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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

They donated an iPad to every student, a Mac and iPad to every teacher, and an Apple TV to every classroom. Now Tessie uses FaceTime and other iPad apps to communicate with students and mentors all over the world. Because we’re so isolated, she felt like she was the only one who is deaf,” says Evans.

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Can all students succeed at science and technology high schools?

The Hechinger Report

When Lou Allen started the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut in 2005, he didn’t woo the state’s top students. Related: The biggest hole in the STEM pipeline starts before kindergarten. Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. NEW LONDON, Conn.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - GlobalEdCon Details! - What Is Success? - Library 2.014 Submission Deadline Approaches

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Since 2005, She has a classroom blog and blogs for each of her students. She uses a constantly changing list of other online tools as they are appropriate in her classroom as well as Nintendo DS and recently, a class set of iPads. LIVE to share her amazing journey of becoming a connected educator with her students.

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The TeacherCast Ultimate Guide To Podcasting

TeacherCast

For example, on the macro level, you might take a look at the entire year month by month: January: STEM in the Classroom. Audio Technica 2005 USB Microphone. Where I believe that the majority of my video recordings will be through the iPad, I am bringing along my trustworthy Logitech C920. Padcaster for iPad Pro.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Jolly wrote in 2005. My parents made me make five paper airplanes at home so I would win this,” Sharmin, browsing videos on an iPad with classmate Mariah, said. Kaiden sat down next to them and Mariah pushed the iPad closer so he could see. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition. Lookit lookit lookit!

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Take iPads , for example. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. So many losses. Hype wanes.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The foundation has already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for classroom iPads, digital audiobooks, and high-tech wiring.

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