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This Teacher Started a Hands-On PD Lab That’s Sparking Change Across the District

Edsurge

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. Though I was technology savvy, none of my classwork or student teaching prepared me for this.

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How DC Public Schools Uses Student Data to Support Mental Health

Edsurge

Douglas Gotel For example, we use child-centered play therapy intervention in our elementary schools where kids learn how to solve their problems and work through relational difficulties. Video: The WellCast Channel on YouTube. How does special education management technology support your district's mental health services?

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now. So one of the things I try to do is give the students the technology that takes their ideas and enhances them for them, just in their everyday conversation. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text.

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Empower ELLs with Classroom Tech

Graphite Blog

Three years ago, the English-language learners (ELLs) program at the elementary school where I teach switched from a pullout program to a push-in program. Technology supports can provide pictures, videos, and graphic organizers. When I give my ELL students varied exposure to the English language, it helps them acquire it.

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10Q: Helen Keegan

Learning with 'e's

In the primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school sectors some can be conspicuous, because through various Teachmeets around the world, and also online during Twitter #edchats, they make their work known to the wider community. What other innovative technology supported projects have you been involved in?

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10Q: Steven Anderson

Learning with 'e's

Anderson is known to many in the world of education as a passionate and knowledgeable promoter of social media and technology for learning. He has been a prime mover in some of the most innovative projects for technology supported learning in the past few years. Connected Classroom blog.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

He spends a couple hours by himself, making snacks, doing his homework, and playing video games. A new elementary school, Presidential Park, hosts more than 1,000 students in a modern, state-of-the-art building. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown. You become very attached.