A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

This recognition has been validated by state-by-state data comparisons. However, just like any other profession the amount of bad educators pales in comparison to those who go above and beyond to help kids learn. Historically NJ is typically number one or two. Years later many states have backed away from PARCC.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The figure comes from 900 universities and colleges that provide employment data for about 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty. That information is based on a survey distributed to adjuncts who are AFT members and, through social media, to adjuncts who are not members of the union; 1,043 responded.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Unfortunately, the ushering in of the social media age has also ushered in an age centered on quickly diffusing [personal] information. Screaming headlines would make it appear that our generation is engaging in sexual acts at obscene rates in comparison to our parents’ generation. How about sexual activity?

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MindShift

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Clutched in the hand of nearly every teen is a smartphone, buzzing and beeping and blinking with social media notifications. But is social media and the omnipresence of digital interactions really the cause of all this anxiety? A Link Between Social Media and Mental Health Concerns.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. To address absenteeism, school administrators have turned to outside groups to help implement data-informed intervention and outreach strategies. percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

Social media lit up praising the litany of services the school will offer to students and families alike: among them, free uniforms, bicycles and helmets, transportation, breakfast, lunch and snacks—and not to mention guaranteed tuition to the University of Akron to every student who graduates.

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MindShift

AUGUST 27, 2019

The data sets she works with — essentially large surveys — don’t allow for that. “So we have to go on the data that we have — which is obviously not going to be a true experiment — but it adds up to a lot of evidence pointing toward technology possibly playing a role in this increase in mental health issues.”

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Model and promote management of personal data and digital identity and protect student data privacy. ISTE Standards for Educators 2017) Part of using technology in the classroom is both modeling and creating opportunities for ourselves and our students to be a productive part of the digital landscape. Media fluency.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Image and data credits are listed at the bottom of this post. Let me make sure I’m clear here – I’m interested in the “push,” in the stories we tell about machines more so than the technology underpinning the machines themselves. You can find the slides here. ” These machines are all kin, of course.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Grammarly is a proofreading software tool that uses artificial intelligence technology to detect grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, sentence structure, and word choice mistakes. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media posts people write for family, friends, or business. Both a Free and Paid tier of products. Word Count.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

which introduced high school youth from the South Side of Chicago to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, digital media literacies, and the basics of serious game design. Working with these new parameters, we undertook an ethnography of the non-gamified 2016 orientation in order to establish a comparison.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 12, 2012

Overall, educators need to understand some basics about technology and that it is not a be-all-end-all solution to everything in a classroom. Technology can help teachers differentiate and provide new experiences for their students. Technology can also help students better understand a concept and provide extra help for them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Teachers can easily manage esports teams by focusing on managing students rather than being experts in the games or technology. Equipment for esports can often be repurposed from existing technology used in other classes. We see our kids do TikTok dances on their phones and posts from social media on their phones.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 22, 2013

Just prior to the 2012 election, YPP released results of a national survey that questioned 3,000 young people, ages 15-25 on how they use the Internet, social media and engage in politics.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

We wanted to create a digital experience for kids that allows them to create things together, but isn’t saturated with the usual social-media-like engagement tools. Not only have they eschewed a social media setting for their digital playground, they’ve also steered clear of “gamifying” the experience.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For instance, you identify the weaknesses and strengths of the author's arguments and state how the work stands in comparison to other cited works. Simply select your source from the list, search or enter data manually. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 26, 2018

Two-thirds of Americans (67%) get at least some news on social media. . Social media and direct visits to news organizations’ websites are the most common pathways to online news. So, let’s work with the data to improve access, quality, and literacy. Technology. But, how did I find these resources?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C. The COVID-19 pandemic had weakened the city’s social immune system, undermining institutions like schools that help to prevent the spread of contagions like crime and unemployment. Data and anecdotes suggest that the pandemic has only made those trends worse.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2023

White , an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, recently published data for the current school year on gender gaps in the American superintendency. Once you start getting into [the data], it just becomes so evident how male-dominated the field is. Indeed, it seems that way because … it sort of is that way.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2015

These reflections and social media tips will help bloggers covering ISTE. Richard Byrne , author of Free Technology for Teachers, wrote the top clicked post. The Institute of the Future Think Tank says it well: “We each have only one pair of eyes and ears, and more importantly, one mind to deal with the data.”

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 23, 2019

I only recently discovered that Canva , one of our favorite design tools, extends its design magic to support graphing and data visualization. . I cannot tell you how often I wished for a template to create pie, bars, fishbone, concept maps, comparison charts for my instruction, presentations, infographics, and reports.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

It’s a great example of finding a routine need many teachers have (providing students with relevant readings) and then using the affordances of technology (dynamic reading levels and daily publishing) to make things easier and materially better for teachers. This isn’t just an issue of compliance.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In their excellent resource No More Independent Reading Without Support (Heinemann, 2013), Debbie Miller and Barbara Moss provide a helpful comparison: Silent Reading. One of my favorite educational technologies is Kidblog. This social media site is for book lovers. The fact is, these two practices are very different.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

There were questions I wanted to ask, or a research area that I was told I would never get published, even if the data were to support a particular conclusion.” If you look at some of the recent Pew data , there's this incredibly distrust of the public of higher ed, and it feeds into this narrative that professors are indoctrinating students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

billion for student housing projects, a small but growing slice of the nearly $138 billion raised for all kinds of real estate, according to the data firm Preqin. Leasing specialist Olivia West demonstrates security technology that will be available to tenants in the Aspire at Discovery Park private student apartments near Purdue University.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

How social media and search engine algorithms shape our thinking about what’s true. And it’s also private, because when you do it on someone’s social media profile, there’s an audience, and that changes the interaction. How social media and search engine algorithms shape our thinking about what’s true.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This is part two of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” I confess: most of my social media networks are focused on education. Edsurge, which described her as a “ mainstream outsider ,” reassured its readers that DeVos “ believes that technology has a role to play in the classroom.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. A 30-minute search.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).

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