Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2024

Sophia Birk, a digital nomad currently living in Poland, is an international member of the AATT team of educators and a math aficionado. These papers test students over everything they learned in maths classes, from primary school through secondary education. The GCSE exam certifies their efforts.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 12, 2018

Streaming in schools is a contentious subject, and there are studies to show that streaming prior to upper secondary school can have a negative effect on both social and academic outcomes, particularly for underprivileged students. Education and Childcare. Streaming should really only be considered in a high school setting.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 30, 2019

The UK Educational Gap. When I first moved to the United Kingdom, I was very confused about the country’s educational system. A professor of Work and Education Economics at University College London believes that private schools have three times more resources than the public ones. It is a very complex matter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2018

Todd: My wife thinks she has a problem with it, but I just say, “Compare this, what you’re doing now as a teacher, and how much complexity there is and what you’re doing, compared to what you were doing when you were 22, and there’s no comparison.” It’s just a fantastic educator to follow. Vicki: Yes, we are. So these are great tips.

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Hapara

AUGUST 18, 2023

More willingness to listen to other viewpoints instead of scorning or fearing what is unfamiliar is another indicator of inclusive education. A recent UNESCO report showed that across the nation, elementary and secondary students with disabilities experience higher rates of violence by teachers and are up to 1.5

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As the program—a collaboration between ISTE and General Motors —wraps up its third year of professional learning opportunities and support for educators, she says, “this is really the end of the beginning of the work.” Black: I think our program meets a unique set of needs in the AI education space right now.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

The most profound shifts driven by changes in education policy often go unnoticed and tend to lag behind the hype cycles and headlines about federal policy and politics. While the proposed cuts to the federal education budget have taken the. A brief comparison of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and ESSA illustrates the point.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2019

In education, such privacy concerns are secondary to another glaring issue: that company officials have said their products are intended for consumer use, not as classroom tools. A new Amazon Echo Dot, in comparison, costs $29.99. He hopes to be able to ship the first Chatterbox speakers to schools in time for Christmas.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S., While here in the U.S., boasts merely 120,000 enrollments.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Some solutions in education are expensive. Higher Education. In the comparison group (the students who lost the lotteries to get into the early college schools), only 11 percent had earned an associate degree six years later. Department of Education. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it? Choose from our newsletters.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash. education technology companies raised $1.45 educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Ponddy Education , for example, is a San Jose, Calif.-based A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

American education, often a battlefront for operationalized prejudice, is fraught with discriminatory outcomes. Schools are no exception to race-based codes and racialized justice systems, and educators are not immune from the biases our nation has fomented. Related: COLUMN: The educational value of a Black teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In When I have written about unrelated educational reforms, researchers often compare them to the effectiveness of class size reductions to give me a sense of their relative impact. . Related: Putting an ed tech darling in context.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

But thanks to a data collection effort by an expert in adult education at a nonprofit research organization in New York, Center for an Urban Future, we now have evidence of a sharp decline in new high school equivalency degrees in almost every state between 2012 and 2016. .”

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2023

In the diverse educational landscape of the United States, the question of “how much do teachers make in the USA?” With a wide array of schools, curricula, and teaching methods, teachers’ salary figures can vary significantly across states and levels of education. is the topic of our blog post today!

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 29, 2014

When the 2012 PISA scores were released, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan declared the American Education system “stagnant.” He said the results were “straightforward and stark: It is a picture of educational stagnation.” Whether or not that’s true is debatable. This statement is just not true.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

You probably wouldn’t be surprised to hear that every education technology (edtech) publisher says their product works, and they all have some sort of supporting evidence. Yet just that one piece of "gold standard" evidence is often considered good enough by educators when making a purchasing decision. But it shouldn’t be.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Department of Education to implement and study the model in middle and high schools. An independent study shows promise: After just two years, Diplomas Now successfully reduced these signs at a statistically significant rate better than the study’s comparison schools. But this pattern is preventable — even in the toughest schools.”.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The post What is G Suite for Education? What is G Suite for Education? Whether you are brand new to Google or a seasoned user, there are probably a few things you don’t know about G Suite for Education. If you want to become a Google Certified Educator or Trainer, you need to learn the basics of G Suite for Education.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

The researchers eventually settled upon this wording: “Pretend you are a secondary school teacher. It was supposed to be a blind comparison test and the feedback raters were not told who authored each one. Provide 2-3 pieces of specific, actionable feedback on each of the following essays…. Use a friendly and encouraging tone.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

While the overall proportion of Americans with higher educations has been slowly increasing, the proportions who are Black, Native American or Hispanic — like Navejas — are falling further behind, or staying no better than level. Mamie Voight, interim president, Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 18, 2014

I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In my most recent post I featured Hull''s Drive Reduction theory and its applications to education. In this post, we will explore the work of Bärbel Inhelder on deductive reasoning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

“When you look at college mission statements, they’re loaded with grand pronouncements about the skills and habits of mind they’re going to inspire in their students,” said Alexander McCormick, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 19, 2014

It''s not a new phrase, but I was reminded of it again recently by Aaron Davis , a secondary school teacher in Melbourne, who has a prolific education Twitter account. In 1962, technology use was minimal in comparison to today''s ubiquitous global digital capabilities. I feel ''it takes a village'' requires some unpacking.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

The National Center for Education Statistics last calculated these numbers for the 2011-12 school year and it didn’t use exactly the same measurements as this most recent 2014-15 study, released in June 2018, so it’s hard to make direct comparisons. How much it really costs to educate a child remains an elusive question.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

New report offers policy recommendations to sustain momentum for computer science education. schools should make every effort to expand computer science education to keep up with workforce demands, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Teach computer science in all high schools.

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wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) issued a letter informing us they will increase the text complexity as well as higher Lexile levels on the current AIMS test this year to help transition to the PARCC assessment. Then, register for The Lexile Framework for a Reading Educator''s account. How are we Boosting Text Complexity?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. Even as educators from around the world flock to Finland to discover its magic formula, Estonia, just a two-hour ferry ride away, has not aroused the same degree of interest. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

This helps users understand the materials better, making connections and comparisons that open up new research possibilities and unique ways to interrogate literary works.” The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending. They reported only districtwide averages, making disparities across districts the primary fodder for conversations about educational inequities. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

For example, if a teacher is teaching a reading analysis standard, such as “compare and contrast,” a Venn diagram would be the best tool to use because it naturally points the mind to the task of comparison.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

When an individual asks my advice about the next step towards post-secondary education, I almost always advise community college first. One of the most significant challenges students face when entering any post-secondary institution is time management. This is where the community college lends an advantage.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2018

Our second guest, Ben Nelson, first dreamed of rebooting higher education back when he was an undergraduate at University of Pennsylvania, where he did a research project on how to reinvent higher education. You can watch the complete discussion [coming soon], or hear a podcast version.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22. At least 15 states already have similar laws in place. You could have learned your lesson.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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