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Discovery Education, Caterpillar Foundation, and Learning Undefeated Launch New Initiative to Inspire Next Generation of STEM Professionals

eSchool News

Innovation at Play sources STEM creativity and stories from industry experts at Learning Undefeated who have an extensive history of innovation, insights, and leadership. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media. The non-profit is a long-standing partner of Discovery Education.

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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free. The Office 2010 course is great and I am sharing it with our users to help them transition from Office 2003 to Office 2010 because of the different menu system. This is a must bookmark, must share resource.

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Why Esports in Schools is a Good Thing

ViewSonic Education

As a spectator sport and as an industry. A 2003 analysis of 15 cases of school shooters found all but two suffered from social rejection. Esports teams need students to develop and manage the website and run social media accounts. Esports as an industry is an expanding area of study at colleges and universities.

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Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Hack Education

Education must adopt not only the products but the values of the high tech industry. More clicks, of course, led to more revenue, and behavioral surplus became a new and dominant business model, at first for digital advertisers like Google and Facebook but shortly thereafter for all sorts of companies in all sorts of industries.

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What Does the Popularity of Pokémon Go Mean for K-12 Gaming? A Q-and-A With James Gee

Marketplace K-12

He has written several books on the role of games and learning, including What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) and Language and Learning (2004). As a gamer, I’m just not personally deeply interested in the social media aspect. But social media is complicated in this respect.

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The Serious & Historic Importance of Media Literacy | Downloadable Posters for Media Literacy Week

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

See [link] How many have died just in Iraq since the 2003 invasion (see [link] )? So when I hear anyone (especially and including educators) say that the solution to a current social or political issue is for one group of people to determine what is correct thinking and to enforce that through censorship or control, it shakes me.

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Then you'll find lessons, videos, downloadables, and games organized by a few key topic areas, like interpreting media, media creation, and media manipulation. Jump down to a section Media Literacy Courses and Curricula. Creating Media and Media Production. Interpreting Media and Media Messages.