The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Cuomo, who appeared to question this week whether students have to be in classrooms at all , drew immediate fire from many educators and parents, and his secretary later wrote on Twitter that “nothing could ever replace in-person learning.” Not every classroom or lesson is dominated by tech. A RAND Corp.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

One of the key benefits of adaptive learning is its ability to personalize learning with the help of technology. Struggling readers would be assigned reading materials and weak multipliers would be given more exercises to improve that skill. Basically you would have needed a teacher for every student in order to do that.

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Adaptive Learning Learning LMS Exercises 150

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Another advantage of AI is the time it can save teachers in the creation of personalized learning experiences. By leveraging AI technologies, educators can overcome the limitations of time and resources, offering a level of personalization that enhances the learning experience for each individual student.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

This blog post is part of a series that highlight different stakeholders' perspectives on purchasing practices for K-12 personalized learning tools. We’re providing flexible, learner-centered, blended learning environments, including access to inter­active curriculum for teachers, students, and parents.

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Technology Tablets Differentiated Instruction Blended Learning 220

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

I knew she was a good teacher, but in all that time, I never had the opportunity to watch her in her own classroom. By looking at your data points in a new way, you can create professional development opportunities within a classroom, school, or across an entire district by leveraging your internal subject matter experts (SMEs).

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Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base 89

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2021

In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its operational strategy guide for K-12 schools, a collection of prevention strategies and implementation tips for safe in-person learning. Use exhaust fans in restrooms and kitchens and put HEPA filters in classrooms. That same month, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

While students ultimately may go back to in-person learning, remote learning will remain a possibility for suspended students “whenever feasible,” he says. Louis, a seventh-grade language arts teacher adapted her own classroom check-ins. Sometimes the exercise prompted her to follow up with individual concerns.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 144

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

7 Teachers Explain How Students Show Kindness In The Classroom. That’s a big thing when you’re still growing and learning. It concerned me that my hard work instilling good values may be lost if character education wasn’t a priority in the classroom. I learned never to underestimate the power of the ordinary.”

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Classroom Elementary Exercises Personalized Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Complicating the issue is the fact that misbehavior in school is on the rise across the country as students continue to struggle with readjusting to in-person classes. The state requires that alternative instruction must be “substantially equivalent” to what the student would get in a regular classroom. It really broke me.”

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Most elementary school-age students don’t remember life without computers, tablets and mobile devices. We have successfully employed many of the best techniques and strategies for developing valuable school and classroom apps. Personalize content based on a student’s ability and level.

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Khan Academy Exercises Edmodo Gamification 47

Hack Education

JULY 29, 2020

"Once we have arranged the particular type of consequence called a reinforcement," Skinner wrote in 1954 in "The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching," "our techniques permit us to shape the behavior of an organism almost at will. " We call it "personalized learning today."

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Training Gamification Exercises Technology 106

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Most elementary school-age students don’t remember life without computers, tablets and mobile devices. We have successfully employed many of the best techniques and strategies for developing valuable school and classroom apps. Personalize content based on a student’s ability and level.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Exercises Edmodo Gamification 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Most elementary school-age students don’t remember life without computers, tablets and mobile devices. We have successfully employed many of the best techniques and strategies for developing valuable school and classroom apps. Personalize content based on a student’s ability and level.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Exercises Edmodo Gamification 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Most elementary school-age students don’t remember life without computers, tablets and mobile devices. We have successfully employed many of the best techniques and strategies for developing valuable school and classroom apps. Personalize content based on a student’s ability and level.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Exercises Edmodo Gamification 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Another advantage of AI is the time it can save teachers in the creation of personalized learning experiences. By leveraging AI technologies, educators can overcome the limitations of time and resources, offering a level of personalization that enhances the learning experience for each individual student.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. In fact, in the book, Steve is quoted saying, "If I could put one computer in a school and one person would find that computer, it would change their life." There's a new application called Classroom, which allows a teacher to monitor the classroom.

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Education iPad Strategy Technology 81

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Beginning that very first year in my Algebra classroom, I've strived to make it easier for educators to design their own curriculum. Plus, the available content was designed around how much time I’d spend teaching it versus what I actually needed to get students adept at learning the topic at hand.

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Khan Academy Assessment Differentiated Instruction EdTech 60

Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

Blended learning seamlessly weaves together online and in-person learning experiences to boost student engagement and meet the unique needs of a diverse class by providing flexible pathways through learning experiences. When students have a voice in their education, they become more engaged and invested in the process.

