The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Her daughter, whose name is being withheld to protect her privacy, learned from the living room couch or dining room table, and there was no chance for altercations with her peers in the hallway or on the bus. But in October, less than two months after returning to in-person learning in Sacramento, California, she was suspended again.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2018

From augmented reality to game-based learning and online portfolios, she has a variety of ideas to share about how she amps up her science teaching with technology. SPONSOR: Join a Free Personalized Learning Session with Me and TextHelp! Get ready to talk about Personalized Learning. Listen to the show.

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Game-Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Gamification Elementary 265

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

At last February’s Board meeting, 10-year old Ryan inspired the adults in the room to see how tech can be leveraged for learning in a whole new light. Ryan had this chance to shine because of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), which has been fostering student voice, choice and collaboration over the last two years.

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Learning Analytics Personalized Learning Learning Microsoft 127

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. LearnLaunch Institute , the Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech Consortium (MAPLE) functions as a professional learning community for 32 district members that aim to implement personalized learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

This elementary curriculum engages, inspires, and connects students firsthand to the world around them through a total of 24 student-driven modules. Student Agency A strong theme in the new Edition is the power of student agency, a personalized learning concept that gives students a choice and voice in learning.

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BYOT Network

JUNE 28, 2016

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. Consider the following forms of communication: reading, writing, speaking, and listening and their importance in the digital age when information is so readily accessible. The use of technology can benefit the development of these skills.

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Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Guidelines 54

BYOT Network

JUNE 28, 2016

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. Consider the following forms of communication: reading, writing, speaking, and listening and their importance in the digital age when information is so readily accessible. The use of technology can benefit the development of these skills.

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Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Guidelines 54

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Technology is developing at a faster clip than its adoption, and while some K–12 classrooms are innovating — by using drones in curriculum or digital tools to personalize learning — they remain isolated examples dotting an unequal landscape where, often, digitization is seen as an end in itself rather than a means to improve learning.

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Robotics Report Training EdTech 526

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. EdSurge: There is a lot of discussion right now about learning loss and learning gaps.

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MindShift

JULY 11, 2017

WILDER, Idaho — Eight years ago, the principal of Idaho’s Wilder Elementary School, Jeff Dillon, made a tough decision: He pulled his children out of the district high school to send them to private school. “I My kids begged me to come to summer school,” said Chantelle Mullins, a mother of two elementary school students. Dillon said.

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Personalized Learning Elementary iPad Learning 68

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

Vista’s trials and errors started when the school became an XQ Super School Project, with a five-year grant by the national nonprofit to bring a personalized-learning approach to this suburban district. In response, they launched an experimental Personalized Learning Academy for 150 juniors and seniors deemed at risk of dropping out.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 78

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

This teacher also mines data at the individual student level to help students become active owners of their learning process. . The tradigital learning environment encourages all teachers — elementary, middle and high school — to adopt a station rotation model. Personalized Learning Is the Ultimate Goal.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Wells Elementary has been taking the feedback that I provide for over three years and recently asked me to create a session that focused on strategies for opening and closing lessons. How would you summarize what you learned for someone who wasn't here? The above only represent some ideas on how to close a lesson.

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Strategy Trends Outcomes Elementary 405

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 16, 2018

Rather than instructors pointing fingers at IT staff (or vice versa), Antwon Lincoln, instructional technology coordinator at Chula Vista Elementary School District , says that collaboration and communication are the keys to success. How to Marry IT and Instructional Technology.

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Future Ready Elementary EdTech Education 179

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Through a large-scale, multi-year, federal project focusing on early literacy, we were able to gather feedback from educators on how instruction has been going this school year. These strategies hold potential to inform visions of future schooling as the country recovers from the devastation of COVID-19. Reimagining Family Engagement.

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Assessment Groups Differentiated Instruction Meeting 384

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. To display the scientific information they discovered, the students created two different types of graphs to show the times of day compared to the length of the shadows.

