Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

When teachers rely on tools from Google and Facebook just to keep up with students, it’s a “ race to the bottom ,” says Tristan Harris, who heads the Center for Humane Technology. More Popular Than Gmail, Facebook and Instagram: The Education App That Hit #1 on the iOS Chart. What’s Next for Pearson? Without a University Involved.).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

How do you know whether an edtech product is effective in delivering its intended outcomes? Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 23, 2016

If you are in Denver, I’d love the chance to meet you face-to-face and if not we can still enjoy each other’s company virtually. Please dm me for an invite on Twitter @ShellTerrell or message me on Facebook. This week I am attending the Badge Summit and ISTE convention in Denver, Colorado. Register free here.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2018

We’ve also added new events, suggested by readers, such as this year’s DELTA summit on experiential learning at Dartmouth College or the Emerging Learning Design conference at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Find out below how to add your favorite event to the list.) What gives?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

In our first installment of this podcast series last month, I shared the scene from a digital media course where I saw students watching sports highlights on YouTube during a lecture, shopping for beds on Facebook marketplace and playing video games on their iPhones as the professor did his thing on stage. So they wanted us to be gracious.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 13, 2016

The post How to Boost Your Teacher Brand appeared first on Shake Up Learning. It’s also the best way to promote your personal and professional brand. Your brand is what you represent, the content that you share, your audience, your Personal Learning Network (PLN), and your teaching philosophy. Now is the time.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

Required reading: Data breach disclosure 101: How to succeed after you’ve failed via Troy Hunt.). The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

“Our schools should give all students the opportunity to understand how this technology works, to learn how to be creators, coders, and makers—not just consumers,” they say. companies have practical reasons for encouraging robust computer programming courses in schools. District Teaches Coding to K-8 Students.

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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 Web20Classroom

JULY 28, 2010

Last weekend I finished up a week of speaking and leading professional development by attending NTCamp in Philadelphia.The purpose was to try and give new teachers a jump start on their year by talking about issues that they might face in their first years and to give them ideas on how to make it and stay in the profession.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

Learning outside your primary area of study can help you make connections that may be useful when trying to help your own students see relevance beyond the classroom. The nice thing about summer learning is choice. Personalized Learning Through Gaming. Interested in graduate credit or clock hours? Flippin g the Classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

dreambox learning. What does the future look like when the promise of personalized learning is realized? Scratch your way to great prizes with Learning Bird at ISTE. Learning Bird is an edtech company that gives great teachers a platform to make a difference to students all over the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2019

The idea isn’t new — there was a movement in the late 1960s to build “open classrooms” — but it’s made a comeback recently out of a desire to create a collaboration-minded workforce that will thrive in the open office spaces being built by companies such as Google and Facebook. Educators today have issued similar warnings.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

In some schools, digital tools are driving new models of teaching and learning, ones where technology helps teachers personalize learning so each student can learn at his or her own pace—whether a grade level behind or a grade level ahead of classmates.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

“They don’t know what they want a lot of times,” said Alan Millar, executive director of PTECH Idaho, so the mentoring provides “a caring adult to talk about goals, reaffirm them, and make concrete steps how to get there.”. PTECH Idaho’s mentoring program makes use of InsideTrack , a company that assists with personalized mentoring.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

In a panel discussion moderated by Mark Phillips (CEO at HireEducation), Graham Forman (Founder of Ednovate) and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge (Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital) will talk about the challenges of obtaining funding, and how to overcome those obstacles to get your business started. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. EdSurge 9:30 a.m.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2022

Episode 789 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast Graphic Design for Educators Sadie Lewis - Director of Instructional Design + Personalized Learning. How Typography Can help us read better Canva Canva Design School Adobe Fonts Sadie’s Design EDU Resources Non-Designers Design Book [link] Sadie’s Design Guide – bit.ly/sadiedesignguide.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Meanwhile, the schools that shared their ideas focused on student-centered learning and models that honor the differences in students and “think about personalized learning beyond just technology.” The company, which is based in Oakland, counts LinkedIn and PathSource among its competitors.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

If you didn''t participate last year, this US Department of Education-sponsored month-long series of events focuses on the significant ways that online collaborative learning is playing in professional development. From Twitter to Facebook and Pinterest to Vine (hey--what about Classroom 2.0 ?!),

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Via The New York Times : “ Karlie Kloss Teaches Teenage Girls How to Code.” “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? Because technology imperialism.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

Blog: blog.learnzillion.com Twitter: @LearnZillion Facebook: facebook.com/LearnZillion. That prompted my partner and me to create LearnZillion and become the first curriculum-as-a-service company. How does it work? Districts are also figuring out how to localize curriculum. Eric Westendorf, LearnZillion CEO. teachers—1.4

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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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

He’s put $100 million of his own money into his company Kernel (which I guess means we’re supposed to believe it’s a real, viable thing) with the promise of developing computer chip implants that will bolster human intelligence. ” “ We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 1, 2011

Brenda Anderson will discuss how Montgomery County Public Schools, MD empowered the library media specialists to build personal learning networks with technology to explore the new Maryland school library media standards. In this session, we’ll discuss how to take your sales organization to the 21st century.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

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Doug Levin

JULY 31, 2017

." Tagged on: July 30, 2017 Tristan Harris: The Manipulative Tricks that Tech Companies Use to Capture Your Attention | TED → A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says design thinker Tristan Harris. Vulnerabilities happen.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I treated my classroom like a business by investing in long-term purchases, I made an investment in my company.”. Learning Innovation Leader is often someone who started as a teacher or designer and is now ready to assume a leadership role managing or directing teams, projects and/or organizations involved in educational innovation.

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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. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. MESA, Ariz.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

With the rapid spread of COVID-19, educators across the country and around the world have been tasked with shifting to emergency remote teaching—a move from in-person to remote classes made necessary by pressing circumstances. Butash is right in pointing out the risks involved in this quick shift to using digital technologies.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

High school teachers can access Codecademy’s interactive curriculums for free, empowering their students to learn how to code in a fun and engaging way online. ” “Whether students are in the physical classroom or not, it’s important they have the tools and resources to continue learning. About Clever.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

You can only do that if you know how to use technology, especially really fabulous software, which teachers who use technology know how to find. Listen to Jennifer Casa-Todd talking about how to help kids become social media leaders. Kecia: Fourth is 24-7 learning and teaching. Vicki: And this is so important!

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Adults tend to underestimate the younger generation, thinking that we don’t know what we’re doing, but I for one have used Facebook ads and Google AdWords to promote SSU. Knowing how to utilize this technology has allowed me to level the playing field.” It’s incredibly complicated,” Vance says, “and it shouldn’t be.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Google is working with a number of partners, including WNET, PBS, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the American Museum of Natural History, the Planetary Society, David Attenborough with production company Alchemy VR and many of the Google Cultural Institute museum partners to create custom educational content that spans the universe.”. Google Keep.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. Via Edsurge : “ Connecticut School District Suspends Use of Summit Learning Platform.” ” “Personalized learning,” I believe Zuck calls this.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The book I’m writing is about the pre-history of computers in education, if you will, as I am keen to help people understand how many of the beliefs and practices associated today’s education technologies predate the latest gadgetry. Skinner at Harvard University. “For your own good,” the engineers try to reassure us.

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