Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Distance learning began March 23. Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

As the nation grapples with the profound effects these challenges have on school communities, the term “ learning loss ” has made its way into the spotlight. This term is commonly used in stories detailing what children across America lost during remote learning. That is not easily replaced.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Helping students resume their learning progress as they emerge from the pandemic may require more than academic intervention or acceleration. The coordinators’ familiarity with local families enabled them to provide resources needed for students to connect academically and learn remotely, as well as receive food and other support services.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I’m in.” It’s learning how to be an adult.”. But advocates say the most important reason to adopt un-grading is that students have become so preoccupied with grades, they aren’t actually learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. Often that involved thinking differently about how, when and where teaching and learning actually occur. Opportunities for online learning. Weekly Update.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a sudden shift towards online learning not leaving teachers and students enough time to adapt to the new platform and technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

Parents in both the virtual and blended learning programs are interviewed before students enter to ensure students are supported throughout the online learning process at home. We sit down with students and create a personalized learning plan for each of them. Most of them were dropouts.” “In

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Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Based on upcoming notions about this shifting learning environments, colleges and universities need to focus on what the student needs, and provide a learning experience they need. KPIs are used to evaluate and assess the efficiency, performance, and results. Retention rate : How many students stayed as opposed to dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the early 1990s, Kentucky districts were among those grading student portfolios and assessing performance tasks, instead of standardized tests, and they found themselves on the cutting edge of educational assessment. And not all districts want to do performance-based assessments.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

An intelligent learning platform (ILP) for schools and universities might be the tool you’ll start using soon if you’re a teacher, academic institution leader, student, or parent. Especially during the past two years, the interest and necessity of online learning have skyrocketed. . Let’s see what features it takes from each one: .

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

students attend blended classes on campus and take online courses from home, and district educators say a personalized learning solution has had a positive impact in a number of academic areas. but rather ‘What do these individual students need to learn today?’”. It’s not ‘What do I plan to teach today?’

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg may be a college dropout, but that’s not stopping him and Priscilla Chan from trying to help more students access higher education. Today the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced a grant partnership with the College Board in an effort to expand access to test preparation tools for assessments such as the PSAT and SAT.

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

In a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , the presenters discussed the findings of the AASA Learning 2025 National Commission and the need to get more students engaged in their own educational experience. Every aspect of the school should support student-centered learning.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Taking action is the ultimate goal of any learning analytics process.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

The unfortunate truth is that, by and large, students view the classroom as a place where they are forced to learn via long-established teaching methods. Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. Learning technologies and creative thinking activities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2017

The recent three-part series on proficiency-based learning in Maine by The Hechinger Report’s Lillian Mongeau (which appeared in both The Report and the Portland Press Herald ) is very informative on this topic. However, as every district is creating its own assessments, this alone calls the law’s existence into question.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. Today, I lead a company that creates online models for teaching and learning, yet my mission is much the same as it was when I was in the classroom.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. She also learned how to assess for suicide risk by asking questions like, “Are you having thoughts of hurting yourself?” Learning the ALGEE five-step action plan. Wardrip completed the training in June. and “Are you in danger?”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. System leaders don’t dispute that assessment. High cost of dropping out.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 25, 2019

Learning to read by the end of third grade is the gateway to lifelong success. In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade. Ensuring all kids can read by the end of third grade sets them on the path to learn, graduate and succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Join the Community.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Read the stories.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. Each assessment also covers slightly different curriculum content. Related: When fourth-grade problems include gunfire.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Pointing to the decline in the county’s dropout rate, Duncan proclaims: “It’s a model that works, and it’s been replicated across Georgia and has also been the subject of a Harvard Business School study.” (A Related: Lessons of nope: Joel Klein fails to educate us on how to fix our schools. (A

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

DeMillo sees MOOCs as unbundling academic content, specifically extracting lectures and the possibility of assessment from the rest of university functions. Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). It’s not entirely a rosy account.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

school district since 2007, will be the senior vice president of digital learning for the Silver Spring, Md.-based who have visited the town to learn from its community of educators. I worked for two years as vice president of business development at Harcourt Assessment, but left that job to join Mooresville. based company.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Then, like millions of other students across the country, Hernandez was forced to shift to learning online. For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. All students need to be deeply known by the adults that are working with them to support their learning,” she said. Based on what you know.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Joe Bower @ joe_bower Joe Bower began inspiring me several years ago when I came across his blog, " For the Love of Learning " where he shares his distaste of grading and blogs and his admiration for the work of Alfie Kohn. I was shocked when I learned he was taken from us too soon and too young as a result of an unexpected, heart attack.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last fall, nearly six and a half years after my SMART board was fixed, I started a new job and became a deeper learning coordinator, leading the implementation and creation of an edtech ecosystem for the entire Reynoldsburg school district. My district's purchase of a new blended learning software followed the same formula.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Kayla Patrick, an author of the National Women’s Law Center report “Let Her Learn.”. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

Online-schooling shoved students out of familiar classroom settings straight into independent, self-directed learning. That left students powering through learning challenges by texting classmates for help, forming Zoom study groups and capitalizing on free internet resources to help clarify difficult material.

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