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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

Despite the immense amount of work involved, my colleagues and I fine-tuned our curriculum every year based on student skill gaps and results from formative assessments. They could easily access a library of lessons and assessments I’d created from scratch, or use.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

Snoopy Snow Brawl is a multi-player coding game that encourages kids to use problem solving, strategy and algorithms in a snowball fight between Woodstock and his bird friends that Snoopy referees. Other features and functionality include interactive puzzles, word-free block based programming, different stages for all learners, and more.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”.

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