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Hemet Unified School District Adopts LETRS for New Two-Year Professional Learning Program

eSchool News

Offered by Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, LETRS provides educators with the deep knowledge required to be literacy and language experts in the science of reading. It approaches adult learning in a really respectful way and meets them where they’re at,” she said. About Lexia Learning.

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

Her talent won her an internship with a company in Atlanta (she telecommuted as a sophomore and junior in high school.) As our Internet search tools get closer and closer to our eyeglasses and contacts, we’re sure to see our dependence on them increase. In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base.

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A state embraces the idea that not everyone needs to go to college

The Hechinger Report

If Johnson stays in Southern’s machine tool program for the next two years, she could leave high school with an industry-recognized machinist operator credential, and a clear path to a job that starts at $15 an hour. Anyone can get machine tools,” Whitworth says. Kenny Whitworth is the owner of the shop employing nearly 200 people.

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Learning to learn: A skill set for the 21st century student

Neo LMS

Or maybe it did, but we didn’t call it the same, only a handful of people had it, and most of the tools that I use everyday didn’t exist yet. Fast Company collected a few jobs of the future that might have a plausible existence, but who knows how the world will look like in 2036? In the end, they all get a grade.

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What Should First Year Teachers Know About Tech Integration?

Tech Helpful

Apps and websites like Kahoot, Socrative, Go Formative, or using school-based LMS quiz solutions allows for more knowledge based on individualized students. Technology in the classroom is not going away, in fact companies like Google and Apple are creating opportunities directly for education.

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An Education ‘Intrapreneur’ on the Difficulties Innovating in a Conservative Industry

Edsurge

I mean, I was so peeved at the publishers who come out there and talk about being education companies, but shareholder value trumps all. So after college, you worked at a computer company then you moved to Texas Instruments. I was with one of the very first software companies, the very first one that wasn't a computer company.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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