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So Much More Than Letters and Numbers

The Principal of Change

“Teachers would tell me at conferences what I needed to help my son with, they would tell me how he was behaving and everything they did in class, like what they were studying,” said Carolina Rosales, a mother of two elementary-school kids. The portal might tell me he failed an assignment, but what does that tell me?”.

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Literacy in the Digital Age: 9 Great Speaking & Listening Tools

Educator Innovator

is a platform that allows students to take notes synchronized with video. In other words, students can be viewing a video on half their screen while simultaneously taking notes on the other half. This is an innovative way to help students engage deeply with a text, as called for by the Standards. VideoNot.es

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Gary Bass Meaningful STEM-Based Learning in a University/Elementary School Partnership - Maria D. Anjuli Ahooja, Faculty (AP Physics) Mag-Net a 21st century online community for Australian STEMx educators. Shaheen, Ph.D.

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From the Amazon PR department : “ University of Oklahoma Expands Student Engagement with Alexa Skills.” “A TurboTax for student loan applications” according to Techcrunch, the company has raised $15.5 million total. .

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.” The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy has thoughts on the pushback , making the comparison between Zuckerberg ’s corporate and philanthropic efforts and inBloom. The Salt Lake City school board has voted to rename Jackson Elementary. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” ” Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : “Former Pitt student, key figure in Chinese-U.S. ” “Should children get to have cellphones in elementary school?”