Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

While it may seem logical for teachers and professors to clearly disclose when they use AI to develop instructional materials, just as they are asking students to do in assignments, Watkins points out that it’s not as simple as it might seem. But teachers rarely share with students where these materials come from.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S. This is good news and cause for celebration.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In states that mix adoption and local control, like Utah, a commission reviews, vets and ultimately recommends instructional materials, although districts have final say. Occasionally the state will also partner with companies to provide materials or services to districts free of charge. Each state operates differently.

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EdTech Case Study Instructional Materials Policies 323

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. Some schools then layer on a third-party intervention provider, with its own philosophy and materials. Of course, not all schools and school systems implement core curriculum.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 162

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

Encouraged by Dr. Orton, she compiled and published instructional materials which provided the foundation for what became known as the Orton-Gillingham Method. How do I create a classroom library checkout system? As early as 1925 he identified dyslexia as an educational problem. –published first on TeachHUB.

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Training Study Digital Citizenship Instructional Materials 268

eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Prior to Yaizy, at the age of 17 Gordon was an SAT teacher and director of instructional materials at Kaplan, co-founded two successful businesses, was the first international partner of Algorithmics, and a partner at McKinsey for 7 years.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Organizations following Kaizen look at a system as a whole and make slow, small steps to improve. ” They would take online instructional materials, but then involve peers and colleagues in a person submitting a demonstration of skill. Professional development should teach using the methods being taught.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Through direct partnerships with K-12 school systems nationwide, Kinvolved aims to elevate student attendance and engagement by cultivating strong relationships. A binary data capture system that fails to incorporate measures of engagement and participation no longer suffices to characterize a student’s presence at school.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

CONCORD, NH (July 14, 2021) —The New Hampshire Department of Education (Department) today announced the selection of Discovery Education’s award-winning K-12 learning platform to support all New Hampshire learning environments with high quality instructional material. Discovery Education Community.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

For the new report, it was reclassified from an app to a learning management system, and its mentions grew from 44 percent as an educational app in 2018 to 54 percent as the LMS teachers said their school used in 2020. The results revealed that they “tend to be those geared for synchronous instruction”—that is, for live direct teaching.

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EdTech LMS Survey Classroom 190

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) today announced that a supplemental K-5 math computer program will be made available to school systems through TEA’s Texas Home Learning 3.0 (THL instructional materials undergo a rigorous review that includes Texas teacher feedback to confirm quality standards.

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Accessibility Schoology Instructional Materials Blended Learning 96

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Often, these pitches entail free or discounted software for products ranging from instructional materials to virtual conferencing tools. Among them are companies directly reaching out to teachers and administrators, offering to help ease that transition. For now, don’t call me, I’ll call you.”.

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Company Software Instructional Materials Assessment 216

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

As parents, we entrust our children to the public education system in the belief that the decisions made by educators, administrators, and policymakers are in the best interests of our children. Four, we must ensure that all instructional materials – no matter their form or medium – remain available for public inspection and review.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

A school is a system, but it’s rarely designed and built systematically. Everyone is continually adjusting and adapting to elements that others have set in motion, but rarely is there clarity on school as a holistic system, as a living blueprint whose elements can be thoughtfully changed with foresight. And on it goes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We’ve all seen (or even been) that woefully disorganized student: always turning in late assignments, arriving to class empty-handed or misplacing instructional materials. The problem is not the technology itself but rather the lack of a central system to help students organize their digital tools.

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How To Classroom Instructional Materials Laptops 167

Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

Publishers need to continue to provide school systems with high-quality, rigorously-evaluated and properly vetted digital services that are factually correct, current, appropriate for students, and properly aligned to state and national standards. Ensure the sustainability of digital learning initiatives.

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Blackboard Instructional Materials Professional Learning Digital Learning 145

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 1, 2021

offerings, these instructional materials are optional and aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)—the state standards for what grade-level knowledge and skills students should possess. instructional materials undergo a rigorous review that includes Texas teacher feedback to confirm quality standards.

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Instructional Materials Blended Learning Learning Accessibility 98

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

He showed off solar systems made of foam and sticks and I shared a stuffed rocket from Kennedy Space Center. During in-person instruction, teachers then answer questions, facilitate discussions, and provide opportunities for problem-solving and applying skills learned online. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space.

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Learning Software Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 218

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

The report notes that, in other countries with strong education systems, teachers typically spend less time in front of students and more time engaged in planning and professional development. That’s echoed in the Texas report, which cites studies showing that teachers report spending hours a week searching for instructional materials.

