Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability.

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Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 147

ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

The right team, professional development and buy-in are essential to transformative digital learning, according to leaders of some of the largest K–12 school districts in the U.S. The district is committed to equipping leaders with the necessary expertise to sustainably transform education.

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K-12 Professional Development Leadership Library 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2016

And it has become all the more important as modern Internet connections and computers are more common than ever in K-12 schools. As a former educator and school information technology leader, he was inspired to create a solution. They want to know how it’s being used, and what kind of training their teachers need.

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K-12 Professional Development Education Policy Educational Technology 67

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But educators may not have the capacity to address their students’ many needs, especially in high schools where teachers spend less time with more students, and where adolescents may be less receptive to adult guidance. Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged.

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EdTech K-12 Psychology High School 139

Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2017

SXSWedu is one of the country’s largest educational technology conferences and, as most of these conferences go, has tended to focus more on the K-12 segment than on adults who are in need of foundational skills to help them advance in the workforce. Turns out, more than you might think.

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K-12 Economics Educational Technology Education 86

ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

The race to outsmart artificial intelligence is on as educators try to prevent the coming semester from devolving into, as one professor put it, a “ homework apocalypse.” A large number of K-12 teachers and college professors have decided to simply ban the use of ChatGPT and other new AI chatbots when completing assignments.

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K-12 Teaching History Humanities 98

ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

Aurora Institute's CompetencyWorks Blog. The Role of EdTech Providers in a Post-Pandemic K-12 Landscape. Ultimately, we need to make teachers more efficient and let technology do what manual labor was doing in the past. Recommended resources from Smith. Digital Promise Learner Variability Project.

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K-12 EdTech Library Teaching 108

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2022

Common Sense Education - Digital Citizenship offers free lessons on digital citizenship for grades K-12. This platform also offers a comprehensive educator toolkit focused on news and media literacy. The good news is that there is plenty of help for the work from quality sources.

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Cultures K-12 Library Critical Thinking 114

Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2019

Fill in the blank with a huge quantity of content, like all of K-5 math.). As cofounder of Teachley , a small company developing research-based math software for K-6, this question demonstrates a problematic market preference for products that “ cover ” a lot of content, but do not support deeper thinking. Coverage!?!

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EdTech K-12 Educational Technology Public School 113

Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2017

Motivated by this shared belief, more than 275 higher education and K-12 district leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, investors, policymakers, and educators gathered on May 3rd and 4th in Washington, D.C. “ What works ought to drive what we put in front of our children. ” – Jim Shelton.

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EdTech K-12 Research Professional Development 102

ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

For more resources and support content, take a look at Promethean’s blog series, helping teachers and students learn collaboratively and driving respective classroom success: Understanding Learning Loss. Accelerating K-12 Learning Recovery. Addressing Learning Loss in Higher Education.

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EdTech K-12 Professional Development Project-Based Learning 108

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Jessica Mislevy Director of Digital Learning and Technology Policy, SRI Education Recently, EdSurge spoke with education researchers Kerry Friedman and Jessica Mislevy about the importance of integrating evidence-based practices, educator input and a systems lens from the earliest stages of product development.

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K-12 Research Public School Education 83

Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Technology can make this growing body of research accessible and practical so developers and educators can use it to truly support the full diversity of learners. The future sustainability of maker learning programs in K-12 depends on administrators getting involved and making systemic changes to schools.

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EdTech K-12 Middle School Leadership 100

Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology. EPS launched their one-to-one computing initiative in 2014, and now all students in grades 2 through 12 have an HP convertible touch laptop and access to the Microsoft 365 suite.

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K-12 Leadership Professional Development Public School 91

Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2017

(This blog is cross-posted on the Digital Literacy and Acquisition Hub.). Technology can be a powerful tool for improving access to learning for the 36 million U.S. Despite all of this promise, adoption and implementation of technology in adult education is nascent.

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K-12 Educational Technology Teaching Education 57

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

In January 2022, a National Education Association survey found that 55 percent of educators were thinking of leaving the profession earlier than planned, nearly double the number of teachers who said the same in July 2020. Most educators have not left, and many never will. labor force, at 44 percent.

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Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 131

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

“All of them are searching for that holy grail of tailoring content and skills to the weaknesses of each kid,” said Larry Cuban, an emeritus professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, who often writes about education technology on his popular blog. What is personalized learning?

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Education Educational Technology Elementary School Advocacy 105

Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. Could you share a little bit about your book?

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Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Professional Development 98

ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

The national average rate of chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools has significantly increased in recent years. Department of Education, nearly 14.7 The cumulative effect of chronic absenteeism can result in a less educated and more disengaged citizenry , affecting the overall social fabric of a nation.

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K-12 Middle School Civics Economics 61

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

Bill Fitzgerald, director of the privacy initiative, Common Sense Education. A simple Web search reveals a bonanza of free or nearly free education technology applications to tempt resource-strapped teachers. Department of Education’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center – required viewing for every employee.

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Educational Technology Professional Development Public School Cultures 94

Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2017

According to a Tyton Partners study , there is increasing demand for education technology among adult education program administrators and educators. A recent report from SRI also found that educators see great potential for edtech while learners enjoy using edtech tools.

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EdTech K-12 Educational Technology Education 53

Edthena

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Earlier this month, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released their report, The Broadband Imperative II: Equitable Access for Learning. In it, education leaders advocate strongly for policymakers to increase broadband internet access in support of student learning.

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Professional Development Educational Technology Education K-12 60

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. We know how education reform is.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 87

Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

” I haven’t covered K-12 educational technology very often, and this one really piqued my interest, as you’ll see. And I think what we heard is when you introduce the K-12 student into the same environment, it kind of disrupts that this is my safe island type feeling for the teachers.

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K-12 EdTech Teaching Professional Development 59

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). Check out a short video highlighting some of their work here.).

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K-12 Government EdTech Economics 79

Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

” I haven’t covered K-12 educational technology very often, and this one really piqued my interest, as you’ll see. And I think what we heard is when you introduce the K-12 student into the same environment, it kind of disrupts that this is my safe island type feeling for the teachers.

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K-12 EdTech Teaching Professional Development 52

Edthena

MAY 20, 2022

Adam has written on education technology topics for various publications, including Education Week, Forbes and EdSurge, and he has been an invited speaker about education technology and teacher training for conferences at home and abroad. And just as a note, I’ll make sure that they know, go to that blog too.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Artifacts Professional Development 52

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

At the September 2016 Summit to Expand Research Use in Education , educators, technology developers, and researchers met to address an essential question: How can we work together to expand research use in the design, development, and improvement of education programs, products, and practices?

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Research Education Social Justice Educational Technology 96

Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Adam has written on educational technology topics for various publications, including Education Week, Forbes, and edSurge. And he has been an invited speaker about education, technology, and teacher training for conferences at home and abroad. We’ve got a blog there. So, you go to the blog.

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Teaching Artifacts Research Professional Development 98