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Stop Celebrating Low-Level Learning

Tom Murray

In the spring of 2002, I was teaching 4th grade in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. That’s right, in 2002, 17 years ago, we were 1:1. Image Credit: The Morning Call, 2002 “I’d love to see these units become standard equipment for all students in five to ten years.” Murray, 2002 (HAHA!!) Palm Pilots.

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Teaching and reading literature in the digital age

Neo LMS

When combined with the fact that many illiterate working class people would attend informal readings of the supplements in barber-shops, lodging houses as well as a few less salubrious locales, one can barely overstate Dickens’s popularity. NEA, Reading at Risk , 2002. Making an extreme reduction then: Do we still need literature?

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Tools for conviviality? Illich and social media

Learning with 'e's

At the start of the 1970s Illich wrote: The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. What would Illich have made of the social web?

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The in-school push to fight misinformation from the outside world

The Hechinger Report

It’s difficult to learn and to trust information if we’re not aware of some of these ways information is manipulated,” West said. Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak ,” the study’s authors wrote.

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Diagnosing Learning

Kyle Pace

Dr. Lisa Sanders has written a column for the New York Times about peoples’ undiagnosed medical conditions to seek feedback from the greater community since 2002. In our age of information abundance and connectedness, we have the ability to learn from anyone at any time; not just in a physical classroom at a physical school building.

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How to Set Healthy Screen Time Habits: A Guide for Parents

Waterford

Through computers, smartphones, and tablets, we have a wealth of information at our fingertips that can be both entertaining and intellectually stimulating. While older generations needed to learn how to use digital media, our children face a different task: managing and using screen time in healthy ways. Lawson Foundation.

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Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 with a New Virtual Field Trip hosted by NBC’s Jenna Bush Hager from 9/11 Day and Discovery Education

eSchool News

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. To learn more about this powerful event and to register, visit the 20th Anniversary of 9/11: Paying Tribute Through Good Deeds homepage here. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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