EdTech4Beginners

MAY 8, 2017

A teacher has to teach over 20 students with different learning styles, skills and priorities, which is a challenging task, especially when the classroom time is limited. Since its first occurrence in the late 1990s the idea of a blended learning, as well as the means with the help of which the approach is delivered, have changed and widened.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Like gaming, learning math requires grit and persistence—cornerstones of growth mindset—and is grounded in problem solving, flexible thinking, and pattern recognition. The same kind of tenacity is crucial when learning math. At New Mexico’s Farmington Heights Middle School , teachers use game-based learning to personalize instruction.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

The five-year study, Improving Student Achievement Across State Borders and State Standards, concluded that the print, digital and hands-on program, coupled with high-quality professional learning, raises students standardized test scores. Keiser Director of the Smithsonian Science Education Center.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. There is also a section with math games for those who learn best by challenging themselves. Interactivate.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2017

I’ve included a comparison matrix with features to help you figure out what system is best for you. So maybe I’m a social studies teacher, I’m teaching middle school, I’m teaching high school, it could even obviously do it down in Elementary School as well. Sponsored by Bloomz I’ve been using Bloomz for three years now and I love it.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 9, 2019

There are a number of analogue printables aides online that will help elementary school teachers bring a new dimension to story-time. Some teachers have found useful ways to include My Maps as a station in their blended learning classrooms, where each student contributes to one map as they cycle through the stations.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

If middle and elementary school students are forced to repeat grades because they fall short of a standard anchored to NAEP proficient, vast numbers will repeat grades. Designating NAEP proficient as the achievement benchmark for accountability systems is certainly not cautious use. emphasis added]. On the surface, this does seem awful.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 2, 2017

He also shares how flexible seating should go with more student voice and choice in their learning. I’ve included a comparison matrix with features to help you figure out what system is best for you. Concept #1: The Process of Continual Design of Learning Spaces. This episode is sponsored by Bloomz.com. Listen Now.

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Classroom Comparison iPad Study 360

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Distance learning began March 23. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Code.org has created a great compilation of resources for how students can continue learning. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. Friendly and inclusive learning communities include: CSTA Chapter meetings. Take an online course. Some favorites (all free!)

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. But it provided them an engaging way to learn firsthand the difficulties of creating and sustaining a government structure. But they weren’t reading from a textbook. history.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

This whole idea is a very naive belief that if we just kind of make it for everybody, everyone will learn, Brookings education researcher Tom Loveless told the Twin Cities Pioneer Press in 2008. She got As in elementary school math but her grades fell once she hit algebra in eighth grade. Many math experts warned against the move.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

My 4th-12th grade students didn't learn in an actual classroom, but rather in an undefined work space, which included the schoolyard farm and a nascent makerspace with a handful of robots. I call this type of student-centered teaching Problem-Based, Place-Based, Project-Based Learning, or PB3. she asked. “I I don’t like getting wet!”

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Robotics STEM Learning Comparison 167

Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2018

Over time, these learning losses accumulate, leaving children further behind each year. Based on these encouraging results, we expanded the intervention at the same elementary school the following year, running book fairs for four classes. The comparison group, however, was modified. By third grade , they are reading to learn.

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STEM Comparison Elementary Groups 198

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2023

As you compare Google Bard with ChatGPT, here is an overview of a few things I've found so far as of today: Comparison of Google Bard and ChatGPT Chat Memory Length Currently, ChatGPT will remember chats along the side of the screen. As Bard continues to learn, its ability to hold context during longer conversations will improve.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

By learning to view it as a means of enhancing your lessons and resources, you can provide your students with tools and opportunities they may not otherwise access. Increased intrinsic motivation to learn. Lessons that involve digital citizenship can help a student use technology responsibly well beyond their elementary school years.

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Technology Classroom Digital Citizenship Education 260

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2019, a group of researchers, led by James Kim, a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, randomly selected 15 of the district’s 30 elementary schools to teach first graders special knowledge-building lessons for three years, through third grade. Students were also given related books to read during the summer.

