MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Each month on the MIND blog, we share stories of how our organization, our partners, and educators across the country are advancing the mission to mathematically equip all students to solve the world’s most challenging problems. Welcome to the MIND Blog Rewind! Additional Highlights: MIND Blog Rewind: August 2019.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

My daughter is entering her third year of college, and I have three sons in elementary schools; my youngest starts first grade in a few weeks. Explore our blog and be sure to subscribe to our Action Report newsletter to follow our work this school year. But what does that look like? I am a father of four.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If you’ve ever seen a third grader struggle to type a web address into the computer or type a book report when they don’t know where the keys are, you know they should have started keyboarding earlier. Is elementary school too early—or too late? 2 What is the best age to introduce keyboarding? –Type to Learn, 1986.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Jim Bentley on episode 363 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This is particularly useful for teachers of elementary-age children.). How to Deepen Student Learning Using PBL and the QFT (on Right Question Blog). Blog: [link]. Donor’s Choose.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As I was grading my student’s web pages today, one student’s goals struck me. Reporting and Acting on Data – Students learn how data scientists analyze data for different groups so that actions can be taken.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2021

1st Class GradeBook – 1st Class GradeBook app provides educators with contemporary grading features, including class and student activity, grade reports, and more. Educators can also send reports to parents to keep them informed of their children’s progress. Gradebook and Grading Apps (for teachers).

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Early exposure to technology can help children develop digital literacy skills. And check out my review this week on my blog. Do you want to hold it up in front of your face and report or do you want to hold it to the side?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks. Listen and Read.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 26, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In this blog post, I’ll share my review of TARA, the Teacher HQ for Resources and Administration. This blog post is sponsored by TARA: Teacher HQ for Resources & Administration. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “ sponsored blog post.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 4, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Narratives – (Note: Now, I know that there's a typo on their page but they have a link at the bottom to report bugs and I've reported it. That is great that they have a way to report issues.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

Vickie Morgado, Grades 6-7 Elementary Guidance Learning Teacher (Ontario). The HP Teaching Fellows share examples from their classroom through their profiles , blogs , and Twitter using the hashtag #ReinventTheClassroom. Sign up for our Action Report newsletter for updates on Reinvent the Classroom.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 15, 2020

To wrap up this unusual National Charter Schools Week , we have been thinking about some of our youngest and most vulnerable learners: students attending elementary grades. Here are three examples of how elementary charters are continuing to provide instructional services to some of their youngest students.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Blended learning “can provide educators and students with a wealth of actionable insights on student learning, needs and preferences, empowering them to deliver the right learning resources at the right time for the right students,” according to the Consortium for School Networking’s Tech Enablers 2019 report.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Forecasts report that computer science skills will be essential for the future workforce, creating a need for K–12 experts to work harder to incorporate such lessons into the curriculum. . At Lucerne Valley Elementary School, students are able to pursue their own projects in a special SmartLab classroom, Victor Valley News reports.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Adopting successful models of technology integration such as those utilized at George Mason University’s Elementary Education Program is a start. Christian Miraglia is a recently retired 36 year educator and now Educational Technology Consultant at t4edtech where he also blogs. Our student’s future depends on it. . T4Edtech #edtech.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). In my last blog “Why Sending Students Home with Writing Assignments Might Not Be The Best Idea , ” I emphasize that writing is complex and multifaceted. Graham, S., & Hebert, M.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. And especially if you’re getting new support staff for the following school year, make sure that they understand where they’re to report on that first day. . An amazing fall starts now with the administrative preparation this summer.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). Testing ChatGPT with My Students In his blog post, ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education , Matt proposed that maybe ChatCPT should be blocked until the end of the school year because, “We need some space. Make a joke.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Education Galaxy supports math, reading, language arts, and science at the elementary level (K-6). This combination of reward and reinforcement has been proven to be highly effective with elementary school learners. Kiddom now offers personalized curricula, visual reports and more. What makes Education Galaxy so Special?

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 3, 2015

Blogging is a popular activity in classrooms today because it allows students to share their writing with a broader audience and teachers to communicate with parents. How to set up a blog will depend on your platform, and is pretty easy to figure out with all of the “how-to” videos and help center collections. Blogs as ePortfolio.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It has been reported that there will be 3.5 Kubo coding is a good program for starting with elementary students, specifically grades K through 5. The post 12 Tools to explore during Computer Science Week appeared first on NEO BLOG. Read more: Getting started with STEM in your classroom! Kubo coding.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. Here, the former elementary classroom teacher and math teacher advisor shares her thoughts on personalizing learning for individuals’ needs—and her school’s preferred platform for doing just that.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

A majority of administrators from elementary schools (64 percent), middle schools ( 83 percent ) and high schools ( 85 percent ) report they have already implemented one-to-one devices or see it as a primary goal, according to a 2018 K–12 leadership survey from the Consortium for School Networking. . by Jennifer Brown.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Yet, despite the gains I made with my students, despite research that shows the substantial positive impact of teachers of color on all students, despite the fact that having just one Black teacher in elementary school makes a Black child 13 percent more likely to go to college , my career nearly ended shortly after it began.

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Policies Instructional Materials Elementary Report 131

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

27, 2022 blog post. Chang points out that five states reported a decrease in chronic absenteeism – an improvement in student attendance – during some of the worst days of the pandemic. “I More of her thoughts on what schools can do to address chronic absenteeism are in a blog post she wrote for the Learning Policy Institute on Sept.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 31, 2023

Post by Tom Daccord [INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

[this blog post is a follow-up response to the Twitter exchange with Van Schoales posted below]. I offer this longer-form blog post as an attempt to bypass the lack of nuance available in 280 Twitter characters. I don’t know if you had a chance to read my previous blog post, Much ado about NAEP , but I tried to make two key points.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Students are particularly vulnerable to data theft and breaches because they have “clean” data — unblemished credit reports and pristine Social Security numbers — that cybercriminals want to exploit. writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. Make passwords complex — and long.

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Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 341

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks. Listen and Read.

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Libraries Mobility eBook Tablets 365

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Gitanjali Rao talks about her learning journey on episode 556 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter She was named America’s Top Young Scientist of 2017 by the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, with a patent-pending device to detect lead in water faster than any other current techniques.

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STEM Learning Social Media Report 221

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Defined Learning sponsored this blog post. In this task, my students will write a technical report for entrepreneurs interested in using 3D printers in manufacturing. . Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored blog post.”

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We found that 81% of El Segundo high school students reported feeling stress on a daily basis. A strategy wall at Richmond Street Elementary School to help students develop their emotional intelligence skills. Dr. Alice Lee Principal, Richmond Street Elementary School. Next Steps for our District.

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techlearning

APRIL 27, 2018

This post includes a handful of Adobe Spark activities for elementary students! Designing Learning Activities As you introduce this open-ended creation tool to elementary school students, you might decide to focus on activities that let their voice shine, or showcase work they’ve created in other online spaces.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a consensus study report in October 2018 entitled English Learners in STEM Subjects: Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and Lives. You can read the full report. Below is a summary and commentary on certain points within the report. The Math Crisis.

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wwwatanabe

MAY 8, 2011

Our year is wrapping up, and as it does, I''d like to dedicate the next several posts to celebrating some fabulous educators and incredible learning, starting with the AJUSD elementary level. They collaborated throughout the writing process and created quality reports. Their video captured the essence of our focus to engage kids.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

Over the last 10 years policymakers have focused much of their K-12 school reform attention on making the evaluation of teachers more rigorous and tying performance results to their compensation (see recent Calder report here ). We will explore this opportunity in our next blog post.

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