The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

She provides staff development and training on immersive technology as an edtech consultant. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. She began her career as a math teacher and later moved into Instructional Technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

And then there’s Seoul Foreign School in South Korea, which serves about 1,500 students from elementary to high school, and where teachers have been using a hybrid approach for about a week, explains Tanya LeClair, a digital learning coach who is originally from Canada. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience. Most schools are completely unprepared – or, at best, woefully underprepared – for coronavirus and virtual learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

They also talked about the role of tech companies as censors or not as censors, so it was really cool to see how they were able to apply some of the things that we’ve traditionally always talked about in government class, and taken it into this digital space where they spend a good portion of their time. Kristen: Oh, I agree 100%.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The “dream team” of experts answering calls all had stellar credentials: They were teachers themselves, with training in how to deploy technology for learning and years of classroom experience. Related: Rhode Island teachers trying out blended learning — but without high stakes pressure.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. The sudden shift in the learning environment last year may have provided an obstacle for the way we wanted to see this happen. Planning Blended Learning for another year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

For districts in need of additional technologies to make hybrid classrooms successful, here's a closer look at the new funding available and how to secure it: ESSER Funds and How to Use Them The original CARES Act included an education stabilization fund called Elementary and Secondary Education Emergency Relief (ESSER).

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

The winning nominator and his or her nominee each win a $20,000 package including one 7000 series SMART Board and SMART Document Camera, 30 Chromebooks, and SMART training and implementation. Currently, she teaches and learns in a first grade classroom at Evening Street Elementary in Worthington, Ohio. Listen Now. Blog: [link].

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient. But in recent years, we've seen a spike in the number of smaller, tightly focused, niche edtech product companies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2018

It turns out there are lots of “chat” hashtags — #scichat and #edchat and #elemchat (elementary). I’ve trained teachers on Twitter, and then they go and delete your Twitter account right then. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

One great new tool that Susan learned about was an app called The Novel Effect. The library within the app includes many children’s books, so elementary teachers will really like this. More AI Conversation Merlyn Mind Susan attended a session from Merlyn Mind , a company that provides productivity AI technologies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

Eric is an authorized Google Education Trainer and a Google Certified Innovator and provides Google Apps training to schools, organizations, and conferences throughout Ohio and across the country. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

His role includes training teachers and administrators on all things related to technology and district initiatives. But from my point of view, being an elementary teacher, reading progress is amazing if you've never heard of it. Ricardo Recinos. He is a part of the Transformational Tech team and a lead for Region 3 ILC for CTA.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

60% of teachers say they need better training to integrate edtech tools and identify the ideal targets for the majority of edtech programs they use in the classroom. Underutilized tools, while not ineffective, do require focused teacher training that makes the most of technology investments. Professional Development. Data Privacy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. This could mean providing additional training for teachers on the instructional use of digital learning tools—how they’re going to use technology.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. I’ve got some experience with this from the past eight years.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest advantages it provides is preparing our educators for Common Core instruction through professional development, training, and information sessions. It also allows us to take a blended learning approach to our Common Core math instruction. It’s an approach that seems to be working.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

The setting seems highly unlikely for an innovation like blended learning to take root. Yet throughout India, a number of digital initiatives are underway aimed at improving education in areas that lack sufficient trained and experienced teachers. So why is there so much optimism about blended learning as a solution?

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. has joined the ENA family of companies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

If you expect to learn something, say, in a training, step-by-step directions and that would be it for the next year or two years? One of the best skills that we can teach ourselves and teach our students is how to LEARN, and how teach ourselves on the go — whether it’s finding videos on YouTube and tutorials.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2018

He’s dedicated to providing training throughout the country. He just had a national conference in San Francisco that was entirely sponsored and had 110 teachers in to provide three days of training. So he hired the same company who developed that game to also develop this game. He has a blog post.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

A fifth grader works on a digital lesson as part of a blended learning program. Personalized learning dates back to a Chicago lab school at the turn of the 20th century, but the concept is having a renaissance because of today’s more sophisticated technology — and the excitement and investment the technology has inspired.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

But while blended learning — a mix of teacher-led and computerized instruction — is proliferating across the country, schools that wholeheartedly embrace games-based learning remain rare. Attempts to use games as assessments ruin the playful experiences that make them an effective learning tool, he said.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

It requires educators to deeply understand how institutional racism comes to be and manifests in environments where young students learn. But, this means the adults in the system must learn what is at the core of racist classroom practices to avoid replicating them again and again. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenters.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The effort is led by one of the most celebrated leaders of the blended- and personalized-learning movement, California-based charter network Summit Public Schools. Among people new to the Summit program, such scenes of silent, computer-based work can arouse worries that personalized learning means parking kids in front of screens.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

School districts spend a lot of money on trainings for educators, but the returns on that investment are not always clear. For the past several years the district has been focused on personalizing learning for its students by introducing more choice into classrooms, using blended learning strategies and offering multi-age classrooms.

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edWeb.net

JULY 28, 2021

Many teachers use Muzology across the district’s elementary and middle schools in different ways, like engaging students in the “fun” of music in magnet school arts or using it as an intervention tool. Teachers have used the platform for flipped learning followed by in-class, teacher-led practice. About the Presenters. Dr. Lana Israel.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

“I am overwhelmed with joy for my students because I know now they each stand a better chance of being a successful student,” said Regina Trout, who teaches the second-year kindergarteners at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown. And they suspect that education technology companies may be promising more than they can deliver.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 8, 2021

Derrick Conley, Executive Principal of Birch and Parkway Elementary Schools in Pine Tree ISD in Texas, is all about student strengths. All of these three campuses are currently a joyful place for children to learn and teachers to teach. The Practice of Mattering: Growth and Relationships. About the Moderator.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The school district is working to raise money for more computers and technology training, hoping to better prepare its students for an increasingly digitized economy.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” ” Via DelawareOnline : “The first step to reducing violence among young people is to have police officers assigned to elementary and middle schools, says a coalition of state officials, education administrators and police.” ” Ugh. .” ” Ugh.

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