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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

Hunter and her colleague Rachel Krumenacker at the Chattanooga Public Library in Chattanooga, Tennessee, had filmed the DIY craft on a Zoom call from their respective living rooms. They posted it to the library’s YouTube channel as part of their new summer programming, the majority of which is taking place online due to COVID-19. . “We

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Learning and Playing and Why Both Matter for Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

Play as the vehicle of education is not a revolutionary idea. Department of Education, Newfoundland Labrador. Young children learn the most important things not by being told but by constructing knowledge for themselves in interaction with the physical world and with other children – and the way they do this is by playing.”

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Announcing Collective Shift and Launch of the New LRNG

Educator Innovator

Today, the National Writing Project and Educator Innovator join partners across the country in announcing Collective Shift , a nonprofit organization whose mission is to redesign social systems for the connected age. With an initial investment from the John D. and Catherine T. 2015 LRNG Innovators Challenge. With support from the John D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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Open Learning Opportunities for All Young People

Educator Innovator

We’ve heard a lot of talk these days about open educational resources and online courses and how these platforms can make high-quality learning available for all. The code.org campaign has been touting the potential of online courses to teach kids how to code. You don’t even need to do the lessons in order.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment. There is growing acknowledgement and new evidence that this situation is worsening equity gaps in the job market and within higher education.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

Edsurge

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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