eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Revisiting the steps of the writing process, particularly because students are still struggling with learning losses post-pandemic, can help students build stronger writing skills so that they don’t immediately turn to AI to complete writing assignments.

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Cycles of Learning

OCTOBER 1, 2018

If you are like me as a science teacher, you simultaneously live the acronym "STEM" and are exhausted by its overuse in nearly every blog, set of state standards, or professional development seminar that comes to town ( Full disclosure : I often facilitate those seminars).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. Students and teachers are learning to innovate hand-in-hand. Innovations in Games-Based Learning video series. More information on UNC MEITE.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

Or, for that matter, without the slightest idea of what you might learn? For us, it was at EdFoo 2017 , an un-conference of teachers, edtech gurus, funders and others gathered at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters for three days of spontaneous learning. When was the last time you walked into a conference without an agenda?

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Fresco Capital , GSV Acceleration , Learn Capital , Owl Ventures , Reach Capital and Rethink Education , now count Asian limited partners among investors in their newest funds. “In Other investments outside of the LearnLaunch community include CodeMonkey and language-learning tools, ELSA and SpeakingPal.). Nearly every major U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2015

Why our ELA department dropped seminars in favor of real, ongoing professional development. Most of these were one-day seminars, with every teacher in the school or district in attendance. They were often conducted by outside “experts” who knew little about the problems teachers faced when planning for effective learning environments.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Bett is primarily about the business of education; this means that outside the keynotes, presentations and seminars (of which there are many), most of what goes on are meetings and events for vendors and their distribution partner ecosystems. Learnit panel on AI in language learning.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 12, 2017

The class of 2020 may have expectations about learning which run counter to the ethos of the traditional university. These young people - sometimes referred to as Generation Z, or Centennials - will redefine our understanding of learning, and will challenge the way university education is conducted. It's a sobering thought.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 29, 2016

If you had to design a robot to replace a teacher what would look like and what would it be able to do? This was the task students were asked to perform during a student led seminar earlier today. This was how it worked: Three groups of students were each asked to design their robots and post them using the web sharing tool Nearpod.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 14th, 2014 In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution. The great majority of these events are free to attend.

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MindShift

JULY 1, 2016

Khan Academy has helped millions of people around the world — perhaps hundreds of millions — learn math, science and other subjects for free. “So the last couple of seminars we’ve been talking about technologies that will potentially change the world,” the 39-year-old Louisiana native tells the students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 14, 2024

Join us for this free virtual conference to learn how libraries and library workers are engaging with artificial intelligence tools in their libraries from research support to information literacy to technical services. The conversations held in the conference will address the practical implications of these tools in the profession.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 4, 2023

Student interests: something comes up that students are super interested in, and I want to embrace and encourage that spontaneous interest in learning; or students in a particular class really enjoy a specific type of activity (for example, my 4th hour loves debates but my 6th hour prefers discussions).

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

It’s not always like this, Egler assured us, a group of education journalists visiting as part of the Education Writers Association’s Rethinking the American High School seminar. The learning and its products are displayed not just to teachers, students or even parents, but to a larger community of experts.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. ” Take “collaborative learning,” for example, which this year’s K–12 report posits as a mid-term trend. The slides are also available here.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

.” Or at least CZI is trying to convince schools to buy into its Summit learning management system. ” Via Chalkbeat : “ Maine went all in on ‘ proficiency-based learning ’ – then rolled it back. ” That’s Scott Glasrud, founder of the Southwest Learning Centers chain of charters.

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