techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

With Discovery Education’s unique blend of dynamic digital content and professional learning, district educators will be empowered to build digital, inquiry-based learning environments that create new pathways and opportunities for middle and high school students, helping them prepare for their post-secondary educations and careers.

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STEM Future Ready Professional Learning Social Media 40

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. Student simulation tasks (RSIC study). Wikipedia: Helpfulness vs. citability across the grade-level cohorts (RSIC Study).

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. But with all their teachers out on strike, classes were combined, and the two found themselves chatting in what amounted to a massive communal study hall.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Even students with cognitive delays may be able to attend modified post-secondary programs if given adequate preparation and encouragement in school. Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. Janae Cantu has dyslexia and thus struggles with reading.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The massive fight, it turned out, stemmed from a long-simmering rivalry between groups of girls, and had been largely instigated and planned through a steady stream of posts on social media apps like Twitter, Instagram, Kik and Snapchat. Four young women were dragging and beating up a younger girl while other kids recorded it on their phones.

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Social Media Survey Report STEM 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 15, 2016

Gardner finds this model to be pernicious, as it subsumes the individual to institutional needs, leading to corrupted and misleading measures of success: grade inflation, new kinds of study hall, and even negative effects on our democracy. Students would curate and document linked learning. Visualization should be added, too.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 15, 2016

Gardner finds this model to be pernicious, as it subsumes the individual to institutional needs, leading to corrupted and misleading measures of success: grade inflation, new kinds of study hall, and even negative effects on our democracy. Students would curate and document linked learning. Visualization should be added, too.

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Trends ePortfolio Twitter Gamification 40

MindShift

JUNE 8, 2016

She’s learned to think of this approach as “going at the pace of the learning,” a phrase she heard from Akiko Takahashi, an expert in lesson study. So now she just gives sentence stems like, “I noticed,” to help model how students can have an academic conversation. OAKLAND STUDY. COACHING FOR TRU. months of additional learning.

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Classroom Learning Strategy STEM 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

DIRECTIONS: Teachers should access the shared Google Document and ask students to submit their video through the Padlet link in their home language, preferably in Chinese, English, French, Italian, or Spanish. This event is brought to you by GlobalEd Events and TakingITGlobal.

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

This means pupils are able to share thoughts and work together on projects, such as documents or presentations. Pupils can continue their studies away from the classroom using the environment too. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. Make content engaging for pupils.

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Blended Learning Learning Khan Academy MOOC 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

And national and local standards provide us with documents packed full of suggested benchmarks and commendable expectations. The National Council for the Social Studies urges us to find ways for our kids to “take informed action” based on what they have learned. Jill posts the completed videos on YouTube to reach a larger audience.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

About 13 years ago, a group of us said we want one demonstration of what’s possible in secondary education. In the founding documents of the school we talked about literacy being a gateway to all of learning. Now, Achieve3000 is used by our science and social studies classes. From the beginning.

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Tools Classroom Differentiated Instruction Groups 161

Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

This enables collaboration with experts in the fields of study students have chosen for their capstone topic. This approach is supported in the ISTE whitepaper: Technology, Coaching, and Community Power Partners for Improved Professional Development in Primary and Secondary Education.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? Social studies teachers will adore these! and world history events.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

There is no policy area in our governance “more complex than elementary and secondary education,” education professors and researchers Paul Manna and Patrick McGuinn wrote in their in their 2013 book. That’s because actors at all levels in the U.S. federal system can claim both right and duty to govern public schools.

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Elementary System Secondary Report 87

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

An ASA study (link) shows that 70% of students believe they have to go to college to get a job, while 80% of employers are open to hiring employees without degrees. Looking ahead, it is important for educators to help students develop 21st century skills, especially as more industries need STEM-focused employees.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While these roles were drafted to appeal specifically to university and college librarians, they are universal enough to be relevant to school librarians working in primary and secondary school media centers, too. The goal of the study was to observe and offer solutions to areas that these students found challenging or inaccessible.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 95

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Decades of documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity reveal a tightly woven network of organizations that works in concert with the oil and gas industry to paint a rosy picture of fossil fuels in America’s classrooms. A 2016 study confirmed that America’s youth receive mixed messages on climate change.

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Industry Education Company Groups 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

Enter “The Cleveland Plan” — a 114-page document developed by city officials, public-interest foundations, the business community and charter school leaders to “reinvent public education,” as Williams puts it. That includes traditional neighborhood schools, charter schools, career academies and themed schools such as MC2 STEM High School.

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