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Losing STEAM: When Technology and Curriculum Collide

EdNews Daily

Educational approaches that use Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) are pushing the learning capacity of students by focusing on inquiry, problem-solving, and innovation. . But good teaching is good teaching and without higher-level uses of technology, it becomes just another dusty book on a shelf.

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A ‘Learning Ecosystem’ Approach to Ed-Tech Acquisition

Digital Promise

When I think about how the adoption and acquisition of technology is changing in K-12 education, it brings to mind the well-known Sydney Harris cartoon. It’s a reminder both of how the quest for a definitive answer can stunt innovation and how failure can be inevitable without enough planning. I’ll bet you’ve seen it.

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Is 2023 the year of the microschool?

eSchool News

Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. When people think of disruptive innovations, they tend to focus on new technologies: personal computers, online video streaming, rideshare apps, etc. In short, minimills used a new technology (electric arc furnaces) to enable a new organizational model.

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Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign

Marketplace K-12

The Software and Information Industry Association, in a recent online post , said the campaign—which encourages states and districts to consider open options—wrongly suggests that open resources are invariably linked with districts’ shifts to adopting digital materials, whereas commercial materials are stuck in the print world.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

Edsurge

Gehsmann says in today’s knowledge economy, literacy is a basic requirement for getting and keeping a stable job in just about every industry. Commonlit is a source for free, high-quality instructional materials designed to support literacy development (grades 3-12.). Resources recommended by Linda Edgecomb and GGES teachers.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Méndez-Cupey, and together they’ve adopted a public elementary school that was badly damaged by Hurricane Maria, with plans to provide teacher training and instructional materials. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many. Some local universities were there too.

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Teaching Is a Craft: It Will Never Be a Science

The 21st Century Principal

Nor have we made any new headway to resolving new issues like increasing student apathy, raging societal inequality, and best-practice technological application. We are looking for method A that will definitively bring about result B, only discover each time, method A only sometimes brings about result A.