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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. As long as students, parents and teachers are baffled, these tools will continue to fall short of their capacity to improve and personalize instruction.

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Broadband Provides More Equitable Access to Education and Workforce Preparation

edWeb.net

Essential Elements for Digital Content is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net that provides policy makers, school administrators and educator leaders a better understanding of policies and practices related to digital instructional materials.

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Using Makerspaces to Support Personalized Learning

edWeb.net

They had a bee robot that they learned to program to better understand bee behaviors. Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

The policies and infrastructures are in place to deliver. Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell. There’s a critical need for more funding for schools, including fair pay for teachers. Paul Richards, Director of Marketing, PTZOptics and HuddleCamHD.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

The combination of Core5 and Schoolwork will streamline the classroom workflow, make it easier to distribute and collect instructional materials, and provide educators with useful and timely insight into each student’s progress to ensure learning is taking place.

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The Myth of Neutral Makerspaces

User Generated Education

Program leaders and instructors remain predominantly male, and a language analysis of recruiting and instruction materials revealed evidence of implicit bias. We understand that inequity, racial and otherwise, is the result of cumulative disadvantage built into social institutions, via law, policy, and everyday practice.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Texas , a Prized K–12 Market , Approves Wave of Instructional Materials.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Lawsuits Say Harvard’s Anti-Sexism Policy Discriminates Against Women.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.