Education Technology Success Stories

Salman Khan’s Inspiring One World Schoolhouse

May 19, 2013

The first in a series of articles reviewing this look at how the Khan Academy came to be, and why these ideas can truly change education. I am currently reading Sal Khan’s book The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined and it didn’t take very long to come to feel strongly that this book should be [...]

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Measured Results Demonstrate Enhanced Learning Outcomes in the Flipped Classroom

May 12, 2013

Teacher and Administrator James Szoka shares empirical evidence demonstrating improved learning outcomes in the flipped classroom. Flipped Learning Model Yields Higher Grades in High School Math Course While an administrator at a rural secondary school district in America, with the poverty level at about 65% free and reduced lunch (an indicator of the level of [...]

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Moby Max is a Proven Adaptive Learning Toolset with Differentiated Curriculum for K-8 Students

May 5, 2013

Moby Max adds individualized, adaptive learning for writing, reading, and language skills to its powerful math skills platform. As you might imagine, EmergingEdTech receives an endless stream of requests to write about education and instruction oriented software products and services. One of the first things I look for when considering these submissions is what teachers [...]

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Book Review – Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies

April 28, 2013

Teacher Michelle Pacansky-Brock has written an excellent guide to bringing the teaching paradigm into the current century, in a way that embraces the perspective of students (of all ages) and has been proved effective time and time again. I could hardly envision a better introduction to using emerging technologies in the classroom in a single [...]

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Flipped Classroom Successes in Higher Education

January 6, 2013

Colleges and University Professors are Improving Learning Outcomes, and Lowering Costs, with Flipped Classroom Techniques. Last year I took my advocacy of the flipped classroom ‘on tour’ with presentations at colleges and conferences across the U.S. I also developed and delivered an online workshop about how to get started with ‘the flip’, which seemed to [...]

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7 Key Findings for Successful Education Technology Integrations

November 28, 2012

Project Red Produced These Informative Findings and is Working to Transform Them ‘From Research to Results’. Continuing with the theme of measurable successes in education technology implementations that we’ve explored in a number of articles over the last few months, today we take a look at Project Red. Project RED conducted a national study of [...]

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Can Social Media Play A Role in Improving Retention in Higher Education? Research Says it Can.

October 28, 2012

Studies have concluded that social engagement can benefit retention efforts, and schools and teachers are successfully pursuing this tactic with the help of social media applications. Earlier this year, a student working on her Doctorate in Education reached out to ask for insights into the question of how social media influences retention, which she was [...]

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Measurable Success in Technology Integration – Mooresville Graded School District

October 14, 2012

Our 4th post in a series of articles examining measurable successes in the deployment of education and instructional technologies. Over the last month, we’ve been reading about examples of schools that have demonstrated measurable improvements in student performance through the meticulously planned integration of technology in their curricula and academic approach (see ‘Related Posts’ at [...]

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Measurable Education Technology Success – Atomic Learning Technology Integration Training

October 7, 2012

Study shows significant improvements in student achievement when teachers utilize Atomic Learning for technology integration training. In this article we continue a series of posts that examine applications of education technology that have produced measurable, positive results. This week we learn about a study conducted around teacher use of the Atomic Learning professional development solution [...]

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Western Governors University – Measurable Academic Innovation Success, Enabled by Technology

September 23, 2012

WGU is a model for many of the ways that technology can facilitate instruction, and enable the non-traditional student to earn a higher education credential. This is the second in a series of articles celebrating educational institutions that have achieved proven, measurable success with the integration of technology into their instructional processes. This week we [...]

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