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Survey Report Study Instructional Materials 218

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Early childhood care and education before pre-K or kindergarten has not traditionally been considered a public school system priority. With our current, porous early education system, just one in three students achieve key reading benchmarks by fourth grade. We are seeing this play out now across the nation with literacy rates.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

They need to keep in mind that any learning materials they create have to conform to different standards, render well on different screen sizes and be compatible with different operating systems. Preventing security and privacy issues.

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Mobile Learning Mobility Classroom Tablets 183

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2023

Some other websites that teachers use to share instructional materials have been criticized for lacking quality control. Nowadays, many college libraries around the country use LibGuides , an information-sharing system that’s used to set up research paths, Bell adds.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

School districts continue to prioritize expanding summer learning and enrichment offerings, adding specialist staff such as mental health personnel and reading specialists, and investing in high-quality instructional materials and curriculum, according to a survey administered by AASA, The School Superintendents Association.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When technology is truly reimagining the task at hand, then we say that it is leading to redefinition —a totally new and different way of interacting with instructional material, building understanding or demonstrating mastery. Most of the examples that appear in the section below fall into this category.

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Learning Examples Instructional Materials Blended Learning 218

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

The “oligopoly,” as we called it, was the natural outcome of a highly decentralized system and fragmented demand. All of these players, new and old, are operating in a stable yet fragmented market, finding product-market fit in school systems’ existing market segments: core, supplemental, and assessment. (I billion or so.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Kiddom , a startup based in San Francisco, will offer core curriculum materials from the nonprofit publisher on its curriculum management system. But this will be the first time that Kiddom offers a core curriculum, and the platform will automatically align the scope and sequence of Open Up’s materials to any district’s standards.

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 111

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Unless they develop foundational reading skills early, students will experience literacy deficits across all subjects, and phonics instruction embedded in comprehensive reading instruction is the most effective way to teach them how to read. It needed to benefit students at a wide range of ages of abilities.

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Guidelines Instructional Materials Learning Assessment 109

eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A prime example was the New York City School System, which had prohibited students and teachers from accessing ChatGPT’s website on school computers. It can also process a wide range of data, including instructional materials, student work, and assessment results, to offer evidence-based insights.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Establish a system for identifying and eliminating obstacles to English learners’ participation in STEM learning opportunities School and district leaders should agree on and assign responsibilities for setting up students for success in STEM education. How is an English learner defined, and should there be better entry and exit supports?

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STEM Policies Assessment Report 167

Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In some educational systems where bringing devices to schools is a school offence, there has to be a change. Blended classes greatly benefit from BYOD scenarios because most of the class instructional materials are on the cloud and all students need to do is to sync them on their devices. Sounds easy.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

We must conduct critical analyses of our instructional materials to identify bias, ensure representation, and embed responsive practices. It’s an instructional guidance system that either consciously or unconsciously promotes specific pedagogies. This work has to be more important than our sales or overall bottom line.

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Company Instructional Materials Secondary Study 165

Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

Publishers need to continue to provide school systems with high-quality, rigorously-evaluated and properly vetted digital services that are factually correct, current, appropriate for students, and properly aligned to state and national standards. Ensure the sustainability of digital learning initiatives.

Blackboard 168

Blackboard Instructional Materials Professional Learning Digital Learning 168

User Generated Education

JULY 1, 2018

Program leaders and instructors remain predominantly male, and a language analysis of recruiting and instruction materials revealed evidence of implicit bias. Liberatory consciousness is a force that enables an individual to live his or her life in oppressive systems and institutions with awareness and intentionality.

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Conference Instructional Materials Robotics Analysis 147

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

And so, they reached out to myself and Carl Hooker , another one of our proud Texans, and asked if the two of us would go and testify in front of the Senate, in front of the legislature, on educational technology and Open Education Resources and instructional materials. And so it’s really interesting.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nation’s families recently received another clear message that our education system is not serving all students. Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years?

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Education Instructional Materials System Policies 118

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

Schools should also use this opportunity to develop “holistic” assessment systems: Modaffari has a unique perspective on testing — he’s a former fifth grader teacher who worked mainly with students of color. He remembers the stress and anxiety students face when all the focus is on one assessment. “As

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Assessment Academic Standards Instructional Materials Report 143

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Traditionally, that’s meant that students have to travel to testing centers that offer the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and pay upwards of $200 for a several-hour exam. It marks one of AVID’s first forays into online instructional content.

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