eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A coordinated, intentional program of blended learning is changing teaching and learning in the Nation’s capital. Blended and personalized learning were two topics on the rise this year. Part of their success has hinged on the way teachers are using blended learning in the classroom.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

Massachusetts educators also used Lexia products to expand their teaching skills. More than 1,500 teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators participated in professional learning sessions provided by the Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) suite of programs. About Cambium Learning Group.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

I also field a lot of questions from elementary teachers who are curious about how they can integrate technology into their lessons in a meaningful and developmentally appropriate way. The goal is to streamline the teaching process while maximizing student participation, understanding, and skill development. What are EduProtocols?

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Blended learning approaches combine digital assessment tools with traditional classroom instruction, creating seamless transitions between online and in-person learning experiences. Visual, auditory, and interactive elements combine to support each student’s unique learning preferences during group activities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Even the quietest students participated. EdSurge: How did the new Shared Teacher Dashboard change remote and blended learning for you and your co-teacher? We are in a blended learning setting right now. Half our students come to school Monday and Tuesday, while the other half is learning at home.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While this approach found some success in reducing the dropout rate of students who participated, there were no measurable improvements in achievement. At the time, teachers wondered if students were really learning or just remembering long enough to get the reward. Technology is never going to be the magic solution to our problems.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Enrichment Classes : These classes provide students with opportunities to supplement their digital curriculum with hands-on, collaborative learning and creative experiences with their content area teachers. Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Moving Past Substitution When we say “stuck at substitution,” some readers may recognize the SAMR model of education technology integration. The SAMR framework describes four different levels of technology use, from Substitution to Augmentation, Modification and Redefinition (SAMR).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The education technology industry often gets flak for not seeking the perspectives of educators. Shawn Rubin, chief education officer of the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute, an education non-profit organization focused on researching, invited Dance to his organization’s Blended Learning Conference earlier this year.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Weston Kieschnick didn’t enter the world of education through a traditional route. But while participating in a ride-along one day, he had an epiphany. Weston Kieschnick is an award-winning educator, best-selling author, TEDx speaker, coach, husband and father. It's all about teaching the right skills.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new. For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.” Department of Education’s 2017 National Education Technology Plan. (A

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Propping up her vigorous routine are the poles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the perfect blend of education technology, ensuring that everything keeps spinning along at the right pace and momentum. I'm a tech person by nature; I love techy type stuff.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2020

In 2017, organizers got something extra in their “Edcamp in a Box,” as they were called: a maker kit, so that participants could partake in hands-on activities as part of the experience. There is training for blended learning. But nobody prepared teachers for this kind of remote learning” during a pandemic, Weisgrau notes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

It’s not like the Christensen Institute is new to this concept: it’s known for studying online and blended learning over the past decade, including presenting an at-one-time mind-numbing variety of blended learning models. The top reason, not surprisingly, is “additional responsibilities or increased workload.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2024

BOSTON – The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has expanded its ALL in Tutoring reading initiative to include evidence-based resources from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand. Core5 and PowerUp are science of reading-based adaptive blended learning programs that provide students with personalized learning paths.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

The schools where she works are part of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program , an effort from the telecoms giant and the nonprofit Digital Promise that provides devices and data plans for all students, teachers and administrators in participating schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

So far, data sharing capabilities are fairly limited in today’s education technology tools, because there is no standard agreement on how to share data between them. For example, a learning activity is represented like this: “Student A (actor) started (action) Quiz B (object.)”.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

Years ago, when I was head of Stevens Institute of Technology’s blended learning program in Beijing, the school’s faculty taught online mostly from our Hoboken campus, while the students lived in China, and many took the opportunity to teach virtually while traveling in Europe or Asia.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Department of Education. It was really in the ‘80s and the ‘90s that the first satellite distance learning programs came up,” she adds, meaning students could sit in classrooms connected via interactive satellite TV. And some live video platforms, including Zoom, give participants the option to connect to the discussion by phone.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2017

This is exactly what we set out to do last spring when we applied for the North Dakota Educational Technology Council Build Grant to create the. Exploring these questions allowed us to both share and encourage the existing best practices in our district, and also ensure that new learning was in the appropriate.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Key points: When implemented well, education technology helps achievement Learn more about technology in the classroom Stay up to date on the latest in education technology Technology has become an essential tool in modern education, transforming both teaching and learning processes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2017

While many of the present educators seemed to embrace blended learning as not only inevitable but necessary, an anxiety around technology—and a nagging suspicion that something is missing from the conversation—made itself known. I see it as a support for blended learning.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Conversations around personalized learning are nothing new for the staff at the M.S.D. Teachers in our virtual high school and blended learning programs, which I help direct, have been having them for a few years now via webinars and seminars. Michele Eaton is Director of Virtual and Blended Learning for the M.S.D.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

Offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally, AWS helps these organizations lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster technology solutions that support students and educators every day. AWS Promotional Credit gave us the freedom to iterate and fast-track our product development.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

A great deal of initial research exists about blended learning techniques such as game-based learning, but adoption has stalled because of a lack of scalable, practical techniques that have also proven effective. Without proof of success, many school districts have opted not to adopt new technologies.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Building on the success and ubiquity of its online and blended-learning formats, the university is providing instructors with new technology, modular furniture, and incentives to explore and innovate teaching practices. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state. Instead, he might be going to see “team cooperation.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

More flexible learning environments—including technology-based ones—can expand learning options for rural students beyond the four walls of a traditional classroom. For instance, online or blended learning options enable students to take specialized or advanced coursework not offered by their school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The categories of work are not linear; all partners participate in some degree of map work. Discover The purpose of the discover phase of this project was to help leaders and educators from the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Education Initiative develop an understanding of competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. It’s my hope that these emerging policies will encourage the further development of promising online and blended learning models.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

WeTeachNYC Communities include both blended and online communities associated with in-person professional learning initiatives sponsored by the district. In these communities, participating educators have opportunities to engage with facilitators with content expertise and colleagues with on-the-ground experience.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2019

Teachers began by exploring the why and what for personalized learning by focusing on blended learning as one of the first paths to personalization. A prototype is often something scrappy, with the purpose of testing to learn and gather quick feedback from the end-user before putting an idea into implementation.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

That’s what Megan Tolin found when several schools approached her department for help with successful practices for blended learning. She’s the director of technology, innovation and pedagogy at the Indiana University School of Education, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Customer Focused. Pull Quote.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But looking at 2024, here are some current trends in education: Technology Integration: Continued integration of technology into classrooms, with a focus on online learning, educational apps, and interactive tools. Online Educational Communities: Join online educational communities and forums.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2023

Chamber of Commerce, in 2022 nearly 3 million fewer Americans were participating in the labor force compared to February of 2020. Dale, dean of Online and Blended Learning at the college, expressed, “Our industry relationships were critical in the development of these microcredentials. Well, the American workforce is shrinking.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

In this week-long summer course, I received adaptable resources and individual coaching that will allow me to implement a new instructional model focused on blended learning, self-pacing and mastery-based grading. The best example of responsive training I’ve experienced is through the Modern Classrooms Fellowship.

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