Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

months of learning in math over the summer — and teachers have to give up weeks of class time, or more, to make up for that loss. WHY MATH LOSS? But it’s actually easier for kids — from all socioeconomic backgrounds — to forget what they learned in math over the summer than it is for them to lose reading skills. The reason?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

In today’s show, Jon Corippo talks about how we can transform teaching vocabulary with Quizziz: How Quizziz is different from Kahoot and Secretive. on Corippo is the Chief Innovation Officer for CUE, leading CUE’s professional learning throughout California and Nevada. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Stream by clicking here.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2020

When the deployment is complete, we will be a one-to-one district: Every child will have an internet-enabled device. For kindergarten online, all I had to do was share a link to the website, and families could watch videos for lessons, then download and print worksheets for their kids. We did that for three weeks.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Math apps for kids could be what your child needs to improve their math skills, move to the next level, or start enjoying and having fun with mathematics. The apps feature math games, activities, and user interfaces that make learning math a fun and enjoyable experience for students at all levels.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

There’s no definitive count yet of how many students are enrolled this summer in a wide range of new options, from a push to close early learning gaps in Texas to a summer program in Oregon that helps kids learning English. For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. Jump to a story.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

The 51-year-old teacher racked up 14,000 steps that day assembling bags of books and worksheets for families of her third and fourth grade students to pick up as they were let in, five at a time, to the public charter school in South Phoenix, Arizona. The next Monday she was at her school, South Phoenix Primary and Intermediate, to get ready.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

What if… every Urban Education Network of Iowa district had an ‘alternative’ high school for low-achieving students that focused on creative inquiry, collaborative problem-solving, and community contribution instead of worksheet packets and self-paced online courses? Students might not be getting the technology skills they need either.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 17, 2014

One theme I have noticed is that the subject of Math uses the concept of Game Based Learning quite often. Arcademic Skill Builders - Amazing site w/ educational games and portal to allow for student tracking and progress reports in Math, Reading, and more.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Even progressive friends of mine who believe that “kids should be allowed to be kids” have admitted to trying to coax their preschoolers to complete letter-tracing worksheets. And for many parents, the most obvious way to support literacy and math learning is to drill their children on the ABCs and 123s.

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MindShift

AUGUST 21, 2020

No, show me your worksheet,’ ” McLaren remembers. But this spring, when the nation’s schools were forced to teach remotely, many of those children were left behind, and some vital services — including physical, occupational and speech therapies — simply stopped. “I will tell you, I have never worked harder.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Most schools place students in what are called remedial courses in math or English before they can move on to a full load of college-level, credit-bearing courses – a process that is a financial drain on not only students, but also colleges and taxpayers, costing up to an estimated $7 billion a year. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. That’s us.”.

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MindShift

JULY 1, 2018

But there are plenty of low-cost ways to keep kids learning through the summer without sitting them down to do worksheets or drilling them on a math app. She has been using her knowledge of the learning brain and her fascination with brain development to infuse her kids’ play time with math that’s fun and that sticks.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Not a pencil or worksheet was in sight, however. 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. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. EVERETT, Wash. — These kids were playing.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Like many schools across Mississippi, Morton is scrambling to adjust to an influx of Spanish-speaking students for which it was completely unprepared. He reads each page twice — once in English, once in Spanish. He’s the only full-time translator at the school, which has 152 Spanish-speaking students in its 21 classrooms. Photo: Ben Stocking.

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