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Top School & District Innovator Awardees 2019

EdNews Daily

The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. Four different categories of proficiency were celebrated in the National Digital Transition Survey Awards.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient. blended learning). Too many edtech initiatives treat teachers as robotic implementers of a higher plan.

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Five-year olds and laser cutters—perfect together? Welcome to the first early childhood fab lab

The Hechinger Report

In another, young visitors learn about earthquakes and build cardboard structures to test on a battery-powered “shake table.”. Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? Meanwhile, the museum’s school programs must support the science standards taught by busy elementary school teachers. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments.

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Switching sides in the teacher wars

The Hechinger Report

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School.