eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Digital resources, including e-books and online platforms, offer versatile learning materials. Collaboration tools and communication platforms connect teachers and students, fostering interactive learning. What are examples of technology tools in learning? What are digital technology tools?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As conversation starters, we have a number of books that help inform children about the crisis. Related: What we can learn from the Katrina children who thrived after disaster. But what about those times when children don’t pay attention to flat, motionless books? Related: COLUMN: Come for the computers, stay for the books.

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Hack Education

JULY 5, 2019

Over the course of the past few weeks, I’ve read a handful of books on writing and editing – Benjamin Dreyer’s Dreyer’s English , Stephen King’s On Writing , and Susan Bell’s The Artful Edit – but this week I turn my attention to revising the book. Yes, yes, yes. This is obvious.).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

For example, I once noticed a student was not paying attention to a drawing activity. “I I know you love robots, so would you like to build a robot out of cardboard boxes?” By reframing the academic experience to align with the student’s interests, I could drive learning forward. The student instantly became curious.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2017

Today Weston Kieschnick @wes_kieschnick helps us how to go bold school with blended learning. Old school plus blended learning = bold school. Check the show notes for the book giveaway. Book: Bold School: Old School Wisdom + New Technologies that Work = Blended Learning that Works. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

But I've put that series to rest while I focus on book-writing, and I'm thrilled to be able to join you here this year. I'm also thrilled that the book is mostly done.). And while my criticism of exploitative "personalized learning" technology was booed, their predictions were cheered. Why do you?

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Hack Education

JUNE 21, 2020

This — The Matrix — has been a much more central part of our ed-tech imaginary than any book or article published by the popular or academic press. One of the things you might do is consider what other stories you know — movies, books — that have shaped our imaginations when it comes to education.). It creeps into TED Talks, of course.

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edWeb.net

JULY 11, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , Naomi Harm, Strategic Outreach Education Manager at Wonder Workshop, and Angie Kalthoff, Technology Integration Specialist and Code.org Facilitator, presented classroom management tips for successful computational thinking activities and examples of activities to ignite those skills in students. Join the Community.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

To borrow from “ Norman’s Law of eLearning Tool Convergence ,” no matter the stories we tell about innovation, no matter the predictions we make about disruption, in time everything in ed-tech becomes indistinguishable from the learning management system. It is not a list of actual technical specifications.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 4, 2015

There are a lot of folks on the vendor floor at national conferences who will sell you products that supposedly personalize learning, and much of the buzz around something like Khan Academy is that it personalizes the learning for kids. That’s the model of personalization we want to see schools move toward.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Gordon, a Nationally-recognized Teacher and in the Top Five in my school district, so abysmally failed to spark my love of learning. I read books like James Stronge’s Qualities of Effective Teachers. That’s happened to me more than once but one example stands out. I call it a Mulligan — a do-over.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And a small cluster of boys needed extra space in their day to work on robotics and coding projects, on top of their computer science and physics work. According to our mission , Honolulu’s Assets High School “serves gifted and capable students specializing in those with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. Students and teachers are learning to innovate hand-in-hand. Educational innovators might: Write a book - publish on Kindle or iTunes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Robotics Engineer. In a 2014 Slate article, she wrote that a book Mattel put out that linked Barbie to computer science missed the mark. Critiques of the book, first written about by blogger Pamela Ribon , later went viral and was featured widely across the internet. Pastry Chef.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Megan Nickels, PedsAcademy founder, helps Ella Greene build a robotic version of her dog. Children with bone cancers, like Ella, tend to have muscle weakness and fatigue, for example.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This idea that “the child will be the customer” is, of course, also a nod to “personalized learning” as well, as is the invocation of a “Montessori-inspired” model. It’s all about private schools offering private , individual benefits.).

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Given the enormous potential of edtech to assist teachers in highly diverse classrooms to truly personalize learning and obtain significant student academic growth, why are we seeing such consistent and large-scale edtech failure when it comes to gains in student academic achievement? blended learning).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Yale Young Global Scholars program in Connecticut and a robotics camp in Ghana. While we can’t know how each student will choose to manifest this in their lifetime, we do know that the success of their actualization will depend on their ability to learn and how well they can connect with other people.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The 74 interviewed Sal Khan on personalized learning and his goal to create a “ global diploma ,” which he says his company can “uniquely” do. Like this example, from Techcrunch : “ Cybex starts selling its $330, app-enabled car seat made for safety geeks.” ” asks KQED’s Mindshift.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

It would be the equivalent of education malpractice to have a gifted program that does not look like the students we serve , ” she wrote in a book last year about how to make gifted education racially fair. Defined that way, “education malpractice” describes almost every gifted classroom across the United States. No, that is not likely.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

” Here, via Edsurge , is a great example of how, instead of investing in public infrastructure, schools wield ed-tech to outsource and privatize key resources for students and communities. Via The New York Times : “ Texas Students Will Now Learn That Slavery Was ‘Central’ to the Civil War.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2015

All he wants to do is work with Mr. B, the teacher in the robotics lab.”. and a person at school whom he wanted to be with. The contact wouldn’t have to be earned, because kids shouldn’t have to earn something that they really need; Garrett needed time with Mr. B and robotics as much as a typical student needed to be in social studies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

“ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Robot Learning Improves Student Engagement ,” the Communications of the ACM claims. Kiwicampus : a robot delivery service on campus. ” asks the Stanford Social Innovation Review. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Nickelodeon gets into e-books with new reading app for kids, Nick Jr. Education Week has a Q&A with Stanford professor Larry Cuban on personalized learning and progressive education. Robots and Other (Ed-Tech) Science Fiction. ” Not Tressie McMillan Cottom, for example.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Melinda Anderson talks to Beverly Daniel Tatum about the 20th anniversary of her book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? ” It’s full of examples of lecturing, but now that they’re recorded as videos somehow it’s innovation. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“Robots are coming for your job.” “Robots are coming for your job.” Robots don’t do anything they’re not programmed to do. Robots don’t just roll into the human resources department on their own accord, ready to outperform others. Robots don’t apply for jobs.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Meanwhile on Campus… Via the Dallas News : “Self-published ‘ Pepe the Frog ’ kids’ book is conservative but not alt-right, Denton ISD admin says.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Edsurge and Getting Smart promote venture capitalist Ryan Craig ’s new book A New U and the idea that “ faster + cheaper alternatives will replace most of higher ed.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. .” Via The New York Times : “The New Toll of American Student Debt in 3 Charts.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” “In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” [says founder] Rebekah Neumann. “ social and emotional learning.”) How Expeditionary Deeper Learning Engages Students Through Inquiry, Discovery & Creativity.” ” No.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This includes the adoption of AllHere, a 24/7 texting-based chatbot that provides personalized support so that every family can get questions answered within seconds or be escalated to a support staff member within the district. Working together, the district began to dig in and dive deeper into the root causes of the problem.

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