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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

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What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. based membership association will no longer hold its annual education technology conferences, once staple events for industry leaders. In the early- to mid-2000s, some of our conferences were really well attended,” says Billings.

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Final Schedule - "Wholehearted Libraries" Online Mini-Conference on Tuesday, March 10th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our first Library 2.020 mini-conference of the year is next week: "Wholehearted Libraries," online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 10th , from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). This mini-conference will explore the human side of 21st-Century information work. The final schedule is below!

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Educators as Purveyors of Hope

User Generated Education

One of the most powerful learnings from my training as a counselor was a comment I heard at a conference, Counselors need to be purveyors of hope since many clients get in trouble and/or seek counseling due to a lack of hope. Gilman, Dooley, & Florell, 2006). High-hope students typically are more optimistic (Snyder, Hoza, et al.,

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LIVE: @Microsoft_EDU @SWAY is an Awesome New Presentation Tool for your Classroom

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She presented at the 2015 Microsoft Global E2 conference (where she earned an award for project excellence), ISTE 2015, CUE 2015 and CTA Good Teaching Conference 2015. Invite TeacherCast to Speak or Broadcast at your conference. Tammy Brecht Dunbar , M.Ed., Watch LIVE: [link] | Broadcasting Schedule ( [link] ).

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Carnegie Learning Bets Big on Coding With Acquisition of Globaloria

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He first noticed Globaloria about nine months ago, and first met Idit Harel at the ASU+GSV conference this past May. Globaloria had been incubated at the World Wide Workshop , a nonprofit incubator she founded, since 2006, and supported by roughly $8 million from grants, she shares. It’s not like 2005 or 2010, when many were skeptics.”

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

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2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 1–5. The Science of Spatial-Temporal Mathematics. Spatial Temporal White Paper. Can Teaching Spatial Skills Help Bridge the STEM Gender Gap? References. National Research Council. Learning to Think Spatially. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Caswell, B., Naqvi, S., &

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Register Now for the Open Mini-Conference on Library "Expertise, Competencies, and Careers"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're getting close to our Library 2.017 mini-conference: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) March 29th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Additional information will be sent with the final conference information after registration.