The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In a flipped classroom, students watch video lectures before class and use class time to work on assignments and group projects. It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. Over the past decade, flipping has spread across U.S.

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Flipped Classroom Study Classroom Analysis 143

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

So what will be the future of higher education, and how will it survive against this hostile backdrop? Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. Now students can assume more responsibility for their own learning and design their own study trajectories.

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Education Conference Technology Online Learning 61

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Website traffic to the homepage for IXL, a popular tool that lets students practice skills across five subjects through online quizzes, spiked in March.

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Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Photo by William White on unsplash Still other virtual clans are emerging from the cultures surrounding online leisure activities such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), strategy games and transnational special interest groups that meet en masse, online. Distance Education.

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Groups Meeting Online Learning Strategy 29

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. She sometimes observes teachers, and other times helps children in small groups. She’s also a teacher-in-training.

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Elementary Report Training Classroom 87

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. In a lot of classrooms, our modules are becoming required learning,” Sharma says. “As Nobody really knows yet what works for online learning,” he says. “A

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Khan Academy MOOC Flipped Classroom Trends 75

Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

This is the second in a series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future' Yesterday's post can be found on this link. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade.

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Conference Technology Online Learning Strategy 51

The Electric Educator

JUNE 28, 2010

The Long Tale is listed as a business and marketing book, the principles contained in it can be applied to education. Since the inception of public education, schools have been "hit" markets. While private education served a niche market, it was a limited niche market because brick and mortar education is expensive and geographical.

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Education Training Online Learning STEM 45

Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This post is a continuation of Wednesday's post entitled: Virtual Clans Still other virtual clans are emerging from the cultures surrounding online leisure activities such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), strategy games and transnational special interest groups that meet en masse, online.

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Groups Meeting Online Learning Strategy 28

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. At this point in the Forum we broke into small group discussions. RECLAIM HOSTING.

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Trends LMS Data MOOC 41

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. At this point in the Forum we broke into small group discussions. RECLAIM HOSTING.

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Trends LMS Data MOOC 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you''ll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!

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ePortfolio Google Conference Online Learning 28

Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Knowledge can be created by the individual through reflection or developed through interaction at the intra- or inter-group levels. Once created, individual, groups, departments, or the organization can control the dissemination and access to a larger number of people.

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Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Audience: K-12 & higher ed educators, researchers, institutions, and organizations globally. Connected Learning.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

She was a successful education leader in Virginia, and Texas before McGraw-Hill recruited her to lead their Urban Markets 2015-2017. Ann served as Executive Director, Educational Technology in the Klein Independent School District, near Houston, Texas until September 2013, when she and her family moved to Los Angeles, California.

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BYOD Smartphone Accessibility Advocacy 75

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic closed schools and launched a national experiment in remote learning that has been chaotic and stressful for millions of American families. Rainey, his maternal grandma, returned to New Orleans before her family, in late 2006, replacing her destroyed family home with a modular structure set on cinderblock pilings.

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Report Elementary Study Secondary 110

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

Tom Greaves, The Greaves Group www.projectred.org Project Red - large scale research project funded by Pearson and Intel; Collected data from over 1000 schools around the country and looked at 136 variables. Rob Lippincott, PBS PBS is working toward making more content digital (after spending over 40 years making TV educational).

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Learning Pearson Study Survey 61

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 81

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2012

Join me Wednesday, August 8th, at an early time , for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com panel with Stephen Downes, Howard Gardner, Alfie Kohn, and Gary Stager to talk about the need to reform the education reform movement. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Blackboard Laptops Study Assessment 76

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education at the University of Kansas Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas and a professor in Educational Leadership at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in Australia. Yong Zhao, Ph.D

Learning 48

Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

When her classes were assigned group projects, no one wanted her in their group. Fifty years have passed since Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 went into effect. The law guarantees the right to an education for pregnant and parenting students. Related: How are college campuses preparing for a post-Roe world?

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 134

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Secretary of Education, is giving parents freedom of choice, either to choose charter schools or to use vouchers to buy an education at any school they like, public or private. And, not unlike what often happens with charter schools and vouchers, the Course Access policies can set up a competition for limited education dollars.

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Policies Course Accessibility Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. Y Combinator ( I list its education investments here ) has refused to sever ties with Thiel. You can fill out a form online to offer some names. Education Politics.

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Education Company Pearson E-rate 40