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How a middle school teacher grew students’ math scores despite pandemic challenges

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Today, the sixth grade math and science teacher at McKinley Elementary School is a quiet rock star. The school’s sixth grade growth scores in math are at nearly 58 percent, meaning more than half of the students met their individual growth targets on the state’s ILEARN test. I never looked for ‘gaps’ or ‘learning loss.’

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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

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This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?” A few chimed in.

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How We Express Ourselves: Making a Museum in a Box

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I also am unwilling to retire iLearn Technology all together. I hope that you’ll continue to find reasons to come to iLearn Technology. We love the way that questions open opportunities for exploration, discovery, and new connections within learning. It doesn’t feel as natural and genuine. How do archeologists work?

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How We Express Ourselves: Making a Museum in a Box

iLearn Technology

I also am unwilling to retire iLearn Technology all together. I hope that you’ll continue to find reasons to come to iLearn Technology. We love the way that questions open opportunities for exploration, discovery, and new connections within learning. It doesn’t feel as natural and genuine. How do archeologists work?

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SAM Labs blocks put students in charge of creative learning

iLearn Technology

I love that as soon as students open it up, it puts them in charge of the learning. Best of all, it encourages the learning to happen through playful trial and error. Yes, students will learn programming basics, how motors and light sensors work, how to use logic to build if/then type scenarios.

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Prodigy: Virtual world of math

iLearn Technology

In the virtual world, students are wizards who learn magic and spells to defeat over 100 monsters. To learn a new spell or add powers (or adopt pets), students must complete different math challenges. As students play the game, they will learn over 300 math skills in 1st-8th grade. ” Umm, yes! Registration is now open!

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Apple joining Hour of Code and offering free workshops! #edtech

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Students at Anastasis Academy have started into an inquiry block about “How We Express Ourselves;” Hour of Code is coming perfectly timed as students can learn about how people express themselves through code. Apple is also offering free resources for learning to code that you can get started with today.

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