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This Teacher Started a Hands-On PD Lab That’s Sparking Change Across the District

Edsurge

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. Surveying Teachers and Sparking Interest In January 2018, I launched a survey about professional development on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and the response was overwhelming.

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Teens and Tech: Distinguishing Addiction from Habit

MindShift

. “Technology addiction” doesn’t appear in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, published in 2013. The closest it comes is something called “Internet Gaming Disorder,” and that is listed as a condition for further study, not an official diagnosis. Seeking treatment.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

Personalized learning looks different in every classroom, but common features include letting students set their own goals, study the curriculum online at their own pace, or decide when to take tests. The goal of this movement is to give students more control over their education and customize lessons based on their needs. Teira Rucker, 11.

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Coding outside the lines: CoderDojos get kids psyched about programming by turning them loose

The Hechinger Report

Skye Morishita working on the robot she programmed at a recent CoderDojo session in Boston. On a recent Saturday, a squad of Lego robots fitted with markers limped, hopped and spun dizzily across the table. Quintyn Scott (left) and Ella Bartholomew program robots at a recent CoderDojo session in Boston. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which oversees the country’s higher ed accrediting bodies, voted Thursday to have a subcommittee study oversight questions involved in for-profit colleges seeking to reclassify as nonprofit entities.” ” asks Wired.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“The Vastmanland court ruled Tuesday the Malardalen University ’s two-year program ‘Analytical Finance’ that Connie Askenback attended from 2011 to 2013 ‘had no practical value.’” ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?”