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How to prepare students for 2017’s Hour of Code next week

eSchool News

She also has students play a partner game where one person is a programmer and one is a robot. The programmer must draw a program for their robot using different symbols, like move forward, jump, or squat. With technology or unplugged activities, students can not only participate in an Hour of Code, but continue throughout the year.

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FETC 2023: Networking, Learning, and Celebrating Education

edWeb.net

It was a great opportunity to talk with Chris as a developer and learn about some of the issues they need to consider when creating content for K12. ClassVR launched at the Bett Show in London in January 2017 and has become a highly awarded educational virtual reality solution. They are currently partnering with almost 1,000 schools.

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How Brooklyn LAB Charter School is Integrating Non Academic Habits into the Classroom

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How a school defines student success influences its design and impacts critical aspects such as professional learning, curriculum, assessment and school culture. The LAB high school will open in fall 2017. This work is supported by NGLC. EdSurge takes full responsibility for all editorial content.

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

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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. She listens to her students, to her teachers now that she’s coaching and to her professional learning community. The search was about more than finding co-authors.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Be sure you check out these blog posts to learn more about how some districts are using badges for professional learning. Offering choice in learning is important for the K-12 classroom as well as adult and professional learning.

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Seven Things That Happen When Kids Embrace a Maker Mindset

The Principal of Change

We live in an era where robotics and artificial intelligence will replace many of our current jobs. EmpowerBook July 9, 2015 Blogging for Staff Professional Learning. It was about putting in your time so that you could make it in the world. The corporate ladder is gone and in its place, is a complex maze.

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3 Ways Schools Condition Students

The Principal of Change

Other than running the original post from 2017 through Grammarly (where were you back then!!), As I reread this one, I think about how many people have challenged the process of school to make many of the things I discussed in this original post from 2017 happen in today’s context. . And quite frankly, now I’m scared.