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Time Is the Greatest Challenge to Teaching STEM. Families Can Help.

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This past school year, my organization, PowerMyLearning, partnered with NYSCI to “learn from the best” how to develop standards-aligned Family Playlists. We need talented young people, both girls and boys, and from all backgrounds, to be grappling with and solving these problems.” Instead, we ask, ‘What did you see your child doing?

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Want Students to Remember What They Learn? Have Them Teach It.

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I have recently become very interested in these questions because the Protégé Effect is something we are now trying to leverage at the nonprofit I work for, PowerMyLearning , which strengthens the triangle of student-family-teacher relationships. D’Angelo witnessed in her classroom? Bror also emphasized the benefit of relationships.

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What Students Gain When They See Parents Struggle

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And then there’s the approach we’ve taken at PowerMyLearning, the nonprofit I run in New York City. Eight months earlier, Rivera students were part of a program that PowerMyLearning developed called Family Playlists. Flashback a moment to last May. It was early May—and in New York, that’s the dreaded season of testing.

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

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The technology platform is the product of a grant-funded collaboration between two professors and the nonprofit PowerMyLearning. It runs trials on granular pieces of digital learning activities via the PowerMyLearning Connect platform, which is available free to schools.

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Empowering Superintendents to Connect Technology and Learning

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Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. Instead of isolated lessons, students learn how to connect their studies with real-world problems. Join the Community.

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Could Giving Parents Homework Help Students? Schools Try ‘Family Playlists’

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For the past 18 months, a pilot program in a South Bronx public school, called “Family Playlists,” developed by the New York-based nonprofit, PowerMyLearning , has used technology to increase families’ involvement in their students’ learning. That approach resonated well with PowerMyLearning, which Stock started in 1999.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps for Game Based Learning

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PlayBrighter - A innovative site that uses an animated virtual environment to teach kids through educational games and lessons the teachers setup. Play Kids Games - A fun site w/ educational portal that allows educators to create a classroom and track their educational games.