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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

Edsurge

She leverages social media and blogging to reflect on what works and shares her insights with colleagues. In the classroom, she teaches collaboration skills by challenging students to solve mysteries, and then debrief how well they worked together.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Iris Lapinski - CEO, CDI Apps for Good - "Apps for Good - Growing a new generation of problem solvers and makers" Dale Dougherty - Founder, President, and CEO, Maker Media, Inc.; Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding?

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

(Deliberate) Misinformation -- about what ed-tech can do, about the problems it will solve, about what sort of circumstances students and schools and society are now facing, about what sort of future new technologies will necessarily give us -- is picked up and wielded by far too many education leaders and decision-makers.

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A Strong Case for Uncommon Learning

Fractus Learning

Regardless of what standards you are accountable for, uncommon learning initiatives with and without technology can be integrated seamlessly to foster deeper learning ” (Sheninger, xvii). Digital Learning Across the Curriculum. Uncommon Learning is a must-read for every school and teacher leader. Makerspaces.

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A Strong Case for Uncommon Learning

Fractus Learning

Regardless of what standards you are accountable for, uncommon learning initiatives with and without technology can be integrated seamlessly to foster deeper learning ” (Sheninger, xvii). Digital Learning Across the Curriculum. Uncommon Learning is a must-read for every school and teacher leader. Makerspaces.