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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: It’s a new year and time to plan your professional development with Advancement Courses. They offer over 280 online graduate-level PD courses in 20 subject areas. And right now, you can save 20% off each course with the code COOL20 — that’s just $120 per graduate credit hour or $160 for 50 clock hours.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. I could see the writing on the wall.

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Certell’s Poptential™ Addresses 21st-Century Wars With Free Memorial Day Teaching Resources

eSchool News

INDIANAPOLIS (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages from Certell, provides rich content to teach the importance of Memorial Day, including material on the U.S. Course packages in American History, World History, U.S. involvement in 21st-century wars. Click to tweet. About Certell, Inc.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

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The system is comprised of a peripheral camera originating from 2003, motion controllers first released in 2010, and a headset that emerged from a personal 3D theater in 2012. Of course, the cost would be a top priority. Tagged: edtech , edtech ideas , education , teaching , technology , virtual reality , VR , vr in the classroom.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Through my journey in the EdTech world, I have seen first hand the transformative power of educational technology and its vast impact on students learning. And guess what? link] Martell, C. link] Tye, K.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

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Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now.

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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education

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Other sources of revenue for the company include teacher training and certification offered through Prepared Montessorian, the aforementioned program led by Mendes, which ranges in cost from $99 for a short online course to $7,500 for a fully accredited program. Many companies in edtech take the Netflix approach.

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