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Six Steps to Project Based Learning

eSpark

In 2015, the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act signaled the end of one-size-fits-all instruction. The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. 4) Student Voice and Choice. 3) Authenticity. 3) Authenticity.

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Understanding ESSA: How the Every Student Succeeds Act will Change U.S. Educational Policy

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have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. For over ten years, districts across the U.S. ESSA ensures that all U.S. Blended Learning.

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3 Tips for Easily Implementing Social-Emotional Learning – by John Gamba

ViewSonic Education

In one survey of educators, ViewSonic Corporation found that three-quarters of teachers (75 percent) connected so-called blended-learning models with increased student engagement. The difference lies in how the video is integrated into the lesson and what it means for the student. The right technology can help.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

Edsurge

A Most Difficult Game The struggles of Planet3 are not unique to the educational game industry. Magnates from the gaming industry have attempted as well. White says developers often wrestle with building a product that’s fun and engaging or a product that’s more direct in addressing a district’s academic standards.

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Insanity In Education: 52 Mistakes We Make Over And Over Again

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From realizing our collective potential as a construct, field, and industry? Resist allowing technology to radically alter our classrooms and ways of doing business within them. Actually believe that every single student can master every single academic standard–without making them think they hate learning.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

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For additional information regarding their application to technology, please refer to www.ed.gov/ocr/letters/colleague-201105-ese.pdf and www.ed.gov/ocr/docs/dcl-ebook-faq-201105.pdf. Information about how digital learning content assesses, teaches, and depends on (requires) common content standards such as State academic standards.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

It’s in school libraries where students often discover and hone their love of coding and programming, create amazing projects via makerspaces, and where they develop important 21st-century skills. As times have changed, technology has advanced, and student needs have evolved—so, too, has the role of the librarian.