The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. Reframing expectations.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 55

Educator Innovator

AUGUST 26, 2014

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere. View technology as a tool—don’t let it become the answer. .

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Common Core Poll Everywhere Survey Facebook 53

eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

Being a caring and competent user of technology is core to being a productive, proactive citizen…and we accomplish this with no tech staff. We have been doing individualized student data folders for as long. Let me explain: Wildwood IB World Magnet School is a top performing K-8 public magnet school.

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Technology Common Core Conference Assessment 161

eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Smarter Balanced offers optional interim assessments that are meant to provide educators with data about students’ academic strengths and weaknesses.

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Assessment Common Core Blended Learning Analysis 94

User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

As with all of my lessons, I strive to practice what I preach in my blog posts – being interdisciplinary; using technology to enhance their work; and making, creating, innovating, and inventing. Common Core State Standards – ELA. Standards Addressed. 21st Century Skills.

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Common Core Libraries Elementary Data 316

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2018

Welcome to the third and final post in this series focusing on teacher workload, and how technology can assist teachers with the three greatest time heavy activities. In my first post in the series we explored how redefining what your data is for and how best to capture it can save many hours of tedium and time wastage. Conclusion.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

His own school experiences have since fueled his drive to support data-driven personalized learning in an effort to make today’s schools engaging, fun and free of “the stress and angst” many students feel. to connect and share data, the open-source data standard gives educators a clearer picture of students and their learning needs.

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Data System Software Assessment 102

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Technology enables it to differentiate authentically for the diverse group of learners that walk across your threshold daily. Until the day of, the technology that is its foundation fails. But if fear of failure is a reason NOT to use technology, no one would ever cross that digital threshold. Everyone who previewed it is wowed.

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Technology Common Core Digital Citizenship System 150

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

So did worries that high schools are placing too much emphasis on calculus and not enough on practical skills like data analysis and statistics for an increasingly high-tech world.

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Survey Common Core STEM Education 136

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

A preponderance of jobs today’s kids will get when they join the working world will require technology — and with that, the critical thinking developed by math. is a comprehensive K-8 mathematics program developed to support the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and the NCTM Curriculum Focal Points.

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Khan Academy Common Core Pearson Digital Citizenship 154

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In it, students collected survey data in their neighborhoods on issues such as youth gangs or discrimination against immigrants, learned statistical methods to analyze that data, and presented their findings to their local community. Opportunities to teach data science at the high school level are also opening up.

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Education Data Course Common Core 199

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 13, 2018

More than half of women come to their IT role with an academic background in education and instruction , compared with a third of men, who come from a background in technology,” says Steve Langford, CoSN Board member and CIO of Beaverton School District in Oregon. IT Leaders Focus on Data-Driven Decisions.

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Broadband Survey E-rate BYOD 182

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Digital literacy is the ability to understand, use and interact with technology, media and digital resources in real-world situations. It is vital to prepare students in grades K-5 with skills to understand the need to be safe online, make responsible choices and be conscious of the impact of technology on them and their friends.

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Technology Digital Citizenship Common Core Data 40

eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Smarter Balanced offers optional interim assessments that are meant to provide educators with data about students’ academic strengths and weaknesses.

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Assessment Common Core Blended Learning Analysis 52

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It is the time of year where we analyze the data from the first two months of school, tweak instruction to meet student needs, and accelerate our efforts to help our students achieve as much growth as possible. It provides sentence starters and lessons are based on Common Core Standards.

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Elementary Resources EdTech Differentiated Instruction 135

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. Teaching in a Digital Age: How Educators Use Technology to Improve Student Learning. Educational Technology Support!

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Survey Differentiated Instruction Common Core Student Engagement 202

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

The connection between what a student enjoys and what she needs to learn is actionable data—something the educational world has plenty of thanks to the proliferation of both testing and technology. Data is a tool that can be as valuable as a teacher’s red pen, when used correctly. Technology can help.

