EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Technology-Supported Surface-Level Learning. Surface-level learning is usually teacher directed, and at times, it can be tedious for students, especially if they have little prior knowledge. However, this activity provides ancillary benefits of deep learning because the students connect knowledge from math class (e.g.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Online collaboration tools: Foster teamwork and communication skills using collaborative platforms, enabling real-time group projects. Digital textbooks: Replace traditional textbooks with digital versions for interactive and multimedia-rich content.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Coding programs and robotics kits introduce hands-on learning, promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills essential for the future. Furthermore, technology cultivates digital literacy, equipping students with skills needed in the digital age.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 14, 2019

Create a Digital Textbook – Get students work in pairs or small groups to design a digital version of the curriculum. This is one of the ideas suggested in my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch Edtech Missions in Your Classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Invite Groups It can also help to welcome groups of students into office hours. Get Yourself a Robot At San Francisco State, Jiang has gone even further to shake up his office hours. He literally has a robot set up and ready for students to use during their virtual visits.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. By Kathleen Costanza.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Getting substantial gains in learning, Koedinger says, takes “getting the details right” in all of those areas. For him, improving the speed of learning is just part of it. Imagine students in a control group go from 50% on a pre-test to 60% on a post-test, whereas in the treatment group they go from 50% to 80%,” he explains.

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EdTechnocation.com

MARCH 19, 2014

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. These teachers instinctively know how technology enhances instruction, engages students, and improves learning. As a Technology Coordinator, I realized that I needed to harness the power of this group.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 11, 2017

February 23rd (Digital Learning Day) provided us with the opportunity to expand our scope and provide a Maker Camp (for FREE) to schools outside of our normal realm of support. Technology should not be used in isolation when it comes to teaching and learning. LEAP Academy was very excited to have the 3 of us for the day.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

From the experiences we provide (iPads, cutting-edge digital library, nationally-ranked Robotics program) to the inter-district professional learning we support (top-ranked VrainWaves podcast), at the core of our program is a belief in technology as a catalyst for learning at all levels.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Digital arts students create designs for the drama club’s school production while engineering students help with the robotic aspect of props for the production. Here, she shares Immaculata-La Salle’s route to impactful digital learning for others to draw from as they find their way to tech success.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2015

After their first week of coding class, 20 high school girls taught their robots to dance to The Cupid Shuffle. Cupid chanted, “To the right to the right to the right,” and the little red robots turned right. He sang “To the left to the left to the left,” and the robots turned left.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In our district, we try different unplugged activities with the elementary students, such as give simple instructions to your partner who is acting like your robot. Only one student has to submit the form for the pair/group. Using Logic to Play the Game First, students have to learn how to play the game.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

When third-year students in strategy classes at BI Norwegian Business School have a question about their assignments next semester, odds are a robot will provide their answer. IBM and Pearson recently launched a partnership in which Watson will be available to answer students’ questions in some of Pearson’s digital learning materials.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 20, 2017

. “When we hear ‘social justice,’ we think hitting the streets, but at DreamYard , it’s also understanding your own identity and affirming your history,” said Hillary Kolos, DreamYard’s director of digital learning. “It’s a way to get maker out in the community,” he explained.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. But it’s become increasingly unclear if online learning is living up to its promise for students, as concerns persist over quality, inequitable disparities in digital-learning participants and outcomes. Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m.

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Adam Welcome

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Yes - I really love enhancing the curriculum in classes with laptops, tablets, coding and robots. To be transparent I was really only half listening but then the group addressed me directly. Like I'm the one who started this digital revolution as a way to enhance the curriculum in school. Spoiler alert - it's not just me.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

This device can be applied across a variety of activities, from literacy groups to ELL lessons. When combined with ClassLink Roster Server, OneSync allows schools to provision login accounts into O365 and Google and create groups in Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2016

Social and emotional learning skills can help students succeed in a digital economy, and technology can play a crucial part in establishing a strong social and emotional learning foundation. Next page: Three key opportunities for stakeholders.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

