Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Dear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Anonymous In my experience, it’s true that small classes provide greater opportunities for student engagement and for professor/mentor relationships to occur.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

When young students miss school, their teachers begin to think of them as less capable in math and language and less committed to learning, according to a new study. For some observers, this reveals that absences may threaten to push students into bad academic patterns early on, with potentially lifelong consequences.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

To build their knowledge base, chatbots must first be linked up with requisite data sources, such as a school’s information system. Then, thanks to machine learning, they get smarter over time. This saved 328 hours of staff time and tens of thousands in taxpayer dollars that would have been spent on hiring additional staff.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

From cutting-edge computing and cloud services to data-driven instruction and adaptive learning, K-12 edtech solutions are abundant. Create a plan, and stick to it Rather than reinvent the wheel, Houston’s Aldine Independent School District turned to other districts’ learnings before committing to their own edtech investment.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

Mary Howard’s students build and learn in Open Sim , a virtual world like Second Life. We hear a lot of talk now in Ed Tech circles about how we can get these students engaged and speak a language that they’re speaking. We bring these students into a virtual world. Vicki: And, it’s a learning process.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2018

Renowned linguist, philosopher, historian, and scientist, Noam Chomsky says it this way: “ Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. Rephrased, this defines education as not about academic success, learning the 3Rs or graduating top in the class.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek. Given the importance of college for worldview development and cross-cultural exchanges, can interfaith learning continue in a virtual setting? We believe it can. But will it?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Students login – no email required. The website is easy to navigate and the variety of material keeps students engaged for hours (really — I’m serious). Many schools no longer teaching keyboarding, adopting the attitude that students will learn what they need to know when they need it. Cyberbullying.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. discuss two main types of prior knowledge which I want to draw your attention to: declarative prior knowledge and procedural prior knowledge. What is Prior Knowledge?

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MindSpark

JUNE 7, 2022

When I became a teacher, I knew I wanted to create engaging, creative, and rigorous learning experiences for my students but it wasn’t until I read Doctor Adeyemi Stembridge’s Culturally Responsive Education that I felt I knew EXACTLY how to do it. And I always knew there had to be a better way. Why should you read this book?

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 2, 2012

Yesterday I had the privilege of facilitating a Common Core and Project Based Learning professional development class for 7th-12th grade teachers. Those were attributes on the Microsoft Peer Coaching Learning Activity Checklist, created by the Peer-Ed Team (part of our Collaboration Coaching). PBL is the "how." "How

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In addition to the usual suspects—more augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps—a lot of people believe this will be the year that social emotional learning (SEL) and interoperability become part of the mainstream. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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Benchmark Education

MAY 4, 2016

How Do We Use Technology in the Classroom to Maximize Learning? Dr. Matthew Koehler and Punya Mishra, researchers at Michigan State University, developed TPACK : Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. How will this next generation learn? Check out Teachers Know Best for more information.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

OVER TWO MILLION WORDS IN FOUR WEEKS First-grade students at Milton Public Schools use SeeSaw to narrate a story and record. At Milton (MA) Public Schools last February, 758 fourth- and fifth-grade students engaged in a four-week collaborative story writing experience. Coeur d’Alene students engage in learning.

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ProfHacker

JULY 13, 2015

I’ve written a lot about using and making games for the classroom here at ProfHacker, as while games and learning have been around for a long time our ability (and interest) in realizing their potential is on the rise. One of the continuing challenges for bringing games into education is assessing the impact of games on learning.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. KITABOO is an end-to-end cloud-based digital publishing platform that allows learning content to be published & distributed with ease. Students use Seesaw to showcase their learnings, while teachers and parents use it to monitor students’ performances.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2016

After all, many of us would agree that the students are the ones who are usually the most knowledgeable, up-to-date resources for what is the latest and greatest with technology, so why not tap into their large knowledge base and cultivate their leadership potential? The Various Student Tech Team Sub-Committees.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That means, among many things, taking stock of the damage caused by long-term school closures, and creating plans for reopening amid steep budget cuts, increased costs for safety measures, and widening achievement gaps and learning loss that have hit low-income students and students of color the hardest.

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