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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Additionally, Mitch co-founded Academic Business Advisors in 2005, to help organizations reach teachers and students in the US. Presently, beginning in January 2019, Mitch became US COO of 3DBear, a Finnish EdTech company that uses Augmented Reality to motivate students to engage and learn deeply.

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Mysimpleshow–Online Video Creator for Educators

Ask a Tech Teacher

In addition, Dr. Cleary is a key member of the campus learning center at Keiser University, an active member of the Miami-Dade school system STEM advisory board, as well as a member of the Doral Chamber of Commerce. Robert Cleary, an adjunct instructor for various business courses at several universities.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Boaler first drew fire from critics in 2005, when she presented new research claiming that students at a low-income school who were behind grade level had outperformed students at higher achieving schools when they were taught in classrooms that combined students of different math achievement levels. That tells us something.”

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. Math courses are “the most significant barrier to degree completion in both STEM and non-STEM fields,” the authors concluded. One goal of that early-algebra trend was to get more kids through calculus and onto a STEM degree track.

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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

Educators are using apps, external groups are sharing content, leaders are crafting maps and scenes, and students are constructing data, designing presentations, and building knowledge and skills on all types of devices. Students could also click through presentations independently while Ms.

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Teachers of the Year Doing Equity Work: What, How, and Why

edWeb.net

About the Presenters. is the 2019 Maryland State Teacher of the Year and a nationally awarded STEM innovator. His students were selected as state finalists out of 3,000 applicants in the national Samsung STEM competition. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Sydney Chaffee. Dr. Richard H. Warren, Jr. Warren, Jr.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

In a presentation a few years ago, a top education-department administrator, Chief of Literacy Kerry Laster, wrote, “We retain students despite overwhelming research and practical evidence that retention fails to lead to improved student outcomes.” Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005.

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