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With the Help of Google and SF Muni, A Bus Sets Off to Serve City's High School Dropouts

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The organization made its mark in 2003 when they created the nation’s first county jail charter school. There were puddles on the ground, students playing video games, paint peeling. Good is the Executive Director of Five Keys , a network of brick-and-mortar learning centers and charter schools throughout the Bay Area.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

2003 – In Saudi Arabia due to terrorism in the country, I helped my school set up and run Moodle to do Virtual School. You can’t just take what you were going to do on Monday and do it anyway by just putting it in Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology or whatever LMS you use. What does a good instructional video look like?

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

See a short video of the findings and the Speak Up 2014 Snapshots for Educators blog post. One of last year’s winners reported back, “I have been participating in the Speak Up survey ever since it started [in 2003]. Since 2003, more than 3.7 Follow me on Twitter and Google+. Learn more via [link] speakup/.

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

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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. EdSurge: What was the first video game you played? The game was long and hard.

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Google+ Teacher Academy, Seattle!

The Daring Librarian

So.even though I''m very transparent about my practice and profession here and on the Twitters I kept pretty mum about the fact that I was applying to the Google Teacher Academy cause I guess I didn''t want to jinx it, humiliation, you know.the usual! teach Google? But I *have* been preaching the Google message since 2003.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

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Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen, or use the player below. The students’ experience on YouTube is now driving them to think about the skills that they're learning, whether they are creating videos, posting comments or running a business.

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Can You Be a ‘Good Teacher’ Inside a Failing School?

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Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu Despite a relatively new building, constructed in 2003 as part of a former superintendent’s turnaround project, Fisher has suffered from consistent low performance—falling far below state standards on exams and adjusted growth targets designed specifically for the school. Fisher Magnet Upper Academy.

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