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How To Differentiated Instruction Common Core Groups 129

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Our youngest learners will need some help and guidance, especially if their elementary schools have not been 1:1 or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). These aren’t an effective practice in school, and thus it shouldn’t be a go-to as a means to validate a remote learning plan. Parents are juggling an equal amount of challenges and pressure.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding,” says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. I started with coding about three years ago, with the Hour of Code tutorial by code.org,” says Kirsten Innes, information specialist at the school. I use Twitter a lot.

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Robotics Classroom STEM Elementary 415

User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions. Video Game Design with Elementary Learners.

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UDL STEM Tools Guidelines 275

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 136

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity to enact standards to ensure that teachers’ instruction methods are effective and backed by science.

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Policies Assessment Outcomes Instructional Materials 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Kathy Neumann’s third graders at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, struggled to understand fractions during this pandemic-disrupted school year. With remote learning, they couldn’t do their usual classroom activity of cutting strips of construction paper into halves, quarters and thirds. Read the series.

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Strategy Elementary Groups Personalized Learning 145

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Students can perform a cool project in Minecraft (while learning probability), learn about water quality with a student leader from Flint, Michigan, or learn to program their computer and many more options. . Inside Tract , students create a personal learning path with meaningful projects to choose from.

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Classroom Learning Examples Video 423

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Monica Williams.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In fact, it seems as if all eyes are on Higuera and his classmates as they pioneer what the superintendent of Dysart, Gail Pletnick, calls “the future of education” — a personalized learning environment that puts students in control of what, when and how they learn, with teachers as their guides. Right now, most do not.

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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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Policies Elementary Analysis Report 89

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. In response, they launched an experimental Personalized Learning Academy for 150 juniors and seniors deemed at risk of dropping out.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. Declarative Prior Knowledge Declarative prior knowledge refers to the ‘what’ of learning—it’s the factual information and concepts that students bring to a new learning situation.

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Knowledge Base Assessment Study Dropout 112

User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning. As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). What are some suggestions for how to say no if a friend asks to copy my homework? Later, I describe and show the work of my students.

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Training Examples Wiki Technology 421

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 486

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

has produced an information paradox. Yet without a coordinated national response to the crisis, reliable data that could help inform policy is scarce. School leaders trying to make decisions about whether and how to reopen physical classrooms this fall are feeling the absence of useful statistics acutely. percent for staff.

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Data Education Guidelines Secondary 154

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The topic of trauma — specifically, trauma-informed teaching — has become a focus in education. As the visual arts teacher at an elementary school in Brooklyn, N.Y., I teach art via a program called Teaching for Artistic Behavior, which values student choice and agency and aligns perfectly with trauma-informed instruction.

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Robotics Differentiated Instruction Elementary Examples 142

MindShift

MAY 17, 2021

This school year, kindergarteners learned how to turn on and off their web cameras and mute buttons alongside spelling and reading fundamentals. Courtney Miller’s son is in kindergarten at Glen Cove Elementary in Vallejo, California. B’ is made with a dive-down letter. So you dive down,” Glick said as she deepened her voice.

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How To Learning Elementary Social Media 44

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Through our direct interactions with educators and school leaders around the country working to implement effective personalized learning models in their schools and districts, we find that technology’s role in this arena is yet to be clearly defined on a broad scale. How is current research-based evidence validating tech integration?

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Technology Personalized Learning EdTech Robotics 87

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online.

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Education Handbook Course Elementary 211

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Technology is developing at a faster clip than its adoption, and while some K–12 classrooms are innovating — by using drones in curriculum or digital tools to personalize learning — they remain isolated examples dotting an unequal landscape where, often, digitization is seen as an end in itself rather than a means to improve learning.

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Robotics Report Training EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Technology is developing at a faster clip than its adoption, and while some K–12 classrooms are innovating — by using drones in curriculum or digital tools to personalize learning — they remain isolated examples dotting an unequal landscape where, often, digitization is seen as an end in itself rather than a means to improve learning.

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Robotics Report Training EdTech 150