A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 19, 2017

With the rapid pace of technological change, specifically advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, it is nearly impossible to hypothesize the types of jobs that will be available. We first acknowledge the fact that the way many of us were taught and assessed has little value in today’s world, let alone the future.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

My research revealed a couple more exciting trends and emergent ideas in e-learning, so I promised another four for this week. Let’s call them micro-trends as they are smaller in scale, but nonetheless likely to have an impact on how and what we learn. Last week I introduced three megatrends affecting e-learning. Peer-to-Peer learning.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Robotic or holographic avatar designer. Robot operator. You might notice a common trend among these jobs. This way students have to work with a digital tool daily to learn, to prepare their assessments, to collaborate, and other tasks. Cyborg designer. Smart cities developers. Augmented Reality journey builder.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2018

Assess the School’s Existing STEM Programs. When Fleming did an assessment at New Milford High School she found that robotics was only offered to the top 25 or 30 engineering students, the majority of whom were boys. Why not offer robotics in the makerspace to the entire student population ?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Assessments, by design, should show a stair step of understanding toward mastery of state-approved learning standards. But assessments also need to provide a clear picture of student understanding within those skills so teachers can take that information and fill in the gaps. What drives student success?

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 25, 2017

I also expect to see a lot more robotics and makerspaces in schools. I think school leaders now realise that the jobs of the future are being replaced by robots and if we’re not teaching kids how to build, programme and control robots to do the things we do then they’re not going to have a great future.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Accompanying this, many states will focus on adopted policies to implement early Dyslexia screeners for K-2 students, and along with this, many schools will need reading specialists who can administer these assessments and provide early interventions for at-risk students. Within 5 days, everyone just loved KIBO—students and teachers!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. Credit: eLearn.fyi. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck and classes shifted online last spring, Sophia Joffe was in 11th grade. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I do a lot of speaking about technology trends in education, and none of my talks seem to get larger audiences than those that address new or emerging technologies. The answer to the second question of what trends are most important in your school/school district requires some work on your part. Rethinking How Schools Work.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Behind Kim’s leadership, Calcasieu Parish conducted a thorough needs assessment before purchasing more than $4.1 ” Calcasieu Parish’s Training Tech Center, led by Kim, was already instrumental in introducing new technology to its classrooms, including robotics and a computing device for each student and teacher.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

From lesson creation to assessment and gamification, there is something for K-12 schools, universities, vocational schools, and so on depending on the purpose of the conference. Not to mention 3D printing, AR and robots! It’s OK if your class is not ready for the shiny new trend that pops up on your Twitter feed from time to time.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2019

Having someone [guide these conversations] who’s been in the classroom is really helpful because I can look at [Mismatch’s] curriculum and assess what I would find that is interesting or want to learn, versus an adult who has not been in the classroom for several years,” Nevins tells EdSurge.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 3, 2023

STEM education is an approach to modern learning that emphasizes the integration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and is driving recent educational trends. Here are some key trends that are likely to shape the future of STEM education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

Assessing making and tinkering. The risks of using reflection as your only tool for assessing making. Hummingbird Robotics Kit. You have one week to enter, and then we draw! Click here. . In today’s show, we’ll discuss: How to make time for tinkering. Three of the biggest mistakes teachers make when tinkering.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 2, 2021

These advances in “machine learning” have led the World Economic Forum to predict that by 2025, robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks and that by next year, “even work tasks overwhelmingly performed by humans today — communicating, interacting, coordinating, managing and advising — will begin to be taken on by machines”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2018

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. Baltimore is combating that trend. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Creativity, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital competencies were just a few of the many trends at ISTE 2018. We’ve rounded up some of the biggest trends, news, and tools to help you organize your post-ISTE thoughts. Intelitek ‘s CoderZ is a web-based learning environment program where students code virtual 3D robots.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Related: How colleges can help their students out-compete robots. Getty Images. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

As you consider your own role as a teacher in building a classroom that inspires belonging for every student, assess yourself on the following factors that can contribute to inequity and turn your classroom from a healthy one into a toxic one.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

DALLAS — In Levar Dobbins’ eighth grade classroom, a dozen students were learning about workforce trends. A whole bunch of robots,” one boy suggested. Others offer introductory courses in specific careers, like engineering or robotics. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. More social media platforms,” a girl said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Two weeks before testing day, after weeks of struggling robotically through course content, we ditch the projects and texts we are working on to focus solely on test practice, fueled by Powerpoints featuring sample test questions from prior years. My work on this team prompted me to reevaluate my approach to curriculum and assessment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And a small cluster of boys needed extra space in their day to work on robotics and coding projects, on top of their computer science and physics work. Current trends in education include three key concepts in student-centered learning: differentiated, personalized and individualized instruction. when he texts that he’s finished.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

The trend is not unique to Hollywood; other American businesses— from appliance makers to luxury resorts —are similarly entangled with Asian money. EduLab , a subsidiary of JIEM, a Japanese research and assessment provider. (It Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.)

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

Want to speed up fluency assessments and free up time for instruction? This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. Looking to go beyond the multiple-choice assessment?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2017

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. Reading Horizons announced its upcoming webcast, Dyslexia: Best Practices for Instruction and Intervention.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

But it’s not always simple to plan, and manage, and assess, so we’re going to talk about some practical teaching strategies today. With PBL, kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, interact with its lessons, collaborate with each other, and assess themselves and each other. It’s pretty complex stuff.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

As you consider your own role as a teacher in building a classroom that inspires belonging for every student, assess yourself on the following factors that can contribute to inequity and turn your classroom from a healthy one into a toxic one.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

I'm getting Blue-Bot robots this year, so we can do coding in first grade! Since we started differentiating with eSpark, our 2015-2016 annual NWEA state assessment gains were terrific. Students create posters about themselves, the dynamics of their family, what they want to be when they grow up, favorite pastimes, favorite foods.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

From the experiences we provide (iPads, cutting-edge digital library, nationally-ranked Robotics program) to the inter-district professional learning we support (top-ranked VrainWaves podcast), at the core of our program is a belief in technology as a catalyst for learning at all levels. Vrain Valley Schools. .

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Kent Darr suggested that “Parsing large data sets could help the instructor and instructional designer make quicker, more informed decisions about course content, tasks, and assessments,” work that “may otherwise prove to be time-consuming for the instructor/ researcher.” The result can be jarring.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

Want to speed up fluency assessments and free up time for instruction? This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. Looking to go beyond the multiple-choice assessment?

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

Want to speed up fluency assessments and free up time for instruction? This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. Looking to go beyond the multiple-choice assessment?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We Unfortunately, both of these trends place a significant strain on school Wi-Fi, beyond the cases of needing to connect the distance-learning students. GHz frequency of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. .

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Since they opened in 2014, Brooklyn LAB has embraced the idea of “personalized learning,” a trend in schools intended to tailor learning to students’ individual needs and interests. The school offers a science, technology, engineering, arts and math curriculum, along with extracurricular activities such as robotics, coding and art.

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