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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Wynzleen Lee Technology as a possibility to value language teaching profession: yes, there is a choice!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

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JULY 30, 2019

Corinne Roller, director of advocacy and public policy for the nonprofit group Girls Who Code , says the proportion of women in computing jobs has actually been trending downward over the last few decades. “If And teachers need training on how to make their classrooms feel inclusive for all learners.

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JUNE 21, 2018

The alignment of this popular series of digital professional learning resources to McREL’s model helps educators choose the appropriate classroom tactics for aiding the acquisition and recall of information. launch of Be a Maker, an all-new mobile application that teaches children how to code by allowing them to program their Jibo robot.

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

All the talk of the importance of “emotion” in education reflects other trends too. It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us.

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JULY 10, 2019

Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse.

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JUNE 17, 2016

John Bel Edwards has agreed to a mandate that cursive writing must be taught in Louisiana ’s public school classrooms.” Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” ” Via the AP : “Gov.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” ” From the Lenovo website : “Lenovo™ Introduces Lenovo Virtual Reality Classroom.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” $3000 for three headsets.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

” The Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued a statement on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General. Via the AP : “The state of Utah has denied it has anti-gay school laws as it defends itself from a lawsuit challenging restrictions on talk about homosexuality in the classroom.”

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JULY 28, 2017

Via The Salt Lake Tribune : “Lawmaker: Utah ‘s veteran educators may need to ’die off ’ before technology fills classrooms.” I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. ” VR , AI , etc.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The Flipped Classroom". He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley.

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DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” Via the AP : “Two students were shot and wounded, one critically, inside a Los Angeles middle school classroom Thursday morning and police arrested a female student believed to be 12 years old, authorities said.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. New hires at the Department of Education. ”). .”

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DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months.

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