Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Conversations about the role of privacy and digital citizenship wash into social studies and current events. The specific tools to support learning may change from year to year, or class to class. Many of those technologies support collaboration. Parents can digitally tap into not just grades but assignments.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

Rather than receiving course content via lectures and then working on problems and projects on their own time, students are responsible for digesting core content before coming to class. Of course, Wi-Fi, adequate charging stations, and whiteboards are critical. The SCALE-UP classroom places heavy emphasis on student collaboration.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 20, 2015

The Object of Study. The primary object of study in a college course is often a model, principle, theory, equation, causal relationship, or other idea. The primary object of study in a college course is often a model, principle, theory, equation, causal relationship, or other idea.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But after talking to a number of different educators and reading their various accounts, what I can tell you is that your peers have discovered creative, technology-supported ways to approach teaching reading, writing and vocabulary in their multi-subject classrooms—and they were willing to share it to help you out.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Backdrop to the raise is a growing market and demand for online courses. In those days, he says schools often lacked the in-house expertise to create and sell an online program from scratch, and looked to OPMS to provide, among various services, technology support, recruiting and marketing, and instructional design.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

For example, we use in my 8th-grade science class Book Creator for students to develop everything from science lab reports to personal studies that they do — like individual investigations — and even just topic research. Working in the area of social studies at the start, she later found her passion in teaching science.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Of course, not all screen time is created equal. Imagine students connecting with authors online or on social media to chat about their writing process and word choice as part of researching and creating their own vocabulary lists to study. This is, of course, easier said than done (and a personal growth area for me as an educator!).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 3, 2010

In 1997, Julie Young pioneered the launch of Florida Virtual School with the goal of providing high quality, online courses to students throughout the State of Florida. She is a frequent national conference speaker and has played an important role in charting the course of virtual K-12 education.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

This was something we touched on in a recent blog post on a study that found that more than half of students in the US felt “bored” at school.) Technology supports creativity because it is a medium that requires interaction, unlike the one-way participation of an activity such as watching TV. It is kinetic and energizing.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 26, 2012

Asking them to stay at home, watch a video and then do an assignment based on their own independent study isn't going to cut it. All we are doing, under the guise of new technology is perpetuating previous errors on a grand scale. You also need to support them. I want to propose an alternative form of flipped classroom.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

In the Guide to Capstone Education from the National Capstone Consortium there are a series of questions posed about technology and the role it should, could or might possibly play in a capstone course. In this post, I will address each of these questions based on the definition of a capstone course at my current place of employment.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 3, 2012

Ahead of his keynote speech at this year’s EDEN conference , to be held in Porto, I asked him some questions about his life, his passions and what he believes about technology supported education. Alfred Marshall described economics as the study of people in the general business of life. Here is the interview in ten questions.

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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. While progress has been made, ensuring equitable access to technology remains a priority.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

I’m also inspired on a daily basis by people I work with (especially Frances Bell , Ben Shirley and Cristina Costa ) and of course my PLN (thanks to social media!). I studied at the Royal Northern College of Music before going on to a degree in Linguistics, specialising in phonetics, speech synthesis and spectrographic analysis.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

During my undergraduate degree I specialised in psychology, but also studied a number of other social sciences, including politics, economics, sociology and human geography. I'm completely biased of course, but I believe that psychology is the perfect lens through which to understand and evaluate teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 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. While progress has been made, ensuring equitable access to technology remains a priority.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. Three-credit courses were $1,200 each, a major discount, but only about 50 low-income students were participating. These kids are surrounded by technology, and it just helps foster learning for these students.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. You continue to get trained in the science of teaching throughout the course of your career. Go to coolcatteacher.com/discover and get started for free.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. Three-credit courses were $1,200 each, a major discount, but only about 50 low-income students were participating. These kids are surrounded by technology, and it just helps foster learning for these students.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

This case study was originally published on Getting Smart Achievement First operates a network of 32 high-performing college-preparatory, K-12 public charter schools in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York City. Its rigorous standards, high-quality curriculum and ongoing professional development for teachers serve to support this goal.

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MindShift

APRIL 21, 2015

To do this, course developers traveled all over the world filming real conversations between people in different countries speaking the language. The tasks become progressively harder as the learner moves through the course, but the base material always features native speakers engaged in authentic conversations. CRITICISMS.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Studying stars from the surface of the moon. The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. Diving into a magnified human cell.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

Students Learning 100 Percent Online The availability of online learning continues to increase with only 27 percent of high school principals reporting that they are not yet offering any online courses for students. Interest among students continues to grow.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 3, 2015

I now have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of general education courses and some specific degree programs will transition entirely to OER in US higher ed. However, faculty that want to use OER sometimes find that insufficient resources are available for the specific courses they teach. That horse is out of the barn.

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