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Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious

Teacher Reboot Camp

Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets. Unplugged activities introduce students to programming through exercises that can be done offline. For example, Ms.

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Paper vs. Screens by Christine McDonnell, CEO at Codelicious

Teacher Reboot Camp

Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets. Unplugged activities introduce students to programming through exercises that can be done offline.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Our world revolves around science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Related: 8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact | 2019. Allows Students to Keep Up with Technology. What is STEM?

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CES2017 Best of Show Tech Tools

EdTechTeam

From VR devices to programming, and from creation apps to creativity tools, expect to see an evolution of the tools you already love and new technologies that will surely engage your students in this compilation of resources. Samsung Chromebook Plus This Chrome OS device is perhaps the coolest laptop-tablet crossover.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

Much of the funding for this educational experiment came from philanthropies set up by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, who made their money from technology and have argued that introducing more of it in classrooms can transform the education system. The rest of the students were focused intently on their laptops. Shhhhhhhh.”.

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Teens and Tech: Distinguishing Addiction from Habit

MindShift

But are we truly addicted to technology? “Technology addiction” doesn’t appear in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, published in 2013. However, Griffin came home to a reality where he still needed a laptop for high school and still used a smartphone to connect with friends.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

Technology. There have been several technologies that made my life better through this big change. But perhaps the biggest coping strategy for the move has been through daily meditation and mindfulness exercises from Headspace. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. My family moved this summer when I started a new job.