EdNews Daily

APRIL 22, 2017

What is STEM education? It is interesting to see students engage in a science activity that promotes science learning and other areas of learning. It is interesting to see students engage in a science activity that promotes science learning and other areas of learning. STEM education promotes a realm of benefits.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. They can’t just do all their homework and ask for extra credit projects to obscure the fact that they didn’t truly learn something. Kylie’s class is known as the guinea pigs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2017

Or compassion based engineering. Based on the Google 20% time, students take 20% of their time in a class to pursue a personal interest project. Compassion-based engineering. I find myself doing far more compassion-based engineering than other topics. Some libraries are putting these in a Learning Commons. (See

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

What do I mean? A day late perhaps, but here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. " Tagged on: May 1, 2017 Can zapping your neck help you quickly learn a foreign language? face up to. |

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

One of the most difficult challenges I faced was supporting our 400 K-8 math teachers with substantive professional learning. To ensure equitable learning outcomes for all. also ensure equitable professional learning outcomes for all mathematics teachers. To ensure equitable learning outcomes for all. I wasn’t alone.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

McComb School District down in McComb, Mississippi doesn’t just believe in the power of technology when it comes to personalized learning. What do they like? What do they wish was different? We know [where we are] because we take a test that’s adaptive, so at the end of the test, it gives us a score and what level we’re on. .

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2017

These students are even more enveloped in technology than the Millennials who came before them, and many educators now worry about how best to teach Generation Z basics—such as how to read—while competing for attention with digital devices. Take project based learning (PBL), for example. But can the students really be blamed?

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Yet education ministries across Asia recognize they need more than test-takers; they need students who can ideate, create and compete in a global economy. based education startups raised capital from Asia. Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. Based Company. “ You Can’t Make Movies Without China.” Authess $2.2

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In mission statements across the country, references to personalized learning abound, hanging proudly from schoolhouse walls. The high school academies, which students apply for based on interest, operate more like universities. We admire them and use them as shining examples of our aspirations. The secret to our success?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The games were like a safe harbor, where students could learn about the process without being bombarded by partisan rhetoric,” said Phillips. “I Last fall, the folks at iCivics anticipated a 20 to 30 percent bump in game plays, in line with what happened in the election year of 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Dr. Kelchen makes the point that income-based repayment plans introduced by President Obama allow students to manage their debt. There’s at least one issue that Americans aren’t divided on – going to college has become both more necessary and less affordable for most students over the last several years. WORKING OVERTIME. Quit After 25 Hours.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

SEATTLE — After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools. Mary Brannan, a kindergarten teacher at St.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Let’s say a college wants to embrace new learning techniques and reinvent how it operates. The first, several years ago, came up with the idea of creating a low-cost competency-based degree program called College for America. How does the institution go about it? Her mantra: “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

But what if I told you that the skills gap was little more than fiction, and a different gap exists. A popular narrative in the employment market today is that a "skills gap" exists between the abilities employers seek in candidates and the capabilities that new college graduates gain through postsecondary education.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 5, 2017

Northern California Writing Project teacher-consultant Kim Jaxon’s jumbo-sized composition class is designed to harness the collaboration, virality, and spontaneous exchange of “epic learning.”. Last October, I gave an Ignite talk at the Digital Media and Learning Conference called “Epic Composition.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

SEATTLE — Last June, Martin Chibwe, a computer science major, graduated from Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington, a liberal arts campus with a hipster ethos that shuns letter grades and urges exploration (“We don’t tell you what to take,” its website promises). And there is no count of badges. Photo: Meryl Schenker.

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