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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

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Go to coolcatteacher.com/modern right now to sign up for the Modern Classrooms essential course for free where you will learn about the strategies, research, and resources that can drive student-centered, self-directed learning in your classroom. I've gone through these lines like a cat chasing a laser pointer.

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Google Offers Free Cloud Access to Colleges, Plays Catch Up to Amazon, Microsoft

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“We want computer science students and faculty to experience Google Cloud Platform and learn what’s possible when you apply cloud computing to tough problems, just like we do at Google,” says Bram Bout, director of Google for Education. work with Best Buy, Kaplan and Khan Academy. The grant is only offered in the U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Next Web : “ Facebook is letting Groups create online learning courses – what could possibly go wrong?” ” “When UConn broke up with Adobe : A parable of artists and copyright” by Tom Scheinfeldt. Viridis Learning has raised an undisclosed amount of money from Salesforce Ventures.