Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In this post, we will delve into the intricacies of prior knowledge, guided by significant research findings, discuss some of its types and examples, and explore how this understanding can transform educational practices.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. And that’s when I said no.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 9, 2018

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report). “In Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report ). BRONX, N.Y. —

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JANUARY 28, 2019

. • House Bill 187 would provide additional funding to enable school districts to employ a professional school counselor in every elementary school , with priority going to school districts with low accreditation levels. Many students in Mississippi lack access to mental health care , which is something a counselor can often provide.

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JUNE 29, 2022

The pilot program trains 11th and 12th grade students to do basic interventions — helping with schoolwork planning and navigating new social dynamics — to reduce the risk of dropouts. Experts say it’s complicated appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. Then, as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Duncan decided to close three low-performing elementary schools.

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MAY 19, 2022

Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So it’s easy for me to show them how to do it, show them my way,” said Obimma.

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MARCH 5, 2018

Photo: Judge Evans for The Hechinger Report. In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” All through elementary school, she’d excelled in the classroom, though she spent a lot of time in the principal’s office. “But

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. But the state line does make a difference in the schools. “The

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APRIL 3, 2023

Pathways help students and families navigate complex systems and figure out how to get the skills they need for the jobs and the lives they want. This story about education-to-workforce pathways was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Students had to take full responsibility for their education, making choices about attendance, motivation, engagement and how to limit distractions. They also gained invaluable experience being resourceful when they didn’t know how to proceed. “We Related: Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores.

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MARCH 11, 2021

At Benedict, we’ve taken a crash course in how to recreate that on-campus support in a virtual environment, and the lessons extend beyond our institution. This story about HBCUs was produced by The Hechinger Report and supported by the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs Higher Education Media Fellowship.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. — Proof Points.

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JANUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. “We Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. “I Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. They hadn’t seen that before.

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JUNE 27, 2020

Steven Montoya, who is 27 and grew up in Queens, New York, recalls how much he struggled in classes because of anger over his mother’s incarceration. Few of his teachers knew how to handle his behavior, he says. The post ‘It’s really hard to parent from behind bars’ appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

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. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Photo courtesy Michelle McLaughlin.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

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. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report. 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. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Making changes gradually.

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MARCH 18, 2021

Here’s a hard lesson I’ve learned working in the after-school field for nearly three decades: Often, it’s not until report cards come that parents discover there’s a problem. We help students who are interested in college understand which courses they need to complete, and we show them how to apply.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

But Dee says the data suggests a need to understand more about children who aren’t in school and how that will affect their development. Over months of reporting, the AP learned of students and families avoiding school for a range of reasons. When his mother asked him about speaking to a reporter, he cursed her out.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. What’s his name?”

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APRIL 28, 2021

Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. This story about teacher residency was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the new school year began this fall, battles around vaccine and mask mandates raged, school boards took up the thorny issue of how to teach students about race and Congress argued about how much to spend on children (and everything else). Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Stanley Celestine Jr.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

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. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Photo Isaac Carey/The Hechinger Report.

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AUGUST 22, 2020

In the absence of clear federal and state guidance for reopening, school districts have debated everything from whether to mandate masks for in-person classes to how to make online-only learning more effective. The post Students have their own demands for school reopening appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Jaden Huynh Michael Liao Mana Setayesh Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report. She previously wanted to specialize in trauma surgery but eventually decided to avoid “the terrible rates of PTSD ” in that field and instead learn how to cut into people’s brains.). Credit: Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Residential colleges continue to struggle with the decision of whether and how to bring students safely back this spring, amid CDC guidelines that have left them with a great degree of discretion and led to an array of different plans and approaches. Credit: Jennipher Acheampong. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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