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COLUMN: Can we find the solution to middle school math woes in a virtual world?

The Hechinger Report

The exercise is part of a new program that encourages learning middle school math through real world problem-solving, now in use in 190 school districts across 36 states. NEW YORK — I strap on a virtual reality headset. A screen appears and dramatic music pounds into my ears.

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Building Growth Mindset with Grants in Massachusetts

MIND Research Institute

Now MIND is working with One8 and Massachusetts STEM Hub to bring this growth mindset in math to students across the state. You can see thinking happening when students play #STMath they are exercising their spatial reasoning muscle.” She’ll try it even though she knows she could fail. January 24, 2019.

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CES2017 Best of Show Tech Tools

EdTechTeam

CES2017 The best of show from the CES2017 Conference, the largest global gathering technology trade show, has been curated by tech publications like Wired , Engadget , and PC. Tenka Labs’ Circuit Cubes These little cubes with built-in circuits pack in a nice punch for educators targeting STEM and 21st century skills.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

New Flipgrid updates will launch and be livestreamed from Minneapolis on August 1 at Flipgrid’s annual educator conference, #FlipgridLIVE. Varying exercises are designed to support learning every step of the way, and the FingerPaths keyboard helps students intuitively visualize key locations and finger movements.

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

Edsurge

Instead, he’s spreading the word to teachers one by one, through the book and by tirelessly speaking at conferences and other education forums. Well, it turns out that strategically constructing the groups like we see in a lot of elementary schools turned out to be a disaster. And his ideas appear to be going viral.

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8 Tried and True Edtech Tools to Try in 2018

The CoolCatTeacher

Steve: Well, I think it’s interesting, because a lot of times when people go to conferences, they’re always seeking out, “What are the ones I haven’t heard of before?” Do we need to always be doing the new latest and greatest, or are there some things that maybe we might need to dust off? Why Time-Tested Tried and True Tools Are So Useful.

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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

User Generated Education

Makerspaces, Maker Education, STEM, and STEAM are gaining lots of traction in Kindergarten though college level education. Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. Materials Openly and Easily Accessible.

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