A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

Make no mistake about it – capturing the attention of students has become harder and harder because of the access that many of them have to knowledge, games, and each other through technology. The struggle is real as the former is sometimes emphasized as a result of a school or district’s focus. Ormrod, J.E. Upper Saddle River, N.J.:

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edWeb.net

APRIL 22, 2019

While the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was last reauthorized in 2004, with amendments in 2015, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) were updated back in 2008, the demand for accessibility and equality in education continues to grow. Step 4: Conduct regular accessibility audits.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Through this latest acquisition, Discovery Education is better positioned to broaden its impact on student success by providing our existing network of partner school systems access to DreamBox Learning’s collection of supplemental math, reading, and professional learning solutions.” Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The story raises issues about access inequality, as only certain social classes benefit from advanced AI tools. Daniel Suarez’s novel Daemon (2006) is the story of a computer program that takes over its own continued development after the death of its creator.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. Using a hashtag with the group’s name would provide access to a wealth of information for teachers seeking some guidance in their teaching practice. Over the past two decades, Twitter has been a mainstay in my instruction. .

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

In 2006 the consortium featured 50 member organizations. Dramatically reducing the cost associated with enabling a “data rich” edtech ecosystem and thus helping learners, faculty and administrators achieve access to data and analysis in time to improve learner success. Today, nearly 900 organizations participate from 28 countries.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Culturally appropriate and accessible Spanish-language child care is tailored to the needs of Hispanic and Latino families, where Spanish is often the primary language. billion in fiscal 2024 , CCDBG is the primary federal program that supports child care access. A quarter of the children in the U.S. are Hispanic, according to the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Scores of low-income youth, who have relied on these organizations for technology access and vital emotionally and academically supportive relationships, have been cut off. Many individuals, nonprofits and corporations have offered creative solutions over the past few months to fill these growing gaps in access to enrichment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We learned what we could from the books we had access to and memorized facts to regurgitate on tests. Telling a student to go to the library to access a physical copy of something is the outlier instead of the norm. But the idea of the flipped classroom is credited to Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams in 2006.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. You think they’re OK because you disabled the online access — think again. Bullying is no longer relegated to the playground or the neighborhood. It now regularly happens in the cyberworld.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

Tapping into the collective wisdom of educators In 2006, a New York City public school teacher named Paul Edelman realized that his students learned best when he incorporated teaching ideas from his colleagues. Districts and schools can also opt for a TPT School Access subscription, which includes Easel by TPT.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

education grant offering free credits for its cloud platform, with no credit card required, unlimited access to its suite of tools and training resources. now, but Google says it plans to extend access to other places in the future. Having launched earliest in 2006, Amazon has “matured for a while,” Gupta says.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. You think they’re OK because you disabled the online access — think again. Bullying is no longer relegated to the playground or the neighborhood. It now regularly happens in the cyberworld.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

The report, “ Does the digital world open up an increasing divide in access to print books? ” Across OECD countries that participated in both assessments, reading performance fell back to what it had been in 2006. Low-income students made huge strides in access to digital technology well before the pandemic.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

About the Teaching with Primary Sources Partner Program Since 2006, the Library has awarded Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) grants to build a nationwide network of organizations that deliver educational programming, and create teaching materials and tools based on the Library’s digitized primary sources and other online resources.

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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. FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). ” How would the program operate?

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2006, Punya Mishra and Matthew J. Explore how to vet edtech tools to ensure they promote access for every kind of learner. But if technology isn’t paired with good teaching and a tie-in to the subject matter, what’s the point? What does the TPACK model focus on? Koehler developed the TPACK model.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Now, having gone to the trouble to design course resources that can be accessed remotely and feeling accustomed to turning on a webcam in the classroom, he has continued to embrace a teaching practice that is known as “HyFlex,” a portmanteau of hybrid and flexible. Will their efforts succeed?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While this may make some educators cringe, the reality is that test-enhanced learning, or testing as an aid to learning, has evidence of effectiveness dating back nearly 100 years ( Roediger III, McDaniel, & McDermott, 2006 ). Fill-in-the-Blank Questions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The first big project was the Flat Classroom Project, which went on to win ISTE’s award in 2006 for the best online learning project, that I co-created with Julie Lindsey, who at the time had been in Bangladesh. And now we do global projects every single year in my classroom, and have since 2006. That project was astounding.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In 2002, a critical transition occurred when 94 percent of public schools secured always-on broadband connections, granting educators and students increased access to rich media content.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Since at least 2006 , technology leaders and mathematicians have argued that data is the new oil. The coursework should be challenging but accessible — “low floor, high ceiling.” Generative AI algorithms, like those used to create ChatGPT, train on large language datasets.

