eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The education field is regularly plagued by the need for common definitions as new practices emerge. As we’ve seen with personalized learning , ambiguous terms for ambitious ideas can create widespread confusion and even skepticism.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2017

While IHEs and districts across the country are doing the same, they lack the time, incentives, and mechanism to document their findings. Susan Fuhrman, President of Teachers College, Columbia University, noted, “Efficacy in the scientific world is defined as definitive outcome as the result of a random control trial.

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Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Blended learning. Blended learning , by definition, is a pedagogical strategy where the students learn with a combination of face-to-face interactions and digital communication. Students will also have the freedom to explore horizontally with the content and learn if they are interested.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g., Madda et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 11, 2018

Go in with a specific agenda and document the feedback-Let’s just follow the ole “I do,” “You do,” and “We do” model. Initially, the teacher can create the “agenda” through a shared document (you could even push this through Google Classroom ) that models the best type of questions to ask for feedback-I do. Lydia Croupe.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

And while I love LEGOs, Minecraft is definitely easier to build in scale and clean up, not to mention less likely to hurt your foot in a misstep. One of my projects has students with autism, who struggle with personal identity, creating a Minecraft journey that begins with self-portraits and personal narratives of their lives and families.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Edtech has responded with offers of personalized learning and predictive analytics but has produced spotty evidence of impact. UMW recently codified and open sourced its documentation for Domain of One’s Own.) Each, if solved, would have a meaningful impact on learning and productivity. Ready for anything under the sky.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

A September survey of 677 school districts found that 79 percent of Hispanic students, 75 percent of Black students and 51 percent of white students wouldn’t have the option of in-person learning in September, according the survey by the news service AP and Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization focused on education.

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MSEDTechie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

There is definitely a difference between using and integrating. Link it to iPads, or laptops in your classroom to share documents, student work, or to create a classroom album. On a scale from 1 to 5 (1 not well, and 5 being very well) How well did you integrate technology in your classroom? The key word is INTEGRATE.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And while the number of students enrolled in virtual high schools (mostly run by for-profit corporations) has increased exponentially , most of us expect the vast majority of students to happily return to in-person learning after the pandemic ends. Public education is, by its very definition, political. Department of Defense.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Dallas Dance, Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, was among the first to raise this during a session at the 6th Annual Blended Learning Conference , held last weekend in Rhode Island. “I I was talking to a colleague who was using blended and personalized learning the same way,” says Dance.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 18, 2021

It definitely fit the bill. It’s a supplemental program—students still have core math time—but we’ve definitely been trying to build more of it into the schedule. From there, we might create a personalized learning plan. What is the biggest challenge?

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 12, 2018

Participate.com allows us to pull all of this goodness together for ourselves and for the learning communities we serve. It’s definitely time for a revisit. Way back in 2016 I wrote a post about Participate.com, Curating with Communities.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Note: I actually had written this post some time ago and kept scheduling it forward, and after attending Chris Bugaj and Beth Poss'' timely and terrific presentation at ASHA , this definitely seemed a good time to publish it! To learn more about PLNs, check out this post from The Innovative Educator blog , or my own on ASHAsphere.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2020

A September survey of 677 school districts found that 79 percent of Hispanic students, 75 percent of Black students and 51 percent of white students wouldn’t have the option of in-person learning in September, according the survey by the news service AP and Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization focused on education.

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Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

We then shared a version of this document below (see red) a day beforehand and asked teachers to think about which sessions would be the most useful for them. I have definitely seen positive results from this.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 17, 2021

In the pages that follow, I’ll share 12 mindset shifts and workload strategies to help you streamline, because there definitely ARE things you can do to make this easier (or harder) on yourself. Document cameras have proven to be exceptionally useful as well. b) something that is worthwhile in terms of learning and engagement.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. As such, it is closely related to (but different than) personalized learning and individualized learning. Individualized Learning. Informal Learning.

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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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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

A great place to learn new EdTech tools, and to build your PLN (Personal Learning Network)! I am enjoying working through all the back episodes, and definitely look forward to the upcoming new episodes. Learn Why Edusight is an awesome Portfolio Tool For Documenting Student Achievement | @Edusight.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

For education departments that do provide definitions to districts, subjectivity is frequently built in. A Maryland student who went to the main office to report being harassed cursed at administrators when asked to formally document it. A student in Minnesota “lost his cool” after having “his buttons pushed by a couple peers.”

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 2, 2015

Not only can strangers steal your signal for unlawful activities, but they can creep in and gain access to your personal documents and information, which can lead to identity theft. You definitely must check out Amazon’s Trade-In Program. If not, now''s the time to do that. Less Apps & No Pushing! And it just feels good.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

From California to Connecticut , legislation is being written and revised to specifically tie attendance to learners’ documented interaction with instructional material. Reflecting on the current situation, he says, “the shift to remote learning has forced school staff and district leadership to rethink engagement in the classroom.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student. .

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student. .

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Provide a Rigorous Learning Environment. Those needs are best met when you and your faculty provide students with a rigorous learning environment. Let us be clear about our definition of rigor. Provide a Personalized Learning Environment. First, center your attention on quality, not quantity. A Final Note.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 24, 2017

The applications of AI in education are incredibly various, and will definitely transform how teachers teach and how students learn today. I’m talking about all text documents, PDFs, videos, audio files, images, animations, presentations, and any other type of teaching materials. Delivering adaptive learning.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 5, 2022

The organization partners with educators, educational leaders, and learners to document edtech selection, usage and impact. Working with hundreds of districts across the country, we bring deep expertise in learning sciences, data management and analysis, software design, coaching, and collaboration.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2018

When students are committed—and behaviorally, cognitively and emotionally engaged—they participate actively in class, feel safe and complete more challenging work that meets their personal learning needs. Diagnostics to analyze institutional performance and student learning. School leaders agree. Efficacy of engagement.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Edsby’s new evidence of learning features enable teachers to take pictures, record videos, tag them by standards or learning goals, share them with parents and organize them to document growth and streamline reporting on student progress, and more. Students must document their experience in a video essay for submission.

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