eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 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. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. billion by 2022.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 7, 2021

I’m speaking with Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins, who are co-authors of the book Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking In the Age of Fake News , and also a new book coming out in July 2021 called Developing Digital Detectives. Move from a checklist approach to an investigative approach for fact-checking.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

2021 brought with it new COVID-19 variants, the dreaded school COVID quarantine, and renewed calls to support the nation’s educators, who have worked tirelessly (and constantly) to support students’ learning, social and emotional needs, and more. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

She’s the author of the School Psychologist’s Survival Guide and several books on parenting kids with special needs, such as The Conscious Parent’s Guide to Executive Functioning Disorder and The Conscious Parent’s Guide to ADHD. What it’s supposed to be is to be working at all three tiers of intervention.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 2, 2021

Sponsored by Advancement Courses and McGraw-Hill Rise ELA & Math Bundles. ANGELA: Let’s start by talking about some guiding principles that you’ve really honed over this past school year. The first one that you had identified was, do what HAS to get done, not what you WANT to get done. What’s my goal?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 7, 2015

In fact, it is vital that it doesn’t! When students let their brains take a break over the summer, they can lose the equivalent of two months of their grade-level math and reading skills. Keep their math skills sharp. Discover what bugs live in your neighborhood, and try to identify those you haven’t seen before.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Makerspace Product Roundup, 2018 It seems like everywhere you turn, new products are being launched that are the perfect fit for making and makerspaces in schools. New products are coming from companies that have long been in the game, and others are being launched thanks to successful crowdfunding initiatives.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 16, 2015

While boosting kids’ math and verbal skills may draw more attention from parents and educators, spatial reasoning skills play an important — sometimes overlooked — role in academic and career success. And preschool, it turns out, is a key time to foster children’s spatial cognition. Turn to your left, towards the couch.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

But that’s changing fast. Some fear the corporatization of Maker education, particularly as schools and policymakers have embraced the movement as a way to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and workforce preparation. What can be done?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. “Personalization” is also the cornerstone of the investment strategy for Mark Zuckerberg’s new venture philanthropy firm, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. “A truly terrible deal,” says Cathy O’Neil , author of Weapons of Math Destruction.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour Papert died at his home in Blue Hill, Maine in August (yes, that’s the site of the Blue Hill Fair, where Charlotte the spider saved Wilbur the pig ). Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The phrase “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” gets bandied about a lot — despite, according to Slate ’s Will Oremus , it being rather an inaccurate, if not dangerous, slogan. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. The Promise of “Free”. Reader, they were not.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Using post-its allows students to move parts of their thinking around as they gain clarity. Rather than deciding between two choices, this tool helps students identify the positive traits of different viewpoints, and then create a third option by merging the good qualities of both. Courtesy I-Think Initiative).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 13, 2014

We identify their problems and seek possible ways to address them. Partner Announcements Moebius Noodles - Camp Logic Crowdfunding Campaign : Camp Logic is a book for teachers, parents, math circle leaders, and anyone who nurtures the intellectual development of children. New Educational Game from MIT: The Radix Endeavor.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 24, 2019

Well, Angela, first of all, it’s so exciting to be here with you. Whenever I think about the heart of my message, it’s actually really hard to encapsulate into one thing. And so much of my message is around inspiring and moving people to action so that we can disrupt the things that aren’t good for all children.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

Deeper Learning: The expert panel identified several long-term trends that will greatly influence the adoption of technology in classrooms over the next five years and beyond. As things stand now, many teachers receive professional development around technology platforms that often turn over or are replaced by something else.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Positive experiences in kindergarten can improve non-cognitive skills and early test scores, and even increase the likelihood that children will attend college and ultimately make more money as adult s. Reading, writing, math. Reading, writing, math. Reading, writing, math. Reading, writing, math. Get it done.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. It’s a place that many families move to from New York City, where effects of poverty like drugs and violence are more visible.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. Eastwood wants each student to be proficient in math and reading before finishing 5th grade. He spends a couple hours by himself, making snacks, doing his homework, and playing video games.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In one class, Danusis introduces me to a lanky child in rain boots, who clicks through an online math program while chatting about a baby goat that’s being weaned in her backyard. Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Standing in front of 240 freshmen and 80 fellow seniors in her school’s gymnasium, a slight 17-year-old with her hair in pigtail braids took a long shuddering breath. The girl’s face crumpled as friends rushed to her side. ” It was the third day of Taos High School’s EQ, or emotional intelligence, retreat.

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