Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. Ensuring students have opportunities to use technology in powerful ways will also contribute to creating more equitable learning environments. Here are some examples.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

While classroom learning has traditionally been conducted in physical spaces, advancements in technology have expanded its possibilities. Virtual classrooms, online forums, and digital learning platforms now complement traditional classroom settings, offering flexibility and accessibility to learners worldwide.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 19, 2018

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Find examples of test prep playbooks here. Strategies in their playbooks might include doodling, stretching, breathing exercises, or give themselves pep talks. Click to access the bookmarks. ??. Pass That Exam!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

The nonprofit was founded in response to the global wildfire adoption of its first-generation learning platform, KA Lite , which provided offline access to Khan Academy videos and exercises. Because of that, we've focused on using connectivity — when it does exist — in smart ways to enhance teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

I write on the printout how much time I plan to take for each section of content and for each interactive exercise. Another reason to keep a timer handy during class is to facilitate exercises with students. I ask them if they had any surprises as they went through the exercises, and how confident they are in their answers.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

For example, “We speak and write respectfully.” For example, at random times when my learners didn’t expect it, I would project a funny picture of a dog or cat. If you use Hāpara Highlights for digital learning, you can instantly send a funny link to learners’ devices. I read statements out loud.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Together, these three skills form the backbone of digital literacy, empowering individuals to engage responsibly, communicate effectively, and think critically in an increasingly digital and interconnected world. What are examples of digital literacy skills? What are the 5 examples of technology literacy?

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

The value of the Horizon Report and the value in any foresight exercise is not to perfectly predict what’s going to happen, but it’s really to recognize that every choice that we make today is an implicit bet on the future.” Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the digital learning gap.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. If there's one thing we've learned, it's that people are interested. Murder mysteries and online learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

A great example of how one school in Silicon Valley is supporting powerful use of technology 3 in the classroom is in Redwood City School District (RCSD). If you are interested in learning more, or bringing a similar program to your school or district, contact: Digital Promise Professional Services at professionalservices@digitalpromise.org.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

Blended learning comes in a number of varieties, but across the various models, blended learning prompts educators to consider the following questions: What can students learn well independently, especially when aided by digital learning technologies? Which learning activities are most important to do together?

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

Today, Robertson’s course consists of 150 to 200 online modules, each of which includes a video presentation , a section from his own book Marketing Fundamentals for Future Professionals , and—coming soon—an active learning exercise. Lectures —These illustrate the topics with relevant, timely examples.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2019

Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology states that incorporating technology can make lessons more dynamic and personalized to each student’s needs and style of learning. A typical example is encouraging people to exercise by having a green ring light up after they’ve met a certain number of steps per day.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 3, 2019

So what are our brains doing and becoming in the digital age? When it comes to literacy, for example, Maryanne Wolfe, in a recent article in The Guardian , explained that “skim reading” is replacing deep, analytical, reflective reading. As one neuroscientist puts it, our brains become what our brains do.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In addition to taking into account the shorter attention spans for younger learners, less lecturing gives teachers time to focus on aspects of learning other than acquisition of knowledge. For example, many courses feature online “field trips” to museums or research centers that include interviews with artists and scientists.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Beyond helping with relatively menial tasks, Fadel said, technology can help learners build empathy through, for example, a virtual reality tour of a refugee camp. A lot of times a teacher doesn’t believe a student can learn, but students working on a screen at their own pace can demonstrate achievement.”.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Joli’s example is a Halloween activity, but she details the steps for creating your own fill-in story. In these Google Sheets practice exercises, learners select a question from a drop-down menu and then type their answer into a box. It also includes games to make learning these skills more fun.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

They allow me to not only minimize the complexity of digital learning, but also help ensure that when students do use them, they are doing so as part of an active learning process. In my book “ Humanizing Distance Learning ,” I argue that there isn’t necessarily a black-or-white divide between active and passive screen time.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

