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. This type of knowledge is dynamic and context-dependent, often demonstrated through action. Sandmann, A., Sures, B.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In hybrid courses, IDLA teachers and students meet on a weekly basis in real-time (synchronously), in addition to the asynchronous nature of online content and assessments, which students can tackle on their own time, at their own piece. But don’t take solely our word for it—hear how the students responded.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The leadership of NASSP is well aware of trends in and the value of connected learning and have created a learning experience that will meet the needs of all attendees. With those topics in mind, they reached out to presenters who they knew could address those issues with authority and facilitate meaningful discussions about them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”. It’s not a bank.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — At a late August meeting in a windowless room at Minneapolis College, a handful of students barely a week into classes sat back on couches, took a breath and marveled that they were there at all. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Students learn about at least one career in each category each year, and teachers create lessons and activities around those careers across four levels: exploration, simulation, meet a pro and practice. The “meet a pro” activities primarily happen virtually, through Nepris , a platform that connects industry professionals with classrooms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Set up a virtual meeting by answering a series of questions designed to find the right expert for your needs. This was an authentic example for students of on-the-fly problem-solving.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. But when nine out of 10 schools nationwide use credit recovery, there are examples of ushering kids through a system without a rigorous education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Equal treatment — giving the exact same service to everyone — isn’t the same thing as equitable treatment, which is providing what each child needs to meet a particular goal. What can we do about these dilemmas posed by a standardized system trying — and failing — to meet the needs of so many children?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

“The problems tends to arise when kids go to school because the deeper they get in, the more they start to lose interest,” Robinson said, pointing to the United States’ large student dropout percentage as evidence that school—as a system—is failing students. One key example: standardized testing. Sir Ken Robinson.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For example, at first a participant might pay little or nothing for their living space, then housing costs incrementally increase. In 2009, for example, the state passed legislation requiring many schools to give them priority for on-campus housing. Other times, as in Johnson’s case, the organization offers a rental subsidy.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” For example, Oakland Community College, in Michigan, has identified 900 students who in the last six years earned a degree but never had it posted to their records. Really what we’re looking at is systemic problems.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

for example, some 1. That means all colleges must affirm and adopt nontraditional approaches to meeting students’ needs — including a wraparound support model that is available seven days a week and on holiday breaks. For example, when the reality of the pandemic hit Benedict, we weren’t sure how our students would get home safely.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Students thrive when norms and expectations are clear, they are invested in upholding them and they receive real-time coaching about how to meet them. Both adults and kids need to modify their behavior from time to time — for example, when they want to change eating or exercise habits.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. Examples abound of college graduates who work in retail stores and as receptionists.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The institution’s existence is dependent on meeting the expectations of the student.” Grawe argues that colleges might be able to avoid closures and budget shortfalls if they can reduce their dropout rates and focus on keeping students — and their tuition dollars — on campus. “But you can understand.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, states have to show that the alternative assessments measure comparable skills as the statewide tests. Related: How a “dropout factory” turned into a model for success. And it’s a labor-intensive, costly process, in part because of some of the other rules tied to the pilot.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Evidence-Based Solutions Examples. For example, if people learn that their neighbors are spending less on energy, they are likely to reduce their energy use. This information provides insight into the reasons (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Since 2017, for example, students in Roscoe, Texas, a rural community of about 1,300 residents, have been able to earn associate degrees and receive college credit by taking career education courses in health care, veterinary services and agriculture through a program called P-TECH. Whittenberg to Dr. Phinnize J.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A coach was meeting with a student virtually behind a glass door decorated with a decal of a stylized Rosie the Riveter. Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Early returns suggest receiving those rewards along the way is helping the so far limited number of people who have already tried microcredential programs — at edX, for example, they comprise about a tenth of all enrollment —climb more quickly. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. He could have been another dropout casualty.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. One example was in the late ’90s and the early ’00s was the tough on discipline era — zero tolerance. That was the way change was made.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Her coalition of advocates in Nashville now meets remotely, every Friday morning. Like the Rio Grande Valley, for example, Nashville had been seeing gains in high school graduation and college-going rates. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Tribes have to meet several criteria in their petitions for federal recognition, including proof they’ve had decades of a collective identity, generations of descendants and long-standing, autonomous political governance. If her daughter, for example, a Eugene middle schooler, maintains a 3.0 That’s because the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. All students need to have transparency about where they are in their progress and what they need to do to meet graduation standards.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

For example, through its College MAP program (mentoring for college access and persistence), the big four accounting firm EY has sent hundreds of its first-generation-college-grad employees to low-income high schools in 38 cities to share their stories of success and offer information and guidance. We, too, can reorient our programs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 She has opened the books to faculty and students, holding meetings with them complete with PowerPoint presentations in which she’s spoken frankly about the problems. million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Federal education and disability laws require that schools meet a number of conditions before removing children with disabilities from the same setting as their nondisabled peers, she said, and it doesn’t appear that schools are satisfying these requirements. That’s an inappropriate, and potentially illegal, punishment, she said.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

At the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Community & Technical College, Associate Dean Kim Griffis says dropouts aren’t considered a failure, if the student has landed a job in the technical field they were training for. Kim Griffis. But some colleges have a different perspective on the matter. Graduation rates are not the whole story.”.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Usually that means creating PowerPoint presentations full of pictures and “just kind of pulling from here and there,” he said — the Internet, a third grade textbook or a preschool homeschool curriculum from Sam’s Club, for example. But advocates are worried schools might not be able to meet these benchmarks without proper materials.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Hernandez, for example, was taking her 12 th grade math class via Zoom in her family’s living room when her father returned from work hours early, visibly upset. After Treisman administered the first exam last fall, Winterer, his co-professor, emailed all the students who failed, asking them to meet with her.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

In 1980 , for example, in-state tuition was $1,206. As an example, he mentioned esports, and a new curriculum that could be used as “a vehicle to enable training.”. More than 100 faculty members, adjuncts and others joined the group’s first Zoom meeting. There was a time when its formula worked, and O.U. Faculty from O.U.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In the civil rights era, Greenville, Mississippi was the model of desegregation for the nation, a shining example held up by the famous Coleman Report of a community doing it the right way. But the DOJ could hold Starkville accountable for student achievement gaps — on test scores, for example, or graduation rates — if it wanted to.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. Now every class begins with a “morning meeting.” But they also saw benefits.

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