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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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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? And the Children’s Museum of Cleveland will put fab lab capabilities into a mobile technology lab that will hit city streets this fall.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I also asked each person to specify their role concerning technology, and there were a lot of different roles: someone running a distance learning program, another in charge of a problem-based learning initiative, a prof looking for good examples of technology in liberal education, a provost to whom several tech departments reported, and more.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. Related: Blue-collar town leads Rhode Island’s tech-assisted learning revolution. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. A real plan.”.

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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. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment with blended learning.