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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. They work on any project they want, such as robotics. Makerspaces — a key element of STEM education — are popping up in classrooms and libraries across the U.S. For its part, St.

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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

A great deal has changed since Digital Leadership was published in 2014. More and more schools have gone 1:1 thanks to the cost-effectiveness of the Chromebook and cloud-based tools. What I have described above only accounts for a small subset of the changes we have seen since 2014. What should be removed?

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

At the end of the 2013-2014 school year CCS had a marvelous “problem.” From the 2013-2014 school year until this past year that “rule” was a rule of expectation. After school this year our STEAM coordinator has offered circuitry and robotics clubs as well. The computer lab was next to the other three kindergarten classrooms.

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Pump up the volume! More talking in class, please!

The Hechinger Report

Teaching will be one of the last jobs taken away by the robots, because software will never be the same as a human who is thinking about what you’re thinking and can use that understanding to say, `here, let me unlock this for you.’ ”. Launched in 2013, Classkick’s app lets teachers with iPads or Chromebooks create lessons for any subject.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

“Personalized learning is not something you buy,” emphasized Chris Liang-Vergara, a consultant from the Chicago organization LEAP Innovations who helped charter Firstline Schools pilot its personalized learning programs between 2011 and 2014. “It’s Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets? Teira Rucker, 11.

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How to Create Learning Opportunities For Kids on the Bus

MindShift

In the afternoon she accompanies the group of primarily African-American and Latino kids for the return trip, while many of their classmates at Rooftop School in the San Francisco Unified School District stay behind for after-school activities like French, guitar and “Lego robotics.”. For them, “the Wi-Fi has been a great tool.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 In Smart School money, districts find different approaches to tech | The Daily Gazette → Every school district in the state gets a cut of the $2 billion NY state bonds approved by voters in 2014 to enhance technology in schools. That's a lot of computers.

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