The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

When Kylie Jones brings home her report card, it doesn’t have any A’s, B’s or C’s. The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. Sitting quietly at the back of the room is no longer an option in classrooms that prize student engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

They have a lot of great ideas for teaching and for leading a classroom, but minimal experience establishing and maintaining structures that keep students engaged and productively learning. Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards. Read more about teacher preparation.

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Common Core Professional Learning Meeting Report 73

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

One deals with the actual writing process and the others provides tools and resources for various writing opportunities and student engagement In this post I will deal the first concept and the following posts will explore that wide range of writing and engagement opportunities. I see this as really multiple concepts.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

These conferences are rarely original and are often a missed opportunity to truly connect with parents about something beyond the report card. In contrast, my own parent-teacher conferences were student-centered—creating space for meaningful discussion about things other than grades.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning. Under ESSA, states will now be responsible for determining if schools are successful in meeting the needs of every student. educational policy: College and Career Readiness.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

The Electric Educator

MARCH 16, 2018

Choice eliminator is used to remove student names from the drop-down list once a parent has given their permission. This makes it easy for a teacher to identify which students do not have a permission slip on file. Book report generator - Writing reflectively is a key component of the common core standards.

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MindShift

MARCH 11, 2015

It was “ Serial ,” the murder-mystery phenomenon produced by reporter Sarah Koenig of “This American Life,” which already was transfixing a wide swath of the adult population. What do students learn from the experience? It wasn’t any old podcast he was introducing to his classes.

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Common Core Learning Report Exercises 28

Graphite Blog

MAY 17, 2018

That's how I got started -- I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students' reading habits. 4 Podcast Episodes Students Will Love Serial, Season 1, Episode 1, "The Alibi" | Transcript.

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Smartphone Analysis Common Core iPhone 40

Graphite Blog

MAY 17, 2018

That's how I got started -- I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students' reading habits. 4 Podcast Episodes Students Will Love Serial, Season 1, Episode 1, "The Alibi" | Transcript.

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Smartphone Analysis Common Core iPhone 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

For decades as an NPR reporter, I created captivating audio stories. Over six thousand classes submitted podcast entries to the 2018 NPR Student Podcast Challenge. TeachersPayTeachers.com , an online marketplace for lesson plans, reported that their annual downloads of lessons based on podcasts increased 650 percent that year.

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Trends Common Core Assessment Smartphone 125

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2016

Teachers and parents know all this and still, the Literacy Company reports that most teachers in classes of twenty+ students spend only five minutes a day reading, and 46% of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine. Does its design and layout make students want to accomplish the goals of the program?

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Tools Mobility Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

Whether educators need to learn how to use edtech tools, analyze student data or implement Common Core standards, online PD can offer educators support when and where they need it. We embed research-based best practices into our courses to model effective instruction and target student needs.

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How To LMS Common Core EdTech 141

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

The case-study school’s “emphasis on trial and error, experimentation, and productive failure sat in uneasy alignment to the school’s competency-based curriculum and assessment practices,” the authors wrote. Popular ‘Maker Movement’ Incompatible With Common Core, Authors Contend.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Attempts to use games as assessments ruin the playful experiences that make them an effective learning tool, he said. Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report). By Alexandria Neason.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

New Hampshire is adopting it, too, and developing a statewide assessment method that would replace most standardized tests. Elliot Soloway, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Education, contends that students learn by slowly building on knowledge and frequently returning to it. Students at M.S.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Excerpted from “ Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement ” by Heather Wolpert-Gawron. From “Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement” by Heather Wolpert-Gawron. Want to know how to engage students, enthuse them, and bring out their best effort? Ways to report.

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Learning E-rate Report Common Core 48

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. MESA, Ariz.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 123

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Additionally, one of the most prominent trends we’re seeing is the need to provide increasingly granular analysis and reporting. This will likely have a significant impact on the K-12 landscape for the next four years when it comes to charter schools, Title programs, and common core standards.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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