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Make a Big Splash Into Learning This Summer

MSEDTechie

For those in education, summer is a time for relaxation, regrouping, and also new learning. Whether you are attending a conference like ISTE , or creating your own personalized learning experience, utilizing this “break” to explore new technologies and strategies that help expand your teaching toolbox can be very rewarding.

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Switching sides in the teacher wars

The Hechinger Report

Along with her strong support for charter schools and the Common Core curriculum, Gist was convinced that great student outcomes could be directly tied to teaching excellence. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment with blended learning. A lot of teachers have gotten behind personalized learning and similar teaching models.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. ” President Obama talked to Wired magazine about artificial intelligence, Mars, self-driving cars, Star Trek and more. Education Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Nicole Eramo, a former dean of students, is suing the magazine for $7.9 Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. classrooms: An army of robots to help autistic students learn social skills.” 2 Post at Ed. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Via CNBC : “This Chinese-Israeli start-up wants to change the way kids learn to code.”

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