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53 back-to-school tips and insights for a great year

eSchool News

Unfortunately, our education system often struggles to provide adequate support for these students if they don’t know English. It is important to get students exposed to coding and robotics early so it will be natural to them once they get to middle school and beyond. Within 5 days, everyone just loved KIBO—students and teachers!

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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

It draws on listening sessions with more than a thousand educators, students, parents, state and district leaders and advocacy organizations, according to Erin Mote, CEO of education policy nonprofit InnovateEDU, one of several education organizations that collaborated with the government on the plan.

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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

This includes video conferencing, learning management systems, and interactive content creation tools. Micro-Credentials for Student Achievement: Introducing micro-credentialing systems that recognize and validate students’ skills and achievements beyond traditional grades.

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What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

The Hechinger Report

This year alone, Juliet has used 3D printers, servo motors and microcontrollers to build the parts needed to construct a therapeutic robotic dog that she hopes will help those afraid of canines overcome their fears, a project she did as part of a lesson in her English class. On a recent weekday, J. Patrick Shell, teacher, C.E.

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3 Things to Remember When You Have a Gifted Child

Fractus Learning

While each gifted journey may be different, and the obstacles each gifted child and their family face can be simply inconvenient or tragically painful, there are three areas teachers and parents should remember when searching for answers to help better the educational, emotional and social lives of gifted children— advocacy, activities and mentors.

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

techlearning

Palmer High School calibrates the VR system. He likens these practices to taking away students’ encyclopedias, through which they find knowledge and begin to make choices that will lead to advocacy for others and for themselves. Digital inequity is the thoughtful and intentional result of many interlocking systems of oppression.

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

Edsurge

Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. From Courtroom to Classroom: An Inmate’s Tale : If prison is supposed to prepare inmates for society, then the current system is in dire need of improvement. Join us for a slice of the action! Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 6 11:00 a.m.