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We Wondered If NFTs Could Change Education, So We Decided to Sell This Article on the Blockchain

Edsurge

Specifically, we are going to auction off an image of this article—the first NFT ever sold by EdSurge. Specifically, the 2007 video known as Charlie Bit My Finger , which has been viewed more than 885 million times, sold as an NFT for more than $760,000. So here’s our experiment: We’re selling an image of this article as an NFT.

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Successful Distance Learning for Young Kids

The CoolCatTeacher

We are co-authors of articles and books on literacy and leadership, including This is Balanced Literacy, The Teacher Clarity Playbook, PLC+: Better Decision and Greater Impact by Design, Comprehension: The Thrill, Will and Skill, The Teacher Credibility and Collective Efficacy Playbook, and most recently The Distance Learning Playbook.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

So much of the tenure and promotion process is a hoop-jumping game ( How many peer-reviewed articles do I need? I learn more from you monthly than I’ve learned from an entire academic career’s worth of journal articles and research conferences. We won’t tell you… In which journals should I publish?

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities for Kids

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A 2007 article in “ The Reading Research Quarterly ” suggests that writing activities like these significantly contribute to children’s literary development by providing meaningful contexts for literacy practice (Purcell-Gates, Duke, & Martineau, 2007). Final thoughts And there you have it!

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Before you start bashing the Millennials…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here are a few quotes from Huffington Post’s recent article, Generation Screwed : Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds, our own intergenerational game of Marco Polo. Rural areas, meanwhile, still have fewer jobs than they did in 2007. But in many ways we are the problem.

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The Problem With Zeros

A Principal's Reflections

For some practical alternatives to dishing out zeros check out the latter portion of the article by Norrell titled Less Than Zero. An exception to this would be cases that involved cheating, plagiarism, or a midterm/final exam no show without a justifiable excuse (i.e., doctor’s note, death in the family, etc.). Guskey, T. O'Connor, K.

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Digital Promise Research Map: A Starting Place for Exploring Research on Learning

Digital Promise

The new data visualization is based on over 100,000 peer-reviewed articles from 184 journals published between 2007 and 2016. We’re excited to share an updated version of the Research Map , which features the latest research and new ways to access relevant learning science findings.

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