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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck and classes shifted online last spring, Sophia Joffe was in 11th grade. Credit: eLearn.fyi.

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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

The same gamification principle counts for many other subjects and the corresponding mobile apps, making this learning strategy universal. Robot teachers. The idea of a robot teacher may seem like a too futuristic concept at the moment, but it’s really an ongoing project in many schools and colleges worldwide. Online learning.

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Slooh Launches Its Next-Gen Platform to Engage Students in Space Exploration

eSchool News

Washington Depot, Connecticut – Slooh, the pioneer in offering live online telescope feeds of the universe and an NGSS-aligned curriculum for school communities worldwide, recently launched the next generation of its online learning platform to make space exploration even easier and more engaging for students and educators alike.

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Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer)

Dangerously Irrelevant

I did all of this twice, the first week with elementary educators and the second week with secondary teachers (so 8 days total). They asked me to do a short keynote highlighting some possibilities for hands-on, active student learning. During the second week we alternated between synchronous and asynchronous learning together.

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How AI can teach kids to write – not just cheat

The Hechinger Report

“There’s still things to learn when it comes to writing because writing is a form of figuring out what you think.” Earlier this year, Levine and her team conducted a pilot study at a high school in San Francisco. Or ‘like a robot,’” Levine said. They thought it was ‘too perfect.’

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PebbleGo Expands Its Reach by Adding Spanish Content and Audio

techlearning

PebbleGo’s database is used by students in nearly 20% of the country’s elementary schools. With this expansion, PebbleGo’s Science, Social Studies, and Biographies modules also have Spanish counterparts. In the past, PebbleGo offered its Animals content in Spanish. For more information, visit myCapstone.com.

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4 ways forward-thinking districts are inspiring more students to code

eSchool News

Administrators build in regularly scheduled coding for students in select elementary schools, with students utilizing Code.org curriculum to enhance and deepen their critical thinking skills. These facilitators will teach other educators at their schools to infuse computer science lessons into existing units of study.

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