Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 20, 2017

We decided that at the end of our school-level book clubs, we would use Skype and Google Hangouts to connect our schools together across the district so that our students could talk to one another. We used Google Hangouts and a set of slides to guide our conversations. For quarter 2, I’m trying to build upon our book clubs.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

For a good starting place on learning more about competency-based education -- in particular, a new updated definition of CBE -- I highly recommend checking out Aurora Institute 's new paper released in November 2019.) Our current Shelby Strategic Leadership Plan 2.0 has a goal of a CBE system by 2022.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

For over two decades, CoSN has provided leaders with the management, community building, and advocacy tools essential for success. Partner Announcements Center for Teaching Quality : Share your definitions of what #TeachingIs to honor teachers this Teacher Appreciation Week! More information at [link]. Does this sound like you?

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Reading By Example

MAY 7, 2016

Technology should definitely be included within a makerspace, but it is not required at a level you might assume. She started this experience by teaching students how to ask questions that could not be answered by searching on Google. Using these steps, the students got started.

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Reading By Example

MAY 7, 2016

Technology should definitely be included within a makerspace, but it is not required at a level you might assume. She started this experience by teaching students how to ask questions that could not be answered by searching on Google. Using these steps, the students got started.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Listen on A pple Podcasts , Google Play , NPR One , Stitcher , Spotify , TuneIn or wherever you get your podcasts. . It’s why he’s working with parents like Williams on a campaign called Literacy for All , a collaboration between the NAACP and the advocacy organization Oakland REACH. . Continuing Advocacy.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Because “adopting OER” must by definition mean something else to Stephen, I can understand why he feels like there is no evidence for such a claim. I settled on OER-enabled pedagogy.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

According to the CoSN report, the standard definition of hurdles is a roadblock that forces schools to slow down, prepare themselves, and then make the leap. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome. Upon completion of the course, students receive an “Advocacy Plan,” which outlines their strengths and challenges and makes recommendations to consider and is shared with their educators.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

To offset all this double counting, there is the separate issue of the many “whole course” OER that OTL refuses to index because they don’t meet the OTL’s definition of “textbook.” releases of the Linux kernel came from employees at Intel, IBM, Google, Facebook, Samsung, RedHat, and SUSE.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Anti-Racist Resources : This comprehensive, crowd-sourced Google doc (created in the wake of the Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally) is a must-bookmark resource for any educator committed to combating bias and bigotry in their classroom and community.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

But Large Language Models (LLMs), and particularly the recent demo of ChatGPT, seem to have put the fear of God into everyone from middle school English teachers to the CEO of Google. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. The following examples are from ChatGPT.)

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

” It’s a terrible message to send to children–that once you become a teacher, you lose your right for self-advocacy. It’s not logical, by definition. Subscribe to the podcast in Google Play. So part of it has to be, if we’re going to make changes, we have to start labeling patterns whenever we can.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 18, 2021

I was introduced to Gerardo’s work through a podcast he co-hosts with Kevin Adams called “Too Dope Teachers,” and his advocacy for equity and antiracism. And I could say I’m definitely glad that you stuck around because you are making a big difference for teachers and kids by staying. Subscribe to the podcast in Google Play.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning,” according to some definitions, is driven by students’ own interests and inquiry rather than by the demands or standards imposed by the instructor, the school, the state. ” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The think tank New America and the student advocacy organization uAspire found that colleges they studied used 136 different terms for “unsubsidized student loan” — in two dozen cases, without actually including the word “loan.” The federal government’s definition of transparency is not the general public’s conception of transparency.”.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Google had a big press event this week too, unveiling shiny stuff to a cheering crowd of stenographers. VR headsets (well, it’s really just a mask that holds your Google phone up to your face). Google has also rebranded Google Apps for Education as G Suite for Education. A Wi-Fi system.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” ” This one’s definitely my favorite: “Lecture VR is a VR app … which simulates a lecture hall in virtual reality.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Digital Promise Reimagine Teacher Tech Training with New National Program.” trillion in 2017.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Arguably, there is no better example of this than the ongoing push that “everyone should learn to code,” led at the K–12 level by the industry-backed advocacy organization Code.org. Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. The New York Times tried to keep track of all the 45th President’s falsehoods this year, but it seems to have abandoned its “ definitive list ” some time in July. It is now a key feature of his presidency.

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