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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate about helping every teacher use the arts in their classroom. Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. This past week, I had students modeling processors, hardware, and software using play-dough. T eaching.

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How Teaching Spatial Skills Could Be Part of a School’s Strategic Plan

MindShift

In 2007, Columbus School for Girls added “spatial skills development” to its new strategic plan, based on suggestions from Swarlis and a fellow administrator. Coding begins in first grade and robotics instruction begins in fourth grade. Beyond Math and Science Classrooms. Getting Started.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Angela Maiers Tonight - LOTS of 2014 Global Education Conference Updates - Proposal Deadline, Keynotes, and Volunteering

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Do you co-learn with a classroom across the globe? Learning Revolution Events Global Education Conference , November 17th - 21st, 2014 Partner Spotlight Africa ICT Right (AIR) is an ICT-oriented non-profit organization established in 2007 with its Headquarter in Ghana and run by a team of volunteers. More information at [link].

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. There’s an existing market there. It’s now an LMS too.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. Like, how would you argue against “collaborative learning” as occurring – now or some day – in classrooms? “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The AP : “ Learning software in classrooms earns praise, causes debate.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “ The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher.” Facial recognition software. ” 1600 cameras.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Impero Software has been acquired by Investment Technology Partners which paid $36.3