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Here Are Three Types of Administrators Who Drive Achievement—and Two Who Don't

Edsurge

In the months since launching our school and district pilot program , the Kiddom team has collectively spent thousands of hours meeting with administrators to better understand their workflows, facilitate contextualized staff workshops, and support ongoing partnerships.

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How to Help Students Land the STEM Jobs of the Future

Edsurge

Many have never worked on a team where it’s hardware, software, mechanical engineers and marketing all working together. If you don’t want to do software or hardware, there are marketing jobs. At FIRST, you can try software one day, you can try hardware the next day, you can try mechanical engineering another day.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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How We Built Our School Makerspace

Fractus Learning

In schools, Makerspaces have increased in popularity, housing a variety of materials from low-tech arts and crafts to high-tech software and electronics for students to experiment with and build their own designs. Many conferences and workshops feature a Makerspace area, giving educators ideas to take back to their schools.

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2013 Global Education Conference Kicks Off Today - List of Sessions

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Most impressive demonstration of the possibilities of the software and of engaging ways to interpret the conference theme! " -Anonymous “This is a fantastic conference and I plan on using the recordings for my graduate student -professional teachers. Fiona Luna “I wish I could take the whole week off and just attend the workshops.

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3 New Tools to Support Your Digital Conversion

Tom Murray

Reshma’s opening keynote was followed by over 500 sessions and hands-on workshops focused on STEM, while supporting educators working to improve their instructional practice. Teachers are able to collaborate on the SMART Exchange, a well established, online community with thousands of existing SMART amp-compatible resources.