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Getting Girls into STEM: The Power of Blended (and All-Female) Instruction

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Mary’s all-girls robotics team, knows a thing or two about breaking the mold. That’s why we’ve committed to blended, student-centered learning, with a goal of not only improving student outcomes, but getting more female students passionate about STEM. Jackie, the team captain of St. It’s a mission we live by at St. Students at St.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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Achievements are touted on social media, changing the tone of the district’s story to engage the public positively. Leveraging the power of the volunteers to improve student reading outcomes requires an understanding of the instruction, the students’ needs, the data, and the resources themselves. TECH USED ?

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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It also supports Google Play educational apps, so students can collaborate, discover, engage and learn, and includes a Wacom EMR stylus that lets students use interactive apps, sketch, take notes, and capture ideas. Its AI uses sentiment analysis to scan for self-harm and bullying messages across social media and web searches.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?! Via Bryan Alexander : “ Robots , buyouts, and spinoffs: four short stories for the future of education and technology.”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Google launched a “ Be Internet Awesome ” digital citizenship campaign in June.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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“We wanted to create a digital experience for kids that allows them to create things together, but isn’t saturated with the usual social-media-like engagement tools. But the pair also didn’t want to reduce collaboration online to a dry, empty Google Doc, either. Likes, dislikes, endless scroll, judgment,” Shruti Dhariwal says.