The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Working in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Education and Emmy Award Winning Director, Allyson Rockwell, the Mason-Lake and Oceana ISDs are working on a documentary film chronicling the success in the pilot kindergarten and second grade iPad classrooms in Ludington, Michigan. Log in at [link]. psid=2011-09-29.1440.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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iPad Blackboard Classroom Elementary 74

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2017

Textbooks and blackboards have become a thing of the past in K-12 schools as educators collaborate with IT teams to shape a full digital core curriculum as part of their educational strategy for 2017 and beyond. Next page: How schools are currently using E-Rate for digital success).

E-rate 66

E-rate Blackboard Broadband Survey 66

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented Edthena? EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented Kaltura? Written by Meghan , a science and social studies coordinator at an elementary school in Virginia.

STEM 60

STEM Tools Blackboard LMS 60

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2017

It’s really for student engagement and other ideas that you can use in the classroom where students are able to answer questions and engage in class conversations via video. It could be Google Classroom, it could be Schoology, it could be Blackboard, it could also be Microsoft OneNote. VICKI: How is this working?

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Comparison Schoology Tools Video 278

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As Karen Hawley Miles, president of Education Resource Strategies, a nonprofit that partners with school systems to help them transform how they organize resources, explains in our book: “Budget pressure always generates a call to reduce district office spending because it doesn’t immediately impact the classroom.

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Strategy Blackboard Policies Report 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The program can be introduced in stages in any middle or high school classroom and enables students of diverse abilities to design and pursue independent course work, special projects, or even artistic presentations, community field work or apprenticeships. Log in at [link].

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Blackboard Handbook Learning Secondary 63

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Molière felt ready. I’m driven by that.

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Classroom Report Analysis Training 87

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The scariest moments in elementary school for most adults of a certain age involved being summoned to the blackboard. If not, that walk back to your desk seemed to double or triple in length while the teacher called another student to the blackboard. The long walk to the front of the room. The deathly quiet.

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Blackboard Chromebook Learning Facebook 40

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

and students are thriving under innovative initiatives that include blended learning, tech-rich classrooms, and exposure to hope and opportunities for lifelong success. They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses. Just four years later, graduation rates have spiked 21.8%

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Robotics Sony Student Data Privacy Outcomes 108

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

Britt: In my classes, I’m using strictly a Blackboard LMS and I’m using Twitter, which I felt was a less onerous use of social media for classroom conversations. We got so used to using it to connect with family and friends, there wasn’t a good alternative. Vicki: What are using instead of Facebook for your classes?

Facebook 167

Facebook Social Media Education Learning 167

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Take Blackboard , which has bought 15 companies since 2014. What’s indisputable is that Chromebooks currently dominate; more than 40 percent of respondents say that’s the device of choice in the classrooms, followed by PC laptops (17 percent). The joke’s on them.”. edtech industry.

Pearson 83

Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 83

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Among the survey’s findings: Google Classroom is by far the most popular learning management platform, used in more than 80 percent of districts. Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.)

Personalized Learning 79

Personalized Learning Learning Moodle Secondary 79

Hack Education

JULY 5, 2019

Teaching machines never sat on every desk in every classroom in America. In “Elroy’s Mob,” a scene at the Little Dipper School opens with Elroy talking through a math problem written on the blackboard. “You really know your elementary arithmetic.” And to a certain extent, that’s true.

Robotics 48

Robotics Course Blackboard Elementary 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

The conference is held in the online platform Blackboard Collaborate, and instructions for joining any sessions and to find the schedule in your own time zone are at [link]. And special thanks to Blackboard Collaborate for the terrific conference platform. A full list of the speakers and topics is included at the end of this message.

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Common Core Conference Blackboard Digital Citizenship 71

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

After breakfast, the dining room turns into Lonnie’s classroom. There is a sign on the wall with the daily routine and a blackboard with the numbers from 1 to 10. The district has only one summer program, with only one classroom. The kitchen and the living room remained set up like classrooms through the summer, however.

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Laptops Blackboard Study Report 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. We can flip the classroom. Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? We can extend the learning day.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2012

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21st, is worldwide 2012 Social Learning Summit , a one-day virtual conference being held as a partnership of Classroom 2.0 All sessions will be publicly available to attend through the online Blackboard Collaborate platform, and every session will be recorded and made available immediately following the conference.

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ePortfolio Digital Citizenship Social Media Common Core 51

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. And he’s found that in this common classroom format, very few students are actually thinking: maybe no more than 20 percent of them, and only 20 percent of the time, according to his experiments.

Strategy 216

Strategy System Groups Course 216

EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

Each classroom in the district is also equipped with either SMART or Promethean interactive whiteboards, says CIO Bobby Blount. Visual Classroom Tools Are for Schools of All Sizes. The systems have had the biggest impact on elementary and middle school students, especially on getting girls more interested in science , says Decker.

