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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

In the 1980s, researchers developed an adaptive-tutoring math system used in high schools and colleges, and the tool was spun out as an independent company in 1998. Since then the company has swapped hands between other private-equity firms and private investors. He declined to share whether the company is turning a profit.

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Edtech and Social Emotional Learning #sel

The CoolCatTeacher

Vicki: Yes, you can use Ed Tech and Social Emotional Learning! Her original research went into the design of Renton Preparatory in Seattle, which was a 2016 Top Three STEM School in the nation. Michelle, you’ve done some fantastic work with Social Emotional Learning and Ed Tech. Dr. Michelle Zimmerman @ mrzphd is with us today.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

edWeb.net

In 2007, Dr. Pellegrino was elected to lifetime membership in the National Academy of Education. His research and development interests focus on thinking and learning and the implications of cognitive research and theory for assessment and instructional practice.

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What a School District Designed for Computational Thinking Looks Like

MindShift

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. Read more about Blended Learning. SOUTH FAYETTE, PA. You have to keep trying until you get the result that you want.”.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. Greeley, Colo.,

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