From our experience with teaching children, we value the play-based approach that emphasizes the value of teaching through real-life situations, allowing children to learn from their mistakes as they attempt to make an inanimate object carry out their commands. This further serves as an arch to them learning from their experience.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

Here are just three examples of how professors might curate podcast episodes to use in different disciplines. Once you build up different types of content (videos, articles, podcasts, exercises, activities, case studies and so on), you can start bringing them into your classes.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2020

When describing how the virus spreads, for example, Jones highlights the role of snot and spit in transmitting germs: “Those germs land on all sorts of things and stick there, sometimes for a few days. Door handles, tables, tablets, and pencils. It also includes some historical background and guidance on how to stay healthy. TIME for Kids.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

Jesse Stommel, digital learning fellow and senior lecturer of Digital Studies at University of Mary Washington, shares his rationale for ungrading on his blog: “In short, the act of grading does harm to students and causes teachers unnecessary stress.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Throughout the year, the book has continuously exercised my mind, and I have spent countless hours of planning, thinking, researching, writing and editing. I decided to call the book 'Digital Learning in Organisations' from the outset because my expertise lies in learning technologies. Unported License.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 14, 2020

Students are able to explore a problem, often interacting with a variety of characters or situations, and learn to see these situations from multiple points of view. Google Assistant, Alexa, and Siri are just three examples of voice technology that students may encounter at home or elsewhere outside of the school. About the Presenters.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JULY 26, 2020

Digital learning coaching has been weighing heavily on my mind. Kentucky's Digital Learning Coaches had their first official conference last month (virtual of course). Kentucky's Digital Learning Coaches had their first official conference last month (virtual of course).

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, students can watch a detailed video of how the solar system works, while the teacher is simultaneously providing descriptions of the same. Such quick response helps students to learn and retain the information. It becomes easier for a teacher to explain concepts after the student has gone through an entire video.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 27, 2014

Mindful of this phenomenon, Sweller recommended that content designers should limit the amount of cognitive load in digital learning environments by strategically presenting worked examples and problem solving exercises. How does Capacity Theory apply in digital learning environments?

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One program can inexhaustibly redirect lessons with slight alterations to lines of questioning and examples and exercises, with infinite patience, until a student gets the right answer. One machine can keep track of, and calculate statistics of, millions of students at once to provide recommendations for each specifically.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Emily Anne Gullickson, CEO and founder of A for Arizona, said, “There’s a great deal of respect now that learning can happen outside of the four walls.” Tulsa Public Schools is one example of a district thinking about education solutions outside the classroom box. Credit: Nicholas Serpa.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Koedinger sees three main areas of learning engineering, which together give flight to the learner.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

We often begin design work with The Marshmallow Challenge , a collaborative exercise in which teams build a tower with the unlikely pairing of spaghetti and a marshmallow. Teams learn that at a certain point they have to test the integrity of their structure to see if it stands, or “put a marshmallow on it.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

We often begin design work with The Marshmallow Challenge , a collaborative exercise in which teams build a tower with the unlikely pairing of spaghetti and a marshmallow. Teams learn that at a certain point they have to test the integrity of their structure to see if it stands, or “put a marshmallow on it.”

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 5, 2015

A lot has happened in the world of digital learning since ExcelinEd’s Digital Learning Now initiative and Getting Smart released the first Smart Series paper in August 2012. In partnership with: Digital Learning Now , Foundation for Excellence in Education. Exercise Caution on Customization.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

They work hard on challenging projects or exercises and upload them to a platform, but then never receive personalized feedback because of the sheer volume of submissions. For example, we recently hosted a virtual challenge with Unilever that awarded seed funding and mentorship to the best ideas developed through a 5-week online course.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

In that way, the free, online version is a new kind of outreach by a university, an exercise in disseminating research findings in an interactive way. She helped create new slides for some parts of the course when the university recently reshot the MOOC lectures after a new version of Python was released, for example.

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