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How to Have Deeper Learning and Better Schools

The CoolCatTeacher

Professor Jal Mehta from the Harvard University School of Education has co-written an award-winning book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ” and reflects on how deeper learning can happen at the secondary level. Sponsor: Pear Deck. You can mix and match your tracks. So, reserve your spot.

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New Mexico’s Middle College High School Selects Discovery Education’s Pivot Interactives to Support Student Science Explorations

eSchool News

Operated in partnership with University of New Mexico-Gallup, MCHS provides a seamless educational continuum that benefits students as they move from high school to their post-secondary goals. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., Discovery Education’s Business Development Representative.

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MOOC Pioneer Coursera Tries a New Push: Selling Courseware to Colleges

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The company, which was started by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and is now one of the most well-funded in the education industry , has always been highly picky about which colleges it works with to develop courses. Belsky, of Coursera, echoes that. And the larger market for this new offering could be outside of the U.S.

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Books to Africa and A Personal Transformation to a Global Educator

The CoolCatTeacher

She is in Seattle, Washington, and she and I have actually spent some time together when I was out there at an event. I have had a Books to Africa program going since 2012. Prior to landing her librarian dream job, she was both a secondary and primary classroom teacher. Julie: Well, at this point it’s threefold.

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Bankers, Buyers and Warriors: Reporter’s Notebook From the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

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We’ve tried to make this event much more broader just another ‘edtech conference’ and to encompass learning and talent development,” says Li Jiang, Vice President of GSV Asset Management. Yet among the more than 3,000 people who poured into Salt Lake City for the event, the bankers were visibly in full force. The joke’s on them.”.

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Men behaving badly

Dangerously Irrelevant

Sarkeesian has been relentlessly stalked, abused and threatened since 2012, when she started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of YouTube videos critiquing the representation of women in video games. When I write critically about Khan Academy or Apple, I know I’ll hear an earful — and it isn’t simply an earful of disagreement.

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Live (Early) Friday February 24th with Dennis Littky on Big Picture Schools Schools

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Friday, February 24th, 2012 Time : 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 19:00 GMT ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. psid=2012-02-24.0944.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350