Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

To address this divide, it is necessary yet insufficient to ensure all schools have access to the internet and devices. The Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) is part of Google’s broader commitment to helping underserved communities benefit from the power of technology.

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More Verbs

MARCH 18, 2016

The true value of laptops and tablets in schools is not learning to use the technology, but rather using the technology to learn. The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI ) have been in place since 2002 and has certainly helped close the Digital Access Divide in Maine. Click here for more information.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Robert has held various leadership and instructional roles in the field of education, with a focus on online and blended learning.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. For almost two decades there has been considerable debate over the importance of fully licensed teachers in ensuring quality teaching and learning (e.g.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

Right before the start of the Fall semester in 2002, Robertson learned that the 400-seat movie theater that held his Principles of Marketing class at San Francisco State University would no longer be available. Different students have different approaches to learning, he says. His choice: modular learning.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 1, 2019

While older generations needed to learn how to use digital media, our children face a different task: managing and using screen time in healthy ways. Read on to learn all about types of screen time, how much screen time the experts recommend, and how to set healthy digital media habits at home. Learning Works for Kids Staff.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Appropriations: FY 2002 $700,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $817,096,000).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has become a right-of-passage for high school students as they leave formal education and enter the next phase of learning. I’ve based my selections on the following criteria: ease of use — accounts are easy to set up with access to both the site and materials quick and intuitive.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The goal is to create an inclusive classroom where students from all backgrounds feel safe and welcomed, as well as learn empathy for people with circumstances different from their own. Bringing cultural diversity into your classroom instruction can revolutionize the learning experience for your students. Sources : Gay, G. Brown, D.F.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

Project-based learning , as we have often examined in this blog, is a powerful way to not only impart information, by exploration, but has the added advantage of stimulating and developing a range of other skills and habits such as communication, creativity, curiosity, confidence and collaboration. Why is that, indeed?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

From the earliest stages, as Pre-K parents search for activities and resources to nurture their child's growth, to K-12 schools adopting technology to improve student outcomes and operational efficiencies, the impact of modern learning tools is undeniable. Meanwhile, a trend that began in the 1990s was picking up steam — one-to-one computing.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Imagine a preschool classroom where every child is engaged in positive social, emotional and developmental learning activities. Placed deliberately in Title I schools, Judy Centers are subsidized preschools that bring together children from across neighborhoods and family income brackets for quality early learning and family support.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

From Testing to Triumphant Learning with Pam Moran. Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Student safety leader Impero today launched a cloud-based platform, built on state-of-the-art technology, that provides teachers, school counselors and administers with classroom management and student safety solutions, all in one place, to support hybrid learning. For more information and to schedule a demo, visit [link]. .

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. To date, more than 70 percent of schools are equipped with a Wi-Fi network that enables digital learning in the classroom.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

However, many implementations remain surface-level, offering personalization without fundamentally improving learning outcomes. Rather than using AI to merely adjust content delivery, we embed it into the heart of program evaluationanalyzing how students interact with and learn from our materials to refine instructional design itself.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Today’s Kids Learn Differently. In the previous article, Learning for the Always-On Generation (Part 1) , readers were introduced to the observation that today’s kids are different. They talk differently, play differently, communicate differently, and most importantly, they learn differently than previous generations.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Distance learning is often discussed in the context of higher ed and adult education, but its relevancy in K-12 education is growing. Now, with further public school budget cuts potentially on the horizon, districts and their students will need to keep thinking about how, if at all, distance learning will play a role in existing curricula.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2018

I know what screen time can look like when it is not optimized for learning. The AAP’s guidelines from 2002 stated that there should be no media use for children under the age of two, that 2- to 5-year olds should be extremely limited in media consumption and that children over five should consume no more than two hours of media per day.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Primary Goal of the Open Education Movement For over 25 years, the primary goal of the open education movement has been to increase access to educational opportunities. The primary strategy for accomplishing this goal has been to increase access to educational materials. Public access to the internet had just started to scale.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

They were willing to show me, and I was willing to learn. She then went on to earn an associate degree in 2002, a credential that qualified her to be a lead teacher. Today, Hurley—a single mother of four boys—worries about constructing lesson plans that will be accessible to the three year-olds she serves.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It’s a challenging transition to build a learning platform,” says Silagadze, 36. million students access its digital course materials, including those at 750 of the top 1,000 higher education institutions in North America. Fountainhead was founded in 2002 and is based in Southlake, Texas. Top Hat has that platform.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It eliminates the need for paper-based reporting systems and can be used whether students are learning at school or at home. Many districts are still using paper-based reporting systems, which can make it difficult and time-consuming to access records, identify trends over time and intervene where necessary.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

He invited Americans to imagine how a stronger “caregiving economy” could help enhance our nation’s security, promote family well-being and ensure child care providers have access to the “pay and dignity that they deserve.”. In his 2002 State of the Union Address, former President George W.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It’s difficult to learn and to trust information if we’re not aware of some of these ways information is manipulated,” West said. We’re teaching web credibility as if it’s 2002,” he said. There’s limited research on how best to teach students to interpret information they come across online, however, said Wineburg.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 28, 2012

It was nice to be invited to present a session for Sheffield Hallam University on mobile learning earlier today. Mobile learning is going to be very big indeed. One report suggests that as many as 8 out of every 10 people now having access to some form of mobile communication device. The] mobile phone.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

She has extensive knowledge of educational frameworks and standards and is deeply committed to developing rigorous, engaging, accessible materials that promote equity and diversity. Since 2002, more than 800,000 students at over 1,300 institutions globally have completed CAE’s flagship assessments: CLA+ and CWRA+.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

Naviance , a product launched in 2002 by parent company Hobsons , offers K-12 schools a suite of college planning tools , including detailed college profiles, a matching function that pairs students with institutions, and graphs that use schools’ historical data to help students evaluate their acceptance odds.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The post Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Students learn about fills, borders, zooming, duplicating, rotating, aligning, ordering, grouping, and flipping in those four initial lessons. They also learn helpful keyboard shortcuts. The first four are freely available.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

She had a “near photographic” memory and didn’t need to study, she said, so she never learned how to. Elliott is what’s now called twice exceptional , a term used to refer to children who are gifted in some areas, but also experience a learning or developmental challenge. And so she was always bored in school. Elliot said.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 27, 2020

Long-time readers will be familiar with “learning objects” and the “reusability paradox.” Learning objects and the reusability paradox. This was the promise of learning objects, which were compared to Legos in almost every conference presentation and journal article on the topic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to provide access and opportunity they might not otherwise have.”. That’s a sharp increase from the 2002-03 school year, when, according to the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Way back in 2002, when Friendster was the biggest social network and people were gathering in Internet cafes, the State of Maine implemented the first 1:1 laptop initiative in the country. The MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Initiative) program coevolved with the technology available.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

I would suggest that quality and effectiveness of learning are not tied to “mode” of instruction. And what are the lessons for teaching – and learning – in the future? A Meta Analysis of the Empirical Literature ) examined the literature between 1985 and 2002. Have our experiences in traditional classroom been stellar?

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2023

The workforce, which is predominantly made up of women, many of them Black and Latina, often receives little to no compensation and has minimal access to resources to support their work. What difference might it make if these child care providers had access to support networks, training and financial resources?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

There’s a growing consensus that today’s economy is increasingly defined by the need for continuous learning. And, in our Gallup survey of American adults, only 29 percent of Americans said they believe that large businesses are doing enough to address the need for career-long learning and training.

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