The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

With the ISTE Seal of Alignment, this program is approved by many districts as a flexible, personalized way for teachers to learn and grow. Click Here to Learn More About Edge U Badges Sponsor This week's guest Danielle Johnson, executive director of the Texas Scholastic Esports Federation. That's the closest comparison.

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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.” Todd: Another thing that you can do is to maintain what I call a “simple learning cockpit”.

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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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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.” All of that enhances students’ social-emotional learning, and it’s fundamental to understanding artificial intelligence.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The once novel technology behind chess- and gameshow-playing computers is all but commonplace today; it’s in everything from medical diagnostic applications to Gmail spam filters—and as some high school and college students are finding out, a new generation of online tools for foreign language learning.

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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. Ready to learn!”), requiring that users teach it all the functions they want it to have. But Chatterbox is not a learn-to-code company.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. 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. For students, that’s a degree with zero tuition. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Over time, as investors learned which business models worked—and which didn’t—some have fled the sector. Companies whose products serve preschool and professional learning sectors also raised $350 million (represented as the “Other” category in the graph below). Those who stayed have become selective. billion invested in 2018, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

Black students are subject to more aggressive disciplinary actions in comparison to white peers. Students of color are less likely to be given access to accelerated opportunities in secondary schools, and more likely to be placed in remediation when they head to college. Related: COLUMN: The educational value of a Black teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Experts have long known that the research evidence doesn’t consistently support the notion that smaller classes increase how much students learn. “The available evidence points to no or only very small effect sizes of small classes in comparison to larger classes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

But will they actually learn anything? Higher education has found itself under increasing pressure to change that, just as has happened in elementary and secondary schools, where a battery of standardized tests constantly check in on what students know. We’ve never really had to demonstrate our learning,” said McCormick.

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Hapara

AUGUST 18, 2023

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 When learners feel inadequate in comparison to peers, they may participate less and/or become increasingly isolated.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2023

Preschool Teachers In the earliest stages of formal education, preschool teachers lay the groundwork for a child’s learning journey. Elementary School Teachers The cornerstone of foundational education, elementary school teachers foster a love for learning and set the stage for a lifetime of intellectual curiosity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

My curiosity was piqued by a new study , published in the June 2024 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Learning and Instruction, that evaluated the quality of ChatGPT’s feedback on students’ writing. And I think we’ll learn how to make it better.” That’s not good for learning. It wasn’t always accurate. Source: Fig.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) has always required local agency plans as a condition of getting the federal funding. A brief comparison of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and ESSA illustrates the point. These plans are beginning to show a magnitude of change that has—so far—gone under the radar.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success. That extra year is a killer – literally – when it comes to retained students’ secondary school completion rates.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 18, 2014

This is number 17 in my series on learning theories. As usual, this is a simplified interpretation of the theory, so if you wish to learn more, please read the associated literature. Inferential reasoning skills can be developed over time as children learn about new concepts, how they compare, and how to make decisions.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

Meanwhile, any other program with studies not meeting the RCT bar of rigor is by comparison downgraded—no matter how many other high quality studies they may have, under how many different conditions, in what timeframe, or even with repeated positive results. Yet teachers, usage, and content vary tremendously from K-2, to 3-5, to secondary.

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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. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

I frequently see people use the Internet to look up recipes, movie listings, and news; however, I still don''t see it as a natural source for engaging rigorous learning in the classroom. Here are the new AR scores also in comparison to the Lexile scores : However, it''s not the be-all and end-all for selecting independent reading.

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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.” Set pages can be bookmarked for use in LibGuides , syllabi or learning management systems.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

For example, a child from a poor home whose mother works an overnight shift might need more one-on-one attention at school to learn to read. Source data: NCES, Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: School Year 2014–15 , Table 7). That costs money. Historically, the decentralized U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

The power of visual learning is unleashed if the tool dovetails with standard. 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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

Black and Hispanic primary and secondary students fell farther behind in school last year than white students and were less likely to have attended classes in person, have contact with teachers or have the internet access they needed for remote learning, the consulting firm McKinsey reported.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

By comparison, in the United States, students do not get the same educational experience. At that point, students decide whether to go to upper secondary school for three more years, where they focus on academics, or to vocational school to prepare for a specific career. It is playful but you still have to start learning very early.”.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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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. For some, they are working full time as well as taking a full load of courses.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

You could have learned your lesson.” Our mission is really to educate our kiddos, and in order to do that we need them in school,” said Lori McKenna, Albany’s assistant superintendent for secondary instruction. You can’t learn if you’re not feeling safe or nurtured.” Yet the legislation has never made it out of committee. “A

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2019

FREE Download) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. If you want to become a Google Certified Educator or Trainer, you need to learn the basics of G Suite for Education. (It Of course, free is great, but the best thing is that these tools are relevant to students, easy to use, and open doors to many new ways to learn.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Nearly 90 percent of the school population is considered low-income and nearly three-quarters are labeled English learners, meaning that the state language arts test assesses their reading and writing ability in a language they’re still trying to learn. Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vygotsky believed social interactions were necessary for learning and development, and Jean Piaget thought even children learned through doing. Children learn by themselves without peers or adults telling them what to do. Children are active learners; they don’t need rewards to motivate them to learn.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Looking for new ways to review learning, discuss questions, formatively assess, and be more playful with learning? when games are incorporated into learning. I love it when kids are laughing and learning. These games enforce academic learning because they are a method of formative assessment that is not a paper quiz.

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. Let’s imagine that this is the moment a parent challenges you in a meeting or the moment you learn that a colleague was diagnosed with a serious illness. regulation and ultimately improve learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2018

We have a lot of things that are set up to be really focused on being a learning community. Not done by us, but done broadly in the science of learning. So, technology enables you to do fully active learning better than you could without technology. Everybody knows each other very well. And that was really the point.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

The authors offer a series of recommendations for federal and state policymakers to leverage this momentum: • Reform curricula for existing technology classes to focus on core concepts of computer science in primary and secondary schools. Allow computer science to count as either a math or science requirement in high school. Atkinson.

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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. Children can take ownership of their learning, but inevitably they will encounter setbacks.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 28, 2016

During a Summit, students work with world class educators learning to how to utilize technology in the classroom. Several districts have visited Temple High School to learn more about the model. The 1:1 Chromebook to student initiative that started in 2013 has brought teaching and learning to a new level. Find out how HERE!

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