eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD). Dr. Dana T.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. Now it is selling all the course content developed for those free courses to colleges that want to use the materials in their own campus programs. At least a few colleges had already purchased those licensing plans.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 14, 2018

One of the best definitions I’ve heard of trauma comes from researchers Rice and Groves (2005): trauma is an exceptional experience in which powerful and dangerous events overwhelm a person’s capacity to cope. Teachers can experience a sort of secondary PTSD from dealing with students’ responses to trauma all day.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

Across China, primary and secondary schools are announcing dates for the long-awaited re-opening of classroom doors. A law major at the Macau University of Science and Technology, Jiang Dong said most of her courses have been live-streamed via Zoom. Obviously, the library and laboratories are not available as well.”

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

On campuses, it’s happening in the Office of the President, where grand vision’s find their footing, and in the office of an instructional designer, who may be helping a faculty member create their first course integrating VR content. The format of the event is worth reflecting on.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0 These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, and home learning worlds. Visit ozelive.com for more information, and use #OZeLive to share your excitement about this event!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 - 27, 2019. During this week (and beyond), experienced global educators and other professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation. A current listing of events you can join is below.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

There’s a misconception that there’s such a thing as ‘self-driving car technology,’” says Sudha Jamthe, who designed and teaches the first autonomous vehicles business course for Stanford University’s Continuing Studies program. Especially important: linear algebra and calculus. But even better, says Dolan: C++.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? and world history events. You can now find out.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

We can retell events in our words; we can change perspectives, we can invent and create. History students can retell a historical event. I think back to the days when we had to do all of our research in the library with index cards and the good old’ Dewey Decimal System. We all have stories to tell in the classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. PLATFORM: The mini-conference platform is Zoom.

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esri

JUNE 29, 2017

We also believe that GIS needs to be included in every person’s formal education from primary to university level and offered in informal settings such as libraries, museums, and in after-school programs. Unlike events that focus on “learning how to do more with GIS,” the T3G institutes focus on “ helping other educators use GIS effectively.”

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Of course, media literacy is always evolving as technology and culture shift, and there's no shortage of smart frameworks that each define it slightly differently. Jump down to a section Media Literacy Courses and Curricula. You'll need to pay for each course, but once you do it'll be in your library forever.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2020

This year’s high school seniors have lost out on prom, graduations and other highly anticipated events. Liz Willen is editor-in-chief of The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news organization that covers K-12 and post-secondary education. Will they have to pay the same amount of tuition to take online courses?

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Normally, many rural districts work with local libraries and businesses to provide students with WiFi hotspots. Glenn encourages all students to have a voice, not only in building a school culture, but also in designing student-led courses. Ann earned her bachelors, masters, and Ed.S.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 30, 2018

The technology needs to work, of course, but is it being used and delivered powerfully and in the best way possible? His participation in a Learning Counsel event led to district recognition for VPS’s systemic leadership. In addition to blogs, he has also written for School Administrator , eSchool News , and School Library Journal.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 28, 2016

It was an exciting event, proof of the pedagogical power of 3d printing, and a heartening sign of the power of schools. The contest invited teams of secondary school students to research historical architecture, then reproduce key buildings by printing them. Organizer Peter Drescher explained the event’s rules and schedule.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The event is free for all educators—sign up here! Initiative 2: Reconsidering Internet Filtering — Filtering policies had originally been set up to protect students, but they often frustrated secondary educators and students alike. Instructional areas such as libraries and classroom got hot spots.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. PLATFORM: The mini-conference platform is Zoom.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 3, 2018

This is an annual event, whereby middle and high school students create 3d models of historical buildings. (I’ve Let me explain the event, then draw some conclusions and hypotheses. Buildings included libraries, post offices, hotels, prisons, churches, schools, and homes. I’ve done this once before, in 2016 ).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Often times writing becomes an event,” West-Smith says. Revision Assistant's Secondary Education Prompt Library —middle and high school writing prompts organized by grade level. And, of course, the notion that good writers are taught rather than born should be empowering for teachers. Don’t let writing get scary.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. link] [link]'

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. We currently have 10 keynotes and 130 regular sessions scheduled over the course of three days. The ninth annual Global Education Conference starts this coming Monday! LOTS of information below! Mowen, MS Ed.,

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Of course, you would love students to master everything you teach them. If there is a special activity or event you want to do, mark it in the calendar as a placeholder. See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures. That is not realistic.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As with all of the other sessions in the Summit (300 in total for this two-month event!), In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. See you "online!"

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Of course, you would love students to master everything you teach them. If there is a special activity or event you want to do, mark it in the calendar as a placeholder. See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures. That is not realistic.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Of course, you would love students to master everything you teach them. If there is a special activity or event you want to do, mark it in the calendar as a placeholder. See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures. That is not realistic.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

events , the real party takes place in the volunteer moderator lounge, where a devoted, energetic, and highly beloved group of volunteer moderators keeps the conference running and humming. Spreading the word : this a free event, so be sure to tell others! Volunteering : as with our other conference 2.0 See you online!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2014

The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0 These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others to rethink and reinvent education. New Events Calendars. Please email Amy at admin@web20labs.com if we have missed some events we should know about. New Partners.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The GEC features thought leaders from the world of education and beyond, is completely free to attend, and all events take place online in webinar format. Help us spread the word about this unique and free professional development event, and we will list your organization’s information on our web site.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The district also holds several events inviting staff to learn about technology tools and strategies for the classroom. To combat this issue, the district purchased Adapt4 Charging Stations for its secondary schools to alleviate the challenges of uncharged devices in the classrooms.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Elizabeth Bassford, Vice President of Content & Implementation, Curriculum Associates As the multidisciplinary nature of astronomy is recognized, schools should look to expand curriculums with more astronomy-focused courses in 2024. New technology in the library or for your counselors? Do you need infrastructure updates?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai ” The Scholarly Kitchen weighs in on layoffs at DPLA , the Digital Public Library of America. .” Also via NPR : “The Benefits Of Taking Out Loans For College.” on Coursera.” More from Edsurge.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education. For example , Kristin Vogel : “Libraries ally, champion and offer expertise on this very value.

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