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Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research

Edsurge

So a group of professors recently performed a meta-analysis to try to assess how well flipped learning is working. And he said that by looking at flipped learning across K-12 schools and colleges, the analysis ended up comparing apples and oranges. “It’s

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A Chess Class for Elementary Students (with a DIY micro:bit -Driven Chess Clock)

User Generated Education

Playing chess requires a lot of “if-then” logical analysis and “what-if” scenarios, all necessary ingredients for developing logical and critical thinking. Each week a master math teacher from Math Amigos comes to my GT classroom for an hour to present conceptual math problems.

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Inside our analysis of attendance-related suspensions in Arizona

The Hechinger Report

We excluded the following from our analysis: Alternative schools , which explicitly serve at-risk students : those with a history of disruptive behavior issues, for example, or those who have previously dropped out of school or are primary caregivers.

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Analyzing a meta-analysis of flipped learning

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

” The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. If this paper were just a meta-analysis, the criticism would be much easier to take.

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Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners

User Generated Education

Design thinking is an approach to learning that includes considering real-world problems, research, analysis, conceiving original ideas, lots of experimentation, and sometimes building things by hand. I use the following activities to introduce elementary students to the design thinking process. Introducing the general design process to elementary student occurs through showing the following video about the engineering process: The Task: Build the Highest Tower.

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Vernier Graphical Analysis Pro App Wins Top Education Awards

eSchool News

The Vernier Graphical Analysis Pro app, which engages students in advanced data analysis from biology, chemistry, and physics experiments, was recently recognized by two leading education awards.

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Vernier releases free Graphical Analysis app for Chromebooks

Educational Technology Guy

Vernier, makers of very popular sensors and data collection systems, have just released their free Graphical Analysis app for Chromebooks. The app can then be used to create graphs, create annotations, and perform analysis with statistics. Graphical Analysis for Chrome and its support of Vernier sensors provides schools with an easy-to-use and cost-effective way to further utilize Chromebooks and engage students in hands-on learning in science and STEM classrooms.”

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A Socratic Seminar for Elementary Learners

User Generated Education

I’ve used them successfully in my teaching training classes but never with elementary learners. Ideally, the answers to questions are not a stopping point for thought but are instead a beginning to further analysis and research. I introduced the Socratic Seminar to my two groups gifted elementary learners, ages 7 to 12, through the following slidedeck and by using Dr. Seuss’s Sneetches.

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Vernier Software & Technology Launches New Vernier Graphical Analysis™ Pro App for Science Instructors and Students

eSchool News

Expanding upon its award-winning Vernier Graphical Analysis app, Vernier Software & Technology is launching the Vernier Graphical Analysis Pro app to engage students—either remotely or in the lab—in more advanced analysis of data from biology, chemistry, and physics experiments.

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Vernier Software & Technology Enhances Physics App and Publishes New E-book to Engage Students in Video Analysis

eSchool News

Vernier Video Analysis ® app and new e-book help students learn important physics concepts in both in-person and remote learning environments. Students can now learn key physics concepts and engage in video analysis in both in-person and remote learning environments.

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To Combat the ‘COVID Slide,’ Tutoring Program Pairs Elementary Schoolers with College Students

Edsurge

According to an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of 196 school district policies published during spring 2020, nearly two-thirds offered printed instructional materials to families to use for schoolwork, a figure that was higher among high-poverty districts than low-poverty districts.

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Towards Choice-Based Learning in Elementary

My Paperless Classroom

I had writing assignments with menus instead of prompts, but all of the kids were reading the same text and writing some form of an analysis. My challenge, now working in elementary school as a push-in tech teacher, how can I develop and model the possibilities of choice based learning for the teachers I work with? Sometimes you get to attend a surprise Edcamp. I was settling in to write when I saw a tweet about Edcamp Los Altos. I checked the map, and it was 2 miles away.

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Fewer and richer high school grads heading to college: ACE analysis

Bryan Alexander

This information comes from Christopher Nellum and Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education ( ACE ), and is based on analysis of US Census data. ” The income gap is worse than it sounds: “While the percentage of low-income students in elementary and secondary schools is increasing, the percentage of low-income students who go on to college is falling.” Inside Higher Ed’s summary of ACE findings.

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Reading Curriculum Boosts Elementary Literacy

techlearning

An analysis of more than 22,600 K–5 students within the Charter Schools USA (CSUSA) network found that incorporating recommended use levels of the Lexia Reading Core5® program into instruction resulted in growth in reading skills during the 2016/17 school year, over and above that achieved with non-Core5 instruction.

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A Fun Game and Mission to Teach Students About Giving Good Instructions

Teacher Reboot Camp

I recently took on a new position teaching 400+ elementary students Computer and Technology. I’m taking the time before we go into coding to help students learn about giving instructions, since the most important thing all my elementary students learned this past week is that a computer works by following instructions. Computer Class coding computers game-based learning gaming how computers work instructions process analysis process writing STEAM STEM

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A Fun Game and Mission to Teach Students About Giving Good Instructions

Teacher Reboot Camp

I recently took on a new position teaching 400+ elementary students Computer and Technology. I’m taking the time before we go into coding to help students learn about giving instructions, since the most important thing all my elementary students learned this past week is that a computer works by following instructions. Computer Class coding computers game-based learning gaming how computers work instructions process analysis process writing STEAM STEM

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How Elementary Teachers are Marking the End of School Amid Grief for Lost Time with Students

MindShift

In recent weeks, many elementary schools organized car parades, created slideshows and distributed class T-shirts or other mementos to celebrate the end of the year for the eldest students in particular.

