Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Much of that money will apparently go toward paying off debt and covering fees related to going public, though officials say they are also putting $1 million in a donation to “philanthropic initiatives to benefit K-12 educators.” Then publishing giant Pearson bought it from Apple in 2006. Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Friends and social media users began alerting her that images and material from one of her children’s books, “I Am Not a Number,” about a young Indigenous girl sent to a residential school in Canada and based on the experience of her grandmother, had made their way into paid lessons on the site that she had never seen before.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 20, 2016

If you’ve ever taught kids who have their own smartphones, you know how quickly social media problems can escalate at school. I’ve also included some of my favorite free digital citizenship education options. She is also the Skype Education Ambassador. Episode 296 Listening Guide. Host: Vicki Davis.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This vibrant educator community hosts teacher-authors who wish to sell their original lessons and ideas to other teachers, district administrators, homeschoolers, and unschoolers. Since its start in 2006 by a former teacher, it’s grown to over 3.4 Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global education technology company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced it has agreed to acquire DreamBox Learning® , a PK-12 education technology provider serving more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It was 2006, and Miller—then an investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times—had just spoken to 175 sixth graders at his daughter’s middle school about his job as a journalist and why it mattered. The News Literacy Project also recently began offering a program for educators, called NewsLitCamps.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Tuesday, August 17, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. As part of the Discovery Education family of services, DoodleLearning will continue to apply its educational ability to building and deploying affordable learning solutions for students worldwide.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

For example, since I started teaching moviemaking with my students in 2006, I have used a Storyboard Dictionary of shots that I originally adapted from the American Film Institute. Create Engaging Projects The third way Adobe Premiere Rush promotes creativity is the interest students have in YouTube, Instagram, and social media style videos.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today on the podcast we’re talking about news literacy, and the challenge of teaching students to navigate the relentless flow of information they get through social media and websites and YouTube and. Really with the advent of the first iPhone, around 2006, everything changed, and social media really took off.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

But in 2006, he gained recognition for something that no other TED speaker in history has done. Well, it’s been ten years, and with the recent proliferation of terms like “personalized,” “mastery-based,” and “blended” in the education world, some of Robinson’s viewers may wonder if or how his take on schools has changed.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” Educational Leadership , 63 (4), 54-59. . I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. Virtual Libraries: Their Influence on High School Students’ Information Seeking and Use. Chapter in Mary K. Chelton and Colleen Cool.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

A toolkit for teachers will be made available at the end of the 2015-2016 school year as an OER (open education resources), allowing other teachers across the world to follow this method of quad engineering. “So You can also follow the movement on social media with the hashtag #appsthatmatter. Media Contact: Kathryn Brannen.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fennell, a current professor of education at McDaniel College, has provided his endorsement of hand2mind’s Hands-On Standards product line, which helps K-8 educators and parents teach math with manipulatives to build problem-solving skills. In 2006, Fennell was appointed to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel by President George W.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

An educational technology speaker, instructor, and author, Tom Daccord @ thomasdaccord is Director of EdTechTeacher and has worked with schools, colleges and educational organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Check Them out! . Learn about Listenwise. Today’s Guest: Tom Daccord.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 1, 2023

Shawn’s book Becoming Active Citizens focuses on creating more meaningful citizen education programs focused on real life experiences where students learn citizenship by BEING citizens. His lessons and student products have been featured in the Journal, Educational Leadership and the Huffington Post.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Of higher education institutions advertising, she said: “I didn’t know that was a thing”. The marketing and advertising boom is also a response to increasing public skepticism about the need to go to college in the first place, said Elizabeth Johnson, chair of the higher education marketing agency SimpsonScarborough. I mean, wow.”

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is a short snippet from a longer podcast that I recorded titled “ 5 Ways We Can Drive Meaningful Change in Education. I started on Twitter and social media probably around 2009 and saw so much value in the platform. Twitter existed in 2006, and my brother Alec was on my case about starting account years prior.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

As educators, we have an opportunity to help our students harness the power of storytelling and multimedia production to help them reach academic benchmarks, and engage in creative processes that equip them with real-world skills regardless of their professional pursuits. Everyone has a story to share. Y is for You!

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

I''m gradually working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Informal and self regulated learning are defining characteristics of 21 st Century education. Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 17 (3), 183-193. Delfino, M.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

school experience,” said Yong Zhao, presidential chair and director of the Institute for Global and Online Education at the University of Oregon College of Education. They may be good students in China, but not competitive enough in the education system.” The education, the environment.”. State Department.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. 2006) Introducing Web 2.0:

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve seen evidence of this in the many curated digital collections shared across social media, including all of those lovely Bitmoji libraries. At this point, it is heavy on organizing and presenting free resources that might be used by every students and educator. Not every library has a realistic budget.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global edtech company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Pivot Interactives is Discovery Education’s second acquisition this month, having also acquired DoodleLearning. . We’re thrilled to be joining the Discovery Education family,” said Mr. Bohacek.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Christina Pipkin, Education Success Manager, said her unsung hero is her best friend, Dr. Kandice Sumner. With a deep passion for reforming urban education policies, she continues to have these conversations with students and educators across the nation.”. Kandice Sumner: A Doctor, a Friend, Role Model. Jasmine shared: “Dr.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 14, 2017

After seeing droves of people flock the EdTechTeam booth at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference, I finally decided to look into what might be getting so many people excited! I learned that it is possible to become a Certified Google Educator and thought, “I love to use Google tools for Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Discovery Education —the Charlotte, North Carolina based global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms—today announced the appointment of Scott Kinney as its new Chief Executive Officer and Kelli Campbell as the company’s new President.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Learning in the industrialised world can now be contextualised within a largely technological landscape, where the use of digital media is assuming increasing importance. These facets of modern life in combination have led educators to question the validity of pre-digital age learning theories. References Cross, J. eLearnspace.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The act was first passed in 2006, to support career preparation programs. Subscribe today! Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 27, 2016

Teachers were always talked about, but few were given the space to opine on education policy save for those connected to education professions or multi-million dollar non-profits. Social media wasn’t a “thing,” though I was already on Facebook. Like I was hoping to do back in 2006. And even then.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 3, 2012

Now, more than ever, education professionals must be visible and transparent in what they do and with their program and practice. Now, before we start I gotta add that this is by NO MEANS a checklist of 8 social media things you have to do ! No social media guilt from me or my blog dear friend!

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Educating all constituents, not just about the process, but also why it’s important, is essential. They educate staff about the types of attacks as well as what to do. Student Digital Records: Here, it’s not just about the district’s practices, but their vendors as well.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Welcome to the latest installment in our series on 21st-century education. As an educational researcher deeply interested in the intersection of technology and education, I have been keenly observing how emerging technologies have been reshaping the landscape of learning. In How Critical Is Critical Thinking?

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 18, 2012

Lankshear and Knobel (2006) argued for the 'embeddedness' of literacy within wider social practices. You learn through social engagement online for example, that typing words in UPPERCASE represents shouting. It's a part of the social etiquette (or 'netiquette') of using social media, e-mail and texting tools.

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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. I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Salman Khan should feel honored.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role.

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