Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

Some schools are relying on several different technologies, creating an environment that is no longer level.”. Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. 3 Challenges of Digital Design for K–12 Classrooms.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Flipped Classroom: In a flipped classroom model, students review instructional materials independently outside of class, such as watching videos or reading texts, and then engage in active learning activities, discussions, or projects during class time. It encourages inquiry, creativity, and independent learning.

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Strategy Flipped Classroom Learning Instructional Materials 56

User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Too often, facilitation centers on giving strategies to teachers rather than coaching them on how to deliver the strategies to students. Instead, more professional learning time should be spent helping teachers plan, develop materials, and practice delivering the strategies with colleague support. ( [link] ).

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Lewis recently presented a webinar on how to partner with a high-dosage tutoring provider to launch an effective summer school program. Instruction that aligns with districts’ standards, scope, and sequence. Standards-aligned, high-quality instructional materials to support grade-level learning.

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Learning Instructional Materials Professional Learning Meeting 103

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. Teachers will need guidance on building curriculum online, using technology to foster discussion among students, giving useful and timely feedback and building virtual relationships.

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Learning Software Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

When instructors make videos where they use their presence in the video well, the researchers argue in a recent peer-reviewed paper , it can “contribute to greater engagement, promote generative learning, direct efficient integration of the instructional material, and lead to better post-test performance.”

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Video Instructional Materials Study Student Engagement 217

Hapara

MAY 9, 2022

Technology is present in kids’ worlds now more than ever before. para, our digital citizenship consisted of walking around and monitoring students’ technology use in class. Being in an elementary classroom, it is hard to help students understand how their digital habits affect themselves and others.

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Digital Citizenship Elementary Hapara Instructional Materials 130

Discovery Education

MARCH 27, 2023

As younger students begin identifying how goods and services connect to the role of money, older students can put these concepts into practice by considering how to save, spend, and invest in the real world. Once students understand the purpose of money, they are one step closer to learning how to manage money. So necessary.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

One recommendation from “Where Teachers Thrive” is ensuring that schools provide teachers with appropriate curricula and materials, rather than expecting teachers to devise or find their own. That’s echoed in the Texas report, which cites studies showing that teachers report spending hours a week searching for instructional materials.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

She invested $19 — the cost of hosting a website — and created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, in tables clearly organized by grade level and subject matter, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. Another challenge we solve in the classroom is that students need more individualized instruction than their K-3 teachers have time to provide.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

With the advance of technology and especially mobile technology, all these hardships become a thing of the past. Piano Marvel Piano Marvel helps you learn how to read music and play piano. The app also offers a wide variety of instructional materials and lessons covering 10 levels from complete novice to professional.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Education technology may advance at a rapid pace, but the Internet infrastructure in many educational institutions often gets overwhelmed when accessed by so many devices at the same time. It’s one thing to put mobile devices into students’ hands and a totally different one to use said technology in the most effective way possible.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Welcome to this second post in a series devoted to supporting student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. Remember that a classroom might be 1 to 1, or it may be using technology to leverage student centered learning. Technology Integration, 1 to 1, and Student Centered Learning… Ten Free Resources and Tools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

There’s a misconception that older people are adverse to technology. Another common refrain he hears: nobody likes teaching old people technology. If you provide a safe space to learn technology, they want to learn, and they are willing to put in the work,” he adds. In August 2019, he incorporated Getsetup.

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Company Instructional Materials Exercises Microsoft 113

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

Encouraged by Dr. Orton, she compiled and published instructional materials which provided the foundation for what became known as the Orton-Gillingham Method. More on Big Ideas in education: How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Your Class. How to Blend DoK into Lesson Plans without a Comprehensive Rewrite.

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Training Study Digital Citizenship Instructional Materials 177

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Embedded professional learning and collaboration: It’s not enough for the application to tell teachers how it works; the more effective ones explain how to integrate the application into the classroom and offer insights into how the tasks meet academic goals. Stacey Pusey is an education communications consultant and writer.

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Instructional Materials Professional Learning Pearson Common Core 71

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

When I think about how the adoption and acquisition of technology is changing in K-12 education, it brings to mind the well-known Sydney Harris cartoon. It’s a reminder both of how the quest for a definitive answer can stunt innovation and how failure can be inevitable without enough planning. This is a big shift.

