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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.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2019

In 2002 Joan Hughes (now at the University of Texas-Austin) and I received a large federal grant to create the first graduate program in the country designed to prepare technology-savvy school leaders. Minnesota program and numerous other students gained new school technology leadership experiences at partner universities.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

2003), and technology (Kafai & Resnick, 2002; Todd, 1999) suggest that design thinking skills are not merely extras, but can in fact aid students in core subject areas as well as building cognitive and social skills (Carroll et al., Work in mathematics (Goldman et al., 1998), science (Kolodner et al.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is a podcast for all education trailblazers seeking the cutting edge of professional growth. 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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Prepare students for a technological society. On the opposite side is Erthal (2002) who found that third graders do not possess the manual dexterity required for keyboarding, and Hopkins (1998) who considered fourth grade an appropriate age for the commencement of formal keyboarding. Improved creative thought. Questions you may have.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But the increasingly sophisticated technologies that people have come to rely on should not absolve personal responsibility for learning how to spell, write or communicate, says Dave Eggers. Increasingly there’s less choice about when you use technology and when you don’t.” You’ve also helped start a number of education nonprofits.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Since 2002, I've taught middle and high schools and coached teachers on instructional technology. ” Now, over 860 episodes later, some incredible educators have been on the show, and I keep finding teachers and educators with inspiring stories to tell. The first show is on AI in education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Learning requires a great deal of vulnerability, and there’s no doubt that educators need to earn the trust and respect of their students. At the end of the day, it’s up to the educator to make the connections with students that will enable learning and keep building on a sense of community.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Pamela Cantor knows first-hand how a child’s environment and early experiences can affect their educational outcomes. There, she learned “not just the stuff about how our lungs and hearts work, but how we love, how we attach, how we nurture and, most of all, how we heal,” she told an audience of about 500 education leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

This is especially true when migrating from an education terrain into a work or HR terrain – where employers and their HR teams have not made the nuanced distinction between digital skills and digital literacy, that are made in the education sector. Load and interact with smart phone apps. Digital Citizen.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Emerging technologies have the potential to reshape the educational landscape. 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.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2017

I finished my undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts in 2002. Katharine McAllister has been a TEFL teacher since 2002. Katharine, can you please tell us a little bit about your background? I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. About Katharine.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2018

Live Q&A: Using Technology to Stay in Touch with Parents (Facebook Live). Panelists: Christelle Pasteals (Instructional Technology Coach) and me. Join us for a live conversation from #ISTE2018 where we’ll be chatting about ways teachers are using technology to stay in touch with parents. Booth 2002. Booth 1203.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Want to hear another episode on technology tools? Listen to Jennifer Gonzalez talk about 5 tech tools every educator should try in 2017. Jon has served as an Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of Technology at the county level. And this is the beauty of technology. Quizlet Live.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

After meeting my wife in 2002, I moved to Staten Island, NY and resided there for thirteen years. As I transitioned from principal to Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) my work began to take me all over the country and the world. My daughter is entirely in love with the school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals. Did you know that Dell has a cost-free education discount program offered to educators and their friends and family all year long? Check the deals out today at www.dell.com/epp/coolcatteacher and enjoy some awesome new technology this holiday season! Click Here for Deals.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Now is also a time to reflect on what educational technology tools U.S. trillion in American Internet infrastructure have helped to improve broadband speed by 660 times since 2002. The three Ts: Thanksgiving, turkey and tech. school districts are thankful for this year. Chromebooks. However, investments of over $1.5

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Strategic use of digital tools can help educators who are teaching during uncertain times by providing structure and space for effective learning. There are many technology tools available that can help educators provide clear instruction and foster relationships regardless of when and where students are learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Until then she had never heard of the federal program, which provides high-quality early childhood education to more than one million children from low-income families each year. It’s in keeping with Head Start’s larger mission to serve two generations, empowering parents to pursue education and careers, often within Head Start facilities.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

There are differing opinions as to the usefulness, as well as wisdom, of teaching very young students with digital technology. I was quite surprised at how adept some of these youngsters are with the technology (although I shouldn’t be by now!) Ms Foley is now a professor in the Education Department of Grand Canyon University.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1.

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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. The only way to overcome the seating limitation was to turn to technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam Moran has been a leader in education reform in Virginia over the past several years as the state moved from testing to transformation. Pam, what is an update on what has happened with education reform in Virginia since we last talked? They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. Update on Testing Reform in Virginia.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

There’s an outsized focus today on science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM (or STEAM if you prefer to include “arts”) and for good reason. It’s no surprise kids do indeed have fun with these products, and they also appeal to educators. And many former campers are now professional coders at top technology companies.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 10, 2017

Grizzly Robotics , the name the team now goes by, has since changed the face of education in their community of Ypsilanti, Michigan, a city where violence, drugs, and crime are all too common. He received a Master of Arts Degree in Teaching from Marygrove College in Detroit in 2002.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

In the fall of 2002, the Oakland Athletics shattered a 55-year-old record with twenty consecutive games won. When we set out to design an engaging kickball unit for our middle school students, we asked ourselves how we could learn from the 2002 A’s. By applying rich data analysis to the sport, a practice known as sabermetrics.

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Waterford

APRIL 6, 2021

Read on to learn more about the emotional and academic benefits of musical education. When a child is exposed to musical education from a young age, the parts of their brain that process sound, speech, reading, and language develop at an accelerated rate.[1] In addition, music education is linked to social-emotional development.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. Now, the number of college students graduating with a humanities major has fallen for the eighth straight year to under 200,000 degrees in 2020, according to federal data from t he Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. The stakes are high for academia.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In his book A Celebration of Neurons: An Educator’s Guide to the Human Brain , educational researcher Robert Sylwester wrote, “The human brain is the best-organized, most functional three pounds of matter in the known universe.” [3]. Rather than a concrete theory, brain-based learning is more of an educational mindset.

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More Verbs

MARCH 1, 2016

In the spring of 2002, eighteen regional meetings were held around Maine in support of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI). Each school sent a shared leadership team (a teacher leader, building principal, and technology coordinator). Educators from all of the then 239 MLTI schools attended the meetings.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

The gender gap varies across STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and math. students who were 10th graders in 2002 and were followed through 2012 show that girls do better in school than boys do and are more likely to graduate from college. Contemporary data on U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Depending on how we use it, technology can be either a priceless tool or endless distraction. Today’s children are digital natives, which means that they’ve grown up surrounded by technology from the time they were born. Instead of watching TV, for example, encourage your child to play an educational game.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

One of the key things about the report is that we are asked to suggest what technologies we think will be highly influential in education in the far, medium and near terms. I want to clarify why I voted for certain things as influencing higher education in the future, but that I don’t actually endorse these things.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Schools having had a partner at least three years are essentially guaranteed to have the partner in subsequent years,” writes Bridwell-Mitchell, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2002, the U.S.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

For the past twenty years, I’ve heard this question asked many times about online education. Research about online education. An abundance of studies have examined online education. An objective review published by the American Educational Research Association ( How Does Distance Education Compare with Classroom Instruction?

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2021

Fang is aware of what she’s up against in Naviance, which was founded in 2002 and says it is used by over 13 million students across 13,000 schools. Naviance was recently acquired by PowerSchool , which is the most widely used provider of student information systems and other education data services in K-12 schools and districts.

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