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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Youth drug use is trending down. He wrote about his findings for the organization Child Trends. Subscribe today!

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AI and Personalized Learning That Goes Beyond Tech: The Latest Camelback Ventures Cohort

Edsurge

Artificial intelligence was a trend among the for-profits that presented. Her 14-year-old brother was a victim of gun violence, killed by a 13-year-old over an iPhone. It wants to create a movement of “equity designers” through youth programs, leadership development and educational advocacy tools.

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Orientation Inspiration 2017

NeverEndingSearch

This year, a couple of very clear trends emerged. Using GoosechaseEDU scavenger hunt platform for iPhone or Android , you can create a new game or copy and adapt games from templates in the Game Library. These are all things I do for free anyway, but it should be a great education/advocacy opportunity. Engagement.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

published a new report which addresses latest trends in EdTech in the U.S. With a FLIR ONE camera, available for iPad and iPhone, students can observe temperature changes on the skin, illustrate convection, track heating due to friction, compare heat conduction in different materials, and more. K-12 market.

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

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.