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Top 5 Reasons Why Kids Should Learn Python

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A leading coding program for kids and teens, YoungWonks provides students individual attention in 1:1 live lessons, fostering an environment where kids feel free to explore their creativity by experimenting and making new programs, apps, websites, games, robots and electronic devices.

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10 edtech experts you should follow

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As a two-time Teacher of the Year, he teaches middle school math, robotics and YouTube video production. She began her popular blog Cool Cat Teacher in 2005, and in 2017 she launched a podcast, 10-Minute Teacher Show. Dr. Kristen Mattson is the premier expert on digital citizenship. Adam Juarez.

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4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018

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With all of these technologies populating classrooms this year, it is also more integral than ever that educators instill students with the tenets of digital citizenship. Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017.

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Positive focus; Positive behaviors

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About the Author: Karessa Parish is currently a Robotics Teacher & Campus PBIS Coordinator at Cedar Creek Middle School in Cedar Creek, Texas. She is a 2-time Innovation in Teaching (IT) award recipient and was teacher of the year in 2016-2017. . She’s originally from San Antonio and taught grades 5-8 for 10 years.

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Student Leadership via EdTech Playgrounds

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The resources range from coding, drawing, dancing, virtual trips, and digital citizenship. Instructional Technology Coach Apple Distinguished Educator 2017 Google Certified Educator Twitter: @betzvela Who manages it? Betsy Vela M.Ed.

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How These 26 Teachers and an Author Are Redefining Today's Student-Centered Classroom

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Creativity starts off every book, followed by areas such as 21st century skills, research, digital citizenship and technology and coding concepts. So in the end she signed up 26 teachers, and herself, to take on the books, which were released during the tail end of 2017. The search was about more than finding co-authors.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

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One of the major goals I have had regarding technology integration is that we also speak into teaching students about being appropriate digital citizens. 2016-2017 brought another tremendous change to the lower school due to a grant for STEAM experiences. The hardest thing I’ve had to figure out is keyboarding.