a major publisher embargo its books?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Why did a major publisher embargo its books?

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Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 41

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

The National Head Start Association, a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, convened an Opioid Working Group in spring 2018 after hearing from educators that children in areas hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic were exhibiting an unusually high frequency and intensity of challenging behaviors.

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Training Classroom Report Groups 180

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc. Too often our advocacy for OER adoption loses its way and becomes advocacy of OER adoption for the sake of OER adoption.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And with online assessments now being required in many states, reliable broadband access is also essential so that students’ knowledge and skills are accurately represented, and technology is not a barrier to achievement and its documentation. Cynthia Schultz, Esq. About the Host.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. There’s no excuse in 2020 for the books in your classroom and the books in your library not to be reflective of the population in the U.S. Picture books: Hands Up! That needs to be a goal,” said Michelle H.

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Classroom Libraries Groups Industry 69

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Learn the story and the lesson plan and book that will help you build bridges with your students. Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. Book Giveaway Contest. I wish My Teacher Knew Book Giveaway Contest.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The group’s acronym, RISC, was deliberate, according to a book by its creators, “Delivering on the Promise.” DeLorenzo screened the candidates, assessing their capacity for change, and six districts were approved , among them the three districts mentioned above that had already begun experimenting with the model. culture.”.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When he opens a book, he sees “just a whole bunch of words, a whole bunch of letters lined up.” That’s one reason schools have avoided using the word dyslexia, according to Fran Bowman, a former special education teacher who now runs an educational services company that works with school districts to train teachers.

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Training Report Groups System 78

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Over the summer, photos began to circulate of children, bundled in warm coats, mittens and thick hats, reading books at their desks, outside, in the New York City winter. They created a sort of how-to manual for outdoor learning, detailing everything from campus site assessments and classroom infrastructure to case studies and curriculum.

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Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 218

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

Several of these books appear on more than one category page, and so are double counted. Many of the books overlap in the course they are designed to support, and so are counted multiple times. assessment banks, assignments, online homework tools).) These are huge companies that compete directly with each other in many ways.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Coaches help students develop the noncognitive abilities required to address these challenges — skills such as self-advocacy, time management, critical thinking, and communication. Institutions interested in providing “mass-personalized” support should begin with a thorough needs assessment that includes the following critical components.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Known as online program managers, these companies have been hired largely to connect universities with customers who want graduate degrees. Though the faculty teach the courses and the universities control admission standards and confer the graduates’ degrees, much of the work of building and managing the courses is done by the companies.

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Company Education Industry Course 56

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

He’s put $100 million of his own money into his company Kernel (which I guess means we’re supposed to believe it’s a real, viable thing) with the promise of developing computer chip implants that will bolster human intelligence. ” “ Assessing Social-Emotional Skills Can Be Fuzzy Work; SELweb Offers Concrete Data.”

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

It includes a variety of assessments, multiple-choice and claim-evidence-reasoning assessments, along with extensive support for teachers such as embedded professional development and instructional resources to support a differentiated learning experience for each student.

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 53

edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation. The books should have just Black characters who are presented as fully human in terms of curiosity, friendships, likes, and dislikes. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenters.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In Allison McIntosh’s nearby seventh grade science classroom, students were three weeks into a project in which they had to draw a comic book story of a geologic site’s past, present and future based on the conditions that build up or chip away at mountains, carve valleys and dry out lakes. How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 121

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. This summer, Northern Cass teachers and administrators have continued rewriting lesson plans and assessments, including those for “habits of work.” HUNTER, N.D. —

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The NEO mobile app for Windows allows users to access the full feature set within the platform including creating and delivering online classes, assessing students, sharing resources, tracking student achievement, and collaborating on projects. Big Universe is now available in the U.S. exclusively through FuelEd.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 72

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 14, 2020

In addition to policy and country reviews, the work of the Directorate includes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), and the development and analysis of benchmarks on the performance of education systems (INES).

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Conference Analysis Policies Survey 36

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

The seller: Book Dog Books. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? The company sells a tablet for use in prison. million for the company – but of that just $15 million is cash; the rest is equity in NetDragon. ” asks Edsurge. million total.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

That is, through monitoring and feedback, through automated assessment, and through the programmatic presentation of new or next materials to study. ” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s. Take your pick. Take your pick. Reveal your politics.). He argued that.

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Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Via the ACT press release : “ ACT to Deliver Assessment for the Moral Education Program to Students in the UAE.” “ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom? Via The Outline : “The rise and fall of the company behind ’ Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games.”

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Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 24, 2019

He has worked on communications and technology issues for the state since 2005, including telephone regulation, broadband, economic development, central services management, data governance, and technology assessment. In his time in Congress, Derek has been recognized by a wide variety of groups for his effectiveness and advocacy.

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Libraries Data Conference Broadband 34

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 22, 2019

He has worked on communications and technology issues for the state since 2005, including telephone regulation, broadband, economic development, central services management, data governance, and technology assessment. In his time in Congress, Derek has been recognized by a wide variety of groups for his effectiveness and advocacy.

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Data Conference Broadband Libraries 31

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” ” No disclosure in the article that Edsurge shares investors with both these companies. The tutoring company has raised $244.2 million total.

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Education MOOC Report Company 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

News from the most well-funded ed-tech company, student loan provider SoFi : SoFi settles w/ FTC over allegations it misrepresented how much borrowers save by refinancing. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” ” LOL, they do?!

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Educare Arizona classmates Nathan Jaramillo, far left, Esteban Cuevas and Melissa Gordillo “read” books during free time in their toddler classroom. Coltin McNitt, age 2 in this photo, sits on his couch with a book at his home in Wichita, Kan. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

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Pearson Guidelines Company Study 128