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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Today, students are even able to access assignments on their mobile devices. LINDSAY, Calif. —

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Hindsight: How I *WISH* I had Supported Our Technology Rollout

Tech Helpful

According to wikipedia, the first iPad was released on April 3, 2010 ( [link] ). Mobile devices in education have been a messy journey. Our elementary school started with a rolling cart of iPads and we have slowly added more and more into the mix for use and a chromebook cart as well. Oh to have read that book then!

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

Edsurge

This guest speaker was talking about how to run group interviews, and she, a white woman, was imparting what she learned from years of research with various U.S. populations, including “tips” on how to work with diverse communities. Asians have a politeness norm, so it’s difficult to get anything useful out of them,” she continued.

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Girl Scouts against the world

The Hechinger Report

MOBILE, Ala. We’re going to finish up our robotics badge by making a toothbrush robot,” she announced to four fellow members of Mobile, Alabama’s Girl Scout Troop 8274 in June. Related: OPINION — How to get girls into science. million in 2010 to 1.7 In Mobile, the reconnections were faulty — the electrical ones, that is.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike. It could include using their mobile devices to blog, create photo essays, do screencasts, make videos or podcasts, draw, sing, dance, etc. Table of Contents. The Basics.

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How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience

MindShift

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: via Apple Podcasts | via Stitcher | via NPROne | via Spotify. When I visited Maya Lin, an elementary school in Alameda, California where art is at the center of learning, third graders were in the middle of a multi-week project on climate change.

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Can you fix middle school by getting rid of it?

The Hechinger Report

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. Arguments over how to create the best learning environment for young adolescents go back decades.