The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s a little too early to know if VR lessons like this one will improve lagging test scores, but Anurupa Ganguly, founder and CEO of Prisms, the company behind the platform, is convinced it will. Sweden is instead embracing printed textbooks, teacher expertise, handwriting practice and quiet time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Kathy Neumann’s third graders at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, struggled to understand fractions during this pandemic-disrupted school year. With remote learning, they couldn’t do their usual classroom activity of cutting strips of construction paper into halves, quarters and thirds.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA). It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. At Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2019

One of Brown’s current projects is helping groups of elementary and middle schools in Colorado and New Jersey reconsider their school days. Importantly, focusing on schedules stays away from the baggage certain fads like personalized learning have acquired. Related: OPINION: How 45-minute class periods stall learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That changed when his school district in Fairfield County, South Carolina, switched to online learning during the pandemic. Online, he has no problem asking the teacher a question,” said Woodward. Henry McMaster pushed hard to return all schools to in-person learning this fall, saying remote learning was “not as good.”

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2021

Further, 1:1 learning environments (where each student has access to a personal electronic device) are tied to positive outcomes like increased student engagement , more personalized learning experiences, and improved communication between students and teachers. One such company is XP-Pen and their series of tablets.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

K-12 schools and districts are turning to digital textbooks for in-person, hybrid and remote learning. While textbook publishing companies now offer digital versions, you can also find open textbook options online. Teachers may also customize digital textbooks to create a personalized learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

In addition, teachers are encouraged to use software company Turnitin’s AI detector to check for plagiarism. For now, he said he doesn’t think generative AI tools will have an immediate impact in early elementary classrooms, either as an instructional tool or a cheating risk (“You can’t fake knowing your ABCs,” he said).

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 24, 2020

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Eric Wang, vice president of AI at Turnitin, a plagiarism detection software company used by many higher education institutions, said AI is already subtly steering what we do everyday, whether it’s our Netflix viewing habits or our auto-completed sentences in Gmail.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Math is cumulative,” Joel Rose, the chief executive officer of New Classrooms, a nonprofit company that sells math software to schools, once told me. You just can’t learn linear equations if you don’t know how to multiply.”. The company borrowed a page from corporate America.

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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.”.

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techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

.) – for implementing full-time, statewide virtual school opportunities to provide students with rigorous online courses in a learning model that meets their individual needs. The company provides innovative solutions for pre-K through 12th grade that empower districts to implement successful online and blended learning programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This team of educators was part of the Fuse RI initiative , a fellowship program that teaches educators, administrators and local education agencies in the state how to integrate blended and personalized learning and technology practices into classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. This story also appeared in The Nevada Independent.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues. education system. temperature, lighting).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Jersey City Public Schools, which only opened for in-person learning at the end of April, long after many other districts, seemed unsafe for learning even before the pandemic. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, virtual learning has worked for her son, who has autism and ADHD. “My

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

When Louisiana schools shut down due to Covid-19 in mid-March, Calcasieu Parish teachers scrambled to transition to online learning. Everybody sort of struggled through trying to develop a combination of paper packets and online instruction,” said Bruchhaus, the superintendent. Students faced barriers to virtual learning.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

The participants: Large district: Dr. Daryl Diamond, Director of Innovative Learning, Broward County Public Schools, FL. Robert Furman, Principal of South Park Elementary Center, South Park Township, PA. If companies make smartphones that a two-year old can use, why are developers making edtech so complicated? and Mark C.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

And the disparity is even greater for students of color, according to a study by McKinsey & Company published in December 2020. The pandemic has been a bigger challenge for many parents of children with disabilities.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).

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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

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. 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. MESA, Ariz.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Companies are encouraged to nominate the schools and districts using their products and services–this offers a chance to share success stories and impart valuable lessons learned with the education community. Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ultimately, from Upchurch and the technology team to leadership districtwide, AISD knows how important technology is in today’s learning environment and wants every student to have the same opportunity to be successful. Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation. The company was sold to Jostens, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While the term has become the latest buzzword in education circles, what it means for teaching and learning largely remains to be seen. Experts say much of what we see marketed as the metaverse from education technology companies isn’t actually the metaverse. That may be because there’s no clear consensus on what the term means.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

With HMH’s blended curriculum and data tools, teachers in Jones County were able to streamline instruction and personalize learning for each student, without having to purchase extra materials or sign in on multiple platforms. Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? What is personalized learning?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Most states have something on the books to encourage competency-based options, but only about a half-dozen have loosened seat-time dictates enough to dispense with grade levels, according to Matt Williams, chief operating officer and vice president of policy and advocacy for the personalized-learning nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company.

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