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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

Shapegrams are packaged inside a series of Google Drawings documents. A Shapegrams membership gets you access to all Shapegrams and gives you a license to distribute them to your students. Learning in Hand started in 2002 as part of my classroom website. I taught fifth-graders at College View Elementary School.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. By 2002, a new education law had replaced the program and a new presidential administration was in place.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

That doesn’t mean there are no standards to be a “Head Start” program; there are many, and directors often say that a significant portion of their time is spent documenting how they meet the federal government’s requirements. In large part, she said, that’s because she has access to funding well beyond what is provided by the federal grant.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all. Armstrong''s 2008 TED Prize wish asked to help her assemble the Charter for Compassion, a document around which religious leaders can work together for peace.

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OPINION: Neither heroes nor villains, teachers must be recast as vital partners

The Hechinger Report

There is no policy area in our governance “more complex than elementary and secondary education,” education professors and researchers Paul Manna and Patrick McGuinn wrote in their in their 2013 book. Since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enacted in 2002, the federal government has played an outsized role in standardization.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. (I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.)

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