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New Vernier Thermal Analysis® Plus for FLIR ONE® App Launched to Help Students Study Thermal Energy Concepts

techlearning

BEAVERTON, Oregon, May 8, 2018 — The new Vernier Thermal Analysis Plus for FLIR ONE app from Vernier Software & Technology allows students to use the latest versions of FLIR ONE cameras—the FLIR ONE Pro Thermal Camera and FLIR ONE Gen 3 Thermal Camera—as they study thermal energy concepts. The Vernier Thermal Analysis Plus app allows students to mark up to four locations or regions on an image and then determine the minimum, maximum, or average temperature in a selected region.

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A federal definition of ‘homeless’ leaves some kids out in the cold. One state is trying to help

The Hechinger Report

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Resly Suka’s two youngest children attend Washington Elementary School in southwest Washington. VANCOUVER, Wash.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. GREENVILLE, S.C. —

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OPINION: Data matters, but only if it leads to effective teaching action

The Hechinger Report

A recent Hechinger Report article highlighted how data analysis has not significantly improved student outcomes since the No Child Left Behind Act ramped up national data collection. Does this mean we should eliminate testing or move away from data analysis, as some critics have suggested?

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Many schools find ways to solve absenteeism without suspensions

The Hechinger Report

The first-of-its-kind analysis found nearly 47,000 suspensions for missing class over a five-year period, with Black, Latino and Indigenous students frequently receiving a disproportionate share. Related: Inside our analysis of attendance-related suspensions in Arizona.

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PROOF POINTS: Leading dyslexia treatment isn’t a magic bullet, studies find, while other options show promise

The Hechinger Report

The corpus of studies included in our meta-analysis were not very high quality,” said Stevens. “We The larger 2022 analysis of 53 reading interventions had a higher bar for study quality and only one Orton-Gillingham study made the cut.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for.

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children. Elementary to High School Future of Learning Opinion achievement gap online learning Personalized Learning Race Social emotional

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OPINION: Parents and students need more information about pathways to college and careers

The Hechinger Report

That’s why GreatSchools , a national nonprofit, recently conducted a national landscape analysis of publicly available, career-specific data to determine if we could connect parents with that data through our school profiles. (It’s

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OPINION: For the students we wish we’d taught better

The Hechinger Report

The authors mischaracterize Hanford’s analysis of the three-cueing problem as a “fabricated phonics debate,” saying they all already know and agree that “systematic phonics is essential.” Co-state director, Decoding Dyslexia CA, former elementary teacher and literacy coach.

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OPINION: New federal funding alone won’t be enough to help students catch up in the classroom post pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Their internal analysis cited the program’s late-year roll-out as one of the biggest adoption challenges. Elementary to High School Opinion Coronavirus and Education Expanded learning time online learning Principals teachers Testing

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OPINION: Lessons from city planners may help address student behavior problems

The Hechinger Report

During the pandemic, students missed out not only on key instruction, but also on a year-plus of learning how to behave in school, a fourth grade teacher from Tampa, Florida, recently told our colleagues as they worked alongside her to implement applied behavior analysis (ABA) strategies.

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PROOF POINTS: Researchers say cries of teacher shortages are overblown

The Hechinger Report

Wealthy suburban schools might have dozens of applicants for an elementary school teacher, while schools in poor urban neighborhoods and remote rural areas might struggle to find certified teachers in special education or in teaching students who are learning English.

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school.

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Massive learning setbacks show Covid’s sweeping toll on kids

The Hechinger Report

The scale of the disruption to American kids’ education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press. It was the largest literacy decline among all the districts in the analysis.

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Supporting students: What’s next for mental health

The Hechinger Report

Between March 2020 and December 2021, 92 state laws were enacted to help youth mental health through efforts in schools, according to a NASHP analysis. Elementary to High School Higher Education Mental health and trauma Social emotional Supporting students

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

An analysis of test scores in California and South Carolina found that students had lost almost a third of a year in reading. A national analysis of the test scores of 5.5 Her Dallas elementary school extended its school year in an effort to help students make up for lost time.

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PROOF POINTS: Seven new studies on the impact of a four-day school week?

The Hechinger Report

The most recent of the seven studies, a preliminary paper posted on the website of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University in August 2022, is a large multi-state analysis and it found four-day weeks harmed some students more than others. .

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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

The Hechinger Report

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Moreover, not all families have the opportunity to choose a desirable elementary or middle school without moving to a new neighborhood. Last week, U.S.

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Canceled classes, sweltering classrooms: How extreme heat impairs learning

The Hechinger Report

An analysis by FutureEd, a think tank at Georgetown University, found that education systems planned to spend about 23 percent of their third tranche of the federal money on infrastructure.

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How to plan for a future of education where disruption is the norm

The Hechinger Report

McClary, the senior director of networks and partnerships at Digital Promise, said most of the schools in the League have some type of innovation lead, or someone who does the work of risk analysis.

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The pandemic robbed thousands of New York City children of parents. Many aren’t getting the help they need

The Hechinger Report

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity.

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PROOF POINTS: New evidence of high school grade inflation

The Hechinger Report

The latest is an analysis of more than 4 million high school seniors who took the ACT from 2010 to 2021. ACT researchers considered that the mix of high school seniors taking the ACT changed over the decade and checked to make sure that wasn’t confounding the analysis.

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PROOF POINTS: Computer scientists create tool that can desegregate schools – and shorten bus routes

The Hechinger Report

In a simulation exercise across nearly 100 large school districts, the academics were able to redraw elementary school boundaries to reduce racial segregation by 12 percent while cutting almost one minute off of students’ average commuting time.

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Coverage of climate change in college textbooks is headed in the wrong direction

The Hechinger Report

The study , conducted by researchers with North Carolina State University, was based on an analysis of 57 college introductory biology textbooks published between 1970 and 2019. Elementary to High School News climate change

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