The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2022

As you prepare to learn Set Goals Help students create personal learning goals (which speeds up learning) and self assess progress. When the lesson is done Celebrate Celebrate learning and accomplishments in the classroom as students successfully learn. Resources Cited in This Podcast.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

The ambitions for New York City’s Innovation Zone (or iZone) were sweeping: By 2014, city leaders hoped it would be the catalyst for technologically enhanced personalized learning models throughout the district, encompassing 400 schools. Politics plays a huge role in education policy shifts, notes Hodas.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

.” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. Enter personalized learning (PL)." Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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.”. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2017

wouldn’t call it complacency, but eight years of getting into the weaves of lots of different policy debates. Is the new era of education technology going to be mainly driven by companies and educators themselves, or do you see the administration playing a role? Where do trends like personalized learning and blended learning fit in?

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Doug Levin

JULY 31, 2017

As such, expect an abbreviated (TBD) publishing schedule for ‘A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News’ in August. Here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Strong opinions may be weakly held. .'

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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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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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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.”. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. “I can’t speak for other companies, but I have a lot of confidence in the reliability of our online assessments.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Mark: We have to do that for the state of Texas, because it affects admissions policies. This whole personalized learning approach is really where we’re moving. 30-second elevator pitch for the Learning Journey model. Whereas I hope the Learning Journey is more of a holistic approach to giving students control.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Government policy has also contributed to its adoption. For a seventh-grade math unit on ratios and proportion, for example, the class opened a pretend catering company. But the strategy was not widely used, because it was so labor intensive for teachers.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

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. As soon as the district instituted the policy, educators were developing ideas for micro-credentials.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

In a nutshell: Right now schools use a variety of digital programs that collect data that could be of use to teachers, but programs made by different companies don’t play well together – and some programs won’t even allow teachers to export data out of the system to use it themselves. Read more about Blended Learning.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Google is working with a number of partners, including WNET, PBS, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the American Museum of Natural History, the Planetary Society, David Attenborough with production company Alchemy VR and many of the Google Cultural Institute museum partners to create custom educational content that spans the universe.”.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. Mostly surveillance posing as “ personalization ” startups. Have any ed-tech companies, particularly those funded by Thiel or Zuckerberg or Y Combinator, spoken out about this?

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

” They’re suing the company. Education Week has a Q&A with Stanford professor Larry Cuban on personalized learning and progressive education. For-profit higher and student loan companies. “Blended learning” company Learntron has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Kae Capital.

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