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Boosting Digital Literacies for a Purpose

Digital Promise

Community providers, such as the University AME Zion Church (UAMEZ) in Palo Alto, California, understand that digital literacy development, like any learning, starts with building trust in the community and meeting learners where they are. A Closer Look at Four Categories of Digital Literacy for Adult Learners.

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The School Hall Pass Is Going Digital. Is That a Good Thing?

Edsurge

We were seeing a lot of kids strategically ask to go to the bathroom to meet up with other friends in the hallway,” says Christopher Sefcheck, superintendent of the New Kensington-Arnold School District. asks Monica Bulger, a senior fellow at Sesame Workshop who studies child rights. We were always writing passes for kids.

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General Assembly’s $1M Lawsuit Settlement Asks: Are Instructors Employees or Contractors?

Edsurge

That issue led to a class-action lawsuit and settlement involving General Assembly and two former instructors, who alleged that the New York City-based education company misclassified them as independent contractors. But it resurfaces disputes that have become increasingly commonplace among companies that rely on contract labor.

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How CA Group Builds Strategic Partnerships that Support School Transformation

Edsurge

For the large scale systemic work, the company typically takes a cohort of schools through a variety of workshops to support redesign on a larger scale. In 2013 she returned to CA Group full-time and launched its personalized learning practice. The company refers to these large-scale projects as “ecosystem design work.”

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

This approach can enable administrators to differentiate to meet the needs of all their teachers. Professional development defined as one-hit wonders with hour-long speaker presentations and all-day workshops leaves teachers unequipped to implement best practices and personalized learning opportunities for their students.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment.

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First MakerBot Innovation Center at a high school opens

eSchool News

Mount Olive High School (MOHS) in New Jersey first received a MakerBot Replicator 2X as a donation from the Josh and Judy Weston Family Foundation in 2013. The plan is to partner with different local companies and nonprofit organizations that can involve groups of students in different projects and evaluate their work.