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Neo LMS

MAY 8, 2018

Wing ’s ACM article “ Computational Thinking ” published in 2006. Despite its short length, and accessible style, the article’s list-like structure and adjective-dense paragraphs left me more befuddled than before. What is Computational Thinking? The most cited of these definitions being Jeannette M.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Perin’s paper echoed the results of a 2006 study of math in CTE involving 131 CTE high school teachers and almost 3,000 students. The Hechinger Report is an independent unit of Teachers College.) Stone explained how math in context works. Students start with a practical problem and learn a math principle for solving it.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

schools now have controlled access to the building, up from 75 percent in 2000, according to Education Department data. Secret Service analyzed 67 school shooting plots that were successfully averted between 2006-2018. School security has grown significantly nationwide since the 1999 Columbine school shooting. Some 95 percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Companies like Coursera, which helps universities build and access online courses, have ridden the momentum from new registrations to secure a $130 million investment in July. Founded in 2006, Course Hero is already well known among college students, millions of whom use it to get study materials, share class notes and ask tutors questions.

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TeacherCast

JULY 16, 2015

Jennifer began her instructional career in 2006. He subsequently worked on the first versions of Outlook Web Access, and multiple versions of Outlook desktop. OneNote in Education: Organizing, Note-taking, & Homework Made Easier. OneNote in Education: Transforming Learning Via Technology & eTextbooks. About Our Guests.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Content : How the student will access the information. International Education Journal, 2006, 7(7), pp. According to educational researcher and differentiated instruction expert Carol Ann Tomlinson, there are four key ways to differentiate classroom instruction:[8]. Retrieved from sciencedirect.com: [link]. Tomlinson, C.A. Weselby, C.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 26, 2015

Here's the first: Access to knowledge. Here's the first: Access to knowledge. Putnam's view of the Internet is similar to many other educators - it has provided unprecedented access to the world's knowledge. 2006) What are the affordances of technology? Reference Putnam, R. Unported License.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 16, 2016

Today, parents and students have the ability to access endless amounts of college and career planning information. In 2006 National-Louis University asked me to build, launch and manage the first graduate advising program in the history of the institution. From 2006-2011, I supported and advised over 2,500 teachers.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

During a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by The ProEthica® Program, the superintendent of one of America’s largest school districts spoke with a former state superintendent and other education leaders about key issues affecting students, parents, and educators, including digital access and equity, online privacy, and funding.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’re exited to launch SchoolLibraryNJ , a evolving project designed to address inequitable access to resources for K12 schools and libraries and to present the value of librarians in digitally curating resources for teaching and learning. Suddenly, patron access was only available to online virtual resources.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Through our acquisition of Pivot Interactives, Discovery Education is now better positioned to broaden our impact by providing our partner school systems access to phenomena-based, active learning tools.”. million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” Virtual Libraries: Their Influence on High School Students’ Information Seeking and Use. Chapter in Mary K. Chelton and Colleen Cool. Youth Information Seeking Behavior. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow. Valenza, J.K. Educational Leadership , 63 (4), 54-59. . Valenza, J.K. In Laverna Saunders. (Ed.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Some sensors that produce electronic signals from internet-connected devices, for example, have seen dramatic price drops, falling from $2 in 2006 to 40 cents the year the study published. She also makes sure she’s at capital planning meetings to ask the hard questions of who will have access to new devices that connect to the network. “I

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