Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to technology and access, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools receive extensive teacher training, support, and the opportunity to engage in a unique, immersive curriculum to leverage technology in their classrooms. Innovation in the classroom leads to student engagement.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For the sake of our students, we must embrace the changing role of the school librarian. 2017 was a year filled with makerspaces, student engagement, personalized learning, and more. “Never underestimate what students are capable of.” The library is a place for all students to feel safe and welcome.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 17, 2018

Robot Basketball – This lesson comes from Try Engineering. Students design a device that can shoot a basketball free-throw shot accurately every time. Using video segments and web interactives, students engage in an exploration of mathematics, specifically reasoning and sense making, to solve real world problems.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The program runs from May 2018-June 2019. Schools can join until September 2018. This program adds full home access for students, custom curriculum alignment, performance reporting, professional development, and more. The result is an integrated solution designed to maximize students’ growth in key Math and ELA subject areas.

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 49

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation , organizer of the world’s largest robotics competition and leader in STEM education, is doing a careful examination of gender diversity. Fortunately, we’ve found that participation in robotics competitions can boost confidence.

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techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

Baltimore, MD – July 12, 2018 – Edtech company Workbench Education today announced the expansion of a partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for the 2018 - 2019 school year. An emphasis was placed on using these products to provide students with a hands-on, PBL learning experience. Student engagement ?

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Future Ready Elementary Industry Robotics 46

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to build systems that can analyze the quality of classroom instruction and student engagement. School leaders and education researchers often rely on test scores to judge how well students are learning. These AI systems don’t involve robots in the sci-fi or cartoon sense.

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Robotics System Report Classroom 57

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

LEGENDS OF LEARNING ( legendsoflearning.com ) Legends of Learning announced it will develop over 300 curriculum-based education games for elementary science curricula to be available Winter 2018. They are making hundreds of titles available digitally to libraries and schools for the first time, with more planned for 2018.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

And congrats on being first off the blocks to f**k up education in 2018! Via Buzzfeed : “A New Betsy DeVos Proposal Would Make It Much Tougher For Students To Get Loan Forgiveness.” There’s more about the politics of the business of student loans in the federal education above. ” Happy New Year, England

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

.” Via The Indiana Gazette : “Parents and other school district residents reminded the Indiana Area school board on Monday that their dissent of the Summit Learning program hasn’t waned, even though the administration scaled back the program and put it on ‘opt-in’ status for the 2018–19 school year.”

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Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

.” The sale comes with conditions, including: 1) the Department of Education demands a letter of credit valued at 25% of the company’s federal funding allocation; 2) the company cannot add or change its educational offerings or open new locations until 2018; and 3) enrollment must be maintained at or beneath current levels.

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