eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. In total, the district serves 29,500 students across 60 elementary, middle, and high schools. Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. Manufacturing Trends.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2020

Once campuses fully reopen, schools will need clear strategies to catch up students who have been unable to keep up their studies at home, the experts advise. There’s an additional reason for urgency around the well-known strategy this year. Related: Desperate parents need help as coronavirus upends our lives. Ramp up rigor.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

This year alone, Juliet has used 3D printers, servo motors and microcontrollers to build the parts needed to construct a therapeutic robotic dog that she hopes will help those afraid of canines overcome their fears, a project she did as part of a lesson in her English class. Tobie Baker Wright, a former senior program manager with JFF.

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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. Amanda’s team developed a capstone project for elementary students: AI and Machine Learning for 5th Graders. We don't have to build a robot. Our strategy is a two-pronged approach.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

To go beyond tokenization, we need to employ proven strategies to increase representation in education. Related : Computer science classes have an equity issue–some NYC educators are trying to change that How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

From the experiences we provide (iPads, cutting-edge digital library, nationally-ranked Robotics program) to the inter-district professional learning we support (top-ranked VrainWaves podcast), at the core of our program is a belief in technology as a catalyst for learning at all levels. Katy ISD/ Bear Creek Elementary, Katy, TX.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

To go beyond tokenization, we need to employ proven strategies to increase representation in education. Related : Computer science classes have an equity issue–some NYC educators are trying to change that How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. CodeSnaps teaches coding basics by enticing students to actively work together, hands-on, to control Sphero robots.

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MindShift

JULY 7, 2019

This year alone, Juliet has used 3D printers, servo motors and microcontrollers to build the parts needed to construct a therapeutic robotic dog that she hopes will help those afraid of canines overcome their fears, a project she did as part of a lesson in her English class. Charleston County School District).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

“Next year, many traditional education strategies will fade away as educators help students recover from the pandemic’s impact, especially with harder-hit groups like students who learn and think differently. Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The eighth grader can also remember each of the kids she began school with back at Boudreaux Canal Elementary School. The elementary she went to next, Upper Little Caillou, had replaced another nearby school that had shuttered for the same reasons a few years earlier. Credit: Photo: Sophie Kasakove for The Hechinger Report.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

This platform is designed to develop elementary writing skills through a world-building game environment. These reports then start a dialogue between the student and a school counselor, allowing counselors to help students while also tracking incident trends school- and district-wide. Check out Boreal Tales. What's different?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. KIPP Morial, a school in New Orleans East, exemplifies how the personalized learning trend rolled out in charters across the Crescent City. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

But it’s not always simple to plan, and manage, and assess, so we’re going to talk about some practical teaching strategies today. I’m assuming it’s very different for elementary than secondary. Erin: I’m going to let Ross jump in in a second, but I just want to address here the piece about the secondary versus the elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Koehler, the center’s 38-year-old executive director, usually focuses on strategy, but on this August day, she wanted to help her team — and the students it serves — get through the crush of office visits and calls that comes every year as families scramble at the last-minute for spots in the city’s schools. Lau Elementary.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

“What we realized in the classrooms was that there were a lot of things being done by the gut—it looked good and felt good, but there was no science behind choices teachers were making,” Kolb tells EdSurge, rifling off robots, flexible seating and Chromebooks as among the trends and tools that aren’t being used to their full advantage.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School. Jeff Livingston, founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics “I say, ‘Have you watched Abbott Elementary?’” So I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School.” They’re engineers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

At Mary Williams Elementary , we strive to create a similarly magical feeling. Since then, we've experimented with dozens of different apps and online programs to boost learning and interest: 3-D printing, spheros, Osmos, virtual reality, coding, cyber security modules, drones, Robotics, multiple devices. Is it easy?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 28, 2021

He’s going to give us a bit of context about what the SEL needs are for students right now, what’s trending, and clarify exactly what true socio-emotional learning means., The strategies must be culturally-affirming and more importantly, be rooted in empathy, love, and connectedness rather than a focus on compliance and control.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. Well, I’ve spotted some tools and strategies that have amazing potential to empower students and teachers to engage and learn more with the world beyond their school.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This isn’t simply a matter of “ robots are coming for your jobs.” Again, this all made for a flurry of headlines, even though there were few specifics about where that money would go or how schools or students would benefit – “Scant Details, Fuzzy Math,” as EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin put it.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

” “Examining Trends in Graduate Student Debt by Race and Ethnicity” by Seton Hall University professor Robert Kelchen. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : "Starting a robotics company out of school? Via Inside Higher Ed : “How Parent PLUS Worsens the Racial Wealth Gap.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

” Via Education Dive: “Fifth graders from Tennessee ’s Nolan Elementary have created a campaign to convince the Tennessee Department of Education and Gov. The American Enterprise Institute ’s Andrew Kelly will become UNC ’s Senior Vice President for Strategy and Policy.

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