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Q&A: School Tech Integration Advocate Focuses On Mastery-Based Learning

EdTech Magazine

In 2005, with help from a sizable federal government grant, he founded the Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education, the first graduate program in the country designed to prepare tech-savvy school administrators. Click the banner to learn more about…

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Harnessing the Maker Spirit: Dale Dougherty’s New Book, ‘Free to Make’

Edsurge

Dougherty was going to call the magazine “Hack,” but his children didn’t get the name. “I Instead, I decided to call the magazine Make:, which was a word that could be understood by anyone.”. With Make: magazine, I had an insight that adults needed to play and rediscover hobbies and passion projects,” Dougherty writes.

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Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students

Educator Innovator

. “When we hear ‘social justice,’ we think hitting the streets, but at DreamYard , it’s also understanding your own identity and affirming your history,” said Hillary Kolos, DreamYard’s director of digital learning.

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Making MAKEing More Inclusive

User Generated Education

The maker movement and maker education, in my perspective, are such great initiatives – really in line with what student-centric education should be in this era of formal and informal learning. It’s not just a matter of what you know, it’s a matter of taking risks and perhaps failing and learning from those failures.

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Curriculum Associates Featured on Inc. Magazine’s 37th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

techlearning

magazine today revealed that Curriculum Associates is number 3,181 on its 37th annual Inc. With a focus on reading and mathematics, the company offers an integrated print and digital solution for K–12 diagnostic assessment and instruction, making blended learning a reality in the classroom. NEW YORK, August 15, 2018— Inc. and the Inc.

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June 2 - Interview with Cal Newport on "Being a High School Superstar"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He''s currently a postdoctoral associate at MIT and is the author of How to Become a Straight-A Student (Broadway Books, 2006) and How to Win at College (Broadway Books, 2005). Cal Newport graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2004, and earned a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2009.

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Using Blog Tools Since 2006

Learning With Lucie

I would have to say that my experience started in the late 90's when were first learned how to publish on the web using HTML and FTP, but in 2006 when I discovered blogging tool I quickly knew that a new digital portfolio platform had been born. I answered the phone to learn that the a plane had just flown into the World Trade Center.

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