Technology 238

Technology E-rate Learning Blackboard 238

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2016

Kenya’s desk is near the door, where she has a clear view of arithmetic problems chalked on the blackboard, and printed instructions for what to do in case of a lockdown. She picks a pencil from the graveyard of broken stubs in her desk and heads for an open swath of green carpet across the classroom. Destroy the Guns!!!!”

Elementary 40

Elementary Exercises E-rate Blackboard 40

MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

“In the mornings when students came into the classroom, they would write that they’d brought their lunch or that they were going to purchase lunch in the cafeteria,” she said. When Billy Gibson, 18, was in elementary school, he couldn’t spell his own name. Students at or above proficient reading level.

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Training Report Groups System 78

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

link] DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES- ONGOING (Elluminate Live) Mon 28 Feb 03:00PM New York / Mon 28 Feb 08:00PM GMT / Tue 1 Mar 07:00AM Sydney Blackboard Collaborate. Explore the iPad and some great apps for the middle school classroom. link] CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE ( Classroom 2.0

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Secondary iPad Blackboard Outcomes 46

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But you are always digging out — like you said, new people that everybody hasn’t heard of — but you’re always digging out new amazing educators who are just doing great work every single day in their classrooms. Bring these remarkable experiences to your classroom! Lucy: Yes, we are. People Met Here and Become Partners.

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Conference Education Social Media Twitter 223

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Classroom 2.0 The Senate Education Committee began work this week sifting through the 800-some-odd-page reauthorization for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. show is back! Peggy , Lorna , and Kim host “Featured Teacher” Bryan Jackson, a high school gifted-education and music teacher in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

Khan Academy 44

Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. And I say frequently to my sister, who has access to this in her classroom, “You are so lucky! I could still go back in the classroom. Kecia: (laughs) Yay, you’re validating me! Thanks, Vicki!

Social Media 242

Social Media Blended Learning Data Blackboard 242

PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 27, 2023

Alternative school management systems to Canvas include Moodle, Shoology, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard Learn. Most features provided by these systems are similar, with slight variations in interface designs or course authoring options available.

Software 93

Software LMS Moodle Laptops 93

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts. Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 70

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Because of the lack of guidance, some educators are taking to Twitter to ask peers who have already began the school semester for insight and advice on what is working, and what isn’t, in the virtual classroom setting. He added such interaction “is more true to what good learning looks like in the classroom.”.

Learning 135

Learning Blackboard Student Engagement Social Media 135

PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 27, 2023

Alternative school management systems to Canvas include Moodle, Shoology, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard Learn. Most features provided by these systems are similar, with slight variations in interface designs or course authoring options available.

Software 40

Software LMS Moodle Laptops 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 3, 2012

David Lankes laments that the "future of school libraries and school librarians hangs in the balance," and that even with all of the research supporting the important effects of the school librarian, "communities are presented with a false choice: reduce the number of teachers in the classroom or lay off the librarian." Log in at [link].

Libraries 71

Libraries Blackboard eBook Common Core 71

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 22, 2017 Leaked Microsoft document confirms Windows 10 Cloud and a Chromebook competitor | PCWorld → Google’s Chrome OS-powered Chromebooks have quickly insinuated themselves into American classrooms. Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete. It offers a more experiential learning experience.

EdTech 170

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 22, 2017 Leaked Microsoft document confirms Windows 10 Cloud and a Chromebook competitor | PCWorld → Google’s Chrome OS-powered Chromebooks have quickly insinuated themselves into American classrooms. Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete. It offers a more experiential learning experience.

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 23, 2021

Perhaps you feel like you’re constantly cleaning up at home or puttering around the classroom tidying. Jennifer Schwartz is an elementary school teacher who lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband and extremely busy one-year-old son. I invite you to try the Pomodoro Technique, if you haven’t already, and see if it works for you.

Social Media 69

Social Media Report Blackboard System 69

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Her success in this endeavor earned Crellin Elementary the distinction of receiving the Ernest L. Its efforts have resulted in the creation of an outdoor classroom for Crellin Elementary’s 84 students. In addition, the Maryland Association of Environment Outdoor Education named Crellin Elementary a Maryland Green School.

Blackboard 58

Blackboard Elementary Video Classroom 58

MindShift

JUNE 9, 2018

Her new book, The Design of Childhood, considers the physical spaces where our children learn and grow: from the living room rug crowded with toys, to the streets, welcoming or dangerous, to classrooms, bright and new or dilapidated. “If you measure a classroom in St. But American education largely hasn’t.”

Laptops 46

Laptops Learning Industry Tablets 46

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Developed by Blackboard, Desire2Learn, itslearning, Takai, Canvas, and a host of others, these solutions focus on helping educators organize and orchestrate learning tools, educational approaches, and whole courses. Needless to say it caught on with universities—and eventually school districts. Teachers already do so much.

LMS 40

LMS Khan Academy Blackboard Moodle 40

The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

Over the last few years of the Speak Up survey, more students and administrators have signaled the importance of being able to access mobile devices in the classroom, whether through Bring Your Own Device policy consideration and implementation or through school-provided technology.

Mobility 40

Mobility Blended Learning STEM Survey 40