Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

By digging into your grade level data for various discrete skills, you notice a trend—75% of your third grade classes are struggling with number sentences. Learn how schools and districts are leveraging the data from Edmentum’s online solutions: Meeting the needs of individual students through blended learning in Pennsylvania.

Data 84

Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity? Hardly earth-shattering results.

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 99

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

In todays show, we will share and demonstrate tips and tricks to creating the perfect project based, blended learning lessons for students of all ages and grade levels. Monday, April 27th at 5pm edWeb Webinar: Getting Started with Game-Based Learning , Are you curious about game-based learning, but don’t know where to begin?

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Libraries Game-Based Learning lynda.com Trends 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Blended Learning. Challenge-Based Learning. Individualized Learning. Informal Learning.

Technology 40

Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2016

For all intensive purposes most of these students could care less about the curriculum, Common Core Standards, or standardized tests (i.e. The premise was simple; allow students to utilize guided inquiry in an informal learning environment that was facilitated by the use of real-world tools to do real-world work.

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Maker Movement BYOD Common Core Outcomes 150

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

They bought a learning management system (LMS) and asked us to start using it. Procuring the LMS was purely an administrative decision, fueled by a desire to monitor school-wide trends to make resource allocation decisions. I couldn’t fault school leadership for this, but I still hated using it.

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 117

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Highlights from Bulletin Board follow. “The

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Competency Based Learning Common Core Personalized Learning Study 79

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

That had largely been relegated to online math lessons, part of separate periods of personalized-learning time when students are free to work through computer-based lessons in any subject they chose, at their own pace. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”. Read more about blended learning.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

They receive instant feedback and a chance to revise their work for ongoing learning. Teachers also receive feedback via reports on student and class performance, allowing them to analyze classroom trends and inform future teaching. ” Here’s how it works: Create assignments.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

Common Core standards (this one’s not sexy, but few factors impact education more than this index of academic content). The adoption of blended learning approaches through learning management systems. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom . Planned obsolescence of mobile technology.

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Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

It's a heartening trend; the best edtech developers are taking the lessons (both good and bad) of the last few years to heart and delivering products at a higher level of quality than we've seen in the past. HangArt: Play Hangman, Draw Pictures, Tell Stories. Price: $1.99; Platform: Android, iOS; Grades: Pre-K–3.

EdTech 40

EdTech Android Smartphone iPad 40

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one-quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.”

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Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Inequality and the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” The inequalities that I’ve chronicled above – income inequality, wealth inequality, information inequality – have been part of our education system for generations, and these are now being hard-coded into our education technologies. ” and “are you white?”

Technology 40

Technology Education Pearson Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Spark Schools has raised $9 million from the Omidyar Network.

Education 40

Education Company Pearson E-rate 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Along with her strong support for charter schools and the Common Core curriculum, Gist was convinced that great student outcomes could be directly tied to teaching excellence. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment with blended learning. Related: Will blended learning survive Deborah Gist’s departure?

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Common Core Data Report Blended Learning 95