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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

autobiography- Download Link to the Google Doc – [link] Using a Hyperdoc such as this has the additional benefits: It leverages the use of technology which consistently is of high interest, high engagement for my learners. 2010; Cowan, 2012; Lohr & Haley, 2018; Sadera et al., 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ).

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. This doesn’t mean simply knowing everything, even though we live in the “Age of Google.”

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Thinking processes and STEM

Kathy Schrock

The hundreds of quality STEM-related videos and materials in the Discovery Education online collection make it easy to find content to use for your lessons and units. However, take time for students to develop a solid thinking process before starting your STEM unit. After you read about each model, ask yourself the following questions.

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How Three Nonprofits Are Connecting Kids With Diverse Mentors During the Pandemic

Edsurge

Both campers and counselors leave our programs with a more expansive vision of who “belongs” in STEM, and what a STEM career might look like. These video chats featured STEM professionals discussing their academic and career paths and experiences. When COVID-19 hit the U.S. Students from across the U.S.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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Two Edthena Partners Featured in National Broadband Imperative Report

Edthena

Throughout the day in all subjects, teachers use Google Classroom, Google Apps for Education, online adaptive learning programs, and other technology resources to improve learning and to different. Founded in 2001, SETDA is a nonprofit association representing US state and territorial educational technology leaders.

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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. I always stick with the first thing that comes up on Google…” Where people go for information, what they use, and why.

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