Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

“Today, I thought I’d make a video once again on how to edit your PowerSchool page,” are the words that begin a YouTube video teaching a simple HTML hack that teachers and parents might want to give themselves a lesson in. The aforementioned video, made in 2013, is not the only grade “hack” tutorial available online.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options. Launched in 2013, XuetangX, the Chinese platform in third place, claims 18 million.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

The magazine’s “30 Under 30” list, which highlights young leaders in fields such as technology, music and healthcare, added education to the list in 2013 and since then has grown from nearly 90 nominations in 2014 to more than 450 last year. (Shots at getting into Stanford and Harvard are both higher.)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

We believe in the idea of trying on different identities: ‘I’m going to be a photographer, robotics engineer, or actor in a Shakespeare play.’ ”. Fifth-graders (from left) Jayden Vargas, David Bojorque, and Ariyana Denny figure out how to make their Lego robot move in a robotics class at Elm City College Prep, in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2013, after watching her three-year-old daughter work through phonics exercises on an iPad, it struck Scanlon that the apps at the time often did poorly measuring oral fluency. A few years ago, a video went viral of a child asking Alexa to play a song and getting raunchy results in return. In other words, kids talk like, well, kids.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2017

is on the New York Times education best sellers list for 2013. To celebrate the end of the first season of the Ten-minute Teacher podcast on June 16 th , we’re running a giveaway – the Dash and Dot Robot Wonder Pack from Wonder Workshop. ALAN: Yeah, I actually have a video of it. Recording starts 0:00:00].

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My Paperless Classroom

JULY 17, 2014

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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Like Lego blocks clicked together, two educational robot companies have combined to offer their collective programming and robotics lessons to students spanning from 4 years old to college. Modular Robotics , the Boulder, Colo.-based based maker of Cubelet robot blocks, has acquired Dexter Industries , a Stafford, Va.-based

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

When they wrote the LAB charter in 2013, Mote and Tucker designed a model that included college-prep academic rigor alongside life and leadership skills, particularly entrepreneurial learning. Since the school’s launch in 2014, their vision has come to life and the school has grown to serve 479 students in grades 6-8.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

"If you can imagine it, you can invent it" - unknown I recall Nicky Hockley''s keynote for the Reform Symposium 2013. She showed several images of recent movies such as Ellysium, I, Robot and Avatar to emphasise her point. Technology of the future is already here - we just haven''t seen it released on the general public yet.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A key aspect of this type of teaching and learning is the increased use of interactive video for online “field trips” and other purposes. And, that makes access to adequate and reliable broadband even more important as the development of new technologies continues.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2015

At a long, markerboard-surfaced table in the room’s center, a group of students builds robots from Cubelets, box-shaped elements that use sensors to perform different functions. Each room also has a closet full of technology like GoPro cameras, circuitry sets and robotics of all shapes, sizes and functions. Finding what works.

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 13, 2016

By acknowledging that teachers can have bad days (shock–they aren’t robots!), Here’s a great video compilation of classrooms doing the rituals that MTW teaches: 10 Emogers (ways to manage emotions), Mindful Morning, and Mindful Breathing. Empathy–it’s not just for futuristic sci-fi robots! The Numbers.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

Since creating our school’s makerspace in November 2013, I’ve seen a small revolution start to grow within our elementary school and also across our district. This past year has helped to give our maker movement stronger momentum with the addition of school sponsored clubs (multi-grade makers club and Lego Robotics).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Kohn called the maneuver “Pac-Manning,” because the frequent laptop closings and re-openings evoked the video-game creature. Launched in 2013, Classkick’s app lets teachers with iPads or Chromebooks create lessons for any subject. Now, I just click pause,” she said. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

“Technology addiction” doesn’t appear in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, published in 2013. And he also has treated many teens who are so wrapped up in video games that they don’t even get up to use the bathroom. Dueling diagnoses. ” Measuring problematic use.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 10, 2013

