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How to Create a Classroom That’s a Safe Space for Failure

Edsurge

Bycraft, our robot goes backward!” And off they went, to work on yet another version of their robot. It’s the belief that the process of creating is what teachers should be assessing, rather than the final product. One of my main areas of focus is middle school robotics; I love these classes with all my heart.

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Rebuild The World With @Lego_Education

The Web20Classroom

However, it wasn't until I went to Billund to see first hand all that LEGO Education has to offer that I realized it's much more than robots and bricks. There is so much potential for our youngest learners all the way to our oldest to truly Rebuild The World with LEGO. Here are the four sets and where you can learn more about them.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. announced the U.S.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

One teacher’s journey in the Global Competence Certificate program - Jennifer Boyle, Global Competence Certificate Program Manager How to facilitate cross-cultural projects in a digital exchange - Jack Haskell, teacher and educational coordinator Impact of STEM learning program on main stream education - Ms. Gaudino, Ed.D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Republicans are made because the Department of Education issued guidelines about how ESSA should be implemented. ” “Word about the Vector Assessment of Readiness for College, or Vector A.R.C., ” Also via The New York Times : “A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa.”