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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

Innovative K-12 education ideas are crucial for creating engaging, effective, and future-ready learning environments. Here are a few new innovations in education: Project-Based Learning (PBL) Studios: Establishing project-based learning studios where students engage in hands-on, interdisciplinary projects.

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

Edsurge

Media Lit: A Make-or-Break Competency for Teachers : As students engage more and more with media, how are they to make sense of what’s reliable—or not? Students’ Safety or Privacy? Department of Education, privacy advocacy groups and a school district explore how to find the right balance between the two ideals.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” Via eSchool News : “Why chatbots are not the future of student engagement.” The “adaptive learning” company has raised $23.5 ” (State and Local) Education Politics. . million total.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

IMPERO SOFTWARE ANTISEXTING AND BULLYING VIDEO ( www.imperosoftware.com ) Impero Software has released a new video showing the dangers of sexting and online bullying, and the important role online monitoring software plays in schools to keep students safe. for middle school. Each unit in Bring Science Alive!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. We literally have more data about our students than any company has about anybody else about anything, and it’s not even close.”

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OPINION: Seven lessons on proficiency education

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education and think tanks as personalized competency-based education (PCBE), the model is founded on flexibility, as opposed to the time-and-location-bound work that students will face when they graduate. Advocacy groups like Competency Works promote a paradigm shift that includes customized schedules.