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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

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This is the progression of technology integration at CCS lower school since I came on staff in January of 2004 as a part-time related arts computer teacher. After school this year our STEAM coordinator has offered circuitry and robotics clubs as well. We've come a long way baby! The hardest thing I’ve had to figure out is keyboarding.

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Why Design Thinking Isn't Just for Techies

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" Founded in 2004 by a few Stanford professors including faculty director David Kelley , the d.School offers courses to all students at Stanford, no matter their major. Schools often assume that design thinking is a "techie thing" and send their edtech coordinators and directors to design-thinking workshops.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

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Sidenote: Someone from the Clayton Christensen Institute recently invoked the history of household appliances in an op-ed for Edsurge , asking “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” The robot, or rather a seemingly living automaton in “The Sandman,” veers towards “das unheimlich.”

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Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People

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If perhaps you were to approach this same list of categories with topics like Virtual and Augmented Reality, the Maker Movement, Coding, and/or Robotics… you may find yourself in a different adopter category. The Maker Movement’s Innovator may also be the Robotic’s Laggard, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Macfarlane, F.,

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Inside the $29M DonorsChoose Gift That's Making Teachers Very Happy

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“I was not expecting that,” says Ghusein, who had five active projects on the site totalling $3,600, including requests for a Cricut Explore craft machine and three types of robots. “I I thought they were going to do something small, like fund every special education project or something—but funding every project? That’s beyond amazing.”

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