Bryan Alexander

APRIL 15, 2016

Last week we had Gardner Campbell on the Future Trends Forum , and the discussion hurtled along. Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more.

Trends 40

Trends ePortfolio Twitter Gamification 40

iLearn Technology

APRIL 23, 2018

In the science classroom, students can: share each step of an experiment through the scientific method with each step being a new video, document dissection, reflect on failures, show the process of building or designing, make predictions, document process, demonstrate, post wonderings, or class challenges.

Classroom 55

Classroom Edmodo Blackboard Video 55

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. Two: It’s the first Horizon Report to not simply forecast developments in several areas, but to declare an “uber trend.” The potential impacts, good and bad?

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Secondary Trends Survey Data 117

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

And national and local standards provide us with documents packed full of suggested benchmarks and commendable expectations. Connecting emotion and content Jill Weber, a secondary school teacher in Cheney, Kansas, uses an effective ELA and social studies strategy called Note card confessions. Jill Weber, Cheney Middle School.

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Video How To Common Core Secondary 130

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry. For more information.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

A re you failing, but learning from what you’re failing at? ” You’re having students document it along the way. Grading and assessing work done during Genius Hour. So when I did Genius Hour, I kind of bucked the trend, and I said to my students, “You’re not getting a grade for this.” How’s your plan going?

How To 73

How To Elementary Course Video 73

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. Assessments should create opportunity – not squash it. Data should drive these decisions. –Dr.

EdTech 135

EdTech Industry Assessment Data 135

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. One practice that we will see gaining popularity is instructional coaching. Data should drive these decisions.

EdTech 73

EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

A re you failing, but learning from what you’re failing at? ” You’re having students document it along the way. Grading and assessing work done during Genius Hour. So when I did Genius Hour, I kind of bucked the trend, and I said to my students, “You’re not getting a grade for this.” How’s your plan going?

How To 40

How To Elementary Course Video 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 17, 2023

They typically watch the same tv shows and movies, are interested in the same pop culture trends, are curious about the same current events in the news, and are obsessed with the same YouTubers or TikTok trends. Here is an example document of characteristics of different text bands.

Secondary 72

Secondary Libraries Groups E-rate 72

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Nothing remarkable in high-tech trends—more money, more devices, more hype. In 2016, I visited 41 elementary and secondary teachers in Silicon Valley who had a reputation for integrating technology into their daily lessons. Politifact has documented 325 Trump statements that it judges mostly or entirely false.)

Technology 87

Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 87

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 9, 2023

The Parents’ Bill of Rights requires teachers to provide parents with information about school policies, practices, and procedures that might affect their children’s education, such as student assessment results, attendance records, course syllabi, and more.

Report 73

Report Classroom Examples Outcomes 73

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What are the new trends in libraries? Teachers can create multimedia assessments and activities for their students, who record and embed their responses. These resources include digital archives, national library databases & collections, online databases of text, still images and audio, video and digital documents.

Libraries 92

Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 92

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. Icon credits: The Noun Project

Data 40

Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

A child’s experiences not only determine what information enters her brain, but also influence how her brain processes information,” explains a succinct and well-documented summary of the first three years of brain development posted by the Tennessee-based Urban Child Institute. million of them do.).

Report 85

Report Policies Data Trends 85

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Decades of documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity reveal a tightly woven network of organizations that works in concert with the oil and gas industry to paint a rosy picture of fossil fuels in America’s classrooms. In 1960, educators helped revamp API materials that eventually made their way into 25,000 secondary schools.

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Industry Education Company Groups 58