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JANUARY 17, 2024

Moderator Erica Hart from EVERFI began the discussion with a definition of work-based learning, which included alignment of classroom and workplace learning; the application of academic, technological, and employability skills in a work setting; and support from classroom and workplace mentors.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). How to get started. Elementary Math. Writing Prompts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Here are some back-to-school tips, advice, and valuable insights from educators, stakeholders, and industry experts. We need to prioritize discussions on how to effectively support multilingual students. In order to keep this industry flourishing, schools need to prepare the next generation of workers in this industry.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Districts around the country are enacting similar plans, and many start by deciding on what technology to use in the classroom. We spent nearly two years talking to stakeholders and developing our instructional and academic goals before considering what technology to purchase. At BCPS, we took a curriculum-first approach.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

She lives in Illinois with her two-year-old Bridgette (who already knows how to count from one to ten) and a pet dog. The internet and the rapid technological improvement are making the world a little bit smaller and are eliminating barriers to learning. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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DECEMBER 4, 2022

Whether you work at the elementary level, with older kids or college students, managing the responsibilities you have to kids both at work and at home can be daunting. Whether you work with six-year-olds or college kids yourself, you are probably thinking about how to prepare your child for their own college education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Besides learning about their bodies, this integrates technology transparently into student learning, as a process rather than a product — as a tool used to complete their project. An easier version — and well-suited to elementary age students — is Find My Body Parts. Click to view slideshow. Try a different one.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

Over the course of the three-day event, these highly skilled students were tested on their knowledge of renewable energy, their design and problem-solving skills, and their wind turbines’ energy output by a team of renewable energy educators and industry professionals. Mauston Gummy Bears from Mauston High School in Mauston, Wis.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. School districts will have to make choices.” The onsite training is expensive.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Educators are encouraged to view AI not merely as a technological advancement but as a tool to enhance and augment the human experience. Brandon Taylor I am learning how to teach AI together with students. It is one of many activities from ISTE-GM AI Explorations Hands-on Guides for Elementary Teachers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So, what role(s) should technology play in education? How is current research-based evidence validating tech integration? Make it (inter)personal “Many educators associate personalized learning technology with a push to commercialize and dehumanize education—keeping students glued to screens with little human interaction.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. 00:00:41 Speaker 1 And that doesn’t always work because they’re afraid of technology. 00:00:35 Speaker 1 The math teacher.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2017

The countdown has begun and we can hardly contain our enthusiasm at the thought of meeting once again so many beautiful people who, before anything else, are interested in how to leverage technology in order to do more for student learning. Why are we so excited about ISTE, you may wonder? Reasons abound. Third time’s a charm.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Coral Zayas Coral Zayas is the new elementary instructional support specialist for science in Crowley ISD’s iNetwork of schools. So, I was motivated to take the industry and peer knowledge and then bring it into my classroom. But I know that these technologies have existed outside of the education space much longer.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP At a time when Americans joke about how bad they are at math, and already abysmal scores on standardized math tests are falling even further, employers and others say the nation needs people who are good at math in the same way motion picture mortals need superheroes. That’s much faster than most other kinds of jobs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. And neither is elementary-grade science. with teachers using its materials on a monthly basis in 20 percent of elementary schools. million in profit.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 2, 2023

During the edLeader Panel, “ Utilizing ESSER Funding to Implement PBL + STEM Initiatives ,” a panel of educational peers engaged in a lively discussion about how to best invest funding from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) in high-impact project-based learning (PBL) and STEM initiatives across the nation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

What schools need to do, he said, is provide teachers with a better understanding of what AI is and share examples of how to use it. Instead, he’s encouraging teachers to use the summer to explore AI, in part by selecting an AI tool of their choice and thinking about how it could be incorporated into the classroom this fall.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2023

Kareem Edouard has been doing research for years on how to make children’s media more inclusive. Today, he’s an assistant professor in learning sciences and STEM education at Drexel University’s School of Education, and he leads the university’s Informal Learning Linking Engineering Science and Technology ( ILLEST Lab ).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Today, the phrase is the mantra pushing my teachers and principals to think past the traditional style of teaching and incorporate hands-on project-based learning that offers students a chance to explore a plethora of careers in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics).

