NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

NCDE hopes that this, and its other collaborative projects with school librarians, with help professionals build capacity as local systemic digital inclusion leaders. A Google form on the site will collect questions, along with context relating to grade level, location, and the category of the inquiry. Ballard; Cassandra G.

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The Jose Vilson

MAY 3, 2020

Contrary to my own public activism and advocacy, I propose that we move the nation’s largest public school system into a completely online endeavor forever and a day. They can turn in assignments whenever/wherever and just hope Google can give them the answers if their teacher isn’t online at the moment.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. She relied on Google Translate and other parents to help her compose emails asking why he didn’t receive that support until the third grade.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

So school counselors have this ability to look at the system as a whole and to support students. School counselors have this ability to look at the system as a whole. Angela has 15 years of experience as a professional school counselor and is a Google Certified Educator. Angela Cleveland, M.S.Ed., www.caldwell.edu ].

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. The Urkund system is highly accurate, cost-effective , and even better, doesn’t sell licenses to students or others.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 11, 2020

Beth Holland, Digital Equity and Rural Project Director for the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), points out that it becomes a very complex issue given the challenges within rural schools and systems. Pioneered by Google in partnership with Kajeet, rural districts in over a dozen states are using rolling study halls.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

Gale discovered she would have to move two HVAC systems, which could cost $12,000 apiece. I did a Google search about who makes decisions in West Virginia, and started reaching out to the state legislators and bringing [other child care providers] together.” But then the permitting and construction process grew complicated.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

In this blog entry -- the first of a two part series -- I discuss how the limitations of a traditional grading system led us to SBG, and ultimately, Empower Learning. While it's fictionalized, it's based on the reality I have faced in the past as a classroom teacher in a traditional grading system. Thank you for the practical advice!"

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

Yet another runs classes for its students at Google, where they simultaneously work. It’s a good way to bridge the gap between what students learn and what employers say they need them to know, said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of the advocacy group Jobs for the Future. Another university teaches fermentation at a brewery.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2020

Steps to encourage a school culture that promotes executive functioning includes analyzing current systems, assessing physical or social learning environments, and providing teacher training and executive function professional development opportunities. Fostering a Culture That Promotes EF.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Once an active center for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dixon Agency is now scarred by dilapidated homes fed by a toxic water system. Google Earth : SUCH a powerful tool for all content areas and ages. Just north of town, toward the National Bison Range, is Old Agency, the original Flathead Reservation Tribal center.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This includes video conferencing, learning management systems, and interactive content creation tools. Micro-Credentials for Student Achievement: Introducing micro-credentialing systems that recognize and validate students’ skills and achievements beyond traditional grades.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But instead of a deadly hurricane, this year brought another crisis that shut the city’s school system: the coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps no school system had a distance learning plan in place that anticipated a shutdown on the scale of the coronavirus closures. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 9, 2019

EdTechTeam is a California Benefit Corporation , dedicated to effecting positive change in schools, and currently supporting a number of advocacy programs including the Our Voice Academy and the nonprofit Student Voice Foundation. The title of her session alone resonated with me. Wagner earned a Ph.D.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

SXSW EDU Launch Competition Judge Tony will try his best Judy Judy impersonation, as he joins Bridge Burns (University Innovation Alliance), Vince Chan (Creta Ventures) and Jonathan Rochelle (Google) to dispense advice and feedback for eight companies pitching their wares. Join us for a slice of the action! Wednesday, March 6 11:00 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

More states should have such systems in place, said Selene Almazan, legal director of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018. Credit: Google Maps.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tim, a veteran educator of over 20 years, has a background as a high school social studies teacher, is a CoSN Certified Education Technology Leader, and a Google Certified Trainer. CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) is the premier professional association for school system technology leaders. Dr. Holland holds an Ed.D.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Effective Advocacy. releases of the Linux kernel came from employees at Intel, IBM, Google, Facebook, Samsung, RedHat, and SUSE. And it’s not only “newer” companies like Google or Facebook. Over one third (34.5%) of all the contributions to the 4.8 – 4.13

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Connecting 2 the World

JUNE 8, 2022

As part of Karen's presentation, she used a Google Jam Board. I also realized that I was thinking more of the power system, decision making, and organizational structure than the people who make up the university. While we still have a long way to go, this is quite an accomplishment. How was it achieved?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

These mobile messages keep students connected to course material and let students know we care about them, but the system is still too one-size-fits-all. Acknowledge the presence of paper Google Docs can be a great resource when guiding students through the writing process and also for turning in digital submissions of essays.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

After a career working at tech-centric companies including Google and Quora in product roles, Liu Huang joined CZI in 2017 to oversee the product development, notably the Summit Learning platform. CZI aims to be a different type of philanthropy looking to integrate grantmaking, advocacy and technology to serve others.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

A number of top executives, a bipartisan assortment of governors, and multiple advocacy groups have issued an open letter to Congress calling on the government to devote $250 million to computer coding education for students, along with professional development in that subject for teachers.

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RafranzDavis.com

JULY 10, 2016

It would be years before I found “my voice” again in my teaching and advocacy. We love our controlled systems a little too much and love to cry foul when there is pushback. Their systems should not define our systems…especially when they are created for us. You’re killing me smalls.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Dr. Trautenberg recommends using a “systems approach” that includes forecasting budget decreases and then aligning the expenditures to meet instructional, health, and learning needs regardless of which educational model may be used currently or in the future. Gaggle provides school safety products and solutions to the K-12 market.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

LPS set out to develop a home-grown ed-tech tool to make this personalized learning system more efficient. The result was a tool called Learning Lists, which was prototyped by one of the school’s math teachers in 2013 using spreadsheet features on Google Sheets. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

One of the things that we really spend a lot of time doing is trying to help people “unlearn” some of what I think that we built into the system over time that people just came to accept. Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard ” or. Vicki: (agrees).

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In T&L’s first Google+ Leader Community Hangout, we discussed how district leaders are implementing SEL initiatives. Emerging science indicates that systemic change more quickly spreads through a network in a “nonlinear communication path of nodes, hubs, and superhubs.”

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edWeb.net

JUNE 25, 2021

One of the biggest challenges in creating and leading equitable learning systems is building staff capacity. AASA is the premier association for school system leaders and serves as the national voice for public education and district leadership on Capitol Hill. Step 3: Build Staff Capacity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Many teachers use “synchronous” classes, where they and students meet simultaneously on platforms like Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. One teacher uses Zoom, another uses Google Hangouts and a third uses something else,” he said. Some also record those lessons for students who can’t meet at the appointed hour. The Richmond (Va.)

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The platform we selected—OverDrive Education’s Sora reading app —aligns with our public library system for easy access to its wealth of digital materials. When looking for our digital reading system, we found these features very beneficial. Aligning with our public library using a single platform.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland’s advocacy and perseverance extended beyond mental health services as she oversaw the district-wide launch of Hazel’s at-home physical health services, where students can meet with a medical provider virtually from the comfort of their own homes at no cost, regardless of insurance status.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

It can be overwhelming, frightening, and even discouraging, especially when no one else around you seems to think the system is broken. I show them Ken Robinson’s talk about how the 20th century school system doesn’t really prepare students anymore. However, eventually, my students open Google Docs without me telling them to.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

The Global Leadership Summit will provide participants with the unique opportunity to: Develop the capacity to lead classrooms and educational systems that foster in students the will and the skill to tackle problems of real-world significance locally and globally.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. So you decided you would start looking into some of the data that the system had collected on you?

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