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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

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Evidence-based Investments There is a long-standing interest in spending academic intervention funds on programs with a record of success. The initiative requires schools to measure whether students and teachers are utilizing the technology at the intended amount and if the outcomes match expectations.

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Documenting and Reflecting on Learning

User Generated Education

Blogging has its own unique benefits as Sylvia Duckworth’s Sketchnote summarizes: Experiential, STEM, STEAM, and maker education are the focus of my gifted education classes. For example, for a design challenge, I asked learners to include the following vocabulary: design thinking. communicate.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

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Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. The future of tech in schools isn’t suburban or urban. It’s rural.

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Over 25 Ideas for eLearning… Inclement Weather and Snow Day Make Up

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to a timely post that gives us a quick break from the 70 STEM links series. In the next post I will continue the STEM Series. STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. Evaluate, revise, and reflect on the program on a consistent basis.

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An Interactive Tool Empowers High Schoolers To Take Control of Career Planning

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For example, if students tell me they want to go into the medical field, they need to understand that science is important, and if they don't like science or if they're not good at science, that provides their advisory teacher a great opportunity to have a heart-to-heart conversation about how they need to work on those science skills.

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Bring Science to Life: The Impact of Video Game Simulations

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They should understand science concepts and draw on them to answer questions and solve problems as well as connect them to other STEM concepts. Tropf explained that demonstrations, technology, or simulations are ideal for framing and involving learners in the study and analysis of phenomena through interactive text and activities.

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Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

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Dr. Davis identified some key steps needed at the start of an equity journey, using his work with the diverse Holland Public Schools as an example. In 2017, Dr. Shivers taught in the professional learning series overseas at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, China. Starting the Journey. Dr. Davis has a Ph.D.