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September 11th, 19 years later - Never Forget - join together in unity.

Educational Technology Guy

It is a day we honor and remember the thousands of lives lost, the survivors, and those who rose up in service in response to the attacks on 9-11-2001. It is a day of remembrance, a day of reflection and a day to be proud. It is a day Americans can be proud of the way we came together following the attacks on 9-11. United We Stood.

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Secret ‘Fusion Centers’ and the Search for the Next School Shooter

Edsurge

Rather, they are digging through social media and other more ambiguous forms of data to predict and apprehend students who could potentially become threats in the future, and the work may be spreading. Also in May, local media reports from Corpus Christi, Tex., It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it is not.

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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

Research shows that including a variety of stakeholders—from parents to students to school teachers and staff—in the design and implementation of a school change is critical to its success (Mitra&Gross, 2009; Osberg, Pope, &Galloway, 2006; Rice, 2011).Will For tweens and teens it can also include some time spent on social media.

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Teaching Geopolitics: Fantasy Football as a Learning Game

MindShift

The students had come of age in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which shocked most Americans’ geopolitical sensibilities awake. He brought it to a ninth-grade civics class in September 2009, and students immediately clung to countries with funny-sounding names. Nelson dubbed the game Fantasy Geopolitics.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In February 2009 the words of the world were collected and given to the Council of Conscience, a gathering of religious leaders and thinkers, who are now crafting the final document. The Charter was launched in November 2009. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

Department of Labor figures, that teachers are quitting their jobs at record rates, since such records began to be kept in 2001. For example, as reported in Education Week, California lost 53 percent of its school of education enrollment between the 2008–2009 and 2012–2013 school years. What grade levels are most affected?

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learning2gether is a participant-driven professional development series that has produced over 420 podcasts since its inception in 2009. This event is being announced for Sept 26 on the European Day of Languages website [link] It is also being promoted as Learning2gether episode 422. Who are we?