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Data Edmentum How To Assessment 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research. A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey. Request a demo of Levered's System.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS. They vary in complexity, cost, and collection of data. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 251

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 114

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Specifically, data can identify which teachers or grade levels are seeing success in specific skills and where extra support may be needed. While it can be hard to share out the myriad of little things teachers do that are so effective, we do have a tool that can help—data. What’s working? What teachers are seeing the most success?

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Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base 85

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

It came out loud and clear that with technology, we needed to do better about supporting staff—not just talking about it in August, but supporting it with someone people know over time. There’s so much to do as a classroom teacher, and if your comfort level with technology isn’t there, you’re going to say ‘forget it,’” Epps says.

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Data Common Core Assessment Training 60

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 7, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach K-8 math skills that are tied to many national standards (like Common Core). It covers foundation skills like addition, subtraction, place value, and measurement and data, and is aligned with international math standards such as the US’s Common Core.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Game-Based Learning Android 157

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

A new survey finds teachers’ use of technology is driven by access to devices and positive learner outcomes. Aligning to the Common Core and ease of use came in third and fourth, respectively.

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Technology Classroom Common Core Survey 48

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2015

Tamberg Meeting Common Core objectives was just the beginning for the district’s technology improvements. By Melissa B.

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Common Core Meeting Technology Mobility 150

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Board of Education and the development of the Common Core have helped to level the playing field, but it is still painfully clear that zip code and race are two of the strongest determiners of student success. The technology should generate meaningful, actionable data that allows targeted improvement in instruction.

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Education Outcomes Common Core Guidelines 79

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

although we will no longer invest directly in new initiatives based on teacher evaluations and ratings, we will continue to gather data on the impact of these systems and encourage the use of these systems to improve instruction at the local level.” and use data to drive continuous improvement.” He later added: “.although

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

To help accomplish their vision – that every students get not just to but through college – Brooklyn Lab leverages Cortex, a digital learning platform where student data and work can be accessed by students, teachers, parents, and administrators alike. The MyWays Framework provides a data standard and inspiration for this work.

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Common Core Academic Standards Data Assessment 148

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JULY 19, 2016

Is it just me, or does GPA seem a little antiquated given the in-depth data we could potentially draw upon when evaluating students? Given that the Common Core is based on skills acquired, couldn’t evaluation mirror those standards? Tap Into Actionable Data.

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Common Core Exercises Analysis Data 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2015

Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. After launch, students can learn about a large range of real astronomical missions dating from the 1980s and the data they collected. 100,000 Stars is programmed by space enthusiasts at Google.

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Study Common Core Groups System 150

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2021

Sometimes that’s because parents suffered job losses or took on new work that required relocating to different school zones or districts (though experts are still analyzing data and waiting to see the extent of such trends). Put simply, the pandemic seems to be leading a large number of students to change schools.

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Mobility Common Core Policies Data 138

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are guidelines, culled from top education sites like Edutopia, Google Education, Educational Technology, and EdWeek that are valuable when evaluating any website: free or small fee. doesn’t collect personal information other than user credentials or data required to operate the app. positive parent reports.

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Common Core Gamification Digital Citizenship Guidelines 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

All learning activities are Common Core and Universal Design for Learning (UDL); any teacher in the US or abroad can experience the next ed-tech frontier of augmented reality in their classrooms. We know that teachers are often asked to promote technology use in the classroom to prepare students for the digital world around them.

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

All learning activities are Common Core and Universal Design for Learning (UDL); any teacher in the US or abroad can experience the next ed-tech frontier of augmented reality in their classrooms. We know that teachers are often asked to promote technology use in the classroom to prepare students for the digital world around them.

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UDL Common Core Smartphone Tablets 138

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Despite cultural and technological changes over the past several decades, one thing remained the same: the desks. As workforce demands shift , classrooms will need to facilitate critical thinking and problem-solving skills to prepare students for emerging careers in data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning , Brown said. “We

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 years.

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