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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

Edsurge

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enriches the classroom learning experience by overlaying digital content onto real-world content, simply using devices that already exist in most classrooms, like tablets and smartphones. So, I started digging deeper into using technology [itself] as a manipulative. It was just a mess.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP At a time when Americans joke about how bad they are at math, and already abysmal scores on standardized math tests are falling even further, employers and others say the nation needs people who are good at math in the same way motion picture mortals need superheroes. That’s much faster than most other kinds of jobs.

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What Service-Learning and Global Goals Taught Us About Promoting the Greater Good

Edsurge

On this county-wide professional development day, while teachers at many schools around Chesterfield watched the clock, thinking about papers that needed to be graded and plans that needed to be written, the staff at Weaver Elementary spent the day immersed in service and learning together.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education. Like elementary and middle school home visits, high school home visits are all about relationship building.

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OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

The Hechinger Report

Students who fall behind academically are very likely to remain behind — and elementary school test scores are a strong predictor of meeting future milestones like high school graduation. If we don’t quickly figure out how to foster academic recovery, the doors to STEM careers will remain closed to too many talented and deserving students.

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

The CoolCatTeacher

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. Joe: Well, I’m excited, because I look out at the world, and we have – UNESCO says, by 2030, we have a teacher shortage of 25.8 Where teaching is today.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

The jobs that once kept the city prosperous are being replaced by skilled jobs in service sectors such as health care, finance and information technology — positions that require more education than just a high-school diploma, thus squeezing out many of those blue-collar, traditionally middle-class workers. Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it.

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