Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. But do ordinary classroom teachers have the knowledge and abilities to support these learners?

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

From popular culture and national conversations to emerging technology and social justice, we have articles that interest every student from any background. This diverse, engaging approach to content selection is apparent whether teachers are using material to support core curriculum, inform independent reading—or something in between.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

UDL is based on the principle that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning and that instructional materials and methods should be flexible and adaptable to the needs of all students. In short, UDL is a launching point for providing personalized learning experiences.

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Hubbli

JULY 12, 2023

This article delves into essential strategies to optimize “school finances” in PreK-12 private schools. These funds are then allocated to various expenses, including staff salaries, facility maintenance, instructional materials, technology, and extra-curricular programs.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. Keep this page bookmarked for articles and videos from the event. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

On Wednesday, the firm announced it invested $50 million in a Series C round for Newsela , which offers an instructional content platform containing news and nonfiction articles at various reading levels. And now, it’s attracted TCV to an education technology company. Sanchez suggests that multimedia variants could be a possibility.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

Questioning the quality of instructional materials isn’t new to the digital education era. Thus, there is the potential for more disparity in the quality of materials from school to school. State leaders need to make sure they are giving educators the tools they need to select the best materials for the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A 2021 article, “ They Say You Can Do Phonemic Awareness Instruction ‘In the Dark’, But Should You? ” The company says it is working with outside researchers to keep improving the instructional materials it sells to schools. Companies sold phonemic programs to schools and told teachers to teach it every day.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

For example: which voices are represented during decision-making processes and in our instructional materials? Representation Representation means more than just showing students STEM professionals of color; we have to incorporate people of color beyond tokenization and truly create a diverse community that includes these voices.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

Many digital games include textual elements, such as letters, journals and newspaper articles, which are embedded in the narrative and provide practice and scaffolding to encourage reluctant readers.” Research and pedagogy unequivocally point to digital game-based learning as an instructional methodology that can improve literacy skills.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

During a tour of updates to SETDA’s Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States (DMAPS) , which showcases state policies in support of digital materials, Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director for SETDA, discussed new features like professional development information. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

She has been a member of various consortiums such as Web Access Initiative (WAI), National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and Open eBook Forum. She has authored numerous articles in professional journals and is a co-author of the Mathematize It! series of books.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. This work has to be more important than our sales or overall bottom line. We must also reflect the work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2016

The resources–including over 10,000 articles, videos, lesson plans, and more–are clear, easy-to-navigate, and user-friendly, with opportunities to collaborate with other teachers. BloomBoard is a professional development website for teachers and administrators.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

For years, a stream of articles have tried to dispel pervasive but wrong ideas about how people learn, but those ideas still linger. For example, there is no evidence that matching instructional materials to a student’s preferred “learning style” helps learning, nor that there are “right-brain” and “left-brain” learners.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This article was modified and published by EdScoop and eSchool News. Essential Elements for Digital Content is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net that provides policy makers, school administrators and educator leaders a better understanding of policies and practices related to digital instructional materials.

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Hapara

MAY 9, 2022

Article: 7 Tips and 1 Activity to Help Digital Citizens Engage with Empathy. Much of this time is not instructional material used in classes. para Workspace, we can generate a card of resources that students might want or need to see when they are not in class. PBS Technological Literacy. Be Internet Awesome.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. Do fees for access to online materials disqualify a program? Venegas-Muggli and Werner Westermann. When Grimaldi et al. Research at CMU.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Barnett Barry, a research professor at the University of South Carolina, offers a good description of microschools in an article he wrote for The Conversation. “As Online instructional materials have come a long way from the McGuffey Readers of the late 1800s.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

For example: which voices are represented during decision-making processes and in our instructional materials? Representation Representation means more than just showing students STEM professionals of color; we have to incorporate people of color beyond tokenization and truly create a diverse community that includes these voices.

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The 21st Century Principal

DECEMBER 16, 2013

According to the article, textbook funding has been cut by 80 percent or more over the past four years. This cut, coupled with cuts in instructional supply money, teaching assistant cuts, among a whole laundry list of cuts makes it very clear that North Carolina public education is not a funding priority for our state legislature or governor.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2016

Pedagogy and educational materials intersect because we frequently ask students to DO things with RESOURCES – *read* articles, *watch* videos, *listen* to lectures, *answer* questions, *solve* problems, etc. Definition: Overt or covert rearrangement of instructional materials to improve learning. Effect size: 0.85.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Because each school has access to varying quantities and qualities of technology, current curricular programs do not rely on technology as a constant in their unit planning and instructional materials.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

By providing reviews and recommendations from multiple states about many different types of resources, the new SETDA dashboard makes the selection of high-quality educational materials a faster, easier and much more inclusive process. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 28, 2016

A few weeks ago Achieving the Dream announced a major initiative in which 38 community colleges across the US will completely replace the commercial instructional materials in their courses with open educational resources (OER). Article 4) at community colleges across California.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Organizations such as the nationalcyberwatch.org, the Center for System Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA), and the National Cybersecurity Training and Education Center (NCYTE) have a plethora of resources available, including instructional materials that can be tailored to provide students with real-world learning experiences.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , presenters from Idaho and Pennsylvania discussed how state and district leadership support digital learning opportunities and implement digital materials. According to the Brookings Institution there is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Breaking News – Are you looking for a site filled with great news articles? Keep in mind that a teacher can even find an older article that matches curricular content standards. You will find this site filled with leveled fiction and nonfiction articles that are flexible, research based, and aligned to standards.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 15, 2016

Many of the articles are accompanied by a Common Core-aligned quiz designed to check for student understanding, to prompt critical thinking and to provide teachers with immediate feedback. Users can also browse the Editor’s Picks or content Most Loved This Month. The app offers five daily stories on an array of topics covering U.S.

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The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 4, 2011

I stumbled across an article entitled “Singapore Looks at Strengthening School System Further.” The country’s prime minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, states in the article that while his country performed reasonably well on the latest PISA assessments, they must keep up the efforts of continual educational improvement.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 28, 2017

Carnegie Corporation of New York recently released a report that stated, “NGSS are in demand, but the supply of high quality K-12 instructional materials in science is lacking. We don’t have time to waste on resources that do not align to our standards.”

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

So look for high school content with student-guided, small group activities using a Hyperdocs format and materials for the littles, which Kelly promises to include such fun things as videos, poems, chants and a revised set of characters, to be ready for the new school year. What are the important parts of an online news article?

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

This article was modified and published by EdScoop. Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Over the last few years, we’ve traded resources, articles and work samples as we try to build our own starter kit for this fast-moving field. Rather than limiting yourself to looking at educational resources produced by schools or universities, find examples of instructional materials from other sectors to get ideas.

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edWeb.net

JULY 7, 2021

High-quality instructional materials are now in the hands of every teacher and student, and the district is focused on making sure every child has equal access to learning opportunities with a skillful teacher every day. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This article was modified and published by EdScoop. Essential Elements for Digital Content is a free professional learning community that provides policy makers, school administrators and educator leaders a better understanding of policies and practices related to digital instructional materials. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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