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Written with Shaelynn Farnsworth , post is sponsored by ThinkCERCA , an online platform designed to empower teachers to personalize literacy instruction across disciplines. There has been no greater impact on differentiation and student achievement in recent years than the effective integration of technology in the classroom. Traditionally, literacy educators spent long hours gathering resources, developing tasks and extensions, and reading and analyzing assessment to determine if the instructio

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Tracking users for the purpose of targeted advertising is the dominant business model of the the web as we know it. In exchange for free services, users are shown ads. Not just any ads, but increasingly personalized ads. This technology has driven the growth of online platforms and services—and mobile apps—that billions of people rely on day-to-day for services they value.

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So This Guy Reads Poetry To Stuck Commuters by Ashley McCann Going about our daily lives can be largely impersonal. Aside from interacting with family, or the shallow (and largely mandatory) conversations that are required for work, genuine connection is scarce among those we don’t know and are unlikely to see often. Generally, we […]. The post So This Guy Reads Poetry To Stuck Commuters appeared first on TeachThought.

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Experience provides the best learning.even when it’s not your own. That’s the bottom line and big payoff for listening to this six-podcast series on personalized learning from The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. Each audio snippet covering one of the partners from the NGLC Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools feels casual and engaging -- just as if we were chatting over coffee.

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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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October 28, 2017 Here are four good iPad apps for music teachers. These are apps that are featured in iTunes App Store and which enable you to: learn and master several musical instruments such as.read more.

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Vision-setting can be a painful process. Hours may be spent on one twisting sentence. Long, awkward silences may follow periods of disagreement. Jargon can add up to something that everyone agrees to but no one really understands or finds inspiring. It doesn’t have to be this way. As Education Elements has worked with districts across the country, we’ve found a few simple guidelines can help make the visioning process invigorating and inspiring rather than routine or frustrating. 1.

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Project Unicorn is an advocacy initiative focused on improving data interoperability within K-12 education. It strives to make the broader case for secure interoperability for students and school system. As the project notes: “People in school districts who procure and support data tools and the vendors who create and sell them must have a common language to discuss requirements and solutions and objectively evaluate their tools’ capabilities.

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. What’s hot? Messaging and Music: To be or not to be. In these posts we look at the advantages, considerations, and challenges when it comes to allowing students to listen to music and use messaging in the classroom. Want to know the verdict? Check out the hottest posts on The Innovative Educator for the answer.

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Low-performing schools have a strong advocate in the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Through its District and School Improvement Center (DSI Center), the non-profit group offers an extensive array of services including individualized instructional coaching to fit school or district needs, addressing community and family involvement, data analysis and assistance obtaining grants.

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Photo by Steve Wheeler There is a large, flexible learning space in Ormiston Junior College on the outskirts of Auckland. It's called a modern learning environment or MLE. In one of the corners, near a large window is Jasmine's tent. It's only a framework, no more than a semblance of a teepee really, but Jasmine sits comfortably inside and quietly gets on with her work.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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The Research and Evidence in Edtech hosted on edWeb is a free, virtual clubhouse or professional learning community for educators, company representatives, entrepreneurs and researchers. edWeb supports such online communities across a variety of education topics. This one is sponsored by Digital Promise , whose mission is to spur innovation in education.

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The guide, Using Evidence to Strengthen Education Investments , aims to help state education agencies, local education agencies, schools, educators, partner organizations and other stakeholders select and implement interventions that improve student outcomes. In this guide, the Department of Education explains “evidence-based.” It provides steps for effective decision-making regarding selection of evidence-based interventions.