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

How could we transform a traditional, dysfunctional, low-performing system measured by high-stakes assessments into a system with exceptional teaching and learning environments that developed students empowered to change the world? At Summit Elementary, traditional grade levels have been eliminated and replaced with instructional levels.

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JUNE 20, 2019

In order to familiarize students with STEM concepts, it must be introduced at an early age, preferably from the elementary level. Today, when technology is accelerating at a rapid pace, everyone requires some level of STEM skills to function in the world around them. Related: How to Create Digital Textbooks in 5 Easy Steps.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2019

Katrise Perera as the superintendent in July of 2017, she set out to listen and learn from students, parents, staff, and community members how to best serve our students. How to drive innovation. Related: 3 ways technology & innovation are transforming classrooms. Engage multiple stakeholders. Develop a common framework.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

We, like many, have found that unflinching perpetuation of an industrial schooling model doesn’t support learners to develop critical competencies needed now or in the future. But, as Ira notes, even though schools of art, architecture, medical, and even police work teach how to observe and how to see, schools of education often do not.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. The pace of change, driven predominantly by the rapid encroachment of digital and now AI technologies, has accelerated dramatically. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ).

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In today’s technologically advanced world, workers who are computational thinkers with a firm grasp of science, engineering, math, and technology (STEM) are in high demand. The typical elementary teacher does not have a STEM background, which can create a level of anxiety. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Department of Education hopes that the blockchain technology transforming the finance and logistics industries could play a role in making education records more portable and transparent. Blockchain technology records information in decentralized digital ledgers that enable swift, transparent transactions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Richard Culatta, CEO of the nonprofit International Society for Technology in Education, or ISTE, warns that if the education community sits on the sidelines as the technology is advancing and ethical concerns are navigated, it will be “the century’s biggest wasted opportunity.” It supports the notion that it’s a tool.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

It also comes at a moment when digital technology has prompted many people to question longstanding practices about when , where and how learning and work should get done. Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving. Embracing Flexibility?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2018

Catherine Ross, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, has some great suggestions on how to celebrate that with children and students in a way that shows th em how to be responsible stewards for the only planet we have. Cultural mores have morphed because of technology, leaving a discontinuity between the old and the new.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Basically, it’s because there aren’t enough education opportunities that require that sort of skill and those there are, usually rhyme with ‘math’ or ‘science’ which to many kids are “just too complicated” Enter STEM–Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. “I How to Use it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Since 2016, a California company has set out to make Montessori mainstream through building and acquiring a network of schools and technologies, and offering professional development programs to prepare future Montessori teachers and leaders. There’s a counterpart for middle and high schools, called Academy of Thought and Industry.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 14, 2022

There are many uses for technology today that improve our society and the way we live our lives, but one form of tech having a particularly significant impact is ed-tech. Educational technologies enable children to learn things on a whole new level, broadening their minds and their capabilities. Emotional Intelligence.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This stellar district continues to up its game responding to its highest pressure points: social and cultural expectations for consumer-level personalized digital experiences, ever-changing academic and technical standards and increasing technology complexity. We provide, support, and sustain technology deeply aligned with our vision.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

education system was designed 100 years ago to support the Industrial Revolution,” Saveri explains. “A A shock like the pandemic shows just how rigid the institution really is. How schools reorganize now, in response to the pandemic, may only be a dry run for what will be increasingly needed in the future.”

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2017

It’s one of many Kaun—a one-time marketing professional who has a doctorate in education—has had in a long career of finding innovative ways to bring technology to the classroom. We had retired teachers, MTA engineers, mechanical engineers, industrial designers. That sparked an idea.

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