eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2019

Because this is my 13th FETC, I confidently walked into the conference center as a tour guide for an FETC first timer. The new and improved conference registration location is an upgrade from its previous place in the corner of the Expo floor. Not surprising is the continued focus on STEAM, STEM, coding, and robotics.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2020

Topics ran the gamut from the latest tech tools and personalized learning strategies to funding, supporting, and sustaining district technology initiatives. More than 20,000 attendees from around the world experienced unlimited opportunities to network, learn effective teaching strategies, share resources, and be inspired.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Through our direct interactions with educators and school leaders around the country working to implement effective personalized learning models in their schools and districts, we find that technology’s role in this arena is yet to be clearly defined on a broad scale. So, what role(s) should technology play in education?

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MindShift

OCTOBER 4, 2015

There are a lot of folks on the vendor floor at national conferences who will sell you products that supposedly personalize learning, and much of the buzz around something like Khan Academy is that it personalizes the learning for kids. That’s the model of personalization we want to see schools move toward.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

We heard about a few promising ideas at a conference I attended last week on artificial intelligence hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University. It enables children to use artificial intelligence to train and build robots. Druga talked about how kids first assumed the robots were super brainy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education. Throughout the conference sessions, there were no shortages of ideas on how to address those issues.

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techlearning

JUNE 11, 2018

One of my biggest takeaways from the FETC conference in January was seeing the Root robot live. Basically, Root is everything I was looking for in a coding robot, and I could not wait to try it out. What you want to know is my first impressions of the robot, right? Well, let's say its good, REALLY GOOD.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2021

In early 2016, Osmo began our division by forming a sales team, a conference strategy, plus a Classroom Kit for schools, which really took off. The division now has 15 sales and consulting executives who work under Richards, offers nine different learning system bundles , and works with thousands of school districts. “Our

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

Instead of nurturing these interests in our individual classrooms, we organized a student-powered conference where middle schoolers could showcase what they were really interested in learning about with a wider audience. We ended our morning back at school reflecting over a pizza lunch.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This annual conference mainly took place at Science Leadership Academy (SLA) High School at Center City. I first heard about SLA/EduCon when reading Reinventing Project-Based Learning last fall, and then read about SLA again a few months later as one of four schools highlighted in Running with Robots.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What followed was an amazing example of student motivation, creativity, resourcefulness and personalized learning at its best. Personalized learning can muddy the waters as students (and their teachers) navigate through uncharted territory. As I began considering the challenges, I realized there were quite a few of them.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2019

Coming soon: Naughty Meals DAZED AND CONFUSED: No idea what personalized learning is? Join us today for the first annual CONFUSION conference featuring vague, stab-in-the-dark definitions and more questions than answers. But some administrators say the tool feels impersonal and, well, robotic. Neither do we!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 13, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update May 13th Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. Read more at www.PowerUpWhatWorks.org.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Childress urged conference goers to “resist saying that we shouldn’t try things that aren’t proven,” even as she added that innovators should “resist saying that the systems are too broken.” For us, it’s really about enabling learning.” Can we build common ground without tough conversations? Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Few technologists have championed the role of big data, personalized learning and many other education buzzwords as vociferously and for as long as Jose Ferreira. Ferreira’s fiery assertions about Knewton’s adaptive learning capabilities also attracted plenty of detractors. So it comes as a surprise that the founder and CEO of.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

Every two weeks I would conference with each student individually to learn about how their research was progressing. Lenny, an Intel semi-finalist who launched rockets in a park and built a robot in his bedroom, is a technical staff member at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory where he provides analysis to the U.S.

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techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

– Lexia Learning today announced that its online literacy program Lexia PowerUp Literacy (PowerUp) received Tech & Learning’s 2018 ISTE Best of Show award. The awards were presented at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) annual conference in Chicago. For more information, visit.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

CLASSCRAFT ENGAGEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND QUESTS MARKETPLACE FOR PERSONALIZED LEARNING ( www.classcraft.com/?utm_source=techlearning.com&utm_medium=referral New Flipgrid updates will launch and be livestreamed from Minneapolis on August 1 at Flipgrid’s annual educator conference, #FlipgridLIVE.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Inside the Futures suite, offices serve as classrooms and conference rooms host group study sessions around a glossy wood table. The open plan area in the center is a flexible learning space where kids can work independently or socialize at a school that can otherwise be pretty isolating.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. The products below were selected by an anonymous panel of educator judges, who scoured the exhibit hall floor during the conference in Chicago. Judges appreciated its innovation and affordability.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2015

All he wants to do is work with Mr. B, the teacher in the robotics lab.”. and a person at school whom he wanted to be with. The contact wouldn’t have to be earned, because kids shouldn’t have to earn something that they really need; Garrett needed time with Mr. B and robotics as much as a typical student needed to be in social studies.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Her artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and assistive technology research has resulted in over 250 peer-reviewed publications and a number of commercialized products, including STEM Storiez , a set of AI-powered gamified e-books for early STEM education. She received her B.S. in engineering from Brown University, her M.S.E.E.

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MSEDTechie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Leveraging relationships with educators One of the most simple ways to begin to breakdown your classroom walls is to build a strong PLN, or Personal Learning Network. A personal learning network is made up of people/places you go to gain knowledge, share knowledge and collaborate with others of like minds and interests.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I delivered this talk today at the NMC Summer 2017 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thank you very much for inviting me to your conference. The robot, or rather a seemingly living automaton in “The Sandman,” veers towards “das unheimlich.” Why and where. There’s Olympia in E.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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iLearn Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

So then we thought that maybe we could pool our money and buy a Sphero robot to do random acts of kindness for others. Bodo Hoenen is our closing keynote at the 5Sigma Edu Conference in February. We were talking about what we were going to use our money for and realized that we don’t really have anything we really need.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

. – China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. English AI looks like all the other talking heads sitting at a news desk, but the English-speaking anchor isn’t a person.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. Let me be really clear, making is not simply 3D printing, Art Lino, Raspberry Pi, LEDs, robots, laser and vinyl cutters. ” Mitch Resnick in [link].

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

On the floor of the ISTE conference, it’s easy to meet educators and administrators from all over the country (and the world at large). From “blended learning” to digital worksheets, below are a collection of comments from ten educators about their biggest edtech pet peeves. Blanca Herrera: Here it is: personalized learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. Albuquerque students’ artwork and a poem about volcanoes, displayed at the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children conference.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. ” Personalized Learning and the Nudge. The World Economic Forum. ” “?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

At that moment, a top-down approach to create a “Campus of the Future” was devised by adopting smart signage within lecture halls, hallways, athletic facilities, and executive conference rooms to transform the entire campus. Magill uses knowledge of her students to find opportunities and outside grants to support the learning at the edges.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction. Tagged on: March 16, 2017 Shenzhen Capital Co-leads $29M Round In Chinese Robotics Firm Makeblock | China Money Network → "Recently, we are focusing on educational technology industry.

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