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Technology Sparks Growth Mindset and Innovation in the Classroom

Digital Promise

Our teachers work hard every year for our students, and we are excited that this hard work is reflected in our growth scores,” said Dr. Jason Bell, secondary supervisor and VILS district co-lead for Polk County Schools. Moreover, Chilhowee was named a Tennessee Reward School for being among the top five percent of growth in the state.

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Hacking project-based learning: tips for management, assessment, & more from Ross Cooper & Erin Murphy

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I’m assuming it’s very different for elementary than secondary. Erin: I’m going to let Ross jump in in a second, but I just want to address here the piece about the secondary versus the elementary. So I thought that that was a really unique way to work PBL into a secondary classroom model.

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

Edsurge

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., For the educators in our research, making was no one particular type of activity—whether programming robots or folding paper into shapes or inventing a solution to a common problem.

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4 myths about great teaching debunked

The Cornerstone for Teachers

So it definitely does not automatically improve student engagement or learning. I know you taught at the secondary level, I taught Pre-K to third, and this was true even with the littlest kids. That is definitely important work. They don’t want to be told step-by-step, like we’re robots and the kids are robots.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. But the “spying” has continued.

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