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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

include: Computational Thinking for Educators from Google (15-30 hours). See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Some favorites (all free!) Teaching CS Fundamentals from Code.org (3-8 hours).

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The Cost Trap, Part 3

Iterating Toward Openness

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” That can’t comparison shop. I did Google searches looking for phrases that turned up literally no results). ” Stephen answers that his goal is access for all, and takes me to task for wanting more.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience. What’s the evidence? What do other sources say?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” ” The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy has thoughts on the pushback , making the comparison between Zuckerberg ’s corporate and philanthropic efforts and inBloom. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. .”

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Foreign tech workers are getting fed up. Can better education for U.S. students fill the gap?

The Hechinger Report

By comparison, “the Indian economy and the framework which exists for me, being a citizen of India, was pretty good.”. Since returning home in 2017, Meadem has launched three startups that employ about 40 people and plans to add more workers in the months ahead. When you’re looking at the U.S.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.”

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Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

The Hechinger Report

The only way we can learn about the climate and things that are going on is if you on your own decide to do reading or Google or look at the presidential Democratic candidate debates.” Some teachers tell him they don’t even feel well versed enough in climate science to pass on any expertise to students.

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