techlearning

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gilbert Public Schools district has created a robot library that features kits that can be borrowed by schools and come complete with lessons tied to standards.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Padlet is an online bulletin board that teachers and students can use to collaborate, curate, and share digital content. The way Padlet works is simple and easy: users create padlets and add posts to.read more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Research shows that giving students agency and influence in their learning makes them more engaged and invested in their education. It also empowers them to take control, show initiative, and adopt leadership roles. Giving students voice and choice also helps them feel valued, encourages them to realize their interests and potential, and can improve their academic outcomes.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Blog post by Stacey Pusey based on this edLeader Panel. What happens when a state has a professional learning mandate for teachers but no funding to offer them? Or taking any professional learning seminar requires hours of travel with no viable substitutes to cover the class? And what about adult learning in general, when the majority of workers in need are low income and marginalized?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Building efficiencies in your back office (or should we say back school) operations is essential to running a compliant school operation. Amongst the myriad disruptions to school district operations last year, the ability to properly manage traditionally paper-based processes was taken away. The only solution was to automate—and most schools have discovered they are better off because of it.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Pandemic-era lockdowns put an unmistakable spotlight on digital equity — particularly for K-12 students. But nowhere is the digital divide larger than in the Black rural South. Even after service providers launched discounts for broadband services during the pandemic — often targeting online learning — Black Americans across the South saw little change in their access to broadband services.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

While students across all grades have shown growth during the pandemic-related learning disruptions, that growth hasn’t kept pace with what we’d expect to see in a typical year. According to the most recent data , students in grades 2–8 have fallen an average of 11 percentile points below typical year expectations in math. In terms of instructional time, it will take approximately 11 weeks to make up that lost ground, though it varies widely from grade to grade.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! As of Nov. 4, the U.S. Department of Education has approved 46 state plans for the latest round of $122 billion in federal funds to help schools recover from the pandemic.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that college students’ tastes for digital services have the power to make companies snap to attention. A recent example is publishing giant Pearson’s dive into the world of textbook subscriptions in hopes of making itself more appealing to students shopping around for the best deal. But what about campus bookstores, which are often tied more intimately to colleges?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

When the pandemic hit, consumer advocates and higher education experts issued a grim warning: Predatory for-profit colleges were poised for a revival. A year later, those predictions have proven depressingly accurate. While community colleges have struggled with enrollment, for-profit college attendance has skyrocketed — especially among adult learners.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In April 2019, I stood with Virginia’s Governor, Secretary of Education, and State Superintendent to declare “ Virginia is for Learners.” It was the crescendo of a multi-year education reform effort spanning two gubernatorial administrations, led by a host of state and local education leaders. Since then, a growing group of nonpartisan education leaders have been working hard to deliver on that promise.

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