Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Previous Writing Experience : Students use their prior experience with writing essays, reports, and narratives to tackle more advanced writing assignments, understanding structure, thesis development, and argumentation.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Wess Wheeler (L), an independent learning opportunity student at Randolph Union High School, and Miles Hooper, manager and co-owner of Ayers Brook Goat Dairy farm, among the goats. Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. Mississippi Learning. Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. RANDOLPH, Vt.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Your stories.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Bailey Fraser, 15 (left), and her stepsister Leah Kimball, 15, volunteer with Edible Bethel during their service learning block. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

She and her colleagues have had to intercede in evictions, deliver supplies and report children in dire circumstances to child protective services since the start of the pandemic. Other districts around the country have reported similarly high numbers of missing students. Credit: Bonnie Arbittier, San Antonio Report.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

These classes also open the door to self-paced personalized learning. Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). Intelligent learning platform benefits for K-12 schools. Lower dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

Sixteen-year-olds share classrooms with 20-somethings, students earn diplomas at their own pace and if anyone has a problem with a peer, they’re encouraged to talk about it like adults. The Barr Foundation is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). Burgos, too, has relied on staff support for help outside of the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report. Over the past decade, school officials in Fulton County, Georgia’s fourth-largest school district, have experimented with so-called personalized learning , tried integrating English language learners into mainstream classes, and introduced high school-level courses in middle school.

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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. PedsAcademy offers kids rare opportunities for engaging, high-tech learning while they’re at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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Robotics Report Personalized Learning Study 84

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

“Among students receiving special education services, 34 percent had specific learning disabilities.”. percent of persons with a disability were employed compared to 65.7 Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Much of what we do in the workforce can be learned by doing, with guidance from a mentor. In 2017, 18.7

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Photo: Brenda Iasevoli for The Hechinger Report. You can hear a pin drop in the classroom when the kids are dissecting,” said Courtney Cayer, a science teacher at Elm City and the founder of the school’s “mini-med-school” program. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. HATHORNE, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. This idea that if I work hard, I can get better — that’s really clear in an arts classroom,” Abramoski said. “If Public displays of student learning are also natural in arts classrooms. But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”. And it opened Robins’ eyes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. An afternoon away from the classroom in virtual learning is “almost like a restoration practice, giving them an opportunity to cool down or cool off,” Knight said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Emerging at the height of the pandemic, pods (or “hubs” as they are sometimes called) were organized primarily by middle-class, college-educated parents and community groups to provide safe, supportive spaces for virtual learning. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

And while that makes her sad, it’s not what bothers her most after 34 years in the classroom. “My They told me they are often frustrated, longing for classroom interaction and eye-contact. If you don’t have a relationship with them, they won’t learn,” said Glick, who has taught many of her students for both seventh and eighth grade.

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 140

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. Hundley describes him as a positive person, obsessed with food and something of a jokester, though more reserved around people he doesn’t know well. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. “It

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Jaden Huynh Michael Liao Mana Setayesh Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report. The teenager left the classroom feeling her teacher was “super against” her plans. Credit: Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report. It threw a huge fork into my plans.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Vaux’s redesign stresses creating close relationships with parents and community members and ways for student learning to continue beyond the classroom walls. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. Hundley describes him as a positive person, obsessed with food and something of a jokester, though more reserved around people he doesn’t know well. Middletown, N.Y.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Be a Presenter at Reinventing the Classroom. We want YOU to present at the Reinventing the Classroom conference on May 1st - all about the impact of ed tech on the classroom experience, and kicking off our self-proclaimed May as "Ed Tech Month." The call for volunteers is now open - please join the group and sign up here.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. The agency is also trying to reduce some of the burdens on small districts by easing reporting requirements when possible, said LePlatt. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Training Report Policies 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report It was just the latest interruption in schooling that’s been characterized by near constant disruption. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report The Puerto Rican school district, the sixth largest in the U.S., Department of Education report. Nothing could be salvaged.

Elementary 106

Elementary Report Dropout System 106

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. ” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? “ Robots in the classroom ? Dunn, president of Southern Illinois University.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” “The White House on Monday announced that it would nominate Mitchell “Mick” Zais as deputy secretary of education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning?

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

” Via The Washington Post : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos asked whether leakers could be prosecuted , internal report shows.” ” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” More from Edsurge.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. She was a high school junior when she learned she was pregnant, and didn’t receive the support she needed from school officials to continue. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. All are illegal, yet commonplace.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 135

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

DeVos reported a new investment of between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Michigan-based Neurocore , according to a financial disclosure form that was certified by government ethics officials on Wednesday.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. “I Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”.

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