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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. This past week, I had students modeling processors, hardware, and software using play-dough. She was Rhode Island’s 2007 State Teacher of the Year. What’s your philosophy of that?

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With investment, STEM surges in Colorado

eSchool News

STEM education took center stage at the Colorado Convention Center, where Lockheed Martin announced an $800,000 STEM investment in partnership with Project Lead The Way and the Denver Public Schools Foundation to expand STEM programming for Denver Public Schools (DPS) students. million in STEM talent by 2020 in the U.S.,

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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

These include: EMC School , a developer of language-learning materials; Paradigm Education Solutions , a suite of print and digital materials for healthcare and computer software literacy (think Excel and Quickbooks); and JIST Career Solutions , a library of career and life-coaching workbooks and videos.

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Game On: How Four Community College Professors Spawned the CUNY Games Network

Edsurge

BMCC associate professors of English Joe Bisz and Carlos Fernandez stimulated the formation of CGN when they were awarded a 2007/08 CUNY faculty development grant to study how. We targeted math skills for STEM majors who want to go into GIS because we found that there was a need to help them remediate,” Crocco says. “A

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Strategies for Closing the Digital Equity Gap

edWeb.net

According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Innovative Approaches. Howard, Ph.D.

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Apps: a call for nominations and a round-up of review ources

NeverEndingSearch

Since 2007 Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) , has been creating the most wonderful lists of tools based on international survey input from educators, experts, instructional designers, consultants, developers and vendors. STEM: Apps, TV, and More for Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math.

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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. Middle school girls continue to play with blocks — CSG has a successful Lego League team — and they use digital design tools such the 3-D modeling software SketchUp.