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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

Having a deep conceptual understanding of math creates the problem-solving foundation that all areas of STEM are built on, and early math skills are powerful predictors of later learning. Having well-developed spatial skills is very important for advanced STEM coursework, and many STEM-related occupations.

STEM 136
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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

Edsurge

Just last week, for instance, fans of the approach held a workshop and sessions teaching HyFlex practices at the Educause conference in Chicago, and a group called the HyFlex Collaborative held a national conference on HyFlex teaching over the summer. Will their efforts succeed? I do not believe that.”

Course 177
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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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4 Ways to Teach With Play

The CoolCatTeacher

You can even coordinate volunteer schedules, donations, and parent-teacher conferences. Winner of the ISTE Online Learning Award 2006 and Best Talk Show Host in Education 2014 and many Best Teacher Blog awards, Vicki seeks to shine a spotlight on what works in education wherever it happens in the world. Learn more about Bloomz.

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Carnegie Learning Bets Big on Coding With Acquisition of Globaloria

Edsurge

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. Coding and mathematics go together quite well.”

Learning 104
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Discovery Education Appoints Scott Kinney as Chief Executive Officer and Kelli Campbell as President

eSchool News

An accomplished public speaker and author, Kinney has keynoted countless education conferences and has contributed articles and opinion pieces to various education publications. Prior to joining Discovery Education in 2006, she served as Vice President of Marketing & Product Development at Clearvue & SVE.

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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. My initial interest in researching the social web stemmed from some early work my colleagues and I did around wikis and blogs in medical education in 2005-2006.