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Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

Blog: [link] Twitter: @ robertkaplinsky Instagram: @ robert_kaplinsky Facebook: [link] Pinterest: [link] Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” He created the #ObserveMe movement, wrote the book Open Middle Math is president of Grassroots Workshops and co-founder of the website [link].

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

Meanwhile, I reached out to dozens of people through email, Facebook, LinkedIn, various IM clients, and text, trying to figure out more about what happened. I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. We did two live Future Trends Forum sessions from NMC summer conferences.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Several research papers followed including The Good, the Bad and the Wiki , and also a number of research papers presented at international conference. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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What Video Games Like Doom Teach Us About Learning, According to GBL Guru James Paul Gee

Edsurge

The Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University has been playing video games for four hours every day since 2003, solving puzzles and battling bosses in games such as Doom, Darksiders 2 and Uncharted 4. Gee: The first game I played was Adventures of the New Time Machine , in 2003.

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

Meanwhile, I reached out to dozens of people through email, Facebook, LinkedIn, various IM clients, and text, trying to figure out more about what happened. I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. We did two live Future Trends Forum sessions from NMC summer conferences.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 In 2007, Maine’s then-commissioner, Susan Gendron, invited DeLorenzo to speak at a summer conference for superintendents in Bar Harbor. million to train additional Alaska school districts and to create a research and development program.

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Why We Are Not Reaching Twice Exceptional Students and Why We Must Do So!

Saving Socrates

In my first student teaching experience back in 2003 while in grad school at TC in Gifted Ed, I was fortunate enough to get a placement at Bronx High School of Science. We had parent teacher conferences. I still stay in touch with him and periodically he sends me a message on facebook. Thanks then VP Henry Frisch!)

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