Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

By highlighting examples of research-based product development, we aim to help all stakeholders use scientific and user research to improve student outcomes and better understand learners. The mathematical content, pedagogy, and scaffolding to the common core is also research-based, led by Dr. Theodore Chao.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

The professional development program is strongly aligned to CSTA programming standards and gives teachers opportunities to connect to Common Core Math, NGSS, and additional CSTA standards. Teachers receive a hands-on learning experience with guided practice. CoderZ is an innovative and engaging online learning environment.

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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 6, 2015

The Gaggle webcast also reminded attendees of the importance of creating a safe online learning environment for students when using Google Apps for Education. Topics discussed included removing obstacles, overcoming safety risks, ways to incorporate GAFE into your curriculum, ideas to help meet Common Core Standards and much more.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Often the tools available either meet some of the teachers’ needs or are prohibitively expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. Remember the pushback against Common Core standards, teacher effectiveness and tying teacher pay to student performance ?

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 26, 2016

For example, when someone posts on their blog, this published piece is sometimes the start of a conversation rather than finished work. The participatory nature of online learning helps ensure that those who post have at least some level of reliable rationale to support their positions. Forzani, E. Jenkins, H.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

Wednesday, April 2nd at 7pm Student-Centered Learning: Make the Shift! , The Common Core State Standards require students to think critically and be effective consumers and producers of information and media. In other words, they can’t just passively receive learning. Common Core Writing Prompts.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2012

by Letia Cooper It''s not just "Icing on the Cake" in Student Competitions by Katie Leach Join the Common Core Conversation by Kristina Holzweiss Just-in-time support using free online tools by Nicole Naditz Leveraging the Power of Social Media in the Classroom by Elaine Plybon Leveraging web videos to truly flip the classroom by Ari Bader-Natal Making (..)

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 26, 2016

For example, when someone posts on their blog, this published piece is sometimes the start of a conversation rather than finished work. The participatory nature of online learning helps ensure that those who post have at least some level of reliable rationale to support their positions. Forzani, E. Jenkins, H.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. But now he’s implementing a particularly intense approach to it, known as personalized learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Create Learning Targets demonstrating what students will be able to do. In the last post I provided the following standards and listed the nouns I thought might be important: Example Standards. Students will be able to collaborate on a presentation that provides what they have learned in their own words.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Saturday, April 12th at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - Featured Teacher Donna Roman , Donna Adams Román is a 5th grade teacher at Mill Creek School in Illinois, blogger, trainer, and presenter committed to providing rich learning opportunities for her learners and professional learning network. Three main resources will be covered.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

for example – it has faced considerable resistance from parents and teachers annoyed that the time-consuming, and sometimes confusing, change in classroom life has come from top-tier school administrators. The rise of online learning has accelerated it, and school technology providers have been fierce advocates.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform.

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Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

I saw students who are performing great and getting good grades in online learning as well as those students who used to get straight A’s, but now, are not getting technology”. The Common Core used to cover content standards only. He gave a really nice example of his students. “I

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Blended learning is a learning model that combines digital and face-to-face learning experiences. ” It is generally accepted that there are four models of blended learning: Rotation, Flex, A La Carte, and Enriched Virtual. Individualized Learning. Common Core) for individual students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

Fields said the app enabled regular contact with all parents — to discuss grades or attendance issues, for example — not just those who speak English. All 50 states have standards for their students to meet — most use, at least in part, the Common Core standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Rivers, Executive Director Online Communities of Practice - Are They Worth it? Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

’ A prime example of this work from 2014 are the texts, lesson plans, and pedagogy shared by educators on Twitter through #FergusonSyllabus.” From immigration to climate change, criminal justice to the Common Core, 2014 was a big year for public debate on big issues, local and global alike. ” Robert Bajor.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Advocates of online learning say programs like UPSTART, which is free for most families, may increase access to educational opportunities, which can be critical to ensuring the youngest learners don’t start behind and stay behind. But most kindergarten-readiness and online preschool software is offered by for-profit companies.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And yet it is naive and even misleading to pretend as though education technology exists separately from either of those – from the politics of DC, the politics of local school boards, or the politics of Silicon Valley, for example. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. Online Learning.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one-quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. “ Gates Foundation CEO Admits Underestimating Common-Core Challenges.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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