While makerspaces can include cutting-edge technology, it takes more than 3D printers, computers, and robotics equipment to define them. Ito et al (2013) define “connected learning” as “broadened access to learning that is socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity” (p.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Kudos Updates School Leadership Summit Dates Expanded! link] Digital Wish : Two new videos - The Importance of Technology in American Schools and The Need for a Shift to Mobile.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Code.org launched this global campaign in 2013, to align with Computer Science Education Week, and to demystify code and show that anyone can learn the basics. Hive Pittsburgh: The Remake Learning Digital Corps will be running afterschool programs all week featuring MakeyMakey, Hummingbird Robotics, Scratch, App Inventor and Webmaker.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2015

You are using robots, geometry, algebra, science.”. Over the course of this semester, each group will build the rover, learn to operate it, install a video camera and drive it by looking at the image on a monitor. “There are more of them than there used to be. These days the skill set is high technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Seven kids practiced reading on Lexia, while three kids with special needs, who were not yet ready for Lexia, watched YouTube videos about letter sounds. At one point, five kids in the class were on YouTube, watching videos that were definitely not part of the curriculum. The rest of the students were focused intently on their laptops.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 6, 2014

DSIL’s FabLab , part of the FabLab@School network , was inaugurated in January 2013 with programming beginning in March 2013. They began by looking up videos on YouTube , and identifying the elements that they wanted it to have (a pulley, a ball, and an inclined plane). At least one member of their group did not know how to sew.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Background: A financial consultant before being crowned Miss USA in 2013, Erin is married to fellow student Tony Capasso. Background: Majoring in industrial design, Sharon concentrated on robotics so she could create real, working prototypes. Twitter: @SequoiaB. Who are the Amazing Students? Erin Brady. Hometown: Portland, CT.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

And from 2013, by Harvard Business School professor, author of the book The Innovator’s Dilemma , and popularizer of the phrase “disruptive innovation,” Clayton Christensen: “In fifteen years from now, half of US universities may be in bankruptcy. 2013 – the apps on the phones too big for their pockets.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It was all thanks to a buzz on Twitter that I first heard about Hour of Code’s launch in 2013 and its simple, but powerful, mission: to expose children (and adults!) Bringing Code to "Life" Want to make the concept of coding a robot even more impactful to further reinforce the power of code?

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. After what was probably a thirteen-year hiatus, I’ve gotten back into video games this year. Board Games.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Sure, there are sophisticated online lectures where learners can see one another on screen and break out into small groups to chat via video. Carolyn Rosé, an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has been exploring ways to add social engagement to MOOCs since 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. Judge Robert Gettleman, a Clinton appointee, didn’t buy the district’s contention that the Hispanic students needed a separate class. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory. No, that is not likely.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

This graph comes from an article in the online publication Vox that includes a couple of those darling made-to-go-viral videos of young children using “old” technology like rotary phones and portable cassette players – highly clickable, highly sharable stuff. A dominant ideology.) But the claim falls apart under scrutiny.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. Judge Robert Gettleman, a Clinton appointee, didn’t buy the district’s contention that the Hispanic students needed a separate class. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory. No, that is not likely.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Updates Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Kudos Updates GlobalEdCon Celebration and Meetup Reminder. Education Revolution Google+ Community Robots grading essays. Submit a Video or Quote We''d like to feature a user submitted video each week. Click here to register.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sugata Mitra’s “Hole in the Wall” experiment has garnered a lot of attention since it first begun in 1999 and won a TED prize in 2013. Cleveland is a world away from Delhi, but Dora Bechtel says many of her students at Campus International School remind her of the Indian children she observed in videos about the Hole in the Wall experiment.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

." Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Technology switch leaves some upset | Columbia Daily Tribune → Battle High School students and teachers have had iPads since the school opened in 2013. But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

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

MAY 25, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Sponsored content appearing this week on Edsurge , paid for by the Gates Foundation , includes this article (suggesting most professors think they’re better teachers than they actually are) and this article (making the case for “flipped learning” without using videos).

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Via Politico : “ Trump steps up fight to keep Trump University deposition videos secret.” “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.’”

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