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Learning Industry Guidelines Instructional Materials 191

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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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

While the pandemic has disrupted education much more than any Silicon Valley fad, it has also accelerated the kinds of technology adoption that the industry has long pined for. education technology companies raised more than $803 million in venture capital, according to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state education agency also established a committee to advise the state on how to bring the TEAACH Act to life in schools and produced a webinar series to support the mandate’s implementation. As a PD facilitator, Hurh says she prioritizes modeling how to incorporate Asian American history in a way that treats the community with dignity.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Blended classes greatly benefit from BYOD scenarios because most of the class instructional materials are on the cloud and all students need to do is to sync them on their devices. Teachers Today’s teachers know how to use Excel to compute grades or Word to create documents, but that’s not enough. Sounds easy.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

Nesbitt, PhD, executive director of Technology, AITS, School District of Pickens County, SC; and Christine Fox, deputy executive director, SETDA, presented solutions for providing out-of-school access and digital resources to students based off their own experiences. Christine Fox is the deputy executive director for SETDA.

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Resources Equity of Access Instructional Materials Elementary 83

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

One source for insights on how to proceed is the cross-pollination that takes place when educators working in separate spheres learn from one another. Determine how many of those activities require direct instruction versus discussion or some other form of teacher-to-student or student-to-student interaction or activity.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 19, 2019

This year, I had the opportunity to work with so many great educational technology companies on the podcast and I'm excited to have the opportunity to walk the vendor floor and meet everyone to say THANK YOU for being a part of the TeacherCast podcasting family. There is going to be quite a buzz around this new and cutting edge technology.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Today, there have been major strides in efforts to increase the use of technology in classroom teaching. As the utilization and embracement of technology in education has increased, as has utilization of online and blended learning in and out of the classroom, imperative for today’s digital native learners and members of the future workforce.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. Teachers have spent decades learning how to reliably help students master new skills, debunk misconceptions, and connect their prior knowledge to new concepts.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

Now education decision makers across America can see detailed reviews compiled in multiple states, to facilitate the evaluation and purchase of print and digital materials for students and teachers. He has presented at numerous state and national conferences on service learning, life skills, and evaluating instructional materials.

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Instructional Materials Accessibility Policies OER 41

MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2020

MIND Research Institute is a proud partner of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the Education Commission of the States (ECS) – two of the most prominent and important venues for edtech policy discussion. We even played some games, which you can try out for yourself at www.stmath.com/play. ECS Live!

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Policies EdTech Industry Guidelines 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

AVID also launched a website, “Open Access,” that curates digital instructional materials from nine content providers including Code.org, Microsoft and MIT. It marks one of AVID’s first forays into online instructional content.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

And they found MidSchoolMath —much to the delight of Erica Wheeler, Lead Instructional Materials Coordinator for Santa Fe Public Schools. And so, in the process of the small group discussions, what you can often see—depending on how you group your kids—are the quiet kids becoming leaders.

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Flipped Classroom Groups Elementary Instructional Materials 157

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

Creating OER, which are free to use, share, and edit, would help increase educators’ access to educational, training, and instructional materials, according to the more than 85 stakeholder organizations that signed the letter. Open Government National Action Plan. Next page: Five core principles for OER policies.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 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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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

ExcelinEd

JUNE 10, 2020

As governors across the country decide how to spend GEER funding, some are also applying to the Department’s Rethink K-12 Education Discretionary Grant Program. States can also consider the process for procuring a statewide learning management system and how to provide high quality professional development for teachers.

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techlearning

AUGUST 14, 2018

programs are designed to break students out of dated and not-very-exciting methods of teaching taught in schools–focusing on big picture concepts and teaching students how to “do science”—rather than just memorize facts. This is the first time in 12 years that California has reviewed new science instructional materials.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) covers any topic in short but powerful talks lasting 18 minutes or less in more than 110 languages. Conversations cover topics like technology, nature, the future, personal growth, society, collaboration, and more. Software Tools To Create Your Lessons and Lecture Videos. Doceri For iPad.

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