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Speak Up 2020 Congressional Briefing: Release of the National Research Findings

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For the last seven months of 2020, school districts have gone through extreme changes regarding how learning is happening in a pandemic-induced educational environment. Digital Learning During the Pandemic. Julie serves on several boards and advisory councils and is a frequent speaker and writer on digital learning.

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My Journey to Becoming a Distance Learning Teacher-Leader

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I sat at home, anxious and pensive, and found refuge in the outdoors, household projects, and, of course, social media. As I scrolled through Facebook, I saw a teacher post about “virtual Edcamps” being offered by Digital Promise. Would I ever actually hug another person again? As a result, I am a better teacher.

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Think Digital Native Means Digitally Literate? Think Again.

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Aigner Picou, a program director at the Learning Agency Lab, spent a lot of time talking to teachers in 2020. No matter what grade level they taught in middle or high school, teachers had students who struggled to use a digital learning platform or to type without painstaking hunt-and-pecking at the keyboard. “It

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Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School Selects Discovery Education’s Mystery Science to Support Deeper Student Engagement in the 2022-2023 School Year

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SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through?

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Georgia’s Glynn County Schools Renews Multiyear Partnership Supporting Science Instruction in K-5 Classrooms

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Mystery Science, which joined the family of Discovery Education services in 2020 and has won SIIA’s Best Science Instructional Solution CODiE award for Grades PK – 8, provides K-5 educators simple to use, open-and-go, hands-on lessons that inspire students to love science. “We

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Wisconsin’s Stevens Point Area Public School District Renews Partnership Supporting Science Education In Grades K-5

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Mystery Science, which joined the family of Discovery Education services in 2020 and recently won SIIA’s Best Science Instructional Solution CODiE award for Grades PK – 8, provides K-5 educators simple to use, open-and-go, hands-on lessons that inspire students to love science.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.