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MindShift

AUGUST 23, 2021

Its findings were drawn from interviews with teachers and students across elementary, middle and high schools about their pandemic learning experience. For example, one teacher said that, “I need to make so much more space for connecting with students, and for students to learn about each other.

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Policies Report Groups Guidelines 68

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Her temperature is taken when she arrives, and then she heads to her classroom. Holland, from the school board, said a district program provides weekly meals for students enrolled in virtual learning, and will offer meals to all families during the holiday break. This story also appeared in Southerly.

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Online Learning System Exercises Data 136

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Amanda Amtmanis, an elementary physical education instructor in Middletown, Connecticut, handed out cards with QR codes to a class of third graders, and told them to start running. Amanda Amtmanis, the PE instructor at Macdonough Elementary, hands a fifth grader a card with a QR code for tracking her mileage. Whoa, look at Dominic!”

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Elementary Learning Report Exercises 143

MindShift

DECEMBER 10, 2020

High school students face many of the same friendship dynamics as elementary and middle school students, yet friendship operates in distinct ways in these later adolescence years. Similar effects have been demonstrated for volunteer work and health-promotive behaviors, such as exercise, Prinstein says.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I found Woodard when I noticed that she had retweeted me and was following me on Twitter (personal learning networks are about who pays attention to you as well as who you pay attention to). I was particularly drawn to the blog’s description: “One Student’s Mission to Explain the Benefits of Social Media in the Classroom.”

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Social Media Personal Learning Network Wiki Common Core 28

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If you do a Google image search for “classroom,” you’ll mostly see one familiar scene: rows or groups of desks , with a spot at the front of the room for the teacher. It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned?

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2018

And again, this isn’t simply about “classroom behavior” – the kind of thing you get a grade for “good citizenship” on (not talking in class or cutting in the lunch line). Learning, to Skinner, was a behavior – and a behavior that needed what he called “contingencies of reinforcement.”

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Khan Academy Training Course Gamification 71

User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Second, the regular classroom teacher or librarian may be intimidated with these advanced tools and technologies. Removal of Archaic, Non-Flexible Classroom Desks. Classroom educators and librarians may wonder how they might create spaces for playing, tinkering, making, collaborating, discussing, researching, and reflecting.

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Libraries Classroom Maker Movement Robotics 164

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Teachers can create transformational learning experiences for students by joining 3DBear’s AR Innovator Program. The program includes in-classroom professional development sessions. Furthermore, ABCMouse will be offered at no cost to teachers for use in their classrooms, allowing them to take full advantage of many of these offerings.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This app is perfect for those who are looking for a more dynamic and engaging way to approach math learning with their kids. Prodigy Math: Kids Game Prodigy Math is ideal for elementary and middle school students, blending curriculum-aligned math content with captivating, role-playing game (RPG) elements.

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iPad Khan Academy Exercises Elementary 62

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Using a computer program called Pixton, they built cartoon panels, one of a girl waving goodbye to her teacher, clueless that it would be months before they were back in the classroom; another of two friends standing six feet apart from one another, looking sad. “We Yet a lot of their findings aren’t making it into classroom practice.

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Elementary Report Study Groups 141

EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Fortunately, Google for EDU listened intently to teacher needs and designed Google Classroom to do just that. It’s what I like to describe as the anti-LMS (learning management system) because it’s both simple and effective. Classroom also seamlessly integrates with other Google tools like Calendar, Google Docs, Slides, and Drive.

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Google How To Classroom LMS 73

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Defined that way, “education malpractice” describes almost every gifted classroom across the United States. Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. April Wells, U-46 gifted coordinator.

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Elementary Policies Data Report 121

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. Impact on meaningful learning .

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 108

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But you are always digging out — like you said, new people that everybody hasn’t heard of — but you’re always digging out new amazing educators who are just doing great work every single day in their classrooms. For me, it’s a deep passion belief in the value of and the importance of global in our own personal learning.

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Conference Education Social Media Twitter 219

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. Impact on meaningful learning .

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Teachers get time to observe their Melrose peers; some travel to classrooms in other states. MELROSE, Mass.

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Competency Based Learning Learning Elementary Report 118

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

These legislative proposals come despite warnings from experts and even classroom teachers who say more suspensions — particularly for minor, subjective offenses — are not the answer. Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ This fall, two high schoolers in Providence, Rhode Island, walked out of a classroom.

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Policies Analysis Report Data 133