And then be super attentive to a [group of] decentralized deans, divisional leaders, chairs and individual faculty, and trusting them in the implementation. At Duke we’ve been thinking about, like a lot of universities, a “robot-proof future,” and thinking about the sixty-year curriculum. We need to be thinking about that.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2016

To-date, CUE’s program has only included classroom-ready robot drones, but it is now expanding to add Touchjet as a partner, because they believe the interactive touch technology will enhance collaborative learning. The kit from Touchjet includes five Touchjet Pond Projector units, accessories, Gorilla tripods and lesson plans.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We offer tech summer camps at no charge for students, such as robotics and coding, starting at pre-K. Joseph, director of digital learning, informational technology, and innovation at Milford (MA) Public Schools, shared his district’s experience in supporting families with limited English. We treat it just like a textbook.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

“Next year, many traditional education strategies will fade away as educators help students recover from the pandemic’s impact, especially with harder-hit groups like students who learn and think differently. Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning. School is a place where students are allowed to learn, experiment and make mistakes. While it is alright to learn from one’s mistakes, sometimes the mistakes are too costly to bear. Provides an Opportunity to Experiment on a Virtual Platform.

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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.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 2, 2016

At the YOUmedia Community of Practice site, Learning Labs practitioners from around the country share resources and expertise, and work toward improving their own practice. At libraries and museums around the country, there are dedicated spaces for teenagers to plunge into digital learning projects as varied as audio recording and robotics.

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MSEDTechie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

NASA has a Digital Learning Network, so you can sign up your classes to Skype with an astronaut or a member of NASA. They have a variety of topics from Food in Space to Robotics to Life on Mars. Parents can sign up digitally, and receive automatic reminders. It''s a great way to have your students connect with experts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Some tech companies are also trying to mix hands-on play with digital learning. Yannier was deeply affected by a robotics competition in her native Turkey, where she coached underprivileged students to build and program a wheelchair. Her team won, and the motivating power of group work left an impression on her.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After months of research and a successful pilot, the district chose enVision to be that core mathematics curriculum because of its rigor, digital learning components, and engaging lessons. Aaron’s efforts identified a problem, found a solution to protect students, and provided for a safer learning environment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

This piece was written for The White House Symposium on the Future of Education R&D and Digital Learning, which took place on Oct. Now, robotic manufacturing systems are ever-shifting relationships between tools, people, tasks, and outcomes, and skills must rapidly evolve to keep up. There are approximately.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 22, 2020

Schools and districts are on their way to new personalized learning models, but still heavily oriented in whole-group teaching. Administrators are becoming savvy in selecting digital curriculum and content. Digital learning shopping has also been called the “Amazonization” of education. Take the 2020 Survey.

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MindShift

JANUARY 10, 2017

Some tech companies are also trying to mix hands-on play with digital learning. Yannier was deeply affected by a robotics competition in her native Turkey, where she coached underprivileged students to build and program a wheelchair. Her team won, and the motivating power of group work left an impression on her.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Corinne Roller, director of advocacy and public policy for the nonprofit group Girls Who Code , says the proportion of women in computing jobs has actually been trending downward over the last few decades. “If The Cyber Robotics Coding Competition began in New Hampshire in fall 2017, with 2,600 students taking part across the state.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

“What we realized in the classrooms was that there were a lot of things being done by the gut—it looked good and felt good, but there was no science behind choices teachers were making,” Kolb tells EdSurge, rifling off robots, flexible seating and Chromebooks as among the trends and tools that aren’t being used to their full advantage.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Five bundles will be available for purchase: one each at the preschool, elementary school, middle and high school levels with grade-appropriate curricula and resources, and two with building blocks and related non-digital materials. KinderLab KIBO ( kinderlabrobotics.com/kibo/ ) is a robot kit designed for young children aged 4–7 years old.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Stay tuned, because the second group of finalists will be featured on eSchool News next week! JAR Systems is nominating Hardee School District (FL) for its exceptional response to rapid change in its students’ and teachers’ requirements for digital learning. Nominee: Hardee County School District Nominated by: JAR Systems, LLC.

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