Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environment. Today’s students are studying and learning differently – a change confirmed by the widespread adoption of digital studying. Adaptive learning platforms provide instruction that is specific to individual students’ needs in a cost-effective manner.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In the middle of all this activity, seventh-grader Jacob Higuera sat alone with his laptop, intently typing out a social studies assignment. Overall, [seeing their progress] helps the kids to take accountability for their own learning, which is huge, because not only does that benefit them in school, but in life.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Heather Miller has already seen improvement in writing, including among students who started the year without a strong grasp of forming letters. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Heather Miller’s students frequently write in notebooks to show their progress in writing skills.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report Washington Elementary is a K-8 school in Lindsay, an agricultural community in California’s Central Valley. Ushering in a new model.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments. That has been true at Brown, one of the two middle schools The Nevada Independent and The Hechinger Report have followed since the pilot program started last fall. The MAP tests, however, weren’t free: Clark County paid about $1.9

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

We offer over 300 professional learning courses that you can take anywhere, anytime. And because you can access them with your mobile devices—your phone, your tablet, your laptop—there’s a pervasiveness in the way you get to your courses. I joke that we do macro and micro personalization. Parent Engagement in the Modern Era.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

There are so many ways that kids can creatively show you their learning in a timely and efficient manner, and ways teachers can conduct assessments that take away the testing anxiety that plagues so many kids. Creative Formative Assessments Can Help: Save time assessing students. So why not use it.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. More than 16,000 students in Greenville County Schools had at least one F on their fall report cards this year, or more than triple the number of students with Fs in fall of 2019. Credit: Juliana Giacone for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Khan Academy provides personalized learning for students at their pace and is an excellent flipped classroom tool for teachers to identify their students’ strengths and needs. Student engagement in answering questions or testing their knowledge with challenges helps teachers assess the student’s student progress.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

One of the ways we have accomplished this in our own school district is through technology — not just providing tablets, laptops and connectivity, but also sharing best practices with our educators on how to incorporate technology effectively into our K-12 curriculum. This makes our assessments that much more complete.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Summit Math won a BESSIE in the High School: Math Website category and Stride won in the Teacher Tools: Adaptive Learning Tool category. The Summit Math curriculum, which is compatible with desktops, laptops, and tablets, has 6-8 grade math course offerings, as well as Algebra 1 (+Honors), Geometry (+Honors), and Algebra 2 (+Honors) courses.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 20, 2015

One of education’s hottest buzzwords these days is g amification: the integration of games into classroom instruction to enhance student learning. Purposeful gamification can allow for personalized learning , increased student engagement , and greater creativity. ( Apps Assessment Games Tools kahoot'

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

Seton has made a priority of helping schools overcome the financial and technical challenges of adopting blended learning. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? Jeff Kerscher, director of Seton’s blended learning network, spent an entire year at St. Therese and St.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 4, 2021

How teachers are benefitting from teaching outdoors: Jain, a high school teacher from Texas, experienced an immediate effect on her physical health and forced her to take advantage of her lunch break while her laptop finishes charging. Another thing is that my battery to my laptop could not last four zoom sessions without a charge.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

The idea upends the disparaging assessment, attributed to George Bernard Shaw, that teachers are people who have no other useful skills. We’re taking the innovations people have been talking about and actually trying them,” said Levine, who has authored 12 books, including a series of reports on teacher preparation. Because they are.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

Working with stakeholders and consultants, it was decided to incorporate a project-based, competency-based model that would use laptops as opposed to textbooks, and students would work by the mantra “as fast as you want and as slow as you need”. Many courses are integrated to scaffold learning, but also to make content relevant.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

In a personalized learning environment, student needs drive the design of the learning. How you group students, spend time with students, deliver content and create the learning environment is adaptive. My classroom is a blended learning classroom and every student has a laptop.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

inch Full HD touch displays, all Spin 5 models have a 360-degree hinge that allows four usage modes (laptop, tablet, display, and tent). ClassLink Analytics helps administrators sort and compare schools, download reports, and modify their dashboard view so they see the most important details, and it also features a downloadable mobile app.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” The company has raised some $77.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Lenovo announced new hardware, software and services solutions designed to inspire and enable learning anywhere. The latest Lenovo Education portfolio includes new laptops, running Windows 11 or ChromeOS, built to help students and teachers embrace next-level hybrid learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Seven years ago, Walton was the first school in Albemarle County to give every student a laptop. Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online. Photo: Andrew Franco. And that’s what we should be setting our kids up for.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

This story about IEPs was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Instead, the thinking goes, students must be encouraged to learn at their own pace, with lessons tailored to their specific aptitudes and needs, often with the aid of technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

More than 50% of teachers report they have one computer for every student (on average) and that changes for the better every year. Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report). Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report).

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PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 27, 2023

Canvas LMS Canvas is a Learning Management System (LMS) that allows educators to create and manage their courses, develop digital content, deliver quizzes and assignments, and facilitate communication between students and faculty. The software is designed for easy use with an intuitive user interface and navigation.

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PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 27, 2023

Canvas LMS Canvas is a Learning Management System (LMS) that allows educators to create and manage their courses, develop digital content, deliver quizzes and assignments, and facilitate communication between students and faculty. The software is designed for easy use with an intuitive user interface and navigation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. —

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Today’s classrooms generate reams of data. It takes time.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

It includes a variety of assessments, multiple-choice and claim-evidence-reasoning assessments, along with extensive support for teachers such as embedded professional development and instructional resources to support a differentiated learning experience for each student. Incorporating end user feedback, the 10.0 Illuminate 10.0

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. In addition to assessing the show’s characters and literary arc, they must “get beyond the good guy/bad guy paradigm and understand that things are not so cut and dried.”

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