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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. With this grant, we were able to purchase additional materials and create a lending library of STEM tools that all teachers in the district can check out and use in their classrooms.

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Everything is Coming Up Robots

My Paperless Classroom

This piece was originally published HERE on the Getting Smart Blog My Robot Life I will admit I sought out puppets; I worked to find them; I thought hard about how to best use them in my classroom, robots are another story. I was taken aback because this robot made the sound I most associate with robots.

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Connected Librarians Day (Free) Events - Monday, October 14th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As a pre-conference event for the Library 2.013 annual conference starting October 18th, we''re hosting a short series of free online sessions this coming Monday. If you need to see them in your own time zone, go to the schedule page at Library 2.013 and find your link by that time zone. The times show are US-Eastern Daylight Time.

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School’s Out, Cities Are in with Expanded Cities of Learning Initiative

Educator Innovator

An earlier iteration of the COL initiative debuted in Chicago in 2013 , and since then other cities have joined in and fine-tuned the program. In Dallas, for example, kids can intern at the mayor’s office , dissect owl pellets at the library, or program a virtual robot at RoboMind Academy.

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Walter White and Teachers as Makers

My Paperless Classroom

This question floats in my mind, like that scene, as I read INVENT TO LEARN , Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager 2013, with a great book club of teachers exploring the ideas, materials, philosophy, and pedagogy of a constructionist education. But above all of this, I like making videos. It amuses me and it feeds me in a vital way.

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Broadband Provides More Equitable Access to Education and Workforce Preparation

edWeb.net

Our current work is guided by a strategic plan, Leading, Inspiring and Empowering: The 2013-16 SETDA Strategic Plan, adopted by the SETDA Board of Directors in October 2012 after extensive consultation with the membership. The post Broadband Provides More Equitable Access to Education and Workforce Preparation appeared first on edWeb.

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What the research says about the best way to engage parents

The Hechinger Report

Allan Wilger, a regular parent volunteer at Edmondson Elementary, helps (left to right) fifth graders Gabe Wooten and Aresa Rodriguez, and third grader Tyler Goyne, in the after-school LEGO Robotics Club. Hutchins has been working on this issue with the state since 2013. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.