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K–12 Educators Embrace Ingenuity and Adaptation to Prepare Students for the Future

EdTech Magazine

CoSN leaders recognized the significance of this dynamic in this year’s conference theme , “Envision 2030,” a nod to the fact that the Class of 2030 is just starting their educational journey. How do we set them up for success in a world that we ourselves can only begin to imagine ? by Ryan Petersen.

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District Tinker-Fests and Hackathons Rev Up Student Interest in STEM Education

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how to create a successful STEM program! A startling 2017 report by Dell , which was written by the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and a panel of 20 tech, business and academic experts from around the world, estimates that 85 percent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t been invented yet.

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Memorization is Not a Bad Thing

The Principal of Change

Here is a scenario: The year is 2030, and you are having a conversation at a dinner party. How boring is that? ” Yes, you can Google anything you want today, but that doesn’t mean you understand the concept with any depth.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

This week, they’re building basic apps and games using Firebase, a Google platform. Workforce development nonprofits are springing up everywhere, as are efforts from companies including IBM and Google to bypass slow-moving colleges and universities and create their own courses and credentials.

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Digital K-12 Classroom Online Summit | Feb 21-23, 2020

EdTechnocation.com

by Hunter McConnell “Storytelling with Google Earth’s New Project Tool” by Nathan Gildart “Using Technology to Support Learners with ADHD” by Dr. Carlos Macias “Let’s collaborate and create a global classroom through flipgrid” by Ghada Hassan Ali “Get on the Jamboard Train!”

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Can Work Be Dignified in an Automated World?

Edsurge

It's a place where researchers are delving into topics around race, the global environment and how to prepare changing societies for new technology and the workforce. We talked with Lewis about how the center is using research to tackle some of the biggest challenges our world faces today. Think about agricultural labor.

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5 Reasons to Try a Whole Novel Approach in Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Vicki: Okay, and we’ll link to it in the show notes because there are lots more ideas about how to do that.

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