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In elementary classrooms, demand grows for play-based learning

The Hechinger Report

It’s a solar system,” one of the students said. But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. At Shidler Elementary, most students qualify for free and reduced lunch and test scores have historically been low.

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Digital Surveillance Systems Help Keep K–12 Students, Staff Safe from Harm

EdTech Magazine

Digital Surveillance Systems Help Keep K–12 Students, Staff Safe from Harm. The district’s surveillance system not only allows school resource officers and administrators to monitor school grounds in real time, it also allows them to identify those involved in incidents after the fact, says Technology Director Timothy Grant. “We

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NEO will be at ISTE 2017!

Neo LMS

It is a motivational experience and makes you believe that we are better as an industry when we share and work together.” — Russ Schwartz, Principal, Park Trails Elementary School, Broward County, Florida. NEO by CYPHER LEARNING will be exhibiting at ISTE 2017 for the third time! We can’t wait to meet you at ISTE 2017!

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition). Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O.

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Global Education Conference 2017 #globaled17

The CoolCatTeacher

Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon, Global Education Conference co-chairs, talk about the Global Education Conference 2017 that runs from November 13-16. Date: Friday, November 10, 2017. We have this really cool system for people to schedule their own session times based on what’s good for them, where they are in the world.

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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition). Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O.

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