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K–12's Digital Transformation Is Giving Libraries a Modern Makeover

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how libraries can use makerspaces to teach STEM! Libraries are an ideal spot for these STEM spaces , where students tinker, code, problem-solve and build. . With so many school districts going one-to-one with tablets or laptops , libraries are the new meeting space for tech-enabled teamwork.

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50 Ways to Teach Using Music in Your Classroom

Waterford

When a child is exposed to musical education from a young age, the parts of their brain that process sound, speech, reading, and language develop at an accelerated rate.[1] This Musical Jars activity doubles as a great STEM experiment. Sources : Gersema, E. How Music Affects Brain Development and Social-Emotional Learning.

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Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

The Hechinger Report

Young people huddle over tablets, fiber optic cables run along the ceilings and a cybersecurity lab occupies the basement. The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. million donation from H-E-B in 2016.

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FOLLOW THE MONEY: FUNDING INNOVATION

techlearning

The proposed bond projects include $500,000 in improvements to elementary STEM facilities and $17 million for improvements to school technology. Or are there mobile laptop/tablet stations?) ? More than $28 million of the total improvement costs will likely be covered by state funding. The Altamont Enterprise WHAT ARE THEY BUYING?

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Teacher Voices: Megan Douglas

Learning with 'e's

When she found out it would be a specialised STEM primary school she was even more interested, and after a long application and interview process she secured her first teaching post at the school. Children in school have a Chromebook each along with access to tablets in each class. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Six Practices of Schools and School Districts Marching to Obsolescence

The 21st Century Principal

And yet our drop out rates only improve marginally, student measures are down. Such a school would be structured to meet the needs of art students, rather than STEM or athletics. We have policymakers pushing for e-textbooks and tablets that merely make books electronic and encourage the same kinds of learning we’ve always done.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes? Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network. E-book provider Overdrive reports that e-book checkouts from libraries are up over 200% from last year.

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