eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. What can we take from this when we return to our classrooms? education system.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 8, 2016

The Software and Information Industry Association, in a recent online post , said the campaign—which encourages states and districts to consider open options—wrongly suggests that open resources are invariably linked with districts’ shifts to adopting digital materials, whereas commercial materials are stuck in the print world.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

More than 6 million students in all 50 states use products offered by Curriculum Associates, which sells research-based print and online instructional materials, assessments, and data management tools, including its flagship tool, the adaptive assessment and instruction package, i-Ready. We’ve reinvested our money.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 24, 2017

I shared with you before how much I love Kiddom as an easy tool for managing standards-based grading , and there’s a couple of new updates that you definitely need to know about if you’re spending too much time creating resources for differentiated instruction. These actionable reports are gorgeous, clean, and easy to read.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. This curriculum design approach is used by teachers who work in traditional classrooms, but holds up just as well in the digital realm.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. For supporting 1:1 environments : By creating cross-device palettes or dashboards, librarians ensure apps, instructional materials and all digital assets are available at learners’ fingertips across devices.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

There is a growing need to report on student activity more holistically. From California to Connecticut , legislation is being written and revised to specifically tie attendance to learners’ documented interaction with instructional material. Enter interoperability. The importance of this access cannot be overstated.

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

“The beauty of UDL is that it addresses ‘learner variability’, which is the norm in our classrooms.”. Whether deployed in a classroom or online, UDL focuses on integrating flexible pathways to learning that can address learner variability. A key premise of UDL is that there is no “average learner.” Online Class Design.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Copyright protections are now bolstered by legislation like the United States’ Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits educators and others from circumventing copyright protection technology to engage in lawful uses of copyrighted material. Adopting OER is a completely different experience.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

.” “ Colorado Education Commissioner Rich Crandall announced his resignation Thursday just four-and-a-half months into the job, shocking the state’s education community and roiling the state Department of Education as it embarks on a number of critical initiatives,” Chalkbeat Colorado reports.

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