Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2017

Technology has the potential to be a powerful tool for improving access to learning for adult learners. According to a Tyton Partners study , there is increasing demand for education technology among adult education program administrators and educators. Support the evolving role of the instructor.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Sheryl Abshire: A lot of people think I’m all about technology. But my job and my prime objective are to support learning, and this technology supports learning. Education opens up a myriad of doors for students—and technology supports that. Can you tell us more about how the technology supports learning?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In research released by the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness (CAPR), our team investigated the educational technologies that colleges and universities use in developmental education and the common challenges that they face during implementation. Student support technology supports students’ academic performance.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

For example, we use in my 8th-grade science class Book Creator for students to develop everything from science lab reports to personal studies that they do — like individual investigations — and even just topic research. Working in the area of social studies at the start, she later found her passion in teaching science.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

In Utah, for example, an independent study determined that children showed positive gains when they used the program at home before starting kindergarten, even when they were compared to other children who were enrolled in high-quality public and private preschools. Parent-involved and technology-supported programs can deliver results.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Ertmer first distinguished between “first- and second-order barriers” to the effective use of technology in the classroom in 1999, referring to categories of challenges that are sometimes called “external and internal barriers.” A teacher in another school with less support might be less effective in using edtech.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Studying stars from the surface of the moon. The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. Diving into a magnified human cell.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 14, 2019

A 2019 Common Sense survey found that only four out of every 10 teachers consider the professional development that they received on the use of technology in the classroom to be effective. We’ll provide an explanation and an example of each level of technology integration. Substitution. About the Authors.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

When districts invest in new instructional technology, many teachers find that at first their students are quiet and focused, clicking away on activities aligned to their instructional needs. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Conversations about the role of privacy and digital citizenship wash into social studies and current events. The specific tools to support learning may change from year to year, or class to class. Many of those technologies support collaboration. Parents can digitally tap into not just grades but assignments.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But after talking to a number of different educators and reading their various accounts, what I can tell you is that your peers have discovered creative, technology-supported ways to approach teaching reading, writing and vocabulary in their multi-subject classrooms—and they were willing to share it to help you out.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

One of my doctoral students’ dissertations at the University of Minnesota , for instance, found that overzealous school filtering prohibited student access to online content essential for satisfying state Social Studies and Health curricular standards. Sometimes it’s simple confusion around what actually must be filtered.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

Through this program, our brick-and-mortar teachers work alongside ALDCA teachers to combine a rigorous academic course load — which includes English, math and social studies — with online experiential learning opportunities like internships, job shadowing and project-based learning. The main ingredient is teacher-to-teacher support.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

“We need to teach children to live both with and without technology; to take what they need from the abundance of information, but to ignore what is not necessary; to let technology support, but never supplant human interactions in teaching and learning.”

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

After the TSA, he worked out of the country, studying Microfinance and traveling to South Asia, and then worked at Honduras for about a year before returning to business school at Harvard. The process of thoughtful and deliberate reading enhanced his comprehension and enjoyment of study. It was a pretty cool experience,” said Goyal.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2016

But that’s not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. The metric for measuring technology skills isn’t a rubric with a list of skills (i.e., Everyone who uses technology knows it breaks down. One study predicted a 114% chance of having tech problems when using a computer.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

One study found that active learning significantly increases student performance in the classroom: Students were 1.5 Of course, it’s important to strike a balance between technology and traditional teaching methods, ensuring that technology supports educational goals rather than replacing human interaction and critical thinking.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. His primary responsibilities include the coordination of state chapters, STEM, virtual circles and NNSTOY Fellows, video production and technology support.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

To that end, Vernier Connections gives students the ability to study the real world in their own context, collect and analyze data as they investigate natural phenomena, and take part in experiential and three-dimensional STEM learning.“.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2019

If the technology supports this, it meets the primary requirement. Can the tech support or provide a learning activity that can be classified within Bloom’s taxonomy? When assessing return, teachers look for the following: Will It Help Meet Learning Objectives? Does it meet subject- and grade-level Common Core standards?

