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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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EdTechSandyK's Top 5 Posts of 2013

EdTechSandyK

Because this was a helpful exercise for me at the end of 2012 / start of 2013, I thought I''d give it another go as 2013 ticks away its final hours and 2014 looms on the horizon. 10 Killer iPad Projects Students Will Love , 6/24/13 - This post is comprised of notes I took at an ISTE 2013 concurrent session.

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7 Tech Tools for PE Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

In that class, we think of physical stuff — not digital — like running and exercising. Here’s what the NY Times reports: Better fitness proved to be linked to significantly higher achievement scores — a 2013 study reported in PubMed.org. But kids love technology’s apps and software.

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The Pivotal Role Movement Plays in Learning

A Principal's Reflections

2012; Erwin, Fedewa, & Ahn, 2013; Browning et al., The brain needs regular stimulation to properly function and this can come in the form of exercise or movement. Need more proof on how important movement is? All one has to do for this is to turn to science. Mathematics Enthusiast, 11 (2), 333–383.

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5 Aspects of digital citizenship students must be aware of

Neo LMS

Young people fall more readily into this trap, and designing an exercise where they perhaps review their feeds from the last sic months, and identify when they have taken this type of risk would be a helpful exercise. There can be many negative consequences to these types of indiscretions. Posts live forever.

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Google Makes a Rare Education Technology Acquisition: Workbench

Edsurge

It also offers a programming interface where students can do coding exercises and even control bluetooth-connected devices that are integrated with the platform. Founded in 2013 (and originally named cwist), Workbench has raised $3 million in funding.

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How to Mix STEM Education and Creativity in the Classroom

Waterford

When all the brushes, media, and tools are prepared and easy to access, your students can just jump in and exercise their creative muscles with a medium they might otherwise not have tried. August, 2013. This helps eliminate the barriers students might encounter that could stop them from creating something. Avoid Creativity Killers.

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