The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. NEW ORLEANS — A few years ago, with little fanfare or announcement, the New Orleans education system began a massive experiment that’s reshaping how kids learn across the city. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I was asked to give a presentation on improving interaction for online courses. The answer lies in research that has been done in online learning, social psychology, distance or online education, communication (including interpersonal, group, and CM communication), and even organizational development.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

Privacy and data-security themes are also woven into Raytown’s professional development workshops, curriculum planning sessions and even parent-teacher conferences. And plenty of free privacy resources can be found online. But the data protections of these vendors can’t be taken for granted.

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My Island View

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

There was no mention of follow-up research to determine how effective the PD was in improving or even affecting student learning in the classroom. Of course I do not see this as a shortcoming of the educators who were charged with evolving this PD in their district. Seat time is key to many of these courses in order to be approved.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I was there for a few reasons, starting with having the fine opportunity to lead a pre conference workshop, followed by presenting on two panels, helping out with a Twitter component, and reconnecting with dozens of friends and colleagues. Preconference workshop. Online learning is on the rise.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Schools often purchase software, computer devices, and technology-based learning systems because they are effective marketing tools for recruitment, or because they want to keep pace with the digital investments of rival institutions, or simply because they fear appearing outdated. Fears, of course, need to be surfaced and addressed.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2018

That technology includes HP and Lenovo laptops, tablets, G Suite for Education, NEC projectors , eBeam , Schoology learning management system, LanSchool classroom management software and Kajeet hotspots (for students to use at home). Teachers also have a range of digital curricula at their disposal. “A

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Of course, towers, base stations and routers are nothing without a license to beam all that data through a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum. Next year, Monticello High School will expand class offerings in computer science, engineering and design, and another teacher will join Bredder in the high-tech fabrication workshop.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Concurrently, a portion of the funding went to LEAP to help train principals and teachers at more than 100 Chicago-area schools on personalized learning. My teachers say: ‘It’s almost like all our students have an IEP’ — not formally, of course, but they each do have an individualized plan,” said Stewart.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They will be encouraged to attend workshops and school tours in the hope, one DOE official said, that they will find elements that they can use in their own classrooms. The rise of online learning has accelerated it, and school technology providers have been fierce advocates. Mastery-based learning, of course, has its critics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

The freedom to mess up, repeatedly, is a core appeal of this club known as CoderDojo , a loosely-connected global network of coding workshops for kids ages 6 to 18, including this Boston outpost that meets in the borrowed offices of the tech company LogMeIn. But, I want to know, what is he supposed to learn?”. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today’s classrooms have more devices, more educational software, more opportunities to differentiate learning based on various student needs, and educators are under more pressure to do more, preferably as fast as possible, with excellent results. In the meantime, an online microlearning approach is the best option.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

Concurrently, a portion of the funding went to LEAP to help train principals and teachers at more than 100 Chicago-area schools on personalized learning. My teachers say: ‘It’s almost like all our students have an IEP’ — not formally, of course, but they each do have an individualized plan,” said Stewart.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

Then, he toggled the cardboard lever and declared open a new website , one that gave away software that took more than $100 million in grant funding to develop. It was an unusually theatrical moment for a gathering to announce the release of software tools to help professors improve their teaching.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

We''ve also just added information about the Invent to Learn workshop on Saturday with Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez (which is the same day as our Global Ed event , but we''re magnanimous around here). Check out all the fun at ISTEunplugged.com. We would love to have your partnership in spreading the word about this effort.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others. Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife and his partner in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is the chair of Summit Learning’s board.) Bull also worries that these screens infringe on student privacy, especially in light of Summit’s proximity to Facebook.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

She has co-organized and hosted workshops in North America and Africa to offer adults guidance on supporting young people taking education into their own hands, focusing on confident autonomy and emergent structure. World Leadership School is a pioneer in the field of Purpose Learning, or learning as thinking, feeling, and doing.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

“The Trump administration is committing violence against children ,” says UVA professor James Coan in The Washington Post – that is, of course, by separating them from their parents and placing them in jail. Albans and Sidwell Friends – announce they will stop offering Advanced Placement courses.”

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