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Engaging New Virtual Field Trips from Discovery Education and Partners Welcome Students and Teachers Back to School

eSchool News

Designed for students born after September 11, 2001, this experience highlights the remarkable ways people throughout the United States came together, focusing on our common humanity in the aftermath of the attacks. In today’s world, it is increasingly important to connect students to experiences that will help prepare them for life.

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Five-Way Merger Creates New Illuminate Education: Bringing K-12 Educators the Broadest Choice of Student Achievement and Personalized Learning Offerings

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The new company, called Illuminate Education, will be led by Christine Willig, a 25-year K-12 industry veteran. About IO Education As a leader in the education technology industry for over 18 years, IO Education is on a mission to empower educators through data to improve educational outcomes. million students in 43 states.

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4 Keys to Student Success Online: Part 3

The Electric Educator

Note: While research regarding best practices for online learning is difficult to obtain due to the relative infancy of the industry, four key areas of focus critical to program success have been identified. You can find me on Twitter (@jrsowash), Google+, Linkedin (jrsowash), and YouTube (jrsowash). Elaine, and Jeff Seaman.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Trying to break into the field, she got an internship at M5 industries with Jamie Hyneman. She is the author of "Doing School": How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (Yale University Press, 2001), which was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal, 2001.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

And that’s a problem right there, no doubt, as journalism regularly gets scientific research wrong, often repeating the synopses from paywalled articles or the stories that industry hopes it will share: Is chocolate good for your health ? Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Do cellphones cause brain cancer ? Should you ban laptops ?

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

Hack Education

The CEO of Otto, a self-driving trucking company now owned by Uber, just predicted this week that AI will reshape the industry within the next ten years.). Truck driving is also a profession – an industry – that’s been subject to decades of regulation and deregulation. It just hooked them all up on Twitter.).

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She was recently chosen to be a Teacher of the Future by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), and she has also been named a Top Education Influencer on Twitter. He has advanced degrees from leading European universities, is a former industrial chemist, published photographer, and consultant to MOMA.