The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Many are also joining to support passage of the Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HE) Act. The Berkeley case teaches us to be attentive to accessibility up front, not simply because of legal requirements but because digital resources designed to meet accessibility standards support increased access for all.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 7, 2017

Branding matters in the changing world of learning, fueled by powerful digital resources (Sheninger, 2014). Telling a powerful school story and reaching an audience have never been more possible than in today’s digital world, and never more necessary for a leader to embrace in a new world of competition and choice.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Additionally, educational apps have found their place in children’s digital repertoire, promoting learning in various subjects such as language, math, science, coding, and creativity. Curate age-appropriate content Take an active role in selecting age-appropriate and educational media for your children.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! This spring, Digital Promise is working with six school districts conducting education technology pilots. 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. Click here to share it.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2022

During the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, many school districts were quick to send devices home with students and to provide digital resources that may have been engaging, but may not have been as “data safe” as districts thought. 1 consideration when using and purchasing a digital solution.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

So I explained to my class that Open Educational Resources (OER) could be most easily defined as “free stuff on the Web.” And how can OERs supplement the print and digital resources already purchased by the school? If you think about the origins of a traditional textbook, the publisher did the curation work for you.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A team of students from INCubatoredu, a high school entrepreneurship program based in Illinois, reworked their business Trashbots to make robotics and coding accessible and provide hands-on STEM education at home. Still, research shows that digital-resource usage hasn’t reached its full potential.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

“We don’t know who is choosing it and who is pulling the strings,” said Luis (known as Adrian) Manzano-Anzures, a student at Warren, Michigan’s Macomb Community College, who spoke last month on a panel at EduCon 2.9 , an annual conference about education and technology at Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy, a public magnet school.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences. Customizing information is easier to do when teachers make that information available digitally.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2020

Despite the complexities of the moment, educators are creative, resourceful problem-solvers. There is an emerging widespread awareness that digital learning is critical to the success of students’ education—certainly now, but also in a post COVID-19 world as we work to finally close the Digital Learning Gap.

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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2019

Classrooms are evolving as technology influences the way students learn and educators teach. Educational technology (edtech) companies have capitalized on technology’s potential to personalize learning experiences for students, which can result in content that is layered with mechanisms to support the needs of diverse learners.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2021

Through the online platform , participants get access to digital resources and a virtual community to help them through the creative and production process. Each year, new MY World 360° creators join a growing community of talented and engaged creators and storytellers that spans across world regions, languages, and backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Since March 2020, districts across the country have experienced alarming declines in student achievement in math and reading, a mental health crisis among students and widespread job dissatisfaction among educators. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter. The post OPINION: Want to improve our public schools?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Many depend on accessing course resources and lessons seamlessly from online textbooks or other digital resources. After all, about 70 percent of online students work , while in the wider college population, only about 40 percent are employed. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Additionally, while teachers reported having less say into the educational technology they use now than in our fall 2019 survey, those who have this input are much more likely than those without it to see their online classes as effective. Lessons Learned to Move Forward. Elevated Role of Parents and Caregivers.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

At the National Geographic Society , we are building a free collection of tools and resources to help teachers learn more about their practice, connect with like-minded educators, find quality resources for their classrooms, and receive feedback and recognition for their expertise.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Yet in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan, students who read books mostly on paper or read in both formats scored higher than those who primarily read digital books. Both Thailand and Indonesia were exceptions; digital readers did better. Teens around the world are rapidly turning away from reading, according to OECD surveys.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 28, 2021

This also includes achieving and transforming educational excellence, access, and equal opportunities by developing knowledge, educational experiences, and strengthening the knowledge of digital citizens. This work was made possible through our partnerships with the Global Education Exchange Opportunities (GEEO).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2016

And, in this case, the effort is being billed as a way to cut the costs of a college education. But unlike textbooks hawked by publishers, open educational resources do not typically have the benefit of a sales force with a mission of getting professors to find and pick them. Educators turn to textbooks that cost nothing.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Instead, embrace the digital advances pushed by COVID and embed new practices into your day-to-day curriculum. Start small: Adebiyi’s advice for hesitant teachers is to “plug in one digital resource and start small.” Don’t feel pressured to implement multiple digital tools suddenly and simultaneously.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

In this final post, Michigan Virtual outlines how and why they created an LMS guide for K-12 in collaboration with other educators. Shifting from threat to opportunity in K-12 innovation In educational futurist Michael B. There is a time and place for labeling threats as “threats” in K-12 education.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 24, 2020

While this new reality won’t be easy, the good news is there are many resources to help educators and parents navigate the road ahead. Bridging The Digital Divide. In particular, the Lakota team is working hard to stay connected and continue to build relationships with all stakeholders in their public education system.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The district uses digital resources and online learning tools that personalize lessons for students by first analyzing a student’s achievement level and then providing lessons geared to that student’s ability level. “One of our responsibilities is to really prepare that 21 st century child.”. Read more about Mississippi.

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Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

However, educators don’t have time to search through random teaching videos online and determine which are actually helpful or the best to learn from. Whatever the school-wide priority, educators across your district only need to make a few clicks to drill down to specific grade-level and subject area videos.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But educators around the country continue to pledge to teach the truth about structural racism. Board of Education decision in 1954 made school segregation unconstitutional, but it was men, women and children who put their bodies on the line to actually desegregate schools years later. Find related classroom resources below.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Peter Newbury, an educational developer at Red River College Polytechnic, even invites us to take advantage of the minutes before a class starts to get students thinking. Along with many other members of the astronomy educators community, Newbury used to include an astronomy picture of the day from NASA as students came into class.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

who is leaving to join Discovery Education. Mooresville Graded School District, near Charlotte, North Carolina, has become a national leader over the last decade in using digital learning tools to improve student achievement. What are the best ways for schools to measure the success of a digital learning program?

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Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2019

Despite the challenges educators face when trying to purchase edtech tools, new procurement tools have emerged that support evidence-based decision making when choosing and buying edtech products. As an educator, once you understand those instructional needs, you are able to explore edtech tools that align with and meet your students’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Online homework tools provide teachers with rich, targeted data about where students are struggling, which allows educators to tailor assignments to the specific needs of students. These programs can only work — and narrow, rather than widen, gaps — if all students have equitable access to digital resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. The decision meant thousands were able to continue with their education. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

Two key initiatives – assessment literacy and digital learning teams – are being used to help both teachers and students use digital resources in creating personalized lessons. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In collaborating with other educators, I saw examples of how bringing in the online component allows students to see things conceptually rather than procedurally. This year, as a math facilitator to the Syracuse City School District in New York through LearnZillion, I help to show and train others in how to use digital resources.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2017

In response to this challenge, Digital Promise Global has embarked on a multi-year initiative, Learner Positioning Systems ™ (LPS). Reading is a foundational skill for all learning and therefore is the focus of the first LPS research project.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 31, 2022

A lot of teachers are wanting to–or needing to–use resources from one of my curriculum sets digitally. I do create digital resources, but we all like versatility. So I’ve made my resources versatile. I’m going to show you how to use them digitally in 5 easy steps.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 27, 2016

More schools are using digital resources than ever, but too often these advances are simply used to make procedures more efficient for the instructor — while students are stuck in the same routine they’ve known for decades. Technology has changed the classroom, but it doesn’t always change the student experience.

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US Government Teachers Blog

JANUARY 24, 2016

Recent posts have included How to make your own flipped videos How to teach online during snow days Texting homework reminders Using Twitter as a teaching tool Digital Resources for the US Department of Education How to quickly convert a Microsoft document into a Blackboard test Scripts for shortcuts in your grading Url (link) shorteners and much much (..)

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