Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I had a great time encouraging educators to give students as much ownership over their devices and learning as possible. Sketchnoting is helping make your thinking visible and shareable as you are reading a professional book, watching a movie clip, reading an educational blog post or article or listening to a lecture of conference keynote.

Resources 96

Resources iPad Mobility eBook 96

MindShift

JULY 10, 2015

For example, the Middlebury designers had little understanding of how much language a level one ELL student has. After looking at an initial prototype, Hartford educators came back to the company explaining areas that needed more background, context and clues to scaffold a student’s understanding of texts.

Common Core 28

Common Core Blended Learning Comparison Examples 28

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

More than ever, education leaders must design policies and instructional practices to best support these students. Related: Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target. We shouldn’t be surprised — or punish educators — when the students we’ve identified as such perform that way.

Policies 40

Policies Data Common Core Comparison 40

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2015

This is the second of a two-part conversation with Yong Zhao about standards, testing and other core elements of the modern system of education, and the assumptions that may be standing in the way of meeting the real learning needs of all children.

Assessment 28

Assessment Learning Common Core Comparison 28

wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Those of us who are transitioning to Common Core standards know that text complexity will affect the rigor in our classrooms. Teachers and librarians who use Accelerated Reader (AR) in their schools need to take into consideration that the AR levels (ATOS) are changing to adapt to the higher reading levels in Common Core.

Common Core 74

Common Core Resources Differentiated Instruction Secondary 74

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

In the last five years, there have been some remarkable shifts in the tools educators use in the classroom and to perform their many responsibilities. The boom and bust of Common Core standards have left their mark, just as new concerns over media literacy and privacy are doing currently.

EdTech 135

EdTech Tools Examples Common Core 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. The push to find the best way to test the arts is coming from arts educators themselves in many instances. Yet access to arts education remains unequal. It’s a parity thing.”.

Education 40

Education Assessment Guidelines Elementary 40

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In their excellent resource No More Independent Reading Without Support (Heinemann, 2013), Debbie Miller and Barbara Moss provide a helpful comparison: Silent Reading. The rest of the book goes into all of the research that supports independent reading, along with ideas and examples for implementing it in classrooms.

Assessment 52

Assessment Tools Common Core Digital Citizenship 52

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

I feel like a lot of times as educators, we tell people things because it’s easier than trying to come up with something inquiry-based. What I have found, at least with the Common Core Standards the way they’re written, if we look at the standards themselves as the end point, I think it becomes really frustrating and limiting.

Classroom 72

Classroom Resources Examples Data 72

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. One of the excuses educators have long offered to explain America’s poor reading performance is poverty. The problem in Bethlehem.

Training 112

Training Elementary Report Study 112

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The business of education technology overlaps with the politics of ed-tech. One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. The politics overlap with privacy. The US Presidential Campaign.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40