User Generated Education

MAY 23, 2016

Watch children, youth, and even adults when they are immersed in learning something of interest of them, and you will see often complete engagement and personal joy. When education is done “right”, learners often feel and experience the following in their both formal and informal educational environments: Joy.

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

Education is just different than it was pre-pandemic—many school leaders think it shouldn’t go back to the way it was before when schools used systems developed in the 20th century. Currently, AASA is looking for demonstration districts to implement their recommendations and transform education. In order to improve U.S.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement. Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. by TeachThought Staff. From a press release. COLUMBIA, Mo.

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Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This points to an even greater shift that’s being unfolded in the education industry. Based on upcoming notions about this shifting learning environments, colleges and universities need to focus on what the student needs, and provide a learning experience they need. Student management. Quality assurance.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As an educator, one of the most annoying things you can hear a student say is, “This is stupid,” or, “Why are we learning this?”. Students and educators need workable skills and solutions to address these issues. At Urban Assembly, we have used SEL as a way of both preventing and remediating dropouts.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If newer technologies can foster creativity in students then educators must seriously think about how they can incorporate them into their classroom teaching strategies. Creativity and the classroom. If this imbalance isn’t a cause for concern among educators, it should be. The Power of Creativity in the Classroom.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

While debate about professional development expands, educator hopes for feeling supported are shrinking. We can be hopeful that the connection between teacher training and student learning seems to be realized and now what’s needed is to find the right formula for improving this crucial component of school culture.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 20, 2011

I''m a big supporter of educational technology. This blog is primarily dedicated to sharing tips, tricks, and ideas on how to successfully use technology to increase student engagement, critical thinking, and mastery of learning objectives. To this end I have begun to read and follow several critics of educational technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom. Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

While credit recovery is one of the fastest-growing fields in online education, many programs are little more than diploma mills hastening students through the curriculum with insufficient support. The Charter School of San Diego is one of the schools using that program, yet its educational model has drawn praise.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. But these concerns exist as well for traditional brick-and-mortar schools, some of which have failed generations of students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Miles Hooper, the 26-year-old manager of Vermont’s largest goat farm, remembers what it’s like to be 16 and not want to be in a classroom. It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. Higher Education. Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. And, the goals for students engaged in this type of learning include self-esteem, empathy, motivation, and commitment.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Students have continued pursuing their studies despite prolonged lockdowns through platforms such as learning management systems (LMSs) and video conferencing software. Educators have also adjusted to teaching online, and this trend is here to stay even if most schools have reopened their doors. Lower dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Meanwhile, on state tests, the school tends to track with the district average, despite having higher percentages of ELLs and low-income students, who might be expected to fall short. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

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Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

Online-schooling shoved students out of familiar classroom settings straight into independent, self-directed learning. Students had to take full responsibility for their education, making choices about attendance, motivation, engagement and how to limit distractions. Jill Henry, M.A.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Gutierrez and Williams spent 90 minutes standing on the sidewalk outside the house in the Texas sun, at arm’s length from the students, showing them how to sign into Google Classroom on their school-provided Chromebooks and helping their father figure out passwords. The siblings logged on for the remainder of the school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Brown’s virtual students aren’t required to turn on their cameras, so he can’t tell whether they’re paying attention. Read the stories. Few speak up. I’m very worried.

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STEM Report Course Study 128

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. Teachers and administrators, instead, take a holistic approach to educating teenagers. Students spend every afternoon taking two arts electives, which can include band, visual arts, theater or technology. Student musicians perform for the community throughout the year.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. And, I’ll share an intuitive 8 step approach you can use to tackle big problems like student engagement or work completion.

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MindShift

JULY 8, 2015

This is the question that Boston teacher Neema Avashia asked herself and a small group of educators after she began teaching eighth-grade civics in an urban middle school. Ideally, teachers take time out of classroom instruction to talk to students about the transition to high school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As teachers and students, parents and principals, settle into this strange new school year, they say they are just beginning to understand the effects of last year’s disruptions. Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country as they manage school districts, lead classrooms, parent students and attend school.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The majority of K-12 students in the U.S. now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. Between 30 and 40 percent of students enter kindergarten not ready for school. Between 30 and 40 percent of students enter kindergarten not ready for school.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The majority of K-12 students in the U.S. now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. Between 30 and 40 percent of students enter kindergarten not ready for school. Between 30 and 40 percent of students enter kindergarten not ready for school.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

Wherever classrooms are open, there will likely be some form of social distancing and other hygiene measures in place that challenge traditional teaching and learning. American education has long been full of innovators practicing alternatives to the mainstream. Future outbreaks will make for unpredictable waves of closures.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Advocates for community colleges defend them as the underdogs of America’s higher education system, left to serve the students who need the most support but without the money required to provide it.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

The Oklahoma Department of Education is moving to shut down a virtual charter school, ABLE Charter, for the first time ever, according to Oklahoma Watch. He also pointed out that ABLE is a nonprofit school attempting to serve homeless students, unlike many other virtual charter schools run by for-profit companies.

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