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12 Tools to explore during Computer Science Week

Neo LMS

million jobs available by 2025 that require STEM skills which include coding. Hopscotch is an app (iPad/IPhone) that enables students (ages 8-14+) to learn about coding by creating a game, changing a drawing into an animation, or exploring the projects that have been shared to the gallery. So why do students need to build these skills?

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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Weekly Free Event Calendar - Conference Keynotes Update - Edcamp USDOE - Digital Citizenship

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Saturday, June 7th at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show with Toni Plourde: Earning Your Learning , Using the iOS 7 for iPad(iPod,iPhone), we will explore ways to maximize the way students can engage and enhance their own learning. Second Monday of each month is the Teacher Librarian Twitter Chat. Follow #TLChat on Twitter to participate.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. For as The Wall Street Journal cautioned in October , “America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs.”