Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

“A key to growing as an educator is to keep company mainly with educators who uplift You, whose presence inspire You and whose dedication drives You.” Recharge with books- Book chats/studies, audio books, author virtual events, #BookCampPD, @HackMyLearning, @EduMatchBooks, @BurgessDave, @Foundations_inc.

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EdTech4Beginners

JUNE 14, 2023

You can make friends and share your passion for music, movies, and books. Such cognitive advantages are said to result from bilingualism’s mental exercise. National and multinational companies in all types of industries seek multilingual professionals, and being one of them instantly makes you more valuable and versatile.

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Exercises Industry Company Study 264

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. Researchers proved that these auditory skills could be taught and early studies showed that they could be taught as a purely oral exercise without letters. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 8, 2024

She has worked with many international corporate companies providing workshops and training on areas including staff well-being, mental health awareness, mindfulness, creating a positive mindset, motivation, habit building and stress management.

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Exercises Training Company Strategy 62

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Dewdney, who’s been teaching pre-K for just over a decade now, said her mother Anna Dewdney, the late author and illustrator of the well-known “Llama Llama” children’s books, helped spark her interest in early-childhood education. Dewdney uses breathing exercises in the classroom as one way to foster a sense of calm.

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Education Exercises Trends Report 128

MindShift

MARCH 25, 2020

Here are six age-appropriate books, videos and lesson plans that teachers and parents can use to help young people understand COVID-19 and its effects. A Kids Book About Coronavirus by Malia Jones. The book is appropriate for ages 6 and up and available for free as a PDF or epub file for e-readers. What is a Pandemic?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

In a now-famous 1997 interview , he candidly explained why Amazon started out by selling books. Books were simply a stepping stone, the “best first thing” to sell.) In 1994, hardly anyone was buying books on the internet. Bezos, more than any other tech entrepreneur, is known to play the long game, masterfully. But they are.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. started as a publishing category, where people would pay small amounts of money for books or CDs to learn a language. billion, making its total valuation more than $4.7

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability.

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How To Assistive Technology Assessment Exercises 181

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

As educators, mental health professionals, and authors of a new book on helping students cut through stress and pave the way to purpose, we’ve spent our careers supporting students to manage their mental health and reach their potential. Articles , podcasts and books about burnout are released every day.

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Academic Standards Policies Exercises Report 187

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

Whitney Kilgore, chief academic officer at iDesign, an online program management company that specializes in instructional design, told me that when students are doing the talking and deliberate in groups, solving problems and correcting each other, “it gives them the opportunity to perform as the teacher as well as the learner.”

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How To Learning Exercises Video 166

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For the third time this year, an American education technology company is laying claim to the magical “unicorn” status. To date, company has raised $138 million. Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company.

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Coursera Company Mobility Exercises 91

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 7, 2019

Understanding the critical role self and collective efficacy play in determining the successful attainment of goals lays out a path for achieving efficacy as a whole, something that I expand greatly on in my book Digital Leadership. Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. Freeman and Company. Bandura, A. New York: W.H.

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Outcomes Analysis Strategy Professional Learning 308

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I get up at 3:00, ride my exercise bike 10 miles, drive 18 miles to school. I am the guidepost for a book of devotions that Mr. Woodruff funded. Grace: Oh, I read 30 or 40 books a year. I’m now reading another book by Pat Williams. Adkins and I talk books all the time. And then I have my morning devotional.

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Learning Exercises Course Meeting 172

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Programming in the Primary Grades Book Contest. But he’s also written a book, Programming in the Primary Grades, Beyond the Hour of Code. We’ll be doing a giveaway of his book. My role as a MakerSpace Teacher is to reward my students for exercising their own learning tools and skills. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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Elementary How To iPad Exercises 248

eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2018

These voices include Adam Alter in his book “Irresistible”, Nicholas Kardaras in his book “Glow Kids”, Jean Twenge in her Atlantic Monthly “iGen” article, Delaney Ruston in her film “Screenagers”, and Anderson Cooper in his 60 Minutes “Brain Hacking” segment.

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Facebook Exercises Company Study 78

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2023

He is the co-author of the book Untangling the Web: 20 Tools to Power Up Your Teaching and the president of the Skokie/Morton Grove District 69 School Board, serving his third term. And my hunch is if you do the same exercise in 50 different schools, we're going to get very different results.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Santoro, a professor at Bowdoin College who wrote a book on teacher demoralization , has explained that teachers of all kinds are facing stressors during the pandemic that put them at heightened risk for burnout and demoralization. Leaders are exercising a sort of selective amnesia about the trauma of the past 18 months.

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Social Media Exercises Meeting Course 217

Hack Education

APRIL 16, 2020

I want to do so, in part, because this actually isn't a story I tell in my forthcoming book, Teaching Machines , and I feel like getting some of this down on paper. First, you had to convince the phone company that it was okay to send signals over the wire this way. Suppes' company also struggled.

