The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

As high school students, we were born at the same time as the iPhone and after the launch of social media and YouTube. So many of us find our spark in STEM during programs that happen outside of school, whether it’s an after-school robotics program or a summer course with Girls Who Code. Unfortunately, we didn’t know how.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2019

We're excited to announce our third Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Emerging Technology," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Tomorrow’s technologies are shaping our world today, revolutionizing the way we live and learn.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

“Student engagement” has been a top conference topic for nearly ten years now for a reason. Is it possible for kids to limit their social media time and spend it building face-to-face relationships? Can social media consume less time? Can we make robots out of scraps or must we always buy a kit?

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

They consume social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. By connecting through social media your educators and students can see how the work they do matters. Our fifth grade used the Wonder Workshop robots for a variety of lessons across the curriculum. But there are ways to use social media for good.

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Tech Helpful

JUNE 29, 2017

Snapping, Gramming, and Scoping Your Way to Engagement- Shaelynn, Steven, and myself Educators Steven Anderson (@web20classroom) and Shaelynn Farnsworth (@shfarnsworth) created an interactive learning opportunity that challenged me in how to reach students, teachers, families, and constituencies with the use of social media.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

By Lisa Schmucki , Founder and CEO, edWeb.net It was great to kick off conferences in 2023 by attending FETC in New Orleans. I had a chance to talk with Jason Innes, the Director of Curriculum, Training, and Management for KinderLab Robotics. KinderLab Robotics is dedicated to universal STEAM literacy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Our third Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Emerging Technology," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). The call for proposals is still open , and some of the accepted sessions are below. Please also join this Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The 7th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) Starts Sunday! The Global Education Conference Network's seventh annual global collaboration "extravaganza" will take place around the clock starting this Sunday, November 13, and continuing through Wednesday, November 16. Truly, the volunteer moderators are the HEART of the conference.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Our third Library 2.019 mini-conference, "Emerging Technology," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.”

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

For instance, Kasey Bell generously shared her own resource-packed presentations on her Shake Up Learning Blog prior to the conference. For me, ISTE is the ultimate professional development conference to catch up on the latest in EdTech, collaborate with old and new friends, and to spend time with my people.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 28, 2021

Kids should be able to use social media supervised or unsupervised. Write a story about spending a day with a robot, a dog, and a cow. Social media creates fake relationships and opinions. Would you rather attend a writer’s conference or an engineering workshop? Why do you share photos on social media?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2016

The second annual Student Technology Conference, a free one-day online event bringing together students, educators and innovators from around the world, is tomorrow, Saturday, January 30, 2016 from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm US-EST. We invite all to attend! Times are US-EST, see the schedule for your own time zone and any updates.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2015

Tomorrow, the inaugural "Student Technology Conference" takes place, kicking off at 9:00am US-Eastern Daylight Time. While attending the live sessions allows you to participate in live chat with the presenters and other attendees, all of the sessions will also be recorded and available for on the conference site. See you online!

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2018

These little ball robots have opened up so many possibilities. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age. Our thought was to use the robot to create recycling videos for our school. Students then coded the robot through their challenges.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ignacio Estrada The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" We''d love your help for our inaugural (and free) Gaming in Ed conference, which begins the week of September 15th. We are gearing up for another amazing year of the Library 2.014 Conference. Sign up to volunteer at Gaming in Ed!

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 6, 2018

The next huge success with the 1:1 iPad rollout came with a new little, ball-shaped robot. That year our local environmental group bought my Environmental Club a Sphero robot. We coded the robot to make PSAs about how to recycle in our middle school. I entered the lesson into a contest with the EdTechTeam that year and we won!

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EdTechTeam

MAY 10, 2017

Our district provides an annual Tech Bash conference for teachers and paraprofessionals. The Tech Squad students have presented their EdTech Playgrounds at local and regional conferences. Our student leaders also known as @LyfordTechSquad select the tech they want to feature and they manage the stations. When is it used?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

Just share that love on social media. So even if you’re not very comfortable with holding a live conference call via Skype or Google Hangouts, the cool thing about Flipgrid is that you can record video messages with your kids. He’s the robot there. We love digital tools like Buncee and Green Screen , Adobe Spark.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

Every two weeks I would conference with each student individually to learn about how their research was progressing. Now well into their thirties, many of my former students have kept in touch via social media. They would help each other with research techniques and fill out competition applications together.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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MSEDTechie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

When corporations want to get the word out on their new products, they usually take to Twitter and other social media outlets first. They have a variety of topics from Food in Space to Robotics to Life on Mars. Classroom teachers have used this tool to manage parent teacher conferences, class volunteers, book fairs and more.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 5, 2014

Gardner The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" This week we kick off the second annual Homeschool+ Conference and the Alt Ed Film Fest ! Check out the conference schedule and join us! For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here. We Need Your Help This Week.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The products below were selected by an anonymous panel of educator judges, who scoured the exhibit hall floor during the conference in Chicago. Other features include complete integration with Chromecast and AirPlay devices, interactive whiteboard capabilities, dynamic screen layout, and a conference controller.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 9, 2019

Post your answer in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook , or share it on your favorite social media platform with the hashtag #shakeuplearning. Dash Robots. Kasey speaks at conferences, events, and schools all over the world! And if you want to work with me or bring me to your school, check out this link.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

At conferences, librarians share with me that their administrators insist they devote significant library real estate to 3D printing and a variety of other maker equipment. The action in our huge open technology wing engaged kids in robotics and coding and CAD and now, 3D printing. robotics teachers (OMG! cartooning spaces.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Building community around game-based learning requires reaching out into the media space that reaches teachers—whether that be webinars, news articles, conferences, social media, or networking events,” said Rushton. Other games are designed specifically for humanities classrooms.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 31, 2017

Hundreds of exhibitors from more than 40 countries filled the conference floor. From the multinational companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Discovery Education, Asus, Lego, or Intel, to small, single-product companies, they all made Bett the excellent conference it was. The 2017 edition was packed-full with game-changers.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” He has backed these initiatives financially; and he has backed the publications and conferences that promote these sorts of efforts. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. The policy and the discourse. billion in the next five years on education initiatives.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

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. Let me be really clear, making is not simply 3D printing, Art Lino, Raspberry Pi, LEDs, robots, laser and vinyl cutters.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. After that, living near a school often confers priority. That, in turn, can lead to fewer families signing up — and even less money. Credit: Sonya Abrams for The Hechinger Report. Often, they fail.

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Adjusting Course

JANUARY 30, 2018

Finally, you can see real-time updates by checking out our school's hashtag on social media: #GWgreats. Sometimes it’s helpful to see a pedagogy and supporting tools in action, so there’s also plenty of video in the “Video Vault” section. However, I understand that people like to compare prices and see different options.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Subscribe to their blog.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. “Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?”

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Graphite Blog

MAY 2, 2016

At conferences I went to everything with the word "maker" in the title. I assumed they'd be thrilled about a $200 Dash and Dot robot set. No blog, article, or conference workshop can top the genius of your students. This is a great way to integrate some of your social media tools. You need to!

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