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Educators: The lessons we learned in 2016

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[ Editor’s note: This story is Part 3 of our 3-part series on Lessons Learned in 2016. Educators made much of their learning opportunities in 2016, whether through professional development sessions, webinars, product demos, or even conferences. 2016 was a year of firsts for me as an educator.

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After Layoffs, Math Curriculum Developer Reasoning Mind Sells to Weld North Education

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curriculum market shifted towards purchasing materials aligned materials to Common Core and state academic standards, the organization began building new offerings based on these U.S. Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services. Later, as the U.S.

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Why teachers don’t need to ban ChatGPT or AI tools in the classroom (and what to do instead)

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This doesn’t include Google Chrome independent extensions like Quillbot , described in its overview as a “Grammar Checker, Paraphrasing Tool & Summarizer.” Microsoft’s Tay was taken down after only a day on Twitter as other Twitter users taught it to be racist and xenophobic in March of 2016.

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Pearson Names New N. American President as Stock Plunges on Half-Year Results

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billion for the first half of 2016. Source: Google Finance. It also attributed the decline to a phasing of gross revenues and returns from course software in its division that handles North American higher education. See also: Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources. and the U.K.,

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Creative Coding and Robots in the Classroom

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Using coding software, offline and online coding activities, and resources found on websites such as Code.org, students and teachers together use a design thinking process to understand, define, ideate, plan, build and test coding-based projects. Coding Software.

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When Teachers Build Edtech, Awesomeness Ensues—and Here’s Why

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version was a Google spreadsheet (shown below) that allows teachers to copy-and-paste their students’ MAP scores and generate an individualized Khan Academy playlist for each student. During the start of the 2015-2016 school year, KIPP Bay Area began implementing the. Eureka Math curriculum while adopting the Common Core standards.

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Teaching Is Harder Than It’s Ever Been

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But in the here and now, the reality is less romantic, and as we head towards the 2015-2016 school year, it’s just might be that teaching is more difficult than it’s ever been before. Many school districts have adopted the practice of writing their own curriculum in order to align with Common Core.