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Math Expert Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell Endorses Hand2Mind’S Hands-On Standards

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Created by hand2mind in 2012, Hands-On Standards reinforces key, grade-level math concepts and helps students deepen their understanding with hands-on manipulatives and activities. In 2006, Fennell was appointed to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel by President George W. Hands-On Standards. EST (3:45 p.m. ABOUT hand2mind.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education Acquires Pivot Interactives

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Back in 2012, I began to experiment with integrating interactive video into my classroom practice. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies. More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake. .

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The hottest posts everyone's reading

The Innovative Educator

Aug 30, 2012, 2006 Does Twitter have a minimum age requirement? Oct 29, 2013, 7071 Think before you send or post Nov 1, 2013, 4212 Stop trying to figure out if screentime is good fo. Oct 30, 2013, 3614 Is compulsory education really necessary? Jun 13, 2013, 1713 Tasting in Technicolor - A Story of Learning Diffe.

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#4: What does research really say about iPads in the classroom?

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More commonly, studies report that teachers are often resistant to truly integrating iPads into their classrooms because of the constraints of time and training (Clark and Luckin, 2012). Prensky, 2006). What follows are our top 5 take aways. Research says that digital natives can do it!

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Making connections

Learning with 'e's

Van Dijck (2013) calls this phenomenon the culture of connectivity , but it has been spoken of by many others including Jenkins (2006) who argued that the prevailing culture was convergence - where old and new media combined to create new and distinctly different social contexts. 2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter. Michael Chasen, one of the co-founders of Blackboard and its CEO from 1999 to 2012. Nevertheless, this left a bitter taste in a lot of folks' mouths. We'll never forget, some said. But guess who's back?

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April 1, 2011: What Stunt Will Google Pull Off?

The Electric Educator

2005: Google Gulp (Google enters the beverage market) 2006: Google Romance (Find your soulmate) 2007 (Google was very ambitions in 2007, creating many April Fools jokes) Gmail Paper Archive (distrust digital? Google Auto-- in a move to compete with Ford, GM integrates Google into all 2012 vehicles. Thanks for subscribing to my blog.

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