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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

Evans’ organization spends a lot of time thinking about how young people learn and interact with others. For more than 15 years, Project Tomorrow has run the popular survey effort called Speak Up , which polls hundreds of thousands of students and adults about learning trends and makes the local data available to individual districts.

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6 Ways Technology Can Reinvent Parent-Teacher Conferences

Edsurge

Use a Google Form to create a survey you can send to parents. Here are a couple of things to think about as you start your journey: Read EdSurge’s Step by Step Guide on Digital Learning Portfolios. Investigate some good web tools for building digital portfolios. Personalized Learning Through Gaming.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Could Google Draw be used for a collaborative visual thinking activity such as Chalk Talk, or Zoom breakout rooms be used for online critique and revision? Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection. Take a look at my last post on surveys for educators, students, and parents. CC- [link].

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4 Strategies to Engage Families in Tech Partnerships

edWeb.net

Consider using these strategies to jumpstart district/school and family collaboration: Gathering Data Collecting data on families’ assistive tech needs and wants—and identifying the learning goals they have for their children—frames their engagement. Technology can be a facilitator of such collaboration.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

Teachers have also expressed positive feedback using the technology, underscoring how it led to more collaborative learning experiences for students. In Florida, FLVS saw success through state testing results and surveys. Nominee: Cory Hocker , Golden Eagle Charter School Nominated by: Kajeet.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Duke University ran a widely read lecture capture survey.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Tom co-founded the first education venture fund, Learn Capital. Schools, Digital Learning Institute, Latinx Education Collaborative, and eduInnovation and Advisor for One Stone, Teton Science Schools and Whittle School + Studios. Tom is a board member for Education Board Partners, Director for 4.0 see you online!