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Approaching an Online Computer Science Degree: What You Need to Know

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Each institution provides unique strengths, from LU’s well-rounded approach to MIT’s rigorous academic standards. Grasping the Breadth of the Curriculum Computer science is a diverse field, and its study encompasses various subjects like programming, algorithms, data structures, and more.

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Understanding concepts: What is digital citizenship?

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Educate Learners need to be educated about copyright; reliable sources; appropriate communication for email, texting or social media; and how to safely shop online. Learners don’t often use email since they text or send messages on social media apps, but they’ll also need to be able to write professional emails.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

One of the great promises of the increased adoption and use of technology in public education is the availability of new tools to collect and analyze data about how best to meet the individual needs of students, support educators, and allocate scarce resources.

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Why the Boldest Ideas in Education Come From Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

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“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” WordsLiive.

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A Project-Based Learning Spectrum: 25 Questions To Guide Your PBL Planning

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Which academic standards are the focus of the unit? How will data from formative assessment (that target these standards) help teachers and students respond within the project? Progress towards mastery of academic standards? a Google search, a social media stream) might they use cooperatively?

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The Real Problem With Multiple-Choice Questions

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If learning is the result of acquiring “new data” and organically folding it into “old data,” how students come to that new data is incredibly important. Texts are now merged with moving images, hyperlinked, designed to be absorbed into social media habits, and endlessly fluid. Uncertainty.

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

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Often, the most popular apps “are what teachers are discovering at conferences, reading online, and across social media,” according to Dan Carroll, chief product officer of Clever. Third-party software can share student data in ways that violate district or state standards. And they may be vulnerable to hackers. “It

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