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How a middle school teacher grew students’ math scores despite pandemic challenges

eSchool News

Today, the sixth grade math and science teacher at McKinley Elementary School is a quiet rock star. The school’s sixth grade growth scores in math are at nearly 58 percent, meaning more than half of the students met their individual growth targets on the state’s ILEARN test. I never looked for ‘gaps’ or ‘learning loss.’

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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

Edsurge

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?” A few chimed in.

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How We Express Ourselves: Making a Museum in a Box

iLearn Technology

I also am unwilling to retire iLearn Technology all together. I hope that you’ll continue to find reasons to come to iLearn Technology. We love the way that questions open opportunities for exploration, discovery, and new connections within learning. It doesn’t feel as natural and genuine. How do archeologists work?

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2014 Global Education Conference Starts Today - Day 1 Schedule

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

With over 250 sessions and 30 keynotes, it is an incredible opportunity to connect with and learn from educators, organizations, and students focused on globally-connected learning and supporting cultural awareness and educational access. Yildiz, Teacher Educator What can we learn from ''top-performing'' education systems?

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How We Express Ourselves: Making a Museum in a Box

iLearn Technology

I also am unwilling to retire iLearn Technology all together. I hope that you’ll continue to find reasons to come to iLearn Technology. We love the way that questions open opportunities for exploration, discovery, and new connections within learning. It doesn’t feel as natural and genuine. How do archeologists work?

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Short Answer- Build better k12 writers through social, engaging writing activities

iLearn Technology

What it is: Short Answer is a k-12 formative assessment and writing instruction tool that capitalizes on the learning potential of adaptive comparative judgment. The tool encourages students to be central to constructing and participating in the learning process through discussion and debate of peer-constructed responses.

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SAM Labs blocks put students in charge of creative learning

iLearn Technology

I love that as soon as students open it up, it puts them in charge of the learning. Best of all, it encourages the learning to happen through playful trial and error. Yes, students will learn programming basics, how motors and light sensors work, how to use logic to build if/then type scenarios.