The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 31, 2022

Education technology has good uses, but as we’ve moved through the pandemic, sometimes it may have been mis-implemented or implemented without teacher PD. He shares observations on where education technology is and where it is going in the future. What we've got is we've got this accelerated focus of, we need to adopt technology.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This post is another reaction paper I wrote for the course I am currently taking, Technology and School Leadership, through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a typical teacher’s day, taking the time to learn about digital tools can be a low priority.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 26, 2020

New technologies have radically changed the world that all of us live and work in across the globe. As times change, many schools and districts are grabbling with what to focus on in an effort to keep up with societal demands, a changing workforce, new areas of study, disruptive technologies, and learners who crave more relevant experiences.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

David DeMatthews, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin. They are comfortable with technology in some cases. Bailey has worked in K-12 education for more than 18 years as a principal, an assistant principal, a dean and a classroom teacher. They are good at crisis management.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. When people think of disruptive innovations, they tend to focus on new technologies: personal computers, online video streaming, rideshare apps, etc. In short, minimills used a new technology (electric arc furnaces) to enable a new organizational model.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

There are many reasons, including a lack of clarity around definitions , a lack of efficacy—because of confusion around the term—and, at some schools, a lack of rigor. The real magic of blended learning occurs when teachers use technology to boost human interaction, in both frequency and impact. It’s a bad word.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2017

In breakout groups, summit attendees tackled key questions such as: How might we ensure K-12 district and higher education technology decisions are based on evidence? Armed with a better understanding of the barriers to evidence and stakeholder perspectives, participants spent Day 2 developing change ideas for addressing these challenges.

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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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Advances in technology have meant a world of change in schools. New technologies are coming out all the time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Free Technology for Teachers: Google Expeditions is Possibly Coming to a School Near You. Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Research Tools Students Often Overlook. Kirabo Jackson, associate professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern University, Rucker C. Resources You Can Use in the Classroom.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In general, the terms synchronous learning and asynchronous learning have historically referred to online learning. As the lines between online, distance, remote, and blended learning get blurred, these definitions will continue to grow and evolve. Definitions. Choice boards/Learning Menus.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

The ambitions for New York City’s Innovation Zone (or iZone) were sweeping: By 2014, city leaders hoped it would be the catalyst for technologically enhanced personalized learning models throughout the district, encompassing 400 schools. Politics plays a huge role in education policy shifts, notes Hodas.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. education system.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2018

That heightened sense of ownership, which some research suggests could strengthen students’ desire to learn, is one of the many facets of an educational approach called “personalized learning.” Graduate student Louise Tidmand, who is studying personalized learning at Denmark’s Aarhus University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Our way was definitely best,” Baldwin County’s Robertsdale High School Principal Joe Sharp told AL.com. National think tanks already are putting forth policy proposals to address the long-term strains on the teacher workforce, including burnout. That seems to be a real struggle.” Thomas Arnett, the Christensen Institute.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

But others asked her not to do that because that policy is tilted against those who get sick or have a good excuse to miss class. One of the things I advocate for really strongly is taking time at the beginning of the semester to provide what I call on-ramps back into in-person learning,” Eyler said. “So What's happened to them?

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Good, Bad, & Ugly: Blended Learning Effectiveness SXSWedu 2017 Debate Julia Freeland Fisher, Director of Education Research, Christensen Institute Lisa Hansel, Advisor, Knowledge Matters Saro Mohammed (Moderator), Partner, The Learning Accelerator Personalized learning is one of true transformational opportunities in education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2021

In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its operational strategy guide for K-12 schools, a collection of prevention strategies and implementation tips for safe in-person learning. That same month, the U.S. What follows is a sampling of their remarks. It allows them to keep spread low.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The development of the technology platform has been run by CZI since 2017.) CZI aims to be a different type of philanthropy looking to integrate grantmaking, advocacy and technology to serve others. The announcement highlights your work with the Summit Learning Program. It informs every aspect of our design process.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This continues to be a topic of conversation across America, and many states are beginning to implement some of the following policy solutions to better prepare students for successful careers. . State policy can be a powerful driver and support for local innovation in education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

Students spend more time in school, the staffing model is focused on building teacher capacity and includes tiered levels of educators, and the school uses a home-grown technology tool, Cortex , which was built in-house by Mote, a technologist by trade. Foreign Policy have to complete a research project and presentation.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 27, 2012

2012 NMC Horizon Report Near Adoption Technologies Where is technology going in the next 5 years, and what might be some things we can expect as educational leaders? Here''s what the 2012 NMC Horizon Report outlines as the technologies closest to adoption in our schools.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Blended learning. Personalized learning. Competency- and project-based learning. Ask a Question Two Rivers was founded on the principle that we need to embrace a broader definition of student success than what has been handed to us by state and national policy.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 23, 2019

Cate has spent over seventeen years in education and is committed to supporting educators as they integrate technology in the classroom. Lindsey spreads her love of learning as the Personalized Learning Environments Program Manager for San Francisco Unified School District. See: Copyright Policy.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. But the foundational knowledge, the skills to be able to learn and do well in school later are so important. Kindergarten matters a lot.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Today’s education technologies, when supported by the right polices and leadership, enable school systems to truly personalize learning,” said Keith Krueger, CEO, CoSN. “It Our educators must play a critical role in shaping policy that impacts the students we have dedicated our careers to serving.”.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Each year, a panel of education experts, convened by the New Media Consortium and CoSN, takes a deep dive into the trends driving ed-tech in every quarter, from Silicon Valley testing grounds to policy circles to actual classroom use. Makerspaces eluded everybody until they showed up at school doorsteps.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Digital media and technology are increasingly a part of our lives, but it's important that we're conscious of the media choices we're making. It’s also important to remember that things will vary quite a bit from person to person and class to class. See Google's cookie information for details.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 24, 2016

Technology “can personalize learning, engage the disengaged, complement what happens in the classroom, extend education outside the classroom, and provide access to learning to students,” the report reads, but “the number of [social-emotional learning] products in the ed-tech market today is insufficient.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And K-12 schools that had reopened for in-person learning are now pulling back into full-time remote. “We As of July, the program had awarded $521 billion in loans to small businesses, less than 5 percent of which went to child care providers , according to an analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center. We got through a lot.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

Take a look at the definition of “targeted marketing” in the bill and start to sweat, because it means the use of any image, any message, that targets any minor child. In other words, the benefits of target marketing, also known as profiling-and-pushing-messages for helpful learning programs for users could be enormous.

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