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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

Since 2005, LCPS had participated in the Geospatial Semester program through James Madison University, which taught GIS to hundreds of high school seniors (and even juniors) through a project-based approach. The VILS initiative provides the tools and learning opportunities to help students become creative, innovative problem solvers.

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Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students

Educator Innovator

It’s a particularly good way to teach creative problem-solving in the STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. DreamYard is a youth arts organization in the Bronx and a part of the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network. But not everyone is benefiting equally.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Dr. Beate W. Global Citizen.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. You can learn anything on YouTube, we’ve been told.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

DeVos herself sat on the Board of Directors of the Acton Institute from 1995 to 2005, an organization that recently blogged about repealing child labor laws. But it’s her support for charter schools and vouchers that are the signature of her efforts in Michigan, which has the least regulated charter school system.