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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

Ted Cruz on social media. 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.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study.

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Why Even Young Students Benefit From Connecting Globally

MindShift

From practicing counting by fives or comparing similarities and differences via Skype, to writing for a worldwide audience, to making and sharing videos of social studies concepts on our blogs, we connect and invite the world to learn with us and to help us learn. It is the way we do our curriculum.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

BIO : Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events. 2005), recorded at the Knitting Factory in New York City.'

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Doing Focused Work in Distracted Times: Cal Newport’s Deep Work

ProfHacker

He maintains the popular blog Study Hacks , and ohbytheway is also an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown. It’s almost impossible to write a book about productivity without considering the attention disaster that is social media.

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How Classroom Political Discussions — Controversies, Too — Prepare Students for Needed Civic Participation

MindShift

In addition, they wanted to study the teachers providing the “high quality” discussions to find out what they were doing right. All of the teachers they studied had quite a bit of teaching experience, and the majority had degrees in history or political science. A Twenty-first Century Guide to Politics in the Classroom .

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It's rolling out a social media push today using the hashtag #DontSettle4Cs to promote the program, called March2Success. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “In 2005, a court barred Vanderbilt from removing ‘Confederate’ from the facade of a building, citing the terms of a gift. million people since 2003.”

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