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Engaging New Virtual Field Trips from Discovery Education and Partners Welcome Students and Teachers Back to School

eSchool News

Designed for students born after September 11, 2001, this experience highlights the remarkable ways people throughout the United States came together, focusing on our common humanity in the aftermath of the attacks. Premiere: September 23 rd at 1 PM ET. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. The issue here is: how do you improve education by a factor of 10?”

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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How a Sword and Sorcery Camp Uses Immersive Role Play to Teach STEAM

MindShift

A yellow school bus unloads a group of eager young campers, ready to meet their counselors and settle in for some summer camp fun. Guard Up opened a full-time facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, in 2001. The company offered weekly classes in fencing and swordsmanship for all ages, as well as story-based educational adventures.

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How One District Went All-in on a Tutoring Program to Catch Kids Up

MindShift

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. It’s just gotten worse.”.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DIRECTIONS: Step 1: Join us at the online meeting room on Zoom ([link] Step 2: We are going to play a Kahoot game to learn some things about Amazon. The moderators of this session represent communities that have been meeting and collaborating online for well over a decade now. English language learners are welcome, too.