Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This includes specific facts, theories, and principles that they have learned in past educational experiences or through personal pursuits.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Well, it’s been ten years, and with the recent proliferation of terms like “personalized,” “mastery-based,” and “blended” in the education world, some of Robinson’s viewers may wonder if or how his take on schools has changed. For Robinson, his background in education extends all the way back to when he graduated from college.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Our son’s education was a waste. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Miriam Rollin, director of the Education Civil Rights Alliance, a collaborative convened by the National Center for Youth Law, saw the influx in federal dollars for Covid relief as an opportunity to make schools more supportive for students. Related: How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. CARLISLE, Penn. That’s $13.3

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Allison Socol, The Education Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The 27-year-old is also one of more than 6,000 Washington community and technical college students enrolled in the state’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program. Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

For aspiring college students, the summer before freshman year can be a perilous time, as they contend with swelling concerns over how to pay for college, often inscrutable paperwork and uncertainty about whether they belong on a college campus at all. Photo: Sarah Gonser/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. And back in 1998 he had even co-written a book complaining about how, in his view, multiculturalism was leading to group-think, and how he wanted to “reverse the tragic disintegration of American universities and restore true academic excellence.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness. Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They also share one abiding theme: Parents know the risk of dropping out of school and want desperately for their children to get through high school and beyond in their education. High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Remember that ISTE starts a day earlier, so the Hack Education Unconference is on Friday, June 27th. ISTE Unplugged.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. Until recently, education reform has prioritized the growth of charter schools, enforcement of strict discipline and high-stakes testing. The stakes have become extremely high.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Anthony Boccia, a newly hired special education teacher at Valley High, has three years to complete earn an official teaching license before the district revokes his provisional license. Working long hours, Boccia — known at Valley High as Mr. Tony — is learning how to run his classroom via trial and error, one day at a time.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

When I started college, I did not have a clear roadmap of what I wanted to do or how to get there. I learned how to study and apply myself in the classroom setting and at home.”. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. The dropout rate is around 70 percent. Read more about higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Enoch Jemmott’s shot at a college education depends entirely on a football scholarship, along with tracking down the financial aid documents he needs from his homeless mother. Christine Rodriguez can go to college only if she convinces her reluctant mother that girls deserve the same chance at higher education as boys. BROOKLYN, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Yet, inside the building, a new vision for the education of low-income students of color has taken root. A student who failed came away with little understanding of how to improve. Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report. Special Report.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” ” “The White House on Monday announced that it would nominate Mitchell “Mick” Zais as deputy secretary of education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

(National) Education Politics. “And how did she get to be head of our schools.” ” “Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest” – historian Sherman Dorn on “ Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.” billion from the Department of Education. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

(National) Education Politics. “To Understand Betsy DeVos ’s Educational Views, View Her Education,” says The New York Times. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A Task Force With Falwell Is Happening, White House Says.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

But away from the political debates and television lights, educators in the Patchogue-Medford school district have been quietly cultivating a different image. The recession forced the district to lay off 50 educators, but as its finances improved, the district prioritized bilingualism.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

(National) Education Politics. “ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” “Dear Mrs. .”

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