eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flinn Scientific, a flagship provider of science lab materials and safety and STEM solutions for the K-16 education market, has partnered with the Virginia Technology Student Association (Virginia TSA) to support and expand participation in virtual, intra-curricular student STEM competitions.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

They know that when it comes to learning and productivity, space matters. An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Considering sprawling campuses with their impressive but deserted buildings, I find myself reflecting on how the accessibility of blended learning has contested the authority of these spaces, which so often are homogenous places, gatekeepers of class and privilege. Remote learning also improved accessibility for some students.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Last year, Digital Promise, with generous support from Google, launched the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) to continue its effort to close the Digital Learning Gap. The DLP utilizes instructional coaching to increase powerful and impactful use of technology in 100 middle schools across the country. Active Learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. Teaching and learning in unbounded time.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2016

In the pre-smartphone era, when traditional mobile phones – or “dumb phones”, how I like to call them – ruled the world, students simply couldn’t use their phones for learning. I think today’s generation of students would definitely consider these phones rather boring. The one-and-a half-hour seminar almost flew away.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Whenever things go awry in the use of this technology (often due to user error), my students like to say, “This SMART board isn’t very smart , is it?” Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student. .

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

Technology certainly does not always make painful events from the past easier or more comfortable to discuss. Candra Flanagan Yet there are other ways to support constructive conversations about race, culture and history—and apply technologies that enhance physical spaces to help learners immerse themselves in past lived experiences.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From fostering collaboration and communication to facilitating project-based learning and remote instruction, these platforms are redefining the boundaries of traditional classrooms. This format is especially advantageous for engaging students who might feel more reserved or less comfortable in traditional, text-based discussion settings.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Whenever things go awry in the use of this technology (often due to user error), my students like to say, “This SMART board isn’t very smart , is it?” Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student. .

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Whenever things go awry in the use of this technology (often due to user error), my students like to say, “This SMART board isn’t very smart , is it?” Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They had already begun a process of designing a new middle school, called Nexus Middle School, to be a STEM-based school that incorporated personalized learning. These include self-directed learning time, expeditions and executive coaches. They are all keen to use technology to help personalize learning for students.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The post Elevating Innovation – SULS0205 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Discover the wealth of free online learning courses for educators offered through Verizon Innovative Learning HQ. Discover the wealth of free online learning courses for educators offered through Verizon Innovative Learning HQ.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

He said he plans to use the skills he learned in the class when in college. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

As if fate wanted to re-affirm for me the value of KySTE, I learned of a new tool in the very first hour of the very first session of the conference that got me so excited, I knew I'd be doing a blog entry about it! In addition to growing in my technology use, I also worked to earn my National Board Certification. How could you use it?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Social media caption: The latest trend in assessment tools and gimmicks is the adaptive, “smart” test and the use of individualized learning plans to improve test scores. But what these tests and the resulting learning plans do, is work off a deficit model that only serves to influence the outcome of the test itself.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Technology has penetrated every aspect of life, and education is no exception. As more and more teachers, students, and stakeholders experiment with technology, software developers are working day and night to bring them quality solutions. Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek. Given the importance of college for worldview development and cross-cultural exchanges, can interfaith learning continue in a virtual setting? We believe it can. But will it?

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District Administration

MARCH 25, 2016

Starting with the district’s mission and vision will be key to success District Administration Custom Publishing Group District Administration, May 2016 By leveraging technology and digital content, schools can create highly effective 21st-century teaching and learning environments that significantly impact student engagement and drive achievement.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I find it interesting that for the course I am taking, Technology and School Leadership , I drive two hours round trip once a week to participate in the learning. Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas). These instructional approaches are traditional in the best sense.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I find it interesting that for the course I am currently Technology and School Leadership , I drive two hours round trip once a week to participate in the learning. Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas). These instructional approaches are traditional in the best sense.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

It got the students engaged and doing something as opposed to saying, ‘Well I can’t do that because I don’t have an autoclave.’. Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. I am learning with the students.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For K-12 students, interactive textbooks/ebooks act as a learning companion, as it offers constant interaction. Moreover, if you plan to keep your target audience engaged, you need to provide them with something that will hold their interest for a longer time. Be it an online video or a live seminar. Download Now!

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Teachers often focus on what students will learn during a lesson. Rarely, do we stop and ask ourselves, “What will I learn about what my students know or can do during this lesson?” I recommend leaning on technology whenever possible to streamline this process. Poll the Class with Mentimeter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This new attention to career advising largely stems from growing expectations that institutions will help students get good jobs — which 85 percent of first-year students rated as “very important” among their reasons for going to college in the first place, according to a national survey conducted by an institute at UCLA.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

They are often taught through giant lectures, with limited faculty-student engagement. Many students fail the courses or become so frightened by them that they drop the class — and thus the major. Instead, if students are in jeopardy of failing, there should be an early identification system to support them.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Teachers often focus on what students will learn during a lesson. Rarely, do we stop and ask ourselves, “What will I learn about what my students know or can do during this lesson?” I recommend leaning on technology whenever possible to streamline this process. Poll the Class with Mentimeter.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Learning Culture. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative – Ken Robinson. Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school. Digital leadership is a strategic mindset and set of behaviors that leverages resources to create a meaningful, transparent, and engaging school culture. Inspiration. Leadership.

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Edthena

JULY 13, 2021

Edthena turns the feedback you leave on instructional videos inside the platform into useful teacher data designed to help you strategically invest your time with teachers and accelerate their learning. This technology is so special, we have a patent on it!). Is Tina struggling with Socratic seminars right now, or was that months ago?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

The organization describes its ultimate goal as graduating more students who have fundamental knowledge and skills, collaborate well, think creatively and are motivated to keep learning throughout their lives. When I first came to this school, I felt as if student voices didn’t matter. It was definitely eye-opening.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Here in Connecticut, we have been watching closely as Maine experiments with proficiency-based learning. Department of Education and think tanks as personalized competency-based education (PCBE), the model is founded on flexibility, as opposed to the time-and-location-bound work that students will face when they graduate.

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