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1st Grade digital PBL: Does it work?

Neo LMS

Tech co-ordinator Susie Wren, and Kindergarten teachers Cari Bailey and Jennifer Brkich, generously shared their experience at ISTE 2017 recently, and all the resources can be found here. These include collaboration, peer feedback and critique, multitasking, hybrid writing, and making intertextual ties across textual forms.”.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

Many of those same qualities are goals of the Common Core State Standards. UDL has reordered the principles and guidelines, to begin with, Multiple Means of Engagement, the Why of Learning that compliments how the Design Thinking Process involves learners in identifying an authentic problem or challenge. Please join us!

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We Don't Have to Sacrifice Joy for Rigor in the Classroom

Edsurge

Creating a Song In the summer of 2017, rapper Cardi B dropped the Diamond-certified single, “ Bodak Yellow ”, and my students couldn’t get enough of it. For Black History Month , students were not permitted in the school building due to public health guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. Venture Capital in 2017. Is this really a trend?

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dr. Rachel Clarke, Principal Globalizing the English Common Core Reading Materials - Ashley Gwinn Master Teacher and Curriculum Specialist Gomabseubnida, Seoul: How My Summer in Korea Made Me a Better Teacher. - Barrios, Ed.D.; Associate Professor Harmonizing Global Alliances: A Case Study of Afghanistan - Maria A. .

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3 Teacher Money Making Opportunities Using Technology

The CoolCatTeacher

Listen to Jennifer Gonzalez talk about 5 Tech tools to try in 2017. But again, follow your guidelines. Some lessons, you know, you’re walking them through common core live lessons and then other times they just sign up to talk to you, they just want somebody to practice having conversational English with them.

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Education Secretary Arne Duncan to step down

eSchool News

Obama doesn’t intend to nominate King or another candidate for education secretary before his presidency ends in early 2017, said a White House official, who wasn’t authorized to comment by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. .” Sidestepping a nomination fight in Congress, Obama has tapped John King Jr.,