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Can Video Games Help Early Learners Grow?

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28, children’s media company Moonbug Entertainment partnered with Outright Games to launch CoComelon: Play with JJ on Nintendo Switch. After pressing the button, a mini-game about identifying simple shapes begins. Once close to an object, an “A” will flash, signaling to the player to push the corresponding button on the device.

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The Compassionate Achiever: Understanding Empathy and Compassion So We Don’t Burn Out

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You even work with the Center for Compassion, Creativity, and Innovation. When you are having compassion, you are actually releasing a lot of endorphins. You’re releasing neurotransmitters, like dopamine (that reward level)and serotonin (that calming level). How do these two combine? Chris: That’s a great question. Vicki: Hmmmm.

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Library of Congress introduces three new apps (and a reminder of some older goodies)

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Lee Ann Potter, director of Educational Outreach at the Library of Congress, shared in a press release : We are delighted to see the creative ways in which these three interactives support students’ investigations of government, legislation and the role each of us can play in participating in our nation’s civic life. Curriculum Guide.

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EDI 2.0 Mini-Conference in 2 Weeks - Presentations Announced

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2023 and #edi20 on their social media posts about the event. An often called upon authority/speaker on issues of importance to library workers, Jefferson has appeared on a number of media outlets, including National Public Radio. OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL: Julius C. Jefferson, Jr.

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

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From a press release. ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the SPARC press release : “Congress Funds $5 Million Open Textbook Grant Program in 2018 Spending Bill.” ” But “changes are coming” to the university’s writing center, the administration has threatened. Soon to be The Atlantic’s Adam Harris. Congrats on the new gig.).

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence. ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.