Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Before my decade-or-so in education technology, I was a Fortune 500 executive with the responsibility of leading an organization and developing my employees to their greatest potential. As I had children and shifted my career toward education, I wondered why schooling had to be a grind when working didn’t. The answer is, “yes.”.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced. Not long ago, many schools required teachers to include the use of technology in their daily lesson plans. Teachers were grasping at anything that could fulfill the “obligation” of using technology.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 12, 2015

A school board member said to me a while back: Scott, I hear what you’re saying about active, hands-on, project-based learning. How do we help our communities understand that authentic learning is possible? Three competing visions of educational technology. Related Posts. Which is yours? 3 big shifts.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. Indicators of impactful technology use. The Rubric provides illustrative—but not exhaustive—example skills for each indicator.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The majority of educational technology is designed for student use. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month, Digital Promise launched a crowdsourcing effort on how companies use scientific research to design and develop their educational technology products. Sokikom is a game-based, social, and adaptive supplemental math program initially developed through funding from the U.S. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Some of the most celebrated education reform efforts today serve to make instruction more difficult. Future of Learning.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

With AI and automation reshaping entire industries, the skills employers once valued are being overtaken by the need for creativity, adaptability and technological fluency. EdSurge: How can educators prepare students for the future workforce and foster in-demand skills such as creativity and adaptability?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Mike Baur, program manager for data-driven education at the Dell Foundation, says when it works it should be totally invisible.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

More than 100,000 Hour of Code events have taken place this year, with most of them occurring during Computer Science Education Week earlier this month. Thousands of students in Plymouth public elementary schools participate in Hour of Code, a lynchpin in our technology curriculum for the past three years. Future of Learning.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

During that time, I got to know my special education students better and more quickly than others because each had an individualized education program (IEP). Data collection inherent to the IEP process enables educators to more easily personalize learning, pinpointing opportunities for growth, as well as learner strengths.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Founder & CEO, Intercultural Education Consulting The metaverse, a virtual, interconnected, and immersive digital space where users can interact with each other and digital environments, holds tremendous potential to transform education. Watch this video to see what teaching and learning in UNIVERSE looks like!

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Recently, EdSurge podcast host Carl Hooker discussed with field experts how educators can foster creativity for college and career readiness. Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. Among other things, the nonprofit helped Somerville youth tackle science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) projects.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

While McEnerney was speaking to graduate students, some of his points resonated deeply for my work with high schoolers, particularly as he pointed out a hard truth about writing in the educational system: “Teachers read texts because they are paid to care about the students. This isn’t a novel idea.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

We are transitioning to more project-based learning environments where students can explore, problem solve and report their work back to others. How we measure learning is going to continue to evolve. Technology is key here—both for how we teach, as well as how we assess. Accelerating K-12 Learning Recovery.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Personalized learning is easy to bastardize. Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education nonprofit The Learning Accelerator. Back at Summit Denali, Bock said the goal of personalized-learning time is not to replace teacher-student interactions but to enhance them. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But he doesn’t like it.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of emergency remote learning dramatically accelerated the push toward 1:1 computing initiatives that was already underway. But these positive teaching and learning benefits didn’t occur in a handful of counterexamples.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

The California Department of Education has created resources for students who may need support, and has identified the lack of diverse providers as a problem the state needs to solve. Patching the Pipeline Like across much of the country, most counties in California do not have enough mental health professionals.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2023

While some of these staff are newer to teaching, most are experienced educators who have come from other schools, bringing their own backgrounds, beliefs and ideas to the table. We’ve explored project-based learning, character education and extending the school day.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions. To Hoffman, the timing felt right.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

That is the consensus emerging from education leaders across the country as the nation enters a second year of schooling in a pandemic. In Oklahoma, students are having a say in where and when they learn. And educators everywhere are paying closer attention to students’ mental well-being. Learning from Lockdown.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress. Like the reality that it takes different students different amounts of time to acquire skills. “It That would be a very risky proposition.”

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