Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Take an online course. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. an interactive collage in Scratch, a website, a mobile app, a physical computing project). Careers with STEM. Some favorites (all free!) Careers in Tech from Code.org. Made w/ Code mentors.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Today, students are blessed with interactive platforms, personalized education, online learning, and educational software that have been designed to enhance the learning experience. Platforms specifically designed for language learning offer interactive lessons and practice.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2020

Part of the beauty of online and blended learning is that much of the learning and many of the resources are available outside of the classroom. Engaging videos and interactive resources are just a sampling of these learning materials, and our stories connect you to them.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 27, 2021

The post 15 Ways to Use Mote in the Classroom – SULS0107 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Learn how Mote helps support ELLs, STEM, and helps engage ALL students with 15 Ways to Use Mote in the Classroom. Support STEM with Scientific Notation (STEM Mode). STEM, math, and science teachers, listen up!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2020

A couple of decades ago, when I was dean of online learning at Stevens Institute of Technology, a small STEM college on the Hudson with a view of mid-Manhattan, we polled our digital students about why they chose to enroll as virtual learners. Did they come to our virtual classrooms for the strength of our faculty?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In order to make this possible, they need a learning platform that they can explore on their own. A platform that is so engaging that it will compel them to take control of their own learning. Kitaboo is a product that can take care of your online learning needs right from the course creation stage to its delivery.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Learn English Kids has pirate themed songs, stories, and activities. Find pirate online learning games for children here. ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics. The Pirate Museum has several pirate themed lesson plans for K to 12 here.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The VHS catalog consists of more than 200 unique online courses, including 23 AP® offerings, innovative STEM programs, and a wide variety of unique electives, including computer science. The teacher will receive graduate level professional development and will learn to teach an online course on behalf of the school’s membership.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Together, we are mobilizing a national effort to prepare 100,000 STEM teachers by 2021. Online learning for children is here to stay, and it's no secret that our students need supportive adults in their lives who can challenge, mentor, and push them to meet and exceed their potential.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

Franklin West Supervisory Union , a rural district in Vermont, is adding the district’s first full-time computer science teacher next year to work with a K-4 Science STEM teacher and our K-8 technology integrationist to provide opportunities to learn coding for its elementary school students. There are, however, endless ways to try.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Every vendor claims to have the best learning platform which benefits students and teachers. What then, is the differentiating factor which you should look for while selecting an online learning platform? Here in this blog, we will highlight some of the features that must be present in a learning platform.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

However, that does not mean there are not a lot of new items to look through, as sites/apps for programming/coding, Math/STEM, and Game Based Learning played a predominant role in this year's list. Students can also work on their STEM skills and learn the basics of programming.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. Not insignificantly, the award came with a cash prize of $100,000.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. Eduverse.com is a revolutionary online learning environment providing a safe and secure ‘metaverse’ for K-12 schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Thursday, October 23rd at 3pm Webinar: Online Learning for Inclement Weather , Join the discussion! In this session, three districts will share how they implemented online learning options to make up snow days. For more information, click here. Register at [link]. More information.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story about middle class mobility was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Instructional Design for Mobile Learning. Tinkering Fundamentals: A Constructionist Approach to STEM Learning. Universal Design and Accessibility for Online Learning. A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study. University of Reading via FutureLearn. via Canvas.net. via CourseSites.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

This fully online, participatory conference presents a unique opportunity to engage with excellent research around work that you do every day. Is your library mobile friendly? How does your library manage digital collections? Do you have a story to tell about maker spaces? Join at [link]'

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

SchoolMint Secures $8 Million: San Francisco-based SchoolMint , a provider of mobile and online enrollment and school choice systems for Pre-K-12 public, charter and private schools, said their recent Series A round brings total funding to close to $8 million.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 27, 2022

Mobile-based devices have taken learning outside of the classroom. With mLearning and eLearning growing in popularity, students can learn at their own pace and time. Designing mobile-first responsive content helps students to go through their courses anytime and anywhere. Social Media in Learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2012

See you online! A list of the session titles is below, and a schedule based on time zones (with full descriptions and session links) is HERE.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

The ultimate learning experience for students is both highly collaborative and extremely personalized, supported by mobile devices and digital content, reports Project Tomorrow in their latest Speak Up report. This year, nearly half of teachers (47 percent) said their students have regular access to mobile devices in their classrooms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 1, 2011

For all its hype, e-learning will never be successful without a supportive climate for learning, strong management support, a defensible business case and a training organization that isn''t reticent about learning online. Learn why e-learning succeeds only when it is backed by an organization-wide e-learning strategy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Saturday, April 12th at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - Featured Teacher Donna Roman , Donna Adams Román is a 5th grade teacher at Mill Creek School in Illinois, blogger, trainer, and presenter committed to providing rich learning opportunities for her learners and professional learning network. Is your library mobile friendly?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The school recently built a new center for science and arts outfitted with new, cutting-edge Samsung solutions that provide an ideal space for students to foster STEM skills, such as critical thinking, communication, and creativity. Colorado vendors and school districts are required by the state to facilitate safe online learning experiences.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“I’m heartbroken for the impossible situation families have been put in, especially families with no resources, going to schools that don’t have the luxury of fancy online learning or giant schoolyards or under-crowded classrooms,” Latané says. In June, the group mobilized.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

What is a blended learning approach? There is a great future for blended learning as part of an EdTech strategy. Schools and some universities or online virtual schools have come to realise that while online learning environments can be beneficial to those who are not able to commute to campus.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

ATLANTA, GA — MAD-learn by Crescerance, Choose2Matter, and award-winning global collaborative teaching and learning pioneer Vicki Davis announce the new “ MAD about Mattering ” global collaborative app development project. Students will be asked to consider their heartbreak to create an app that makes a difference to the world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

.; Paloma Garcia-Lopez - Executive Director, Maker Education Initiative - "Maker Movement: Making More Makers" Jeanne Century - Director of Research and Evaluation and Science Education, Outlier Research and Evaluation, CEMSE, University of Chicago - "Is it STEM or Just Good Practice?"

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. Or Is There?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

One recent spring afternoon, about a dozen Northern Cass students working on laptops made themselves comfortable in a large classroom with mobile furniture, beanbag pillows and a plush blue couch. Prepackaged lessons from an online curriculum provider comprised about 80 percent of students’ work in the first year. We take the tests.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2019

Unlike textbooks or video, virtual reality fully immerses users in a dynamic virtual world – and the headset device can be as simple as a mobile phone inserted into an inexpensive Google Cardboard viewer. In the last five years, it’s probably been one of my favorite lessons, hands down.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Tuesday, April 22nd at 1pm CoSN - Smart Education Networks by Design , New advances in technology, including mobile devices, are making it possible for students to learn anytime, anywhere and to experience personalized learning. Is your library mobile friendly? Read more and register for this event here.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

As the Los Angeles Times describes, the school will have a bus outfitted with a “mobile resource” system to travels to students, “three to four physical sites sharing space with existing nonprofits,” and an online learning platform. RISE stands for “Revolutionary Individualized Student Experience.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

STEM Education’s “Sputnik Moment” The Higher Education Bubble. Online Learning. Mobile Learning. Social Learning, Social Networks. Data (Which Still Means Mostly “Standardized Testing”). The Digital Library. Khan Academy. “Open” The Business of Ed-Tech. US Politics.

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