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Strong leaders are essential for the developing and sustaining transitions to digital learning. Leaders know this and want research-back direction to be those strong leaders who make good choices. The Office of Educational Technology (OET), in partnership with the American Institutes for Research, developed a research-based synthesis that defines a set of 27 policies and practices within four focus areas: collaborative leadership, personalized student learning, personalized professional learning

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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver Scott McLeod, and author, speaker and 2010 ISTE Outstanding Leader of the Year Dean Shareski released a book in September that describes six gaps between what most of today’s schools teach and what students and society need from them. The gaps that need to be addressed, according to Different Schools for a Different World : Information Literacy: Schools must immerse students in the use of digital tools in and outs

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Wisconsin’s Kettle Moraine School District (KMSD) is featured in the Future Ready Leaders project’s professional learning resources as one of the nation’s leaders in personalized learning. (The project is showcased on the Department of Education’s website.) KMSD became recognized as a Future Ready school after an evaluation based on the 27 points of policies and practice within the focus areas.

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How can school and district leaders leverage research-based practices and models of success to create an effective personalized learning ecosystem for all learners? Launched in 2015, Future Ready Schools ®, a collaboration of over 60 national and regional organizations, led by the Alliance for Excellent Education , lays out a framework for change and provides a myriad of free tools and resources, as well as support for district and school-based leaders.

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Here’s a veritable treasure trove of available research on education tools and programs. Digital Promise has compiled a Research Map based on data from more than 100,000 articles published between 2007 and 2016. The dozen main topics include: instruction and teacher learning, cognition and memory, online learning and so on. The map helps educators, leaders, innovators and stakeholders quickly find education and learning science research results and reports.

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The Learning Assembly is a conglomeration of seven nonprofit organizations that collaborate with educators, edtech companies and research partners to raise the bar for quality in the edtech market. The seven members of the Learning Assembly are: Citizen Schools, Digital Promise, Highlander Institute, iZone, LearnLaunch, LEAP Innovations and the Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

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Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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How about a video plan to help incorporate digital learning into your schools? This series of 50 short videos help schools and districts see how it looks to implement various parts of a personalized learning strategy into their systems. In support of the Future Ready Schools Initiative, where superintendents across the country pledge to actively work toward widespread, equitable digital learning, the U.S.

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Keep an eye on Fuse RI ; it’s an initiative that has brought educators and administrators together through two-year fellowships to prepare them to spread blended-learning education across Rhode Island. The size of the state could make it the perfect research subject and incubator for such an effort. In fact, it has already produced a copy, SyraFuse, in Syracuse, N.Y.

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The consulting firm Education Elements designated four factors as the keys to successfully integrating a personalized learning model, based on its experience with 100 districts, 300 schools and 300,000 students. Those four elements—flexible content and tools, targeted instruction, data-driven decisions and student reflection and ownership—are the Core Four of Personalized Learning.

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Teachers give grades with the ease of snow falling in Alaska; it’s what they do. Lea(R)n Platform takes advantage of that and asks them to grade the tech products they use. Lea(R)n developed the grading protocol, a rubric of eight criteria and then directs teachers to assign A through F ratings—no stars here. With the rubric comes a research brief that explains how it was created.

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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The Massachusetts School Support Network (MassNET) Edtech Testbed research aims to improve schools’ abilities to implement edtech tools. It is also meant to increase understanding of how different factors influence the success of incorporating instructional technology into schools. The research evaluates strengths and weaknesses of particular software products and attempts to examine equity issues.

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For anyone looking to test innovative teaching practices and edtech tools to find what works, welcome to the Learning Assembly pilot toolkit. It has resources to test products, processes and programs. The Learning Assembly , supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a network of seven nonprofit organizations— Citizen Schools , Digital Promise , Highlander Institute , iZone , LEAP Innovations , LearnLaunch Institute and Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

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Digital Promise , a non-profit using technology and research to spur innovation and expand learning opportunities, has created Digital Promise Professional Services to provide personal help to educators as they transform their schools and districts. DP’s team walks education professionals through the creation of personalized, collaborative and mobile learning opportunities for students.

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Project Unicorn is an advocacy initiative whose eight partner organizations want to improve data interoperability within K-12 education. The initiative hopes to leverage data to create better outcomes for students, save time for teachers, increase efficiencies for schools and allow them to interact more with their community. As schools and districts implement innovative learning systems, they must address issues of data interoperability.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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