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Top K–12 Tech Tools for Teaching STEM

EdTech Magazine

Despite these differing approaches, education technology has been an essential tool to aid K–12 teachers in reaching their goals in STEM education. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 schools can make the most of their education technology investments! Robotics kits: Products like the Sony KOOV and HamiltonBuhl’s HB Invent!

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Meet Some Heroes at This Week's Connected Educator Cafe Sessions

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; education director, KQED-San Francisco (PBS). Tuesday, October 22 "From Connection to Collaboration" Julie Lindsay : Global educator, Innovator, teacherpreneur, leader. Esther Wojcicki : Educator, journalist, IT & OER consultant. Top 50 Innovators in Education.

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A World of PBL… 25 Authentic Resources To Connect Students Beyond The Classroom

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

First, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ? While there are several education models that promote this idea, it is a necessity in a well-planned Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit.

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

In the education technology industry, we see an abundance of press covering venture-backed startups and their funding rounds, acquisitions and other noteworthy milestones. As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. In a way, it makes sense.

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Project Based Learning

The Electric Educator

Several very large companies (Nokia, Sony, Philips, Rolls-Royce) are having their interns and management candidates participate in online business scenario "tournaments" as part of their training. Project-based learning is one of the new educational buzzwords floating around and this would certainly fall into this category.

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Android apps for the remembering level of Bloom's

Kathy Schrock

This is a re-posting of a blog post of July 12, 2013, which originally appeared on the now-defunct Sony Education Ambassadors site. If you were an education major in college, you are probably very familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy. TimelineJS is not an app but a Web site. It works best through the Dolphin Browser.

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10 Super Geeky Tips for the New Year

The Daring Librarian

At first I thought I could leave out the password comic & tip and then the Sony thing happened. It was recently released that some Sony employees had a password of s0ny123 and the worst, "password!" EX: " escalators go up " turns into: esc@lator$((G0))up** = 20 characters for Twitter: esc@lator$((G0))up**TWIT = 24 characters.

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