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

The reality was that although technology had evolved rapidly since 2013, professional development offerings for computer science teachers—especially at the elementary level—hadn’t changed much. I became increasingly frustrated with the lack of technology support and PD opportunities in our district.

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Robotics Survey STEM Elementary 166

Educational Technology Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Teachers will need training on using this method of instruction to make it effective students will need to be shown how to access, use the technology and what is expected of them Students need to be able to do work outside of school hours do they have access to technology at home? do they have access to internet at home?

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Tom Murray

JUNE 8, 2016

During this step, school leaders across the district should collaborate to inventory what currently exists, from core curriculum and technology support resources, to types of devices already in place. Districts can often be seen purchasing vast amounts of technology based on little to no research or evidence.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Some studies suggest achievement gaps that exist beyond the third grade are difficult to close regardless of the intervention. These kids are surrounded by technology, and it just helps foster learning for these students.”. Studies show that low-income and minority students are less likely to use the Internet or own a computer.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 1, 2013

Carr's essential thesis is that we are bombarded with content on the Internet, and cope with this by reducing our depth of study whilst increasing our breadth of study. So the future of technology supported learning is uncertain and contested. Such questions are exactly what the study of the future is all about.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In those days, he says schools often lacked the in-house expertise to create and sell an online program from scratch, and looked to OPMS to provide, among various services, technology support, recruiting and marketing, and instructional design. Other OPM providers, including 2U, still use that all-in-one model.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

This case study was originally published on Getting Smart Achievement First operates a network of 32 high-performing college-preparatory, K-12 public charter schools in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York City. Its rigorous standards, high-quality curriculum and ongoing professional development for teachers serve to support this goal.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 20, 2015

The Object of Study. The primary object of study in a college course is often a model, principle, theory, equation, causal relationship, or other idea. Sometimes, however, the object of study is not an idea, but is a specific creative work like a painting by Pollock or a score by Shostakovich. An open replacement is impossible.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Technology supported learning has long been a contested terrain, and there are at least two views about its effects. As a result of Clark's position, many researchers decided not to study differences between students whose learning was supported by technology and those who had none, because it was considered a waste of time.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 26, 2012

Asking them to stay at home, watch a video and then do an assignment based on their own independent study isn't going to cut it. One very useful piece of information in the Wired article is the mention of the British Open University and their work around using online learning platforms such as Moodle to support their distance learners.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Some studies suggest achievement gaps that exist beyond the third grade are difficult to close regardless of the intervention. These kids are surrounded by technology, and it just helps foster learning for these students.” Studies show that low-income and minority students are less likely to use the Internet or own a computer.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

Tech Helpful

MARCH 15, 2017

With tutors in their life studying for exams became less tearful. I was asked to be a part of this pilot as technology support. All through their k-12 educational experience they struggled with math. On and off (more on than off) I hired tutors to help them to feel more confident in the math classes they took.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This is an example of a European explorer ship that a student studied during our exploration unit. Middle School Teacher & Technology Support. Google Draw is a versatile learning tool for students to create learning representations based on any curriculum topic. Emma Cottier. Certified Google Trainer & Innovator.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

This was something we touched on in a recent blog post on a study that found that more than half of students in the US felt “bored” at school.) Technology supports creativity because it is a medium that requires interaction, unlike the one-way participation of an activity such as watching TV. It is kinetic and energizing.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

It’s a problem that John Hattie, the Director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute, has written about: according to his meta-analysis of efficacy studies, 95 percent of everything educators do has a positive influence on learning!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Today, as the president and chief executive officer of Florida Virtual School, she directs the work of more than 1200 faculty and administrators, courseware developers, web design specialists and technology support personnel.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

The 2021 Vernier/NSTA Technology Award winners include: Category: High School. By providing technology-supported learning opportunities, in part using Vernier data-collection solutions, physics teacher Jacob Bowman has greatly increased student enrollment in physics classes. Jacob Bowman, Western High School, Russiaville, IN.

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