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The ultimate guide to authentically creating a secondary classroom where students feel safe, welcome, & whole

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Our higher education system formed around libraries. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. Education is now a high-growth market that combines attributes of consumer and enterprise software. To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce.

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Introducing Encyclopedia Britannica Noet Edition: A Researcher’s Best Friend

TeachThought - Learn better.

One of the biggest hurdles in student research is empowering them to dig into primary and secondary resources. And when most students think research should only be as difficult as Googling the answer, it can be incredibly challenging getting them away from untrustworthy search results and into credible resources.

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7 ways schools can get creative with STEAM

eSchool News

And in math, fractions and ratios can inspire lessons on mixing paints to create warm and cool secondary colors. Interactive whiteboard software often features an asset library that could be used to create various shapes and constructions in both math and art contexts while teaching to whole groups. Build deeper learning.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Week of August 22nd, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Meet the ATLAST Explore participants and start networking using Google+. Session will also include a brief how-to on Google+ and a brainstorming activity of ways to implement Google+ with students. In general, references management software is expensive. link] CLASSROOM 2.0

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: November 2 - 4, all online, all free.