eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2015

PASCO white paper examines a tech-enabled, inquiry-based approach to teaching science. Research shows a growing global demand for qualified science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professions. The white paper can be found at [link]. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2019

Words don’t stem the tide of intolerance. For example, many label recent politically-charged Supreme Court decisions as intolerant but when you dig into the facts behind it, you find closely-held beliefs on both sides to this story. So what do you do in your classroom to get this important attitude across? Just different.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media STEM Outcomes 199

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

One of the great challenges for any educator is how do you teach and test students on real world problems, not just on theoretical textbook examples? Download this white paper ? Mark Schneider For example, say we’re assessing an engineer who is choosing the size of rebar. Number one, you want your students to be engaged.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

It’s often described as a way to incubate STEM skills or drive technical innovation — and it is probably both of these. But as a new report from Project Zero ’s Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

We read their white paper for transforming teaching and Learning. An example. Lynn: Sure, so I can give you lots of examples, although I also want to be really transparent in saying that we are very, very early on in this journey. Tell us about your learning beliefs. Lynn: Sure. We’ve adopted some of their core beliefs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. According to the company’s white paper , EDU tokens will initially cost about $1 USD per 12 EDU tokens.)

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MindShift

MAY 5, 2017

The session on grant writing, for example, was a dud because everyone there wanted to learn how to write them and nobody knew where to start. One teacher went to a “STEM/STEAM” session but was disappointed that the discussion was so “general and theoretical,” while he was looking for something more specific and practical.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. This debate about the value of college, and growing doubts, may stem from bigger questions that go back to the founding of this country, and about the American Dream that anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

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Kathy Schrock

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Participants can ask questions of the live presenters whose content will focus on learner agency, supporting literacy through content standards, STEM, and professional learning. An example of these specific components would be wait-time, mentoring, asking higher-order thinking questions, or anything else the teachers wants to work on.

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