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How Do We Know When Technology Helps—or Hurts—the Classroom? Educators at ISTE Weigh In

Edsurge

Google is distracting, ethics are a mess.". Similarly, over in Minnesota, a K-6 STEM teacher named Rachel Pierson relies on feedback from the students themselves. “If Rachel Pierson, K-6 STEM Teacher. Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District .

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

After winning the $500 prize last year, I purchased an XYZ 3D printer to integrate STEM into my classroom. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. My students since then have created iPhone cases, key chains, tie clips and more. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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Math Modeling: Why are We Missing it in High School?

EdNews Daily

One study by the University of Toronto 1 suggests that students who have laboratory exposure typically dominate high school science fairs, such as Intel, Google, and Siemens. For the majority of high school students around the world, this is not the case.

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We Ask Teachers: How Has Edtech Made a Difference in Your Classroom?

Edsurge

Michael Hernandez ( @cinehead ), Cinema and Journalism Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator, 2015 PBS Digital Innovator. Chrissy Romano ( @TheConnectedEdu ), 3rd Grade Teacher, Google for Education Certified Trainer Chrissy and her Star Wars loving students. private comments feature in Google Classroom.

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Saturday is the Online Global Student Conference - "STEM + Entrepreneurship" (plus we make our call for volunteers!)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Assisting teachers and administrators in understanding how STEM and entrepreneurship impact learning both in and out of the classroom. Strengthening the relationship between students, teachers, and administrators about STEM + entrepreneurship in the curriculum. Grade: 9th - St. He has made it to imgur’s front page more than once.

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Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Google Docs – It is easy to use Google Docs as a back channel.

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Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

The Hechinger Report

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — CAST Tech, San Antonio’s newest public high school, looks like an outpost of Google. CAST STEM, focused on advanced manufacturing, will open this fall in the city’s Southwest Independent School District, a more rural district with a high percentage of low-income students. Photo: Bekah McNeel/The Hechinger Report.

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