Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2021

Financial Literacy Month is recognized annually in Canada in November, [1] and National Financial Literacy Month was recognized in the United States in April 2004, [2] in an effort to highlight the importance of financial literacy and teach citizens how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 13, 2020

Now in the age of COVID-19 the TGR Foundation and Discovery Education introduce the first module in a new series of no-cost digital professional learning resources, empowering educators with new strategies to support student success far beyond school campuses. Their award-winning curricula has already reached more than one million students.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the digital learning gap. Every student has a unique and “jagged” learning profile.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 10, 2021

It is also a great way to learn more about the students we will be working with this year. Then guide them through the following process to support them in creating a vision board that is meaningful and motivating.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A 2004 film, I, Robot, starring Will Smith, is based primarily on one of the I, Robot stories (Little Lost Robot) and Asimov’s Three Laws. These are critical concerns as schools increasingly integrate AI for personalized learning, student assessment, and decision-making processes.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2013

Recently Jeff Fiscina , one of my math teachers, submitted a guest post on my blog that emphasized some of his grading practices that best support and promote student learning. The conversation focused on some difficult questions such as what does a letter grade actually mean and how do you measure student learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2014

The community welcomed me with open arms and I inherited a staff eager to grow and learn. Each and every one of them has played a huge role in transforming the learning culture at NMHS. For it is they who made the choice to go down the road less traveled five years ago when we began transforming our learning culture.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Decades of solid research have laid the foundation for current studies that bring to light how we can improve teaching, learning, and leadership. As Tom Murray and I highlighted in Learning Transformed , this research has been taken to heart by schools across the world as they have transformed learning while improving results in the process.

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User Generated Education

MAY 23, 2016

Watch children, youth, and even adults when they are immersed in learning something of interest of them, and you will see often complete engagement and personal joy. It can be as simple as replicating real life learning in more formal schools. I have discussed this in my post Natural Versus Unnatural Learning. Wonderment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

IXL Learning , a San Mateo, Calif.-based based provider of digital K-12 instructional and assessment tools has agreed to acquire Australian education technology company 3P Learning in an all-cash deal worth approximately AU $189 million, or approximately US $135 million. The transaction is subject to a shareholder vote.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 20, 2019

I am pleased to announce that my book chapter in Multimedia Learning Theory: Preparing for the New Generation of Students is now available! My chapter is titled Multimedia Learning and the Educational Leader. Multimedia learning and the educational leader. Jenlink & B. Knight (Eds.), Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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Waterford

MARCH 31, 2020

Because approximately 1 in 59 students are diagnosed with autism, learning how to help students with this disorder in the classroom is so important.[1] 1] Teaching young students with autism communication skills and learning strategies makes it all the more likely that they’ll reach their academic potential later on. Name Game [3].

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

I learned that not only did I need to understand their uniqueness, but I also needed to work with them to build their capacity to advocate for themselves. Student agency has two components: (1) knowing yourself as a learner, and (2) explaining, creating, or asking for what you need to meet your learning needs.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

My father was an elementary principal for 30 years and I always admired how he was able to inspire his staff to focus on student learning. Due to the influence of my father and a passion to help as many students as possible succeed, I ventured into the world of educational administration in 2004. Obviously my journey continues.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Inspiring Artwork: Color real-life Energy Superheroes and learn about their energy careers. Exploratory Learning: See how energy lights cities, builds homes, and powers devices. “We To learn more and to preordervisit stemsuperheroes.com/. To learn more, visit stemsuperheroes.com/.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

It has no established center, and students were used to learning and working in that nonhierarchical, flexible space. When I ended the exercise and allowed them to reconfigure the space they were delighted–and had a new sense of the difference between fixed and mobile learning. They have to learn how to learn autonomously.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 10, 2017

Learn how his faculty and student council worked together to create a nurturing environment. He became an assistant principal in 2004 and was named the 2011 Oklahoma Assistant Principal of the Year. Today Will Parker @williamdp has seen kindness go viral on his campus. Listen Now.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

They know that when it comes to learning and productivity, space matters. An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A child’s brain is capable of learning and growth that, if nurtured, can affect the trajectory of their entire academic career, and beyond. Brain-based learning can be one of the best ways to help kids reach their potential. But what is brain-based learning, and how can it impact your school? What is Brain-Based Learning?

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Our innate capacity to learn, to think, to create, and adapt endowed us with the evolutionary advantages necessary to become one of the most successful organisms on the planet. If you’re a trainer, you fight this process every time you engage a new hire, every time you learn a skill yourself, and every time you teach your child something new.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first started teaching in Philadelphia in 2004, teachers were lucky if they had one desktop computer in their room for students to use, and students attended weekly computer lab classes. How can schools and districts successfully bring technology into classrooms so teachers can make the most impact on students’ learning?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2015

We need learning to happen. Teachers who experience close relationships with students reported that their students were less likely to avoid school, appeared more self-directed, more cooperative and more engaged in learning (Birch & Ladd, 1997; Decker, Dona, & Christenson, 2007; Klem & Connell, 2004).”

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2022

It’s summer time, and the learning is not easy. Summer learning programs from coast to coast have struggled to hire the number of staff needed to operate at full capacity, leading to limited slots and even closures among programs in Maine , Connecticut , Ohio , Georgia and other states. But teachers are exhausted. I’m still tired.” “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We came away wondering why people don’t talk more about this bit of recent edtech history, and what lessons could still be learned from it. So remind us what Google did back around 2004. Schonfeld is a longtime leader in the library community and is a program director at Ithaka S+ R a nonprofit education consultancy.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2024

And when it comes to understanding and learning mathematics, visual representation can be surprisingly powerful. This goes to show that a visual approach to learning math can be highly effective. Its impact on learning has been a core area of focus for MIND since before the organization was even founded in 1998.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As it turns out, mistakes are integral to the learning process. Students, however, don’t always understand the full learning potential of their mistakes.[5] But if we can help students redefine what a mistake is, we can teach them a valuable lesson about improvement and learning. What’s the key to learning from mistakes?

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

The great news is that digital natives want to learn. This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. And that means schools will have to adapt to the way these new students think and learn.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 12, 2017

Most entrepreneurship students expect to learn how to become their own bosses during the course of their studies. Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg completely changed the way people interact with friends and family by launching Facebook in 2004. In general, I’d say we meet these needs quite well.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2016

This kind of model lightly exposes children to the arts and attends to learning about the arts. Louis Regional Arts Commission, which focuses on at risk youth and attends more to learning about the arts. Such programs get more at learning about, with, and through the arts. Models can be school-wide or classroom-based.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Children of poverty typically have little access to books (8) , yet current trends in literacy education focus on other issues such as digital literacy and early childhood learning styles. Krashen 2004. Stanovich and Cunningham 2000. Atwell 2007. Bayless 2010. Robinson 2010. Achterman 2008. Evans, Kelley, Sikora, and Treiman 2010.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 5, 2015

Bio- Maria Theologidou has been working as an EFL teacher and translator since 2004. ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics. . Click here to discover all the 2015 goals ! 30 Goals Cycle 6. 30 Goals Cycle 6. View more lists from Shelly Sanchez Terrell.

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Waterford

JULY 30, 2023

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. 2004, November). The Effects of Comprehensive Parent Engagement on Student Learning Outcomes. Redding, S.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

I described the form’s birth circa 2004, with creators quickly inventing ways of telling stories by digital audio, which echoes of radio theater. We didn’t conclude that digital audio was a universal tool for all learning, but found it one powerful strategy in the edtech ecosystem.

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