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Teaching Using News Articles: Helpful Tips and Resources for Teachers

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These include the abilities to critically assess the credibility of new stories using various vetting criteria, to spot fake news and false information, to identify reliable sources, and to read and interpret news using a multi-perspective approach. The visual is based on guidelines sourced from Facebook help center.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. announced the U.S.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - SLS14 Expanded! - Open Natural Math Class - Educate to Liberate or Control?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

link] Digital Wish : Two new videos - The Importance of Technology in American Schools and The Need for a Shift to Mobile. Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. Check them out! Join here ! Thanks, Chris!

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Director of Academics Robotics Unplugged: Introduction to Engineering - Melda N Yildiz Sharing International Exchange Through Mutlimedia - Elaine Huang, Alumna Storytelling goes global - Ms Silvana Carnicero Strategies to Increase Student Transfer of Knowledge to Real-World Contexts & Facilitate 21st Century Skills - Tamara Galoyan, Ph.D.

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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Week's Events - GlobalEd Waitlist - CoSN - Google Forms - Breaking Down Library Walls - Better Than College - OZeLive Kudos

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Thursday, February 27th at 11am Creating Connected Learners Through Virtual Exchange: Assessing the Impact of Virtual Exchange , Part of a month-long webinar series co-hosted by the Exchange 2.0 Education Revolution Google+ Community Robots grading essays. For more information, click here. Learn more here. Thanks for sharing, Karen!

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. ” The university recently decided not to partner with the for-profit ITT, and I do wonder if that decision counted as a positive or negative in Moody’s assessment.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. Inside Higher Ed reports that “ Fannie Mae , the largest backer of mortgage credit in the country, has issued new guidelines allowing home owners to refinance their mortgage s to pay off their student loan debt. Move along.