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Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Offer All Educators New, No-Cost Professional Learning Resources

eSchool News

Find out how to kick-start STEM lessons with 5-minute refreshers designed to help educators prepare for hands-on activities. It takes all of us working together to ensure equity of access in education so students can reach their full potential.”.

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Head into the Holiday Season with New Dynamic Digital Experiences from Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners

eSchool News

Designed for family fun, these activities offer engaging and informal learning opportunities that provide the tools and knowledge for kids to grow up knowing how to earn, save, spend, and donate. It takes all of us working together to ensure equity of access in education so students can live to their full potential.

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How To Design A 21st Century Assessment

TeachThought - Learn better.

How To Design A 21st Century Assessment. Students should be able to articulate and defend their tool choices, content inclusion, and degrees of audience interaction and how those choices affected the resulting product. Action Step 4: Provide always-on, asynchronous access to that which is being assessed. by Mike Fisher.

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How a Middle School Library Promotes Maker Learning for All Students

Digital Promise

Mark: A lot of teachers and librarians are excited about making, but don’t know how to get started. I bought a 3D printer without knowing how to use it. What were your first steps? Gaelyn: The true first steps aren’t physical, they’re mental. We got a sewing machine donated to the makerspace; do I sew?

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SLIDE: data, interactive tools, and an equity wake-up call (Part 1)

NeverEndingSearch

On Facebook and Twitter. Data Speaks: Addressing Equity of Access to School Librarians for Students. Implications and questions. Kachel, Debra E. Teacher Librarian 48 (3): 49-52. Kachel, Debra E., and Keith Curry Lance. The Status of State Support of School Library Programs.”

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Why #techquity

Educator Innovator

For educators, the problem we must focus on as we seek to change schools – regardless of how Internet access is working or not working – is the despicable predictability of how students will achieve or access opportunity based on race, class, gender, language, sexual orientation and social factors.