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Exercises Elementary Software Company 103

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

He has compiled his thinking on the issue into a new book, “ Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools. ” And I had a really entrepreneurial colleague named Tom Daccord, and we started this company called EdTechTeacher that did consulting for schools that were making big technology purchases.

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iPad Course Google Laptops 128

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

So the CEO of the Boston-based company sat in on classrooms in over 12 schools. Scaling an education technology company has been an ongoing lesson for Arbaji. Origins in Jordan Arbaji’s decision to start an education company is rooted in how education shaped his own life. The company had raised $3 million in seed funding.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Endless Network , a global organization dedicated to promoting equity and accessibility, invests strategically in companies worldwide to address challenges such as limited access to quality education. A donation of $25 will cover the cost of bringing ten children’s books offline to support learners without internet access.

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EdTech Digital Divide Education Khan Academy 125

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Over time, I benefited from reading books on online pedagogy, attending online learning conferences and receiving training in online teaching and learning—including good instructional standards from tools like the Quality Matters rubric. This exercise feels especially important during a moment when we all face such uncertainty.

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Digital Learning Blackboard Course Exercises 188

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After the war, mighty imperial centers in London, Paris and Berlin were reduced to runners-up, no longer able to exercise their former power. Michael Wang, CEO of Beacon Education, a Beijing company I consult with that delivers U.S. After all, the U.S. was once—like China— a backwater agrarian outpost.

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MOOC Flipped Classroom Course Laptops 143

Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2017

million fundraise, the company now boasts $5.5 Designed for children ages 2 to 6, Lingokids, the company’s flagship app, currently offers 350 activities in the form of mini-games, videos, audiobooks and writing exercises covering English and Chinese. On top of an earlier $1.5 million in institutional backing.

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Company Exercises Libraries Accessibility 69

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In perhaps the greatest book in the English language, James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” following the famous rowdy opening where stately, plump Buck Mulligan taunts and tests the moody brooding Stephen Dedalus, Joyce cuts to a quieter moment in a classroom. Dedalus pokes the boy’s shoulders with the book. Dedalus: “Tell me now, what is a pier?”

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Industry Study Exercises Analysis 131

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2019

App developers can work for software companies, retailers, in healthcare, in the travel industry, for the entertainment industry, or in financial services. Each module is comprised of short video tutorials, quizzes, example programs, programming exercises, challenge problems, unit tests, and end-of-unit projects.

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Smartphone Mobility Digital Citizenship Industry 198

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

With the help of his Hip Hop Shakespeare Company , Akala explores the linguistic, social and cultural parallels between hip-hop and Shakespeare. To activate a discussion about hard choices, I customized an exercise I found online years ago. The exercise begins with the following instructions for students: You are a college student.

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Exercises Education Study Report 92

Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 24, 2023

Trademarks Trademarks are distinctive signs, symbols, or logos used to distinguish goods or services of one company from another. Control Over Content Distribution DRM allows content creators and copyright holders to exercise control over the distribution of their works.

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eBook Trends Software Exercises 52

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2018

product for its ABCmouse Early Learning Academy, an app that provides instructional games and exercises for young learners. based company’s first foray into China. In China, few companies reach as many people as Tencent, whose mobile apps cover a vast array of business, entertainment, social media and payment services.

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Learning Company Libraries Social Media 67

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Seven of the 134 companies in this batch provide education services—which is a similar percentage from the last cohort. In this latest cohort of edtech companies, only one is aimed at being used in classrooms. The husband-and-wife duo behind the company, Aparna and Deepak Ramanathan, come from different backgrounds. “A

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EdTech Company Software Training 88

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Data analyzed by McKinsey & Company late last year concluded that children have lost at least one and a half months of reading. She placed a book in front of each child and walked them through a series of exercises, including looking at the cover and predicting what the book would be about. Miller asked. “No!”

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 145

Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In the time that he took off from the classroom, Dan started an online company. Dan shares in his book that the system may be part of the problem, but we can’t keep contributing to the problem. Dan also begins his book by clearly stating that the content is not about productivity or efficiency , it’s about being effective. .

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How To Exercises System Course 93

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. million, split between the course provider and the company. That means it brought in more than $2.5

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edWeb.net

JULY 27, 2021

Starting my own company. Motivational books. Partners and vendors who provided free access to programs. Plugging into new channels. Professional development opportunities and mentors. Starting a podcast. Staying calm during chaos. Staying connected virtually. Sticking to my values. Strong network of women. Supportive family.

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Education Social Media Exercises Industry 52

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

So when Apple’s longtime vice-president of education, John Couch, published a book this year with his thoughts on the future of education and accounts of his work at Apple, it opened a rare window into the company’s views on education. The book is called Rewiring Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student's Potential.

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