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Learning Study Elementary Comparison 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education. A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2024

AJ Jacobs, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, shared that the quotation, “No significant learning can occur without a significant relationship,” is what drives him. Pricila Cano Padron, of Dallas, Texas, remembers her “wake-up call” in middle school, when she helped tutor English-learning classmates in math and reading (she is bilingual).

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

There are benefits when students can learn and socialize in online spaces, but it comes with a dark side. 8] Half of US states have laws about bullying in schools, and 12 states have laws specifically targeted at cyberbullying in elementary schools.[13]. Hate Speech on Social Media: Global Comparisons.” Oh, Erin Wilkey.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2017

You can make homework work for learning and not just be busy work. I’ve included a comparison matrix with features to help you figure out what system is best for you. 00:02:00]. That is not the most appropriate use of time because in the classroom we provide supports and scaffolding when learning is new.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2024

Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. This paper explores the impact socioeconomic status has on student learning in order for teachers to have a better understanding of their diverse classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Both of my parents were public educators; my father an elementary principal in Hackettstown and my mother an elementary teacher in Flemington. This recognition has been validated by state-by-state data comparisons. It breaks my heart to see what is happening in a state that I hold dear to my heart.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Children who didn’t go to preschool still learn their letters and catch up. About 40 percent of the families took advantage of it and chose to send their children to a pre-K program at a public elementary school. Gormley said he plans to retire soon and shared two lessons he’s learned from his career studying early childhood education.

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Comparison Elementary Study Data 136

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

Online attendance is a struggle In the spring of 2023, almost 1,000 Northern California elementary school children in grades 1 to 4 were randomly assigned to receive online reading tutoring during the school day. These were young, low-income children, in kindergarten through 2nd grade, who were just learning to read.

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Groups Study Comparison Elementary 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

It informs students in emergencies, updates them on historic events, and now–with extensions like Apple TV–connects them on a granular level to what they learn in their textbooks. Educational Shows For Elementary. It can help them find more interest and fun in learning. Have discussions about the shows topics.

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Classroom Digital Citizenship Comparison Elementary 150

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2022

This single study has renewed the debate about the value of universal pre-K and the need for continued investments in early learning. Better data on pre-K enrollment will help us make better comparisons. We already know that the positive impacts of pre-K are largest when children in the comparison group have stayed at home.

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Study Comparison Elementary Data 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This was the tail end of my first school year as the principal at Madison County Elementary School, a pre-K to 8th grade Title I school, located just outside of Huntsville in Gurley, Ala. Students needed to be in a learning environment where they could excel and teachers needed to recognize the behaviors they wanted to reinforce.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. Dr. Rosenberg’s comparison is fascinating. What’s even more amazing is how we can use this comparison for a classroom environment (see Table 2).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

“On the one hand, our elementary students are nearly back to pre-pandemic academic growth and achievement for science, but our older students are still very much struggling.” “Science learning losses are smaller than losses in reading and math. months of unfinished learning by spring 2021. months lost in math.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

The gains are due to the steps Mississippi took to support the teaching of literacy skills in early elementary classrooms and not, as some have suggested , due to the manipulation of the student population taking the test or to aligning Mississippi’s learning standards specifically to the NAEP standards.

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Policies Elementary Learning Comparison 98

The Mobile Native

APRIL 25, 2014

The research comes from an evaluation study, conducted by the International Society for Technology in Education , of an innovative and comprehensive teacher professional development program, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools. and Niemes Elementary School (Cerritos, Calif.). Charles Carroll Middle School (New Carrollton, Md.);

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Mobile Learning Mobility Comparison Learning 61

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Does any of it help students learn more? One idea for smarter education spending is for schools to sign smarter contracts, where part of the payment is contingent upon whether students use the services and learn more. The post PROOF POINTS: We have tried paying teachers based on how much students learn.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation. This strategy was successful, but the road was bumpy and we learned a lot throughout the process. Several of our students were named U.S. Presidential Scholars.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In Maggie Waldner’s elementary school classroom in downtown Denver, math lessons rarely focus on rote memorization.

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STEM Comparison Report Elementary 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. Those students also felt more confident in their ability to learn on their own, and remotely. The bottom line is troubling.

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