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To Jeff Bezos: 7 Suggestions for Enhancing Preschool Education, From a Former Montessori Teacher

Edsurge

Montessori teachers need rigorous science in their training, and—after they graduate—an online resource they can refer to for inspiration. I am pretty sure if Maria were alive today, she too would love this cute wooden robot. Instead, maybe children can use a luminosity sensor to determine the best place in the room for a plant.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

based education advocacy group. “It And libraries can make a lot of room just by thinning out their old, out-of-date reference sections, according to Steven Lent, the LITT at Beaverton’s Mountain View Middle School. Several schools in the district have added small, pleasure-reading libraries to ELA classrooms, for instance.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools. KinderLab KIBO ( kinderlabrobotics.com/kibo/ ) is a robot kit designed for young children aged 4–7 years old.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab. Sodexo?” — referring to the testing and cafeteria behemoths.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

I’ve already made references to for-profit higher education in the second and third articles in this year-end series – on the “ innovation gospel ” and on the business of student loans. .” Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. it's like a Coke bottle falling out of the sky,” he said, apparently referring to the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. (He But the “spying” has continued.

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