A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

For over a century, the industrial model of education did a fantastic job of preparing students for careers. Instead of preparing students for an industrialized world the education system is now being tasked with preparing all learners to be college and career ready in order to compete globally with their peers.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 17, 2018

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. When women are keynoting or presenting we need to storm social media with their words of inspiration, books and resources. Women make up a huge part of the education industry and tend to be the majority at conferences.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Video games? In the classroom? Absolutely not! The reasons why pile up quickly.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

This recognition will inspire the Discovery Education team to continue to create innovative services that support the creation of the dynamic digital learning environments today’s educators and students demand and deserve.”. For more information about Discovery Education’s digital resources and professional learning services, visit ?

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The industrial revolutions—mid 18 th century, again in the early 19 th century— arrived on waves of new technology. And if we visualize society as a body of water, the ripples of this giant industrial rock are still far-reaching. By Mac Bogert. Though technology is essentially neutral, its impact is not.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. With school budgets being planned on a year over year basis, the concern over long-term sustainability for digital learning arises.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Large-scale businesses pay a custom price to avoid limits on the platform, and academic institutions pay a custom price to access Riipen’s 4,000-plus industry clients, 80-plus course templates, unlimited student and administration accounts, branded portals for the institution, and other services.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, March 3, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support Women’s History Month observances nationwide. About Discovery Education Discovery Education is the worldwide?EdTech?leader

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EdNews Daily

MAY 7, 2019

In education like everywhere else, the way that products are delivered (in this case, learning) is undergoing a seismic shift. The mass media will make a lot of people believe that the ensuing union fights and strife in the education industry is all bad and everything must go back to the way it used to be. Sources: N.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 10, 2022

No matter if they are Tech Coaches, Digital Learning Coaches, Science Coaches, ELA Coaches (or other), the Instructional Coaching position is staffed with extremely valuable content specialists. One of the best roles for Instructional Coaches to play in the learning process is as a co-teacher in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2019

This week for the podcast, we’re talking with someone who’s trying to build more “connective tissue” between academia and industry when it comes to reinventing college. That guest is Mitchell Stevens, a Stanford University professor who is the director of the Center for Advanced Research Through Online Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From increased anxiety and depression related to unhealthy usage of social media , to our students’ decreased attention spans , it’s time to take a “less is more” approach. In an era of distance learning, many teachers have opted for web-based, adaptive programs. That may seem counterintuitive.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 8, 2015

Jeff sits down with Terri Schwartzbeck and Sam Patterson to discuss the Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day and how you can have a Future Ready School. This grassroots effort blossomed into a massive nationwide celebration as teachers realized that Digital Learning Day is not about technology, it’s about learning.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

Educators can’t imagine a world where their industry isn’t able to stay the way it’s always been. Now, districts are beginning to focus on quality over quantity, having noticed that the billions spent did little to raise test scores and measurably advance learning. Most of the education industry is consumed with testing and assessment.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Discovery Education and select social impact partners are offering engaging, high-quality digital learning resources to students and teachers to support observances of National STEM Day. ” For more information about Discovery Education’s award-winning digital resources and professional learning services, visit?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

They do what they can to keep up with industry trends. Yet “industry” to an IT administrator covers a lot of different tools. About 85 percent of the principals and administrators surveyed selected teachers as the most trusted source when it comes to making decisions about digital learning tools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Discovery Education and leading corporate and community partners are partnering to offer engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support National STEM Day observances. The STEM Careers Coalition is a leading contributor to the vast array of new STEM-focused resources now available.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I decided to call the book 'Digital Learning in Organisations' from the outset because my expertise lies in learning technologies. That’s what this thing we call “self-directed learning” looks like anyway; it looks like problem solving and that’s what’s emerging within the world of digital learning.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 10, 2022

No matter if they are Tech Coaches, Digital Learning Coaches, Science Coaches, ELA Coaches (or other), the Instructional Coaching position is staffed with extremely valuable content specialists. Second: Build a Community This one goes without saying and is generally considered a standard for the industry.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Or, as Aneesa Davenport, Social Media & Analytics Manager for EdSurge, suggested, perhaps give them a periodic “check-up?” I am interested in building towards a world where aggregated statistics across the industry of education can help direct conversations on local, state, and federal education budget priorities.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

Exploring Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence with Mastercard Premiere: September 28 th Explore cyber security in a new multi-part digital learning video series and activities designed to inspire girls to pursue STEM.

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edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2020

Lastly, lean on your support system, engage in social media communities, and utilize resources and publications. Evans serves as the chief researcher on the Speak Up Project as well as leading research efforts on the impact of digital content, tools, and resources in both K-12 and higher education. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Explore cyber security in a new multi-part digital learning video series with accompanying activities designed to inspire girls to pursue STEM. Families, students, and educators can discover even more resources for any time learning on Discovery Education’s flexible K-12 learning platform.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

As the Director of Digital Learning at the Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education office, Ken Klau is focused on the strategy for rethinking the structure and delivery of learning, building a more student-centered system of public education, and creating the next generation of K–12 learning environments.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

By combining Discovery Education’s engaging digital content with a system of professional development that promotes a systemic culture of STEM education, LMSD’s talented educators are empowered to create exciting digital learning environments that encourage students’ development of the critical thinking and exploration skills.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

She has worked in educational technology for nearly two decades, empowering educators to integrate digital learning in the classroom. Even though there might not be any business or industry in that small town, there are still students that need to be served. I see way more attention to HOW we can transform learning.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2017

It is now easier than ever to integrate coding into the classroom with curricula like those on Code.org, and learning tools like Wonder Workshop ’s robots Dot and Dash. The Digital Learning & Leadership PLC, hosted by Common Sense Education and sponsored by Symantec , hosted the webinar, “ Now I Have to Teach Coding?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Right now most educators are poor judges of deeper, richer technology usage, which is why we see lots of lower-level technology use instead of schools taking advantage of the rich affordances that digital learning technologies could bring to our classrooms. Participant device prerequisites. Purpose and objectives. Shift Happens).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This week’s podcast is brought to you by UNC Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Program, known as the MEITE Program : MEITE is for students pursuing careers in the educational technology industry. Learn more at ed.unc.edu/meite, on IG @UNCmeite , and Twitter @unc_Meite.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2016

In addition, 35 teacher leaders and their principals, representing five elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, will participate in Discovery Education’s Digital Leader Corps.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 19, 2019

Utilizing the combined power of several anchor institutions, the Nevada Connect Kids Initiative has been instrumental in upgrading K-12 schools so that students can take advantage of digital learning in the classroom. What experiences led you to become passionate about expanding broadband access?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Through edtech conferences such as ISTE , coaching programs such as Digital Promise and DigCit , teachers and coaches can be trained to teach in innovative ways that include critical components in digital learning and digital inquiry. Overcoming Barriers. Join the Community.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

–Immersive New Content Empowers Educators to Create Dynamic Digital Learning Environments for All Students – Silver Spring, Md. s potential to transform industries like education, business, and health. The documentary examines the history of A.I., the ethical issues with autonomous technology, how A.I. This Is A.I.

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