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ICE 2019: Physical Arrangement Sets the Tone for K–12 Modern Learning Environments

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The skills we are teaching are way more than just the Common Core. In a three-year study , researchers at the University of Minnesota were able to determine that students in an active-learning environment performed as well or better than their counterparts studying in a lecture-style format — and did so in a shorter amount of time.

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A guest post from AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day Committee

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In 2014, ALA Washington’s Office for Information and Technology Policy (OITP) developed a helpful white paper to examine CIPA’s decade-long impact, Fencing Out Knowledge t h a t d e l i n e a t e d f o u r recommendations t o ALA: Increase awareness of the spectrum of filtering choices. Develop a toolkit for school leaders.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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The courses will be provided through Pathways, a new enhancement to Hoonuit’s online professional development solution, which groups similar modules together to provide a well-rounded study of a topic. In the zSpace supplement, learners will be introduced to zSpace components, terminology and core concepts. TCI BRING SCIENCE ALIVE!

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. For what it’s worth, Richard Hall’s response makes for better reading than the white paper itself.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video. “A new study debunks the myth that wealthy college students receive more state money than do the economically disadvantaged.”