21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

APRIL 10, 2019

Welcome to this third post in a series that promotes student inquiry in the classroom. I will be at Alan November’s BLC19 in Boston (July) presenting workshops and sessions to support educators and students. Checkout my conference half day workshops : Making Makers Mainstream and Project Based Learning Quick Start.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 23, 2021

This article features contributions from MIND's Education Research Director Martin Buschkuehl. A 2009 Vanderbilt University review in the Journal of Educational Psychology looked at over 50 years of longitudinal research on spatial ability , and concluded that “spatial ability plays a critical role in developing expertise in STEM.”

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 10, 2016

Welcome to this third post in a series that promotes student inquiry in the classroom. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page. I am now booked through November.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Welcome to a series that supports the use of technology in support of differentiated learning in and beyond the PBL classroom. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 6, 2018

The biggest question I get after a workshop or training session is how did our iPad roll-out have so much success both in my classroom and for our school. For me, when asked, I tell my story of how going 1:1 in my classroom transformed learning. What I tell them is that it’s not about the tool or the gadget. Innovative?

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 12, 2018

The many, many years of formal professional development I’ve attended over many, many years in K12 education in no way equals the professional development opportunities I found for myself in the last few years across my online communities of practice and through open structure conferences that offered me choices and flexibility.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. We take them seriously,” says Channing Edson, the head teacher in Marin’s classroom. Photo courtesy of Bank Street College of Education.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It took the team a fair amount of hard work and a huge passion to patiently see their dreams take wings and 12 years down the line today, games are all around us and used by all ages for fun, K-12 education and training. With technology and new techniques development, gaining the trust of the client is not a difficult task today.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 29, 2015

This annual post is also my way to show gratitude for other educators out there who are taking the time to share their thinking online in an honest and thoughtful manner. He applies this lesson to how educators approach learning with their own students, positively or negatively. ” Many parent-educators can relate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. But Arianna and Alanni aren’t special education students. Her sister, Alanni, an eighth grader, has a binder too.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Sometimes it's hard to imagine change—especially when it comes to a 150-year-old system, such as higher education in the United States. At least, that's what professor Cathy Davidson writes in her latest book, “The New Education.”. In the book, she outlines several ways that higher education as we know it was blueprinted and built.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. Some said that simply being asked what they think about their high school had already improved their perceptions about education. A failing city is not a city , said one student.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

This story about IEPs was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The binders resemble, to a degree, the individualized education programs, or IEPs, that are at the heart of education for students with disabilities.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

During a past professional development workshop, the consultant informed us at one point to end independent reading in our classrooms. Some students will utilize this time effectively, but in my experience as a classroom teacher and principal, it is the students that need our guidance the least that do well with silent reading.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 18, 2016

This is your complete guide to all of the Google Certifications for Educators: Google Certified Educator, Level 1 & 2, Google Certified Trainer, Google Certified Administrator, and Google Certified Innovator. My goal is to empower teachers to transform the learning in their classrooms and become digital leaders.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 12, 2016

A comparison in the philosophies of today’s school districts yields results that falls across a continuum of who controls the learning. How school leaders run faculty meetings and inservice time should be a direct reflection of the type of instruction they are seeking in the classroom. This post is sponsored by Samsung.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 29, 2018

She is currently in the classroom teaching high school, and she’s also the author of the new book Take Charge of Your Teacher Evaluation. Whereas Danielson was using a constructivist model of education, and it was a constructivist philosophy. So they don’t necessarily get to tell us what just happened.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 29, 2018

She is currently in the classroom teaching high school, and she’s also the author of the new book Take Charge of Your Teacher Evaluation. Whereas Danielson was using a constructivist model of education, and it was a constructivist philosophy. Don’t cede the narrative of what it means to be a teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. One of the excuses educators have long offered to explain America’s poor reading performance is poverty. The problem in Bethlehem.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

They recently interviewed Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about video coaching and how best to incorporate using video in schools to support educators improving and deepening their practice. How did you get started in education and how did it get to where you are now with using video? I started my career in education as a teacher.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

She describes herself as an unstoppable entrepreneur, award-winning teacher educator and researcher, and passionate former public school teacher creating a more socially just and conscious world for teachers, students, and entire school communities. . Can you talk to us about what that practice looks like for educators?

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You can take courses on helpful topics like classroom management, teacher wellness, education technology, special education classes and more. Advancement Courses is flexible and lets you work at your own pace to create things to improve your classroom. That’s just $120 per graduate credit hour or $160 for 50 clock hours.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

And it’s not all about demographics—there’s a new push toward making classrooms inviting to a diversity of political viewpoints. He then found Heterodox Academy, which he saw as a resource on whether he was inadvertently drowning out or ignoring certain points of view in his classroom. There’s a growing call for diversity on campus.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Although an improvement from previous years, this still pales in comparison with the emphasis on so-called core subjects like math and reading. But what I heard most consistently, and most loudly, is the desperate need for more educators qualified to teach computer science. In 2015, there were fewer than 100 programs in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

secretary of education who is co-chair of This is Planet Ed, an initiative of the Aspen Institute that works on climate solutions through the education sector. Miguel Cardona, the secretary of education under President Biden, promised “a new day” for Puerto Rico. Department of Education report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business. DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." Layoffs at General Assembly (7% of staff). Why, schools of course.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

So she turned to the university’s Center for Online Learning and Teaching Technology, which provides workshops and support for faculty teaching online courses. The number of students with commuter visas pales in comparison to the campus’ population of about 27,500. But Merla-Watson thinks 35 might be shy of the reality. "On

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Earlier this year, state lawmakers proposed a repeal, eliciting more than 1,000 letters to the House Education Committee. Kati Preston, Holocaust survivor who lobbied for New Hampshire’s Holocaust education law Preston speaks frankly about the politicization of history instruction. It’s the sheep that allowed Hitler to rise.”

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