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A World of PBL… 25 Authentic Resources To Connect Students Beyond The Classroom

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Whether your students design robots with PenPals in Asia, write poetry with PenPals in Europe, or create environmental solutions with PenPals in Africa. Worldvuze – Take some time to explore this map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other!

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A World of PBL: 25 Authentic Resources To Connect Students Beyond The Classroom

techlearning

Whether your students design robots with PenPals in Asia, write poetry with PenPals in Europe, or create environmental solutions with PenPals in Africa. Worldvuze – Take some time to explore this map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. But in 2010, the company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, announced that it would no longer offer a free version. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Wildly Audacious Goals and the Power of One

iLearn Technology

In 2010, I thought that technology might be the savior of education. So then we thought that maybe we could pool our money and buy a Sphero robot to do random acts of kindness for others. I created the Learning Genome Project as an attempt to make it possible to personalize education for every child.

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Teacher Voices: Stewart Matthews

Learning with 'e's

In this post, we hear from Stew Matthews, who graduated from Plymouth University in 2010. Save the in depth “technical” subject knowledge to be taught in Secondary schools and instead allow Primary schools to teach thinking skills, growth mindset and the skills to work as a team.