eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Minnesota’s South Washington County (SoWashCo) Schools today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in K-8 classrooms across the district. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Another "big" for Texas is education, and when I'm looking to get a pulse on what the current trends and landscape are, I turn to social media! With over 5 million students currently enrolled in Texas public schools alone , the Twitterverse is rich with insights from state educational leadership. Tony Bonazzi @GISDMath.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 2, 2019

Our research, approach to STEM and other thought leadership can be found through our website , social media and blog. Here, you can get to know MIND’s current featured speakers and what they have to say around mathematics, neuroscience, education, research and learning. The Anatomy of Our Speaker Page.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Your role as an educator in learners’ social and emotional development Students need to learn social and emotional skills formally through instruction and informally as they interact with adults and peers day to day. As an educator, you think about and practice these skills yourself so you can model them for your learners.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

-- Virtual Field Trip of Arconic in Austin, Texas brings exciting STEM careers to classrooms and explores how 3D printing is revolutionizing aerospace manufacturing - - Silver Spring, Md. Educators, classrooms and communities may register for the virtual field trip at ManufactureYourFuture.com.

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techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

June 20, 2018) – Tennessee’s Hamilton County Schools (HCS) today announced it has selected Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms to support its inquiry-based teaching and learning initiative. This vision also extends to high schools through the Future Ready Institutes.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

As society becomes increasingly dependent on social media sites for consuming information and as a personal pulpit for ideas and opinions, schools and classrooms need to become the primary source of instruction on how to prepare students for effective offline and online discourse.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2021

I’ve also marked which of these are also ‘digital and social media-friendly’–that is, useful online as well as off. You could always give simple rules, provide basic question or answer stems, and have students ‘debate’ one another–or you, the teacher, assuming a person, place, or idea.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Tune in to discover why esports might just be the missing piece in your educational toolkit and how you can start a program at your school. TexSEF’s goal is to use esports, gaming, and media to connect kids to school and to each other. From 2017-2020, she held an Instructional Coaching Fellowship with Google for Education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The 7th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) Starts Sunday! The Global Education Conference Network's seventh annual global collaboration "extravaganza" will take place around the clock starting this Sunday, November 13, and continuing through Wednesday, November 16. Important Updates Below. Become a Partner Organization!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2017

These are very same literary concepts that we ask our students to learn in primary and secondary English classes. They’re typing all the day over their social media platforms. And their grammar school curriculum is based more and more on learning code languages via STEM concentrations. What happens if. ?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Once imagined only in science fiction, artificial intelligence now powers much of the technology we interact with every day—from smart home devices to cognitive assistants to media recommenders. The field of education is no less affected by these technologies. Furthermore, educators are not the only ones using AI technologies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. While some educators worry about turning schools into vehicles for job readiness, efforts to integrate technical training and academic education continue to gain traction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: November 2 - 4, all online, all free. The Classroom 2.0

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MindShift

MAY 5, 2017

Technically, if one trusts the etymology, the best way for a teacher to confer with other educators would be an educator conference. Meanwhile, the most enthusiastic listeners whisper to each other, or form mini-groups outside the conference walls, maybe even at a social gathering later that day.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2018

Paid registration is required [link] About the Summit In a time of increased cultural diversity, global connectivity, and polarization of perspectives, how can leaders in classrooms, schools, districts, and education policy arenas support students with the competencies to thrive in college, careers, and as citizens in diverse communities?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 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. National Geographic defines a geo-educator as any individual working to improve young peoples'' understanding of the world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 - 27, 2019. During this week (and beyond), experienced global educators and other professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation. A current listing of events you can join is below.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 7, 2022

The use of this technology is equally trending in the education, museum, and professional learning spheres. Virtual Reality is a social and digital technology that uniquely promises to transform learning, build empathy, and make personal and professional training more effective and economical. Get Your Free! 3D Artifacts!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This short list of tools and teaching suggestions can help educators integrate a variety of writing activities into their instructional designs. Connecting emotion and content Jill Weber, a secondary school teacher in Cheney, Kansas, uses an effective ELA and social studies strategy called Note card confessions.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 23, 2022

The use of this technology is equally trending in the education, museum, and professional learning spheres. Virtual Reality is a social and digital technology that uniquely promises to transform learning, build empathy, and make personal and professional training more effective and economical. Get Your Free! 3D Artifacts!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2022

The use of this technology is equally trending in the education, museum, and professional learning spheres. Virtual Reality is a social and digital technology that uniquely promises to transform learning, build empathy, and make personal and professional training more effective and economical. Get Your Free! 3D Artifacts!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

That’s an extreme example of a surprising shift besetting all of higher education. Department of Education. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Maybe [admissions officers] should be going into middle schools and start talking to fifth-graders about the benefits of college education.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Don Buckley - Co-Founder, Tools at Schools - "Is it Possible to Innovate in Education?" This is a great opportunity to share your work or ideas!

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

In the Guide to Capstone Education from the National Capstone Consortium there are a series of questions posed about technology and the role it should, could or might possibly play in a capstone course. Technology is also able to support the 4Cs of education (Critical Thinking, Communication, Creativity and Collaboration).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Paid registration is required [link] About the Summit In a time of increased cultural diversity, global connectivity, and polarization of perspectives, how can leaders in classrooms, schools, districts, and education policy arenas support students with the competencies to thrive in college, careers, and as citizens in diverse communities?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Please spread the word and tell people about the Summit forward this email , or post on social media Hashtag: #homelearningsummit Twitter: @homelearnsummit Facebook: @homelearningsummit Instagram: homelearningsummit HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE ARE WORKING TO COVER IN THE SUMMIT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND OPEN-CHAT TIMES : ADHD and Learning ?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Notes from the UNI Education Summit in Cedar Falls, Iowa a couple of weeks ago… Website. I’m glad there are so many educators here; I always feel safer in a room of teachers! He said, “You’ve had a wonderful education. The city department of education sent me out as a substitute. My first day was in kindergarten.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. You can now find out.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The ninth annual Global Education Conference starts this coming Monday! This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. The hidden treasure of the Global Education Conference is volunteering--you will love it! LOTS of information below! Go to [link] 4.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. Some digital resources for school libraries are a virtual reality field trip.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him , was the “inventor of everything (good) in education.” This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. I do so in Seymour’s memory.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Right now, and into 2023, what I am learning/making/reading revolves around some of the usual topics of teaching, higher education, and technology. I've learned over the years how to find energy, purpose, balance, and satisfaction as a higher education professional, even through the